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  1. Jungle Fan
    Beautiful tanks and great fish!
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    Jess, I can certainly understand the part of "just too much for now", for the most part of my life I was right there, and even now I had to keep putting money aside, and had it not been for a bonus I had earned in 2019 this tank would've probably sported different lights. After all was said and done with two Kessil A360X, two goosenecks, another K-link cable, and Spectral X controller the whole thing was closer to $1,300. Well worth it though but financially not pain free. I will get some more pics of the swords, and post by sometime next week.
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    Trish's set up with the one male and four female Bolivian Rams is a great set up for a 40 gallon as well. Her Rams are also very nicely colored, the lighting for the photo was a bit bright but the colors on those Rams are excellent.
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    @Manny Thanks for the kind words, sounds like you have a great tank planned as well. @Frosty.R Love your Bolivian Rams as well, always great to see someone else who shares my passion for the Bolivians while most seem to gravitate to the German Blue Rams, which are also real nice but my Bolivians seem to have a lot more personality than any of the German Blues I've kept in the past.
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    A refill for my 5 lb. CO2 cylinder currently costs me $16 at the local brewer's supply store, and it seems like I usually make one trip per year. Haven't felt nostalgic to return to any kind of DIY in regards to CO2 itself, although I wouldn't mind learning how to build my own solenoid controlled dual stage regulators with bubble counter from high quality parts. Until I find out, my GreenLeaf regulator keeps me restlessly happy.
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    Thanks! I kept all kinds of different fish through the years, a lot of them very pretty, some interesting, and some rare and finicky, finally made up my mind to build a tank with those that got me into the hobby and those that play well with them.
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    Welcome back!
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    Beautiful Angelfish!
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    quirkylemon103 a RO system might be your answer because buying RO, or distilled water on a constant basis from your LFS, or grocery store on a regular basis would add up to paying for the system fairly quickly.
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    Manny I think six Bolivian rams could be a little much for a 40 Gal. even when heavily planted. I currently have six in my 75 Gal. which is extremely heavy planted and uses Cryptocoryne wendtii as mid- and foreground plants and has several caves built into the two root complexes of my driftwood but even there I notice the occasional chase going on. I would go with four, and if all is well in paradise than you can always try adding another pair, or some females. Other than that Bolivian Rams, Cardinal Tetras, Rummynose Tetras, and Otocinclus make a great, and very plant friendly combo and also get along well with Amano shrimp and Neocaridina shrimp in my tank. You can check out how keep mine here:
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    An addition that I made later were some USB rechargeable magnetic motion detector lights that I just stuck on the steel frame, so the lights come on every time I open the doors, and turn off about 30 seconds after I close them. I can remove them for charging just by taking them off and re-install them after they're charged. No more holding a flashlight with one hand while working one-handed with the other. Makes working on anything under the tank a lot easier in the evenings.
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    I avoid duckweed like the plague because it will cover an entire tank in days. Not a fan of having to fish buckets of it out of a tank. Had some in a tank a few years back. If i want a floater I might use some water lettuce, or Amazon frogbit but not duckweed, or water hyacinth for that matter they reproduce too fast and the water hyacinth requires cutting the connections between plants unless you want to have a solid mat covering your tank. Used to have some of those years ago too but won't ever again, although they do have nice flowers.
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    Beautiful fish! I wish they'd get along with the shrimp in my 75 gallon community tank.
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    Cardinals mesmerized me as a six year old kid and 52 years later I still love them.
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    Cardinals, Bolivian Rams, and Rummynoses.
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    Had this built to my design because my wife wanted something that fits in with our mission/arts & crafts style living room furniture. Doors can open 170 degrees, or be removed with two clicks each. The inside base boards can be removed to adjust eight leveling feet that can hold up to 2,500 lbs. each supporting the tank which rests on a frame out of square tube steel covered with water resistant powdered coating. The stand is white oak with non-yellowing boat grade polyurethane coating and open in the back to allow access for hoses and wires. The doors have mission style slate inserts. The original stand that came with this Marineland 75 gallon was black, made of pressed board and diagonally uneven as well as higher in the back than front by half an inch, added to our uneven living room floor it would've been a recipe for disaster, so we abandoned cheap and splurged.
