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    Sounds like a robust setup! I can't wait to see it all put together. I recently learned about the marine grade plywood. Good tip to know!
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    "Effort is between you and you..."
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    Agreed. Thank you Zenzo for the clarification!
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    Plants trimmed and re-planted. The interesting thing was the amount of aerial roots on stems that were extremely short! They wanted to be trimmed and replanted. It was as if the main plant was waiting for the stem to break. The other interesting thing was stems that had basically died off on the main stalk, shot out a side stalk and started to focus growth from those parts of the plants as opposed to the main branch. I found this a little bit ago, woke up and learned how to trim a tree. Use that accordingly if you feel so for your plant trimmings. . it gets shot to the filter (seachem tidal skimmer in this case) and doesn't have a place to float and grow. Even floating, I've never had success floating a stem.bare Agreed. That is the main method I have seen. I have also seen what is known as "topping" which may or may not involve pulling the bare sections as well as their rooted sections to make way for the "tops" that are healthy and thriving. That method of replacing the bare stalks is something I've never learned when I first started out keeping aquarium plants and was a big explanatory as to why I managed to have so many issues. Tall stems with 3-8 leaves and very tall bare stalks. Basically the equivalent of palm trees in mario games. I've tried a variety of different substrates. Some easier than others. Some tools easier than others as well. It's all relative. No sand in this tank and a plethora of little catfish waiting to boop the plants up into the sky and just have fun with that. I also have moss being pulled off daily by amano shrimp or by angry RTBS it seems who doesn't know her own size trying to graze on aufwuchs.
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    @xXInkedPhoenixX yeah, it's been a challenge for me to learn some of the fine techniques just because there is so much basic information lacking full details. I usually get the plants to 3-4" and then trim. 1/2-3/4" tall stem in the soil left with a good length plant to plob into the soil to propagate out. One of my issues I had previously was not planting deep enough!
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    @Zenzo I just wanted to clarify the way the giveaway functions. I am puzzled a bit and potentially not the only one, so I wanted to formally ask the question on the forums. When you first sign up via the sign up page it says to just "click the join giveaway" button which is the exact verbiage we see via email. At the bottom of those threads on the blog articles there is another link that says "enter this month's giveaway" which takes you here where you can sign up again. My question is, which button allows up to properly enter the giveaway? Do we need to re-join the mailing list monthly or is simply clicking this button (and others with the blog posts) the correct method to join the giveaway? Congratulations to the winner! It is really awesome that ACO is doing these. I just wanted to clarify what we need to do on our end to participate. Thank you!
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    I found a few things while doing more research. I'll quickly mention two of them here: A. "plants need leaves for photosynthesis and having 2-3 layers of leaves to plant will help them to start off right while the roots grow." This is referring to the top portions and how much length you need to plant. Having the bare stalks is beneficial. Roots will be encouraged to grow at the cut point of the stem and that will be in the substrate where the nutrients are located. B. I found a Tom Barr video where he is discussing and trimming his S.Repens carpet. A lot of the video looks visually like he is hand pulling the plants out, but the discussion follows that he cuts the stems to the substrate and the following conversation is about how long until new growth is seen. My previous method was to to the plants when they grew tall enough, then to pull off the bottom 2-3 layers of leaves and plant those stems. I can appreciate the difference here in technique because he is doing a "for profit" trim and wants healthy plants visually for the customer. There would be time into potting or bunching those trimmings, but it makes sense why he trimmed them the way he did.
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    Looks wonderful! It is one of my favorites. If you're ever looking for a new anubias to try, another one of my favorites is Nangi. It's similar to nana size, but leaves are elongated as opposed to being as oval as they are on most anubias. It gives a slightly different look to break up the shapes. I'm excited for you, I can't wait to see it all going wonderful for you.
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    @Lennie ^^ Congratulations @DaveO That's wonderful.
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    If you've never kept them before, a 20L is a wonderful tank for a pair of rams (german rams have more color, need higher temp) or apisto species. to pair with that you would be on tetra and Characidae territory. Let's think.... 2x Rams (Assuming GBR) 8 silvertip tetras 8 pencilfish (choose what you like that works) 8 green neon, emperor, neon, or cardinal tetra you can also sub out one of the tetras with a pleco or corydoras species.
