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I would love to hear some feedback on this as well. Would like to light my 36g bowfront with LED, but am just as unsure on what the best options are. Experts?

So quit fighting it, eh? Could I somehow anchor it at the surface with a suction cup hook or something so it's not everywhere, or just let it float freely? I have an Aqueon Colormax Color-Enhancing fluorescent bulb, so I guess that's only going to be a low-light friendly fixture. Is there...

Got a mess of this a while back. Grows quickly, but does tend to turn brown near the bottom at times. The real problem I have (aside from the shedding Rivercats warned me about) is that it continues to work free from the anchor I use and wind up floating around the tank in pieces... I have a...

+1 on the Purigen. Does a great job as an additional piece of filter media to soak up the color from the tannins. I boiled my piece until water was brown, changed water, repeat until water color was very mild.

Does it tend to clog the filter, or just leave (no pun intended) a lot of debris laying around on the gravel?

Messy, how? Shedding?

It appears that hornwort is correct. So how's it compared to the anacharis in handling Excel?

Ha, that's the lfs name, I guess... It looks similar to the anacharis, in that it is sold in bunches and does not root. It is finer of stem and leaf, tho. Looks like a fir tree branch might. I'll look around for it or post a pic later if I can.

So how 'bout wormwort? Would it have the same negative reaction to the Excel as the anacharis?

They look worse by the hour... And my Krib appears to like to eat the transparent leaves, so I think he's helping to strip them bare. Will have to buck up and get a couple new bunches, methinks.

Salvageable? Don't guess lfs will take back opened bottle of Excel... How long before I introduce some new anarachis? After a wc or two?

So does melting anacharis look like: darkening stems transparent leaves leaves shedding to bare stem etc etc? I had done the first dose before reading Rivercat's post unfortunately. Seems like the anacharis was doing fine, and now it's borked...

Whoops, crossed-over this post with my last... So we are up in the air on the Liquid Carbon. Thoughts?

Argh! So no Flourish Excel, then? Just buy Flourish and use it? Sorry, which is the crypt - the wentii? So a t8 Colormax 17W bulb is nothing but low light... So basically, I need to stick with low light plants. Will plants that have a "medium light" requirement just be a bad investment, then?

Does T8 refer to the fixture or the bulb? Can I get a medium strength light for the fixture I have?

The fixture is what came with the Aqueon bow front tank (says 20W on the back). Planning on replacing the original bulb (I'm assuming it's low light) with one from the lfs that would be more of a medium plant light. I was told by the lfs that none of the plants I have require a really strong...

Have a mature java fern (and two of its baby plants transplanted and in middle stage of growth), two bunches of anarchis (one of which has grown almost to the surface), a new red wentii, and four saggitaria grasses that have about four or five more plant offshoots on runners (but neither the...

So I need to buy the Flourish, too? What would the dosing pattern look like? The Excel says on the bottle to dose every other day...

So I wanted to aid my plants in their growth, and lfs recommended Flourish Excel from Seachem. What I'm reading about it is that it's a liquid CO2 additive. Does it contain the good stuff found in regular Flourish, or is that a whole separate product that I would also need to dose the tank...

Nothing to fix... That's just the older of the leaves aging. Watch closely as sometimes the spot will sprout a baby, which you can then attach somewhere else in your tank to start another fern!

I really enjoy watching my kribensis. Great coloring and lots of personality!

Resurrecting a really old thread here, but this is the same thing I have going on... One nerite snail, and tons of eggs all over glass. Will some hatch? Is there an easy way to remove them? Any fish like to eat snail eggs? Thx!

Can't tell if you have any baby plants on there. Usually, it starts with some brown spots, and you'll see a tiny leaf and a few thin brown roots beginning to grow there. When you get a baby with two or three small leaves, you can actually pull it off the dying leaf and attach it somewhere in...

Croaked... Why would both die off at the exact same time, tho? They'd only been in tank about 2-3 months. Very strange.

If they had croaked, would ammonia levels be rising? Did another test, and still at zero there. All other levels within the norm, tho the temp crept up to 80F on a hot day. Tank normally stays at 77F, so it wasn't a big leap. Are they more sensitive to temps? Just seems weird that they...