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I have a friend who found this plant and we need an ID so we can figure out if it legal to posses and even more important, legal to ship. It is a very cool looking plant and looks like it could be a good compact thick foliage plant I have been looking into for a long time. Sorry about the photo...

I have found Potassium Chloride in my local, Home Depot being sold as water softener. I need Potassium as when I ordered my dry ferts the first time I got plenty of everything but K. Is it okay to use the KCl water softener tablets as a source of K in my tanks? Is there anything specific to...

I have come to somewhat of a conculsion when it comes to using standard gravel as a substrate. When I first set up a tank and get it cycled, my plants grow slowly, almost painfully slowly. They mope and grow a little here and there but never really take off. I even add root tabs all through the...

I lost power here for 5 days and my plants have suffered. I won't talk about the fish short of saying I am starting over, completely. The plants I thought had come out of it fine but now they are losing their leaves suffering badly. The temperature got down to 40F or lower in the tanks for 3...

I just wanted to share this with everyone as I thought it was a pretty cool way to feed brine shrimp to your fish. I came across it and had to try it and it works wonderfully. If you have regular eggs, you decapsulate them using water and bleech after you hydrate them. Once decapsulted then...

Is there any way to kill hydra without killing snails?

Well I think i am going to try another species and I am looking at either Danios or killifish. I have heard that Danios are eggs scatterers and Killifhs needs a spawn mop for breeding but I have only read this. I would like comments regarding what they actually need. A spawn mop would be easy...

It isn;t really that much different than the norm but after seeing the one thread about the tank exploding I thought I would ask and see if my idea is feasible. The basics are the same, the glass is all siliconed together the same way but on each corner I have a piece of framing made out of...

I know most don;t want more snails but i want to try and breed them. I did actually get my first clutch but it was not fertile as they never hatched and the cluster was nothing but goo after 4 weeks. Anyway, I know the basics, pH over 7.4, high GH and KH, temp 76-82F, and about a 2 inch gap...

I have seen a trend in my tank with swords. Granted this is small tank at only 10 gallons but I think it shows the point I am trying to find out. I have seen that there is a trend for the dominant, largest bodied and longest sworded male to dominate and literally harass the other males almost...

Does anyone have any information as to how muchlight certain plants need when grown emersed? I am really beginning to think that lighting plays almost as much of a role in emersed as it does for submerged. Some plants like Anubias probably only need minimul light, let's call minimul 5 watts per...

Well I have a literal forest of them growing in two of my tanks now and they are getting annoying. One of the tanks has Skunk botia loaches (2) and 10 neon tetras, the other tank has snails. I realize it is a sign of good water quality but is there any way to control them so they don't literally...

I am pretty sur eI have L. Repens but want to know for sure. This is my plant and I was told by someone else that it might be L. Ovalis. Is there any tell tale traight that makes it easy to identify Repens from Ovalis?

I now have some plants I plan to grow from their submerged form to emersed. I know the plants will do it but what do they need? I know once they break the surface that they will get more CO2 from the air and that lighting requirements go down drastically but what happens to the bottoms of the...

http://www.sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=4 What would you use to support the emersed growth?

I have the API GH test and I have a real hard time telling when it goes from orange to green. Is there a better test solution by a different company that is easier to see the color change so I can get a more accurate reading?

Well I have found a source for it but now I need to know a little about it. I have gregs dosing calc but the stuff I may get comes in a compressed pellet form. I know this throws off the measurements because I don't have a scale to weigh it. According to gregs I need to add 1/3 tsp. Can anyone...

I was wondering if there is alternative source for K. I know about fleet enema for PO4, stump remover for KNO3 and I even have a source for Calcium chloride from a hot tub store. Is there any alternative source for K as in K2SO4 or maybe KCL that can be purchased at a hardware or other...

Is there any fish out there that will eat small copopods? I have a million of them almost litterally and I really need to get them under control. Is there any fish that will eat them and possibly get along with neon tetra in a 10 gallon tank?

I don't know what type it is yet because it was given to me by my LFS and is in pretty tough shape. There was no roots, only the top of the stems have leaves and it is really suffering. My guess would be Bacopa Australis but could be Moneywort. Leaves are up to 1 inch long and roundish and the...

Ok, first the plants for trade: Large patch of HC (4x4 at leats and very thick), grown Semi emersed/Submerged (partially floating) A fair amount of HM, pearlweed Ludwigia Repens, Primrose will have many stems to ship by Monday (8-25 depending on growth, have 8 floating now) The crypts, there are...

Well I knew I had them, at least the black ones but now I have literally hundreds if not thousands of these little buggers crawling all over my glass. The question is obvious, What Do I do! I do not overfeed, probably under feed, and the tank parameters are normal for a planted tank if not a...

Ok, this makes no sense at all. Tank #1.......... Tank #2 KH 8............... KH 10 GH 14............. GH 18 pH 7.2............. pH 7.0 NO3 20-30...... NO3 30-40 PO4 2-3.......... PO4 3-4 ( don't ask how I got the balance but I did) CO2ppm 15..... CO2ppm 30 Both tank 0 ammonia and...

Auction of driftwood Here is the stuff I have been looking at. I know about the tanins, I know about the type and it being more native than the beachwood I have in there now. I also know it will lower my pH but I assume it should only be .5-1 points and ot much more. The question is, is this...

I will hopefully be getting heaters in the next couple weeks but I wanted to ask this before going overkill. Is it ok to get say a 100 watt heater for a 10 gallon tank? I know the basic rule is 5 watts per gallon but will the 100 have any adverse effects? I would think with the longer area of...