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  1. HH Morant
    Looks like I got no albinos, but hoping for some yellow-nosed plecos.
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    It does not have to be a submersible pump. I use this one for water changes. I pump the water out of the aquarium and into a toilet. I pump the water from a 35 gallon plastic container in a bathtub into the tank. I use the tubing from a python and I find the J attachment very useful.
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    I think there is a reason you don't see large tanks with just sponge filters. 1st, there is aesthetics. They take up space and they don't look good. I am not familiar with the experiment you mentioned, but it seems to me that the flow rate through a sponge filter is not going to be high enough to make it the equal of a canister or sump when it comes to biological filtration. Beneficial bacteria needs flow. Of course, you can make sponge filters work even in a large tank by stocking the tank lightly. If you want to avoid having your filtration outside the tank, sponge filters plus an undergravel filter might work and could let you have more fish. I think you are right that sponge or foam is the best biological filtration media - much better than the most expensive non-foam filter media.. See the aquariumscience.org articles on filtration. I think it is better to have the sponge or foam in a canister or a sump, where the flow rate is higher.
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    OK I got the wrong video. This is the landscape one. Looks better I hope.
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    Just had to see what a video in landscape looked like.
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    Now that I watch the video again, some have a light yellow color on their noses, and some do not have it.
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    OK there is the baby picture. Not an albino or a super-red in sight. But they are pretty cute anyway.
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    Thanks, Armyvet! What was I thinking? I will get some pictures this evening.
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    Update: The fry are doing well and eating Repashy Soilent Green and zucchini. It turns out there are 35-40 fry, and not just 12-15 as I guessed initially. When I poured the contents of the cave into the quarantine tank, most of them apparently hid immediately. With lots of potted plants in the tank, there were plenty of places to hide, so my first estimate was very wrong and on the low side. All of them still look gray. We will see how they develop.
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    For entertaining fiction painted on a historically accurate canvas, the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser is hard to beat. I am not sure how many books there are. I have 11. The books are set in the 1830s and 1840s. Flashman, the anti-hero, is an English officer/gentleman who is actually a scoundrel, a coward, and a shameless womanizer. Yet somehow, in his adventures all over the world he is perceived as a hero. Flashman, of course, is a fiction, but many historically accurate characters make appearances in the books. The books are both hilarious and educational.
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    He's so little doesn't have his O's yet!
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    So that was the start of "Canadian Bacon!"
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    For movies, I like Glory and Shenandoah for the Civil War (and guilty pleasure Outlaw Josey Wales), Breaker Morant (Boer War), 1917 and All Quiet on the Western Front. I tend to like movies that show ordinary people swept up in the events and how they coped. How about Schindler's List and The Pianist? But I also enjoy movies about charismatic leaders, like Patton. For books, Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson; Shelby Foote's 3-volume The Civil War; Gulag, by Anne Applebaum; Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (about Lincoln and his cabinet); Mao, The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. And a lot more, but that's enough. Maybe too much already.
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    Looks great! Good luck with it!
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    I love history. I don't know if there is a particular period I like. Anything from the French Revolution forward, I guess. I have always been fascinated by the Civil War, the most traumatic time in the history of the United States. Historically accurate books and movies fascinate me. Historically inaccurate ones drive me crazy.
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    The ammonia level doesn't seem high enough to have killed the fish. Often, fish die from the shock of being shipped, and that may be what happened to your fish. There is no way to know what the fish went through in being shipped to your LFS. But the ammonia level appears to be rising, so you need to monitor it closely and control it with water changes. I don't think you should rely on bacteria-in-a-bottle. It seems to me that, if that worked, nobody would ever cycle a tank any other way. But I don't see many folks recommending that you buy a new tank, put some fish in it, and pour in some instant bacteria, all on the first day. But I guess your LFS did recommend that. It makes sense if you believe what it says on the bottle, and I am sure your LFS guy did believe it. I just would not recommend that.
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    I live in a city named after the only man to serve as governor of a state in the U.S,, a senator in the U.S. senate, and as president of another country. In Texas!
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    I am not sure why they are not breeding. The ways of love are indeed mysterious. That is why breeders often put a large group of angelfish together and let them pair up on their own. Choosing your own pair is challenging for two reasons: (1) because of the difficulty in sexing the fish and (2) because sometimes the fish don't cooperate. And when the fish don't pair up you can't be sure which is the reason.
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    Nice looking fish! I agree the koi looks like a male, with the prominent nuchal hump. The second fish I would guess is a female, but just a guess.
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    You are right. I don't know all that much about growing illegal plants. Just what I heard from a friend. 😉
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    I put a 120 on the second floor of my house recently. I the place where I needed to put the tank was not on an outside wall and the tank would run parallel, not perpendicular, to the floor joists. I ended up hiring an engineer to evaluate the issue and then hired a contractor to reinforce the floor, I really wanted an aquarium there. But a failure would be catastrophic, so I had to take precautions. It is good advice to put the aquarium against an outside (load-bearing) wall and perpendicular to the floor joists. When it comes to predicting exactly how much weight a location will hold, caution is good.
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    I'm guess you also have laws about transporting and propagating those species. I'd prefer not to get in trouble for growing stuff I should not. I thought there was an exception if you grow for your personal use.
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    Aquarium looks good after water change today
  25. HH Morant
    I am setting up a new tank that is 27 inches tall, so I am thinking about an aponogeton. Which variety is best? I am looking for more height and less hibernation.
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