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    The main thing is if you get a topfin tank, make sure you get a top fin lid and stand that fits those dimensions. Aqueon and TF have different dimensions, similar sizes, but this is common between all of the major tank manufacturers. If you like black silicone, be sure to check out the OG black silicone tank, marineland! I had a bowfront marineland, best quality tank I've owned. Not saying much, but it was very well constructed!
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    Maybe you can reach Candi via DM on the forums here?
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    You can toss this into google translate for a full english website, but here is a unique and seemingly endless bit of plant information. Might be a help for you. I found it recently and I'm thankful for the filters and tools to help me check out whatever type of plants I might know of and what else is out there. https://www.flowgrow.de/db/wasserpflanzen Maybe Hygrophila costata? Here is a fully green epiphyte I haven't seen before: https://www.flowgrow.de/db/wasserpflanzen/hymenasplenium-obscurum
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    I doubt it's classified as an epiphyte but some species of Hygrophila are definitely fast growers.
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    Beautiful shrimp! That's wonderful.
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    I would have to go back and verify the dates on everything.... I am sitting at the tank watching them eat. Lots of baby shrimp out and about. I counted as much as I could just to get a feel for what I can see in terms of number of shrimp. ~60 I can visibly count. So, that being said with however long it's been, starting with 15 or so shrimp, I am now in that range of colony. Baby shrimp born yesterday and 2-3 females ready to go with new baby shrimp hatching here shortly.
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    Here's how the plants look today. My apologies for the blurry photo. I guess imoved moved slightly, but you can see the length on the plants.
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    What!?!? 😂 😂 😂 The fry look wonderful, very wriggly and happy with their home. Lol! The zoomies are real. They are searching so hard for food. For small fry, given food size and gravel in the tank, do you think feeding dish helps them out?
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    Correct / yes. Basically, treat it like it's a tank. Do your normal maintenance, change water. Siphon if you see debris. Scrape the front grass. Let's say you add ammonia 2-4 days a week, even just once a week should be fine. You can transition over to a pinch of food as well if you'd like. You'd normally feed shrimp every other day (or less food daily) and replicating that with food or ammonia would be fine. The food will sit and create ammonia so I've only ever needed to feed the tank 1-2x a week. What is your nitrate? Ammonia -> Nitrite -> Nitrate
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    I have a bottle of easy carbon, works just fine. My bottle of Easy green it's the same situation, jammed or something and doesn't fully depress like it should. It's not clogged, not locked partially or anything. Just doesn't work quite right. I'll end up swapping the pumps over for now, but it may just be a % of failure on the pump heads themselves. My old white pump bottle of EG, never had any issues.
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    Oh I totally understand. Just is a very unique shade of green.
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    I believe it's in ODs tank above. Bucephalandra 'Kedagang' has a really nice green shade to it that would contrast. Can be used up front or midground I would think. This one is labeled as Buce "deep purple"
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    😂 I hear you. I know sometimes they are a pain! Last time I had 4-6 shrimp, this time I only had a small section and there weren't any. I spent the morning watching the baby shrimp on the glass and they were hatched last night. They use other places to hide, definitely will be difficult to see (white body on white sand, about the size of a piece of sand), but I spend a good amount of time after cleaning looking for them. The method for me is making it feasible. By no means will I say that I won't suck up a shrimp, but it worked a lot better than before I had all the baby shrimp to worry about. It's only going to be a bigger issue moving forward as the colony size grows. The other thing I did was just picked up a piece of wood and shook off all the debris. Powder food for the tank! The filters took up some of the junk, but there was a good amount of wood debris and such for the baby shrimp. Fun little trick. I spend time looking for them in the bucket. Whatever method you're using I would focus on viability of looking for them in a bucket specifically. You're dealing with needing to have microscope eyes. Maybe there is a mirrorless camera with a macro lens that is the way to go for you? https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Alpha-ZV-E10-Interchangeable-Mirrorless/dp/B09BBGN298/ref=sr_1_6?crid=882C7TC9QULK&keywords=sony%2B3%2F4%2Bmirrorless&qid=1686242144&sprefix=sony%2B3%2F4%2Bmirrorles%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-6&th=1 There is usually used camera shops that have good deals as people upgrade.
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    I used a 20 long aquarium dimension size for the above stocking comparison. 10-15 should be absolutely fine. According to the stocking robot you can have 30 adults if you don't add any other fish.
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