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    The only stupid question is the one that remains unasked because of pride but turns out to be of vital importance in hindsight.
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    My book claims up to twelve inches for the Red Flame, but then again it also only claims ten inches for my Ozelot Green, and it got to sixteen inches before I trimmed it back. As long as you leave some of the smaller leaves you won't have any problems if you trim the tall leaves back to the rosette.You can even cleave the rosette in the middle and turn it into two plants without problem and propagate it that way, they fill out again within time. My Red Flame currently is only around eight to nine inches, so still within given stats.
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    A friend of mine does use superglue to solve that problem. He uses just a little bit of it on a small side portion of the stem plant around the bottom of it and then rolls it on a plate on which he placed some of the dry soil he has left over. When he places the plant in the aquarium the glue hardens instantly and the small clump of soil works like a weight which he claims makes it easier to anchor the plant. He swears by it but I've never actually tried it.
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    Not one of my better shots because of the window reflection in the upper right, but just for illustration. The Green Ozelot Sword plant on the right was five inches tall when I got it, eight months later it is now about 16 inches tall with good substrate, root tabs, liquid iron, CO2, and all in one fertilizer. Make sure you place the root tabs fairly close to the plant and push them as far down as you can without stabbing your bottom glass. This Green Ozelot is right next to the air wand which I run at night when my CO2 is off and when plants don't produce but instead consume oxygen just like the fish and invertebrates. As long as you get them their nutrients, especially the iron, and the bottom rosette isn't rotten, which yours shouldn't be because it is producing a new plantlet, you should have no problem getting your sword on the mend.
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    Will Billy is absolutely right. Add some root tabs, maybe some Aquarium Co-Op Liquid Iron and your sword plant should start looking better. The air stone has nothing to do with it. I have an air wand behind some of my swords and they are growing like crazy and are healthy. I have had to trim them after eight months because they were spreading and had reached the surface in my 75 gallon tank, then again I'm also adding pressurized CO2.
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    The plants will develop on the Java Fern whether you cut them, or not, however generally the black spots indicate the leaf is dying and the plant will create a new plantlet and the old leaf will turn yellow, and eventually brown. I generally prune yellow leaves out and the plantlets will come off so that you can place them in a plant grow tank until they are big enough to use and attach to rock, or wood. Don't forget to add fertilizer though for their growth. I have to admit that sometimes these plantlets get to be a nuisance though as they tend to come off and just float through the tank.
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    That is another great option, even if you just transfer some media from one filter to another like sponges, or any of the bio-media. However, as you said you will still have to take it easy with the bio-load of fish until the filter, substrate, and tank surfaces have been fully colonized by beneficial bacteria. The best way to tell is to start easy with a few invertebrates like snails, or shrimp, which are slightly more tolerant of ammonia cycle products and keep running the water tests until the values are stable, then slowly add in fish little by little. I've used that method too but the dark start helped me completely skip the usual brown algae, and green algae phases I resent so much. However it is a good option for someone who already has other established tanks, or friends from whom they might be able to get some established media.
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    Swords can get very large depending on species, are typical background plants, generally very robust when getting replanted, and are from South America. Crypts are foreground to mid-ground plants, they tend to melt off and then regrow leaves when replanted, or when they go from emersed to submersed growth, and are from Asia. Both like iron, and generally do better when root tabs are provided. This is just the extreme short nutshell version without specifics. If you are looking for some great in depths info on aquarium plants I can recommend the books by Christel Kasselmann, and Karen Randall., as well as the Aquatic Gardeners Association, of which I am a member. https://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/
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    Make sure to also add a few smaller accent rocks around the base, preferably the same color/texture as the big rocks, they will help blend and merge the hardscape together.
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