Recent content by pbco

Good suggestion, and I actually did for about 1.5 days, but I lack a good means to keep such a container at a good temp (besides putting an incandescent desk lamp right above the water), so I put them back in the tank. I imagine that if they are anything, they probably need a similar temp (80F)...

Yeah, tell me about it. They are still there and I'll post an update if they yield anything. Oddly, some have broken off and disappeared and one has started to turn into a deep purple color. I'm wondering if they could be seeds of some sort, but the "clumpiness" of them seems too odd (plus I...

I woke up the other day to find this "cluster of blue grapes" at the bottom of my tank (see attached picture.) The tank is a 6 wk old planted 14g with ~3.7 WPG. In the tank are 1M/2F platies, 2F guppies, 2 oto cats and 5 ghost shrimp. I recently added some anacharis that I rinsed off, but...

I have duckweed with a HOB filter in a 14g tank. I attached a plastic cut out (from the top of a chinese food container) to the lid of the filter using duck tape so that water is blown down instead of outward, reducing surface agitation. Some water is still expelled out the sides, but it works...