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  1. Jungle Fan
    Cody000125, as GardenStateGoldfish indicated you should get yourself a print out of your water district's water quality report that will indicate the levels of everything within your tap water. My water district has this available for my area on line for download, and most do today. The only thing my water district did not list was TDS and I got myself a meter for that and I test my water every few months, and also check my TDS meter by getting a reading from distilled water in comparison.
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    Sal, as long as it is on the outside either vinegar and lots of elbow grease, or Goo-Begone will take care of unsightly stickers, just be careful and don't get any inside the tank, and rinse it off well afterwards.
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    Temperature range for the regular Amazon Sword (Echinodorus bleheri) is: 22–27 °C (72–82 °F). If your Sword is getting too large, remember that you can prune it back to the rosette by cutting off the largest leaves right at the rosette it will grow new leaves in time and will take some time until it gets that large again. You can also propagate it by taking it out cleaving the rosette clean into halves, trimming back the roots, and replanting the two halves wherever you want them. The reason for trimming back the roots is to encourage new growth and better anchoring, it is something I do to all my plants when first planted as well.
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    I've heard different recommendations over the years from 20 to 30 gallons as minimum size. I've successfully kept them in a 30 gallon when I first got them sometime in the early 1970s, never tried anything smaller but I've seen claims that they could do fine in a 20. I just generally tend to want to give them a bit more space but a long might work.
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    From the Seachem Prime web page: "How long does Prime® stay bound to the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrates? A: Prime® will bind up those compounds for up to 48 hours. If they are still present after that time frame, they are released back into the water, unless Prime® is re-dosed accordingly. Also, if your ammonia or nitrite levels are increasing within a 24-hour period, Prime® can be re-dosed every 48 hours."
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    I think some of your questions might be answered in the FAQ on the Seachem Prime product page. https://www.seachem.com/prime.php I also use the Python system and generally add the Prime before I add new water, however ammonia has never been a problem but then again I might be able to credit that to my Siporax, sintered glass biological filter media in the filter, and the beneficial bacteria colony filter that is established in the layer of highly porous lava rock in my substrate, as well as plant biomass. After refilling the tank I also add Seachem Stability, and due to my fish and shrimp selection Brightwell Aquatics Blackwater Clear Planted/Shrimp.
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    Trish, the Bolivian Rams don't even pay attention to the Neocaridinas in this tank, they swim right beside them and they happily get along, some of my Amanos even live in the same cave with a pair of the Rams. I have to admit I was a little apprehensive at first too, so many had told me that the Rams would decimate all shrimp but as it turns out this is one of the most peaceful community tanks I've ever set up. Now as you said it could be that it is really just due to plant and root density but the ferocity of Bolivian Rams is exaggerated in my experience and largely just based on their instinct to protect their eggs and fry while breeding. I would definitely recommend setting up CO2 in a 40 gallon tank. You will be amazed how much better your plants grow, even low light species, and how much effect the better growth of the plants has on diminished algae growth.
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    How close are your lights? When I kept water hyacinths sometimes the leaves got water splashed on the tips when I did water changes and my lights, at the time still T5s, would burn them. Other then the tips they look very healthy.
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    Dennerle Shrimp Complete but there are others as well you just need to look at the ingredients.
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    The plants look like either Dwarf Swords like Helanthium quadricostatus, or maybe it could be Dwarf Sagittaria. The lights look like Kessil A160WE Tuna Sun that would run you around $240 a pop.
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    Those are the best clips I could find of the Santa Isabel, and the Blue, although the lighting in the video of the Blues isn't great.
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    Regular Altum Scalare don't have the dotted yellow pattern and they don't show as much of the blue on their gills. Rio Nanay scalare are hard to find in fish stores. If you try to purchase them you are more likely to get the regular Peruvian scalare, as they both originate from Peru and most dealers even don't know there is a difference. The Santa Isabel scalare from the upper Rio Negro region have red dots but not quite as pronounced as the yellow pattern on the Rio Nanay scalare. Those two are some of my favorite angelfish, together with the Philippines bred Blue Silver Angelfish. When I kept a discus tank I was lucky enough to have some of the Santa Isabel and Blue Silvers but the Rio Nanay eluded me.
