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  1. Phantom240
    Thanks! This tank has always had very active pearling, and I think the substrate has a lot to do with it, as well as my light (Dennerle Scaper's Soil and Finnex Planted+). I recently redeployed CO2 and EI dosing to get the plants to fill back in. What's a little annoying though is that when everything starts getting happy and the tank turns into 5 gallons of sprite, with oxygen bubbles everywhere, the canister filter tends to suck them up and it causes the impeller to burp a bunch of air every so often.
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    Same. In my town, there's only a couple of big box stores and two smaller pet shops. One of them, I'll never patronize because of the condition of the store itself... it's disgusting. The other store is in need of updates and renovations, but is decent. There's another new store about 30 minutes away that looks promising (they keep their bettas in 1 gallon acrylic cubes with some hardscape and airstone), but has fairly minimal selection. I really want to have my own store specializing in freshwater (though the money is in marine tanks) where I can share my passion with the community and provide customers with great service and healthy fish.
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    My pea puffer tank is starting to look much better now that I've done a bunch of trimming and removing of plants that I no longer wanted. Still needs to grow in a bit and figure out why some of my dwarf sag is melting back, but I found the pearling of the plants to be almost therapeutic to watch. Enjoy.
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    I hope I never encounter that hellspawn plant
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    There's an even worse form of duckweed?
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    Small world, eh? I'm about an hour's drive away from him
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    Southeast Louisiana here!
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    That's so weird. Every plant I've had that started emerged melted completely before shooting off new submerged growth. Actually, you can see the skeleton of a leaf that melted from one of my other new swords in the background.
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    Is it normal for emerged growth to give zero craps about being submerged? Ordered a red melon sword from the co-op a month ago, and the emersed growth (at least, judging by shape, texture, etc it appaears to be emersed growth) seems to be 100% content with life in my tank. Has anyone else experienced this before? I'm going to trim those stems off when it gets moved to the new tank, but I found it interesting, as typically that growth immediately starts melting as new leaves grow in.
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    Not really, as long as you're not dumping an entire bottle into the tank. I've done spot treatments with an amount of Excel that was up to about 5x the recommended initial dose with no ill effects aside from damage to one of my anubias, but as with everything else in this hobby, YMMV. I've done that before. Not sure if it was the algae (green spot and BBA) that had caused the edges of the leaves to die off or what, but a bunch of leaves on my big anubias ended up pretty ragged after the battle with algae.
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    Excel spot treatments will kill it quick, fast, and in a hurry. Even better is if you drain the tank down real low for a major water change, and pipette it directly onto the algae and let it sit maybe 15 minutes before refilling. It'll be dead by the end of the day.
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    @Jungle Fangoing on my christmas wish list for sure
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    That'll just put him in the doghouse lol
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    I did this with roughly that much sand and topsoil (mineralized and large organic wood bits removed of course), and perhaps my results aren't typical, but it was an absolute disaster. Somehow ended up with tannins leaching for years, constant hydrogen sulfide smell, even if I took a skewer and poked around the substrate every other day, gas bubbles and skewering causing the soil to mix with my sand... no thanks. But like I said, maybe I'm just not good at dirt tanks.
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    That's actually pretty ingenious
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    It's just gelatin. Harmless, pure protein. If you have any snails, they'll take care of it.
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    Snap some pics of the plants in question, and we can try to point you in the right direction
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    Was trying to get some decent pics of the growth of some of my new plants and got totally photobombed by two schools of tetras, and one straight mean mugged the camera. I thought it was funny so I wanted to share.
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    Now that my sword is finally getting some nice lush growth, I'm trying to figure out which subspecies it is. It was sold at a big box store as Echinodorus Amazonica, or "Amazon Sword", however its foliage makes me think otherwise. Instead of wider, plumper leaves, mine seems to be fairly narrow, and taking on an almost ruffled edge to most of the larger growth. I'm thinking it might be Echinodorus Martii, or "Ruffle Sword", since it seems to be maxing out at about 14" tall, and equally as wide. Sorry for the less than stellar pic, bowfronts with CO2 "sprite water" aren't the easiest to get a good shot... especially with the photobombing long fin black skirt tetras. I don't think the shape of the foliage is due to any nutrient deficiencies, since I'm dry dosing weekly per EI.
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    Once I start getting the new 55 gallon setup and everything, I'm sure I will.
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    Did a major substrate cleaning, water change, and trimmed some of the ugly, scraggly, moss-intertwined-into-roots ludwiga. Uprooted every bit of my ludwiga so I could trim it all down and I'm slowly but surely removing all the christmas moss that took hold in every bit of the tank. Still gotta make a pass with the glass cleaner and then wipe down the exterior, then wait for the water to clear back up. If I could do it all again, I definitely would not have made a complete stand and canopy for this stupid 5 gallon pea puffer tank lol.
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    Ah someone has played the game before, I see.
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    Its all just six in one hand, half a dozen in the other. Co-Op uses coarse sponges because you get more flow, and they don't clog as fast. Some sponge filters are finer, and others super fine. They all have their purposes, pros and cons.
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    Depends. If you intend to use the python to clean your substrate, using a powerful pump will only cause you to suck up all your substrate. Using a powerhead with the right flow rate would be the critical bit. However, using a powerhead to pump from another container to fill would be simple enough.
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    I just edited my previous post with some links to the type of rubber I'd suggest trying. I know they did great at making seals for diesel and hydraulic oil in marine environments.
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