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I have had one nerite with my (pretty laid back) betta for a couple months and this has never happened before.
Two days ago I added two similarly sized nerites to the 5 gallon tank. A few hours later it had crawled about an inch out of the water and was sitting on the rim when I found him. I...
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Anyway, the dwarf sag I bought was yellowing and had leaves looking kind of sad. Can I trim it? And how far down the leaf?
Also can anyone Id what the "fringe" actually is?
Oh and I also added a red crypt wendtii
I just planted narrow anacharis, ludwigia, dwarf sag, and at petsmart something called "fringe" added to the quadrifolia and banana plant I already had. Then I added my new beta :)
The dwarf sag I bought
I got this guy from petssmart yesterday and put him in this (cycled) tank. The water parameters are ammonium 0 nitrIte 0 nitrate 5, it's at 78 degrees. He's been resting on the bottom basically the whole time. He ate one pellet last night and two at noon today. For a while last night he was...
So far I've got java moss, quadrifolia in the foreground, a banana plant, and a small red crypt wendtii that I added yesterday but forgot to take a picture then. It's planted in the front way in the right corner.
Second pic is one of my ghost shrimps :) fun little guy
Living art aquarium is decent. it's literally across the street from the west side pet smart, which is actually decent for a big box store. I met a couple guys there that actually knew what was up. At living art the equipment is overpriced, and they are pretty small. However, they stock healthy...
Yep things like ecocomplete, fluorite, and fluorite sand have high CECs which means they retain nutrients very well even though they don't contain them alone
I personally just set up a 5 gallon with a .5" layer of miracle grow organic (sifted, rinsed, and drained like 5 times) then a very thin...