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    The pages you opened the book up to dealt with "Bottom rooted rosette plants with stemmed leaves"
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    👍Both are Germanic languages, as a matter of fact Dutch is mostly based on Friesian which is the closest out of all German dialects to English, partly because the Angles and the Saxons were German tribes that either spoke Friesian, or a dialect very close to it.
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    Let me know which ones and I'll check for what you want to know when I have time.
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    Cheese und Krackers, jawohl!😄
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    I love the Kessils, and more importantly so do my plants. I used to go snorkeling quite a bit, and the shimmer reminds me of what some of the rivers I explored used to look like in the sunlight. Most of our guests are kind of mesmerized by it for a while.
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    Daniel, not Dutch but German and if there is something you are particularly interested in in it, as long as it isn't the whole book, I might be willing to translate it for you. I just got the new book by Christel Kasselmann in from Germany myself, she had offered to send me the book in English and autographed but I would've had to buy two copies so that it would have been worth her while with the postage and I didn't know if anyone would buy it off me, and then a friend in Germany said he'd ship a copy of the German version of it to me if I paid him back and I went for it.
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    A friend just sent me this link to a video of these awesome looking Rio Nanay Angelfish and I thought I'd share it here.The colors and patterns on those Angelfish are awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9aX131lKM4&t=15s
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    Here's a picture of a full view of the tank with the goosenecks, you can see the stand a little better that way, The photos on the wall were all taken by me; it's our wall where we display our own work, my photos and my wife's acrylic gouache nature artwork done from my photos. I had to Dremel two short portions of the inside lip of the aquarium frame out for the goosenecks.
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    No Oto breeding that I've seen, and as I've said I have a very efficient cleaner crew that would probably not stop for eggs. The Blue Velvet shrimp have been very prolific however, and starting with an all blue crew I now have some that are white and red striped crystal shrimp, and some that are black Riliis, and some that look like Cherry shrimp with complete white bellies. Very interesting to see genetic recombination at work.
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    I used to have a 125 gallon several years ago, I had a swarm of about 30 in it, loved those little guys. I've now already got the Otos and I tend to stick with a concept unless something turns out not to work. I love the Otocinclus as well, especially since they seem to be different types among them that's why I don't refer to them as Otocinclus affinis. Different patterns but they all love to clean leaves, and sometimes I find each one of them adhered to crypt leaves. Between the Nerites, black military helmet snailsAmano and Blue Velvet shrimp, and the Otos they are a ferocious team of algae and food seekers and it helps to keep them well fed with some fresh greens as well.
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    Thanks, they are great for the water quality and the shrimp and fish love them. However, sometimes all I see are my cardinals and the rest hide in the jungle, but usually not for long. Some of our guests are quite surprised when they've admired the plants and shimmer of the Kessils for a while and it happens to be feeding time and I place some food in the floating feeder ring to keep the surface skimmer from fouling up too fast; all of a sudden everyone appears out of the plants, and they understand that my tank is fairly well stocked with variety and color. It always amuses my wife to no end.
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    Jess, Just a few quick cell phone shots to illustrate the placement of the Red Flame Sword off center to the left of the right root, and the Green Ocelot Sword(s) on its right in front of the pre-filter. I had to give the Green Ocelot a major haircut because it had reached the surface, and was so thick it restricted flow, so I trimmed out the largest leaves. I didn't take pictures of the plants that are on the left in the background of the root located there, they are a Red Flame Sword, and a Rubin Sword, both are offspring from plants I had in other tanks and so far only about 4 inches tall and hard to take pictures of at that size because of obstruction by the stump, and the CO2 diffuser. I also took a shot in which you can see the Java fern and my crypts pearling, as well as two night pictures of "The Jungle Book" with the lunar lights on.
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    ...Not to forget plumber, handyman, and janitor.
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