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HH Morant

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  1. These orange/black angels are growing. They are about 6 or 7 months old.
  2. This one was hatched in my aquarium. He is about 9 months old. Big for his age.
  3. Prime is good for dechlorination, but I am convinced it does nothing to ammonia. See articles regarding detoxification claims at aquariumscience.org. Most dechlorinaters claim to detoxify ammonia. Its not just Prime. Nobody regulates what they put on their labels. You have to use water changes to keep the ammonia level down.
  4. Seeding the filter is the right thing to do, because a seeded filter will cycle faster, but I don't think there is any way to predict how long a seeded filter will take to cycle. In different aquariums under differing conditions, cycle time will be different.
  5. Under the right light, blue highlights show on these platinums
  6. Beneficial bacteria needs 2 things - surface area and flow. The high surface area claimed by matrix and similar media is meaningless because there is no flow through the media, so no beneficial bacteria can grow there. People use matrix and similar media and believe it works fine, and it does work fine for the purpose of removing ammonia and nitrites. But for clean, clear water with low bacteria counts in the water column (the bacteria in the water column is the bad kind, not beneficial) 30 ppi foam is much better. When I changed my canisters to 100% foam, I noticed the difference. The water was clearer. If you switch media, do it in stages. It took me a couple of months to convert to 100% 30 ppi foam. One benefit of 30 ppi foam - and zero mechanical filtration - is that I rarely open my canisters now. The foam does not clog easily and it does not need to be changed. You only need to open the canister if there is noticeably less flow. I highly recommend the aquariumscience.org articles on filtration and filter media.
  7. Sponge is the best. 30 ppi is good because it has more surface area than 20 ppi, but does not get clogged up like 40 ppi. Aquariumscience.org has a great article on filter media.
  8. Yes, it is the same one. The extensions look more or less red, depending on the day.
  9. OK, this is zucchini, but I just stick a lead weight through it an drop it in.
  10. This pearlscale platinum has really gotten big.
  11. It is worth it for those beautiful fish.
  12. Here is my Mom's tank, taken on Mother's Day. It is a 55-gallon tank, built into the wall.
  13. I sold the last 63 angels from my upstairs tank (I kept 8). That makes 414 angels I sold from 2 spawns in my short career as a breeder of angelfish. The 8 fish I kept (5 platinums and 3 golds), plus 5 orange/black angels I bought are now alone in the upstairs tank. Downstairs I sold 7 of the adult angels, keeping 6. When I get discus for the upstairs tank (that will be a while), I will move some of the angels in that tank downstairs.
  14. I recommend 30 ppi (pores per inch) foam as a biological media, with no mechanical filtration (floss) or chemical filtration (charcoal, etc.). I open my canisters only once every 3 or 4 months because the 30 ppi foam does not clog - the pores are too large to serve as mechanical filtration. I have nothing in my canisters except 30 ppi foam and my water is much clearer than when I used other filter media. I like the articles on filtration and filter media at aquariumscience.org. The comparison of different kinds of biological filter media is very enlightening. When I saw how well the foam worked, I threw away my ceramic rings and the other biological media that came with the canisters.
  15. Here are some pictures showing the blue flecs which are visible only when light hits the fish at a certain angle. It is not easy to get a photograph that shows them.
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