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  1. On 9/13/2021 at 5:08 PM, ARMYVET said:

    Ive got the mother plant of all pothos living in my front yard and I just know its plotting my death seeing how I have tried to kill it numerous times and have failed every single one of them.   This thing has leaves on it the size of small children.😱   I know you think im kidding but I will be taking  pic as soon as I get home and fight my way to the front door!

    I know a guy that tried for years to kill catnip, and nothing worked. He finally gave in and watered and fertilized it; it promptly died. 

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  2. OK this is about the fourth time that I’ve changed the water, and I’ve sat there and fished little bits of floaties out with a fine net. I am running a Clear2o filter on my garden hose to fill with, and it has a prefilter, and a solid block carbon filter that filters to one micron. 
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    there still a little bit of debris, and I have to get it up to temperature, but it’s looking pretty good for a one day project. I know my beta would appreciate being out of the bucket. image.jpg.1d0fe88d5ca6160aa796ace24d8b474a.jpgThoughts?  I added a little pea gravel then a layer of sand about three-quarter inch thick, then another inch or so of pea gravel on top. I hope this makes it easier to gravel vac

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  3. On 9/13/2021 at 2:13 PM, BlueLineAquaticsSC said:

    Hard to tell from the picture, but are his pectoral fins torn up or just folded in? Could it be an aggression issue

    He had a snail eating on him for probably an hour and a half before I realized he was dead. He had been alive over in the corner and the snail had been alive over in the same corner munching on an algae wafer. When I walked by later, the snail was on top of him/her. The only other fish in the tank at that point were three female beta, and they didn’t mess with anything, even each other unless it was just a bump one another during feeding time. 

  4. On 9/13/2021 at 3:15 PM, Del said:

    To bad it popped loose, but I’m looking forward to the result. I have been interested in Betta sorority’s for a while now, maybe I’ll try it once. 
     

    Do you always top soil of with sand? Does it work fine (offcourse without driftwood popping loose)? 

    If I had been using the $20 a bag aqua soil, (that is basically calcined clay soaked in fertilizer) it probably would not have floated up at all. The problem is I used a potting mix that contains peat which is basically rotted wood, and the little white stuff and I’m drawing a blank now it’s not vermiculite, and it’s not gypsum… Anyway they use it to loosen up compact soils- it floats, so it makes for a very bad choice all things considered. That’s why I added the sand on top was to help kind of seal it in, and keep it from leaching nitrates into the water, and to keep the lightweight stuff in place. The wood ruined that for me, but oh well. Now I’m just going to add another inch or so of sand and top it with pea gravel for appearance sake. You could use aqua soil and then cover it with a coarse sand or light gravel and it would probably be easier to queen if you’ve got the money to do it; I just don’t

    EDIT— perlite. Of course I remember 20 minutes later

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  5. On 9/13/2021 at 2:40 PM, Hobbit said:

    Oh nooo bummer! Floating wood is strong, strong, strong. I had to drill holes in mine and secure it to the glass with fishing line and huge suction cups.

    Think you’ll start from the beginning or let the soil settle and keep pushing forward?

    Always forward!  It looks like we ghetto  right now, but I have sand and pea gravel outside to wash and add. image.jpg.19cab7fd7dd1e2f8df4104818a31072d.jpg

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  6. On 9/13/2021 at 11:43 AM, Tihshho said:

    Looks like you're off to a good start! I thoroughly enjoy the scaping and building portion of new tanks.

    I do as well. I just wish that I hadn’t hit my thumb with the hole saw last night. I was drilling little hidey spots for my beta since they like to tuck themselves into little tight nooks while they sleep. 

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  7. 66CB6453-84D1-4524-843C-C39AB52A6257.jpeg.3eaef9219cd628a112650ada3aa689cb.jpegThis is listed as a red leopard lyre twin bar molly and I was wondering if anyone knew if this was a molly, or a hybrid of a molly and something else like a swordtail. I have been watching videos, and no molly that I have seen has those twin long dorsal and ventral fins. 

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  8. I know this isn’t what you’re asking, but what about getting yourself a holding tank and stock it with hornwort or something. Use that tank as you source for water changes, then top it off afterwards. Something like a rain barrel for catching downspout water would be ideal. 

  9. On 9/13/2021 at 6:43 AM, Colu said:

    Are you using a dechlorinator like prime when you do your water changes and you  have low nitrites what exactly are your nitrites have you added anything new to the tank resently 

    Low nitrates, low nitrates, no new additions, and no chlorine.Low nitrates, low nitrates, no new additions, and no chlorine.  I had a post under the diseases section when the first 4 died, but this last one looked super healthy- even as he was dead. 9F062615-A145-425D-A818-CCE90FDF223B.jpeg.098b47023413c79ed2c68d68ab4fa844.jpeg

  10. Has anyone ever found that hornwort needles when converting to immersed growth have shed all over the place and killed their pleco?  Water parameters are good and after last night, my biggest pleco that was nice and healthy was suddenly dead. No chlorine, no ammonia, low nitrates, low nitrites , but a bunch of brown sharp hornwort needles around where the dead pleco was. I though maybe it was something about the water change last time, but this time I hadn’t changed the water yet. Last time two died in this tank after a water change, but this one died before. The only constant in this tank (that I can think of) is the hornwort litter. 

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  11. I haven’t done it myself, but I was reading a post somewhere and someone had kuhli loaches breed in a tank that had gravel instead of fine sand. They speculated that the eggs/young fell through the rock and were protected from predators. 
     

  12. Ok, here are test strips on my 4 tanks. Granted it is 3 days after the plecos died. E19096F1-800D-4518-9D77-32547BD2CF93.jpeg.ff05744b98a5b0cca8b30011522af5a1.jpegTo be clear, all the other pleco in both the other tanks and the one left in the beta tank are doing fine as far as I can tell. It’s hard to tell on an albino bristlenose though. The picture of the bottle I had to use the panoramic view and cut my hand out afterwards; it’s a mess, but you can see the chart clear enough. Nitrates, nitrites, water hardness, total alkalinity, and pH 6E03F913-B338-444B-AED3-C97E6E0FAD0D.jpeg.a3e49d660711e12b01de9fa4fb4e00af.jpeg

  13. I can’t imagine that ammonia would be an issue as one tank had three pregnant guppies and two pleco, and the other had 3 beta and 3 pleco. The guppy tank is over half full of plants for the fry to hide in once they are born, and the sorority tank has a bunch of plants that have been growing in there. 

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