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Steve A

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  1. I dont think so, it was like this before I replanted last month. there had not been any plants for over 6 months.
  2. Thanks Sora, I am using the Easy Green because I just planted the Water Wisteria and hope it will start rooting and convert to underwater plant.
  3. Combs work very well at gathering up, when you get up in the morning and comb your hair you just go to the aquarium and comb the duckweed 😄
  4. Thanks I might try some hornwort, I had some duckweed hitch a ride with some other plants but I had surgery last November and could not take good care of things and I lost all my plants and the duckweed.
  5. Thanks KBOzzie59, the manual with the test kit suggest keeping Nitrates below 40ppm. My house water I use to refill the tank shows 0ppm of Nitrates.
  6. I am trying to keep my Nitrates below 40ppm but not having much luck. I have a 80 gallon tank with 4 Emperor 400 filters running at about 1/3 flow. I have about 12 Water Wisteria plants, about 30 guppies, 30 blue velvet shrimp and 6 Amano shrimp. I feed once a day and everything cleans it up in less than 10 minutes. For plant fertilizer I am using CO-Ops Easy Root Tabs and Easy Green as directed and a Fluval light. When I change water I do about 40 gallons about every 10 days. Any idea how I can keep the Nitrates lower?
  7. My guppies, shrimp and snails are going to get a late Christmas present, a new heater. The morning I put my hand in the water and it was very warm so I got my flashlight and got a good look at the thermometer on the other end of the tank and it said that the tank was at 94°. 😬 I have the heater unplugged and opened the lid on one side to start a slow cooldown
  8. Thanks Patrick, I will try it. I can always pull the base latter if they do not sprout.
  9. Thanks HH, It has been about 2 months and where the leaves on the center part of the stems fell off they have not started sprouting again but the very base and tops are show new growth Thanks Patrick, do I need to leave the base and roots or just pull then and trim the tops and replant just that part?
  10. Water Wisteria & Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus A couple of months ago I had a bad algae outbreak and ended up turning off the light for about 6 days. That did clear most of the adage but it took its toll on the Water Wisteria & Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus I have lost a lot of the lower leaves so do I need to cut them about 1” from the gravel and then trim off the top part and replant them and leave the bottom part to sprout again? I also have some brown stuff on the leaves, I am guessing that is another form of algae?
  11. Thanks, I did go back and look at my amonia and the decimal was in the wrong place, it was .15 and now it is back to 0. I have noticed the snail has not moved in 3 days so I guess it is no longer with me.
  12. No the foot looks like it is still up inside and sort of shriveled up. I forgot I do have 1 lb of crushed Coral in one of the filter chambers.
  13. Thanks, the newest section of its shell is a pale color not the bright yellow of the rest of it.
  14. Is there any physical things to look for inside the shell? KH is 71.6 GH is 125.3
  15. I have 2 of them, they are about 1.25" dia. Here are my water numbers PH 7.2 Ammonia 1.5 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 5 I have not added any minerals, guess I will go get some as the other one seems to be doing fine for now/
  16. One of my Mystery Snails does not look right. In the last week sometimes it is laying on its side and I will upright it, It has been hiding in its shell for several days and sometime it will have just a bit of a feeler sticking out and it has not been moving very much. It has not moved at all in the last 24 hours. Last week I did suck it up when vacuuming the tank but I have a foam plug in it so I don't suck up any fry so it was just held against the foam. Could that have injured it?
  17. That is probably true, I keep watching them but it is hard to get a good count on the ones with the black dot. I may have to get a breeding box and just net what fry i can and put them in the box for a while "LOL"
  18. The female must have been pregnant when I got them. I got 12 females on July 30th. There are several others that look close to popping some out too
  19. I found my first baby guppy 🙂
  20. The tank has been going for over 18 years but has only had live plants for a couple of months. I did have a lot of Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus that was at the top and laying over on the surface that was trapping the bubble in that area so I trimmed down and replanted the clippings.
  21. Thanks guys I just watched it. It must have been from turning my filters down when I feed. I turn them as slow of a flow as they will do, then I wait a couple of minutes and feed my 16 guppies while I am on the walking on my treadmill. When I get done I turn the filters back up.
  22. Is foam on the water cause or action or might it be normal?
  23. Thanks Guppysnail, that sounds reasonable. I just didn't want to shock them by over feeding it that might be a problem.
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