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Angelfish fry for sure. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

Amano shrimp are $2.99 at new jersey petco chain stores during the fall. They climb to $4.99 in the off season. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

Ask any fish vendor on aquabid, and they will tell you that a box labeled "fragile" or "live fish" is more likely to get damaged or severely delayed in transit. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

3) Nutrients Plant fertilizers are made up of 4 major components: a) Nitrate b) Potassium c) Phosphate d) Micros/Traces (iron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, boron) There are a few sources for these fertilizers: a) fish waste products (costs nothing but more difficult to quantify) b) buy them in...

LIGHT INTENSITY REQUIREMENTS FOR VARIOUS PLANTS LOW LIGHT PLANTS - Require 15 to 30 PAR of light intensity Low light foregound plants: Aegagropila (moss ball) Staurogyne (star repens) Taxiphyllum (moss) Low light midground plants: Anubias Cryptocoryne (crypts) Lobelia Microsorum (java fern)...

LIGHT DURATION Plants use up nutrients when the lights are on, even though most of their growth actually occurs when the lights are off. Turning lights on while depriving the plants of carbon or nutrients will result in poor plant health and algae formation. It would be like forcing a horse to...

2) Light intensity Light intensity for aquarium plants is best measured in units of PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation). The amount of PAR is affected by the brightness of the light source and the distance from the light source to its target. Cutting this distance in half will increase...

b) Yeast fermentation I find this method too time consuming and impractical. It works great for small aquariums but for my 125 gallon tank it's not really a viable option. You can find info on yeast-based systems all over youtube. Just search for "yeast CO2". There is also a nice guide in this...

CO2 DIFFUER versus CO2 REACTOR A CO2 diffuser is a device that looks like a white colored airstone that breaks up the CO2 gas into tiny bubbles as they are released in to the aquarium. This allows the CO2 to dissolve quickly and efficiently into the water. When shopping for CO2 diffusers or...

Let's look at these carbon sources in detail: a) Pressurized CO2 tanks When people talk about high tech setups, they are referring to the use of a pressurized CO2 tank. You can find Mudraker's awesome step by step guide on building a pressurized CO2 system using this link...

1) Carbon (CO2) source You can measure the amount of CO2 using a device called a drop checker. You can buy a drop checer for about $10 at amazon dot com or ebay. Most drop checkers will come with a blue liquid that turns green when CO2 levels are at 30 ppm. Manufacturers recommend that the...

MATT'S GUIDE TO AQUARIUM PLANT CARE People ask me what I am doing to keep my plants thriving. It's really very simple. The 3 most important factors for keeping plants healthy are: 1) Carbon source 2) Light intensity 3) Nutrients In the following posts I will go over each of these.

A few close up photos of the Ludwigia atlantis. Photo of the plastic toothpicks for anchoring down patties of carpet plants like Dwarf Baby Tears, Monte Carlo, or even Marsilea Minuta. You can get these fancy cocktail toothpicks from any large grocery store: Planting one strand at a time...

Thanks, I just used my cell phone to take the photos, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which is old. January 17, 2015 update: The Marsilea minuta are continuing to spread along the left rear, growing considerably (10x) slower than the Micranthemum monte carlo carpet. The Staurogyne repens have recovered...

Just a weekend update. The Marsilea minuta are continuing to spread. The Staurogyne repens have recovered from their melt and are growing back nicely.

My DHG also spreads very slowly compared to the Monte Carlo. The difference in spreading speed is probably more than 10 times in my estimate. DHG is easier to trim, you just give it a haircut. Monte Carlo is difficult to trim. If you give Monte Carlo a haircut it will turn brown. The only way to...

I have not had any failure with any Petco/Petsmart tissue culture pack, but I am using high tech CO2 injection plus powerful lights and maximum fertilization. I also had great success growing tissue culture packs in my low tech overcrowded fish tanks with zero CO2/fert/light supplements...

When I started this project I was not sure whether to go with a lush and busy dutch layout or a sparse yet elegant iwagumi design. I made up my mind that I would integrate features of both, and a 125 gallon tank fortunately has enough real estate to accomodate both concepts. In this post I will...

There are many types of dwarf hair grass. The most common type of dwarf hair grass grows to a height of 8 inches and is called Eleocharis parvula which can be obtained in petsmart tissue culture packs, ebay, aquabid dot com, and planted tank dot net buy/sell forum. The smallest type of dwarf...

Photos below are from November 15, 2014, exactly 2 months since the initial planting: Photos below are from December 7, 2014, almost 3 months since the initial planting:

The photo below is from November 2, 2014, 6 weeks after initial planting. More plants have been added:

The photos below are from September 27, 2014, which is 13 days after initial planting. More plants are added: The photo below is from October 4, 2014, which is 21 days after initial planting. Green water is becoming a problem: The photos below are from October 11, 2014, which is 28...

Sometime in the beginning of August 2014, I filled my empty 125 gallon aquarium with 120 pounds of CaribSea Eco-Complete gravel. I selected this substrate because it does not need to be washed and will therefore save me about 12 hours of gravel washing manual labor considering the amount of...