Recent content by tsonnenl

I have that same red leafed plant in my tank and it think it was labeled Broad-Leafed Ludwiga at the LFS, though I just did a brief search on that name and didn't find anything. So how strong are those lights on your tank anyway? I'm at 2.7 wpg and the plant is really struggling. All of the...

While the water was sitting for a week, was the top off so that something could have accidentally affected it like an air freshener being sprayed near it or something?

I don't think there's much hope for this batch if they went downhill that quickly. It sucks, but you might have to make your peace with it and focus on making sure that doesn't happen again. I would have to ask again if you cleaned the tank or any decorations in it with chemicals. Did you add...

Have you hooked it up to your canister yet? You might be surprised. Any change in direction in the tubing should result in turbulence in the water, slowing down the flow rate, just like the air through intake on your car. Straight is fast. That said, I hope you're right. That extra elbow...

HAHA, you're probably right about that looking like a pipe bomb by an uninformed postal inspector! I never thought of that. There's a guy over on plantedtank.net trying to get people together like a group buy to have him to buy parts in bulk and send them out assembled to people. He might...

I have to admit, there isn't much of any fertilizing regimen. Until I noticed the yellowing, I had been getting good growth and good color in almost all plants with no liquid fertilizers at all and was happy with that. I would hope flourish IRON that I added today would actually add iron. I...

Don't push refresh after posting.....ugh.

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I'm learned from my 72 that my eyes wander mostly to three things: large colorful schools, a few large fish, and the unusual. I ALWAYS notice the fish which contrast best against the background, which is mostly green in my planted tank. A large school of 12 or more cardinal, not neon tetras...

New Iron tests reads zero. Flourish iron added today. Thanks for the helpful responses.

Uh, that's 5 per foot, then 7 bucks shipping - 32 total. Right...

I found clear PVC at savco.com in 5ft lengths. $5.63 isn't bad. Its a #4 at Wendys... Wanna make me one with your extra parts? Have you ever seen the movie Contact? "Why make one when you can make two for twice as much?"

I added purple cabomba and another thick-leaved stem plant that I forget the name of to my tank a month or so ago after my stand debacle. They are growing well, but all new growth is noticably yellower than the lower sections. I have always thought my tank had more of a yellow tint than I...

Hmm, that's more like it. I see the professionaly made one is for aquariums up to 500 gallons....that's a little excessive. I might look for a smaller version of that and happily eat the 30-40 bucks and not end up with water all over my walls when I screw up the DIY. You'd think I'd be more...

I'm getting nearer to setting up a pressurized CO2 system for my 72g planted, but I was hoping not to have any more equipment taking up space in the tank, be it an in-tank reactor or a second powerhead to run an external reactor. I've looked over the products for sale on aquatic-store.com and...