Recent content by marisullivan

Here is an update: reshaped my whole tank. Layered seachem fluorite then subtrate. Planted a couple plants that I salvaged from old tank and started dosing every other day with flourish. Tossed out brown moss and added diy c02 - couple days into this, so will have to see how this goes. I just...

Still waiting - not a single bubble yet. My brew-master husband is SO fired. I promised to give it another 12 hours - no bubbles by then, then I am going back to the tried and true. Though in my dear hubby's defense - he does make some smashing beer.

So tonight I tried a new experiment - I bought wine yeast and hubby has beer priming sugar - and we attempted to make our own co2. I had been doing my own diy co2 with bread yeast and sugar. So I am very excited to see how this goes.

This will hold the water lettuce in place?

I got pics - will upload shortly

How would I do that? I can research it, but would not know where to start - and am considering a "natural biological diy filtration system" - but again, just nearvous as to how dirty my water will become. In this tank it is a 40g with black mollies, plattys, guppies (live breeders in essence)...

I have a "hang on the back" filtration system - that seems to be sucking in not only water - but my floating plants as well. I had afriend of mine that recommended a diy filtration since the plants provide so much nutrients, thus resulting in me turning off my "whisper filtration" and keep my...

salt & snails don't mix.

so here is my update: I got a new light for my 40gal planted tank. I took out the old brown java moss - some of which felt like pinestraw - and put it in a bucket by my backdoor and dosed with flourish (which has high iron). My back door gets lots of indirect sunlight. If it greens up -...

HN1 - You give me Hope! LOL! When I clean this particular tank - I take out about 1/3 water from the mid - high water range. I not only have java moss but also duck week, some floating water sprite and also planted java fern and planted water sprite. So I don't clean in the gravel. I was...

HN1 - my water temp is right around the 80-82 mark, since I have livebearer babies. I clean my tanks every other week. I thought about replacing the light - as it is the original one, but was told if I looked at a bulb replacement of T5 - that more than likely the T5 bulb would not work in a...

I have been adding iron to my water 2x a week, have a diy co2, and have been told the following may be my problem: Lights should be left on 8 hours per day, Too much food being fed Clean tank 1x a month vs the current 2x Water temp maybe too high Any thoughts on those suggestions?

HN1 - I took it out and did an excel rinse of 1 excel to 10 of water. Left in their for 3 minutes and put it back in tank. Lowryder - I am putting in excel 2x a week - with no other ferts. I was trying to do a "natural ecological" tank by using the fish poo to fertilize the plants.

I have several tanks and have java moss in most of them. My most "planted" tank - my baby - is a 40gal. live bearer tank. I have several water sprite and java fern in it - that are in the subtrate and java moss just floating. My java moss is in this tank is turning brown. I leave the lights...

forgive me for sounding like a ditz - I am a newbie with the planted side - but what is a T5HO? When it comes to my tanks I know it requires some money and I am prepared - within means - to foot that cost. My fishtanks are my hobby so money to maintain them properly is of the most importance.