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  1. kammaroon
    I'm following with interest also. Both guys have been posting on Instagram about it recently.
  2. kammaroon
    Hydrocotyle verticillata has leaves with no slits
  3. kammaroon
    Epiphyte plants on big pieces of wood and stone should work.
  4. kammaroon
    Get some marginal pond plants. They will help make the tub more natural looking and pull lots of nitrate from the water. I'm not in the US so I don't know what plants you have access to. A water lily would look good too.
  5. kammaroon
    That's not amazon frogbit. It could be water poppy, Hydrocleys nymphoides.
  6. kammaroon
    Looks similar to this problem:
  7. kammaroon
    The weather has cooled down in the past few days. It's going to be high of 15C/60F tomorrow but will warm up again after. The medakas are doing very well. Here's a couple of females carrying eggs in the morning: Two aquarium plant cuttings, Hydrocotyle tripartita and Lobelia cardinalis, are doing very well in both tubs. They are growing much better than in my aquariums. I only see fleeting glimpses of fish in the CPD tub. Makes it less interesting to look at. Next season, I'll pick something less shy.
  8. kammaroon
    You can glue/tie some mosses to your hardscape. Might encourage your WCMM to spawn.
  9. kammaroon
    I have red root floater, Amazon frogbit, Riccia fluitans, salvinia and dwarf water lettuce. I like red root floaters the best because the reddish/brownish colour makes a good contrast to my mostly green plants. I like salvinia the least because some will stick to your arm like duckweed, but less bad because they are bigger plants and most will drop off. I have hard water and all those plants are doing well. The main thing that seem to cause them problems is strong flow. I used air tube initially to corral them then set them free once there's a good covering.
  10. kammaroon
    You can try Helanthium tenellum, Crypt parva or Lilaeopsis brasiliensis at the front. They can carpet...eventually. I like Java fern trident in a small tank. They have narrower leaves than the standard Java fern. Limnophila sessiliflora and Heteranthera zosterifolia are fast growing stem plants that do well in my low tech tanks.
  11. kammaroon
    You're right. It will also help to use up some of the nitrogen from the water.
  12. kammaroon
    This year is my first time summer tubbing. I live in an apartment in London, UK and I have a covered balcony as my outdoor space, so no chance of top ups from rainwater. My plan is to have lots of plants and do regular water change. I set up two 65 litres/17 US gallons tubs at the end of March when temperatures were pretty cold, ranging from 15C/60F during the day to 5C/40F at night. Temperatures have recently warmed up and are currently around 25C/77F during the day and 15C/60F at night. In one tub, I have Fibre optic plant Water mint Creeping jenny Dwarf water lily and various cuttings and floaters I raided from my indoor tanks The plants have grown well since March. Last week, I put in 6 CPDs and 7 red cherry shrimps. Both the fish and shrimps are always hidden, I have to look very carefully to be able to see them. In the second tub, I have Corkscrew rush Succisa pratensis (devil's-bit scabious 😄) Miniature bulrush Water chestnut and various cuttings and floaters The plants in this tub seem to be slower growing, this tub gets slightly less sun than the first tub. The good thing is that I see less of an algae issue. Last week, I put in 7 medaka ricefish and 7 snowball shrimps. The medakas are always out and about. The shrimps are harder to see but more visible than the red cherries in the other tub.
  13. kammaroon
    I like mini Christmas moss or weeping moss because they have nicer texture than Java moss. I find Java moss just grows into a ball of mess but I'm lazy with trimming.
  14. kammaroon
    You can buy pond plants from your local garden centre. Alternatively, I've bought lots of cheap bare root plants from https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/lincolnshirepondplants I got a combination of floaters, marginal and oxygenators for my tub ponds.
  15. kammaroon
    I've bought USB nano air pump clones from ebay.co.uk. Make sure the air pumps are delivered from local source, otherwise, you may have to wait for weeks. I've set up a couple of 65L/17US gallons tubs using plants as filtration. It's my first time tubbing and I plan to start introducing fish slowly. Hopefully, all will go well.
  16. kammaroon
    Possibly Cryptocoryne pontederiifolia?
  17. kammaroon
    You can try crushed flakes. I use a disposable chopstick and use it to smash the flakes into tiny bits like pestle and mortar.
  18. kammaroon
    I plan to do that. I've just set up a tub outside for the first time. Looking forward to see how the aquarium plants and fishes do outside.
  19. kammaroon
    The original bud did not flower but a couple of months later, another one did open up:
  20. kammaroon
    TNC Lite contains no phosphate nor nitrate. Phosphate may be too low, depending on what and how much you feed your livestock.
  21. kammaroon
    Wow, that is going to be an amazing tank. My first tank was 10 gallons/40 litres. 😆
  22. kammaroon
    Just checking, is it 340 gallons (almost 1300 litres) or 340 litres? How about an Amazon inspired stocking with lots of shoaling fish:
  23. kammaroon
    Possibly hygrophila corymbosa
  24. kammaroon
    I live in London and I plan to put out Medaka ricefish and CPD/Galaxy Rasboras in May. The overnight temperatures should be almost 10C/50F by then. I know the weather here is very similar to Vancouver BC (my brother lives there). BTW, Lidl has 65L/17 US gallon mixing buckets on sale right now for £6 each:
  25. kammaroon
    El niño ferns are epiphytes, like Java fern. Dose with liquid fert, like Easy Green, and make sure you don't bury the rhizome.
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