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Hello, I presently have a 10gal tank that's sitting empty. I'd like to try some apistos ; I plan on following one of the 10gal 'cookie cutters' from cichlid-forum. I imagine these stock lists would be appropriate? The tank will be moderately planted. My main question is about feeding; what...

Hello all, I'll be tearing my tank down for a move on wednesday, and will be thinning out my plants in the process. I have enough of the following for one fairly hefty package: Dwarf sag R. rotundifolia Bocapa australis Echinodorus latifolius As I rip the tank down, I may find I have more...

I recently received a few stems of R. macrandra and R. macrandra "Narrow Leaf" from czcz. Both are growing (pearling even, surprisingly enough), and both are slowly turing green. The narrow leaf is also getting some curling to it's old growth (check out the pics)... I'm not entirely sure if it...

This was my 10g awhile back: Pretty standard fair for a beginner's planted tank I think. It was nice, but didn't really 'do it' for me. I've since rid myself of the Cabomba and wisteria, added 9W of lighting (for a total of 35w or 3.5WPG) and added a bunch of plants (Thanks a million to...

Hey, I've got some more stuff to get rid of.... hope to ship monday or tuesday. Pay only $5 shipping Couple stems of cabomba Couple of L. repens some wisteria too

Hello, Decided to give back to the system: 1 small C. x willisii "Lucens" 2 stems of Wisteria 4-5 Plantlets of Dwarf sag $5 shipping if anyone is interested in all or part. A trade is not nessicary, but if anyone has any extra Blyxa, Marisilea (clover), or other grassy plant it would be...

I've been battleing a recent outbreak of BBA with pruning and fert balancing... then I go away for the weekend and come back to find a tank full of GREEN WATER...... grrrrr So today I did a couple of WC to clear things up some and to prune some more BBA. In the process I found a dead ghost...

I've recently come across two 9w CF fixtures, and I'm debating weather I should add 1, 2 or none of them over my 10g. Right now I have 2X13W CF over my tank and am experiencing decent growth of most plants... I can't seem to make any foreground plant grow (dwarf chain swords browned slowly...

I've had this algae growing pretty rapidly in my tank of late.... I've been trimming the most heavilly affected leaves. It seems to have appeared after i dosed my PO4 to 1ppm and added 5 mL of Leaf Zone the other day. I've been running 15-20ppm of CO2, but my mix dided last night, so now i've...

Hello, I've had some Pygmy chain sword in my tank for about a month now, and it's not really doing much... probably the only plant not to explode since I've gotten CO2. I originally had about 10 plants worth, now I'm down to 3 suviving bunches... which appear to be growing now with CO2, but...

My R. rotundifolia is all growing fairly fast, but much of it is growing sideways rather then up... The stems were straight when i put them in, and now they're all growing horizonally or at a 45 degree angle. Is my lighting too much for them? Some kind of deficiency? TIA

Right now I have the Hagen CO2 system on my 10g. Using the bubble ladder the KH/pH relationship was givving me between 9 and 12 ppm. Not too bad, but definatly below optimum from what I've read. So last night I removed the bubble ladder and piped the CO2 output into the input of my AC20, to...

I've noticed there are fairly common pictures of people java ferns with 6"-10" leaves. My java fern grows leaves 3"-4" long then quits and starts throwing new leaves from the rhyzome. Is this some kind of deficiency? Or do I just have a java fern with bad genes?

Nope not my plants.... just the algae. From the plantgeek algae atricle I'm calling it Cyano. Since the tank is empty (of fish) I added 200mg of erythromycin to hopefully kill it... How long does this generally take to be effective? How many doses? I'm not sure what type of imbalance is...

OK, I'm now looking to restock my 10 gallon now that my goldfish isn't using it ... so I've come up with a few ideas, I'd like your thoughts. 1) 1 Dwarf gourami a small school of tetras for movment (neons or whatever works) 4 small cory cats (pandas, julii or whatever i can get my hands on...

I've been having some trouble with my plants; and with algae. Now that my goldfish is no longer pooping up the tank everything has gone out of balance and pretty much everything is choked in algae. It's to the point where i'll basically be starting from scratch. I'm looking for new plants that...

I see plantgeek has Ludwigia repens listed as Primrose... Any idea if this the same as the terrestrial plant known as Primrose, or a case of two plants having the same common name? I imagine there'd be some time while a land plant modified itself to underwater growth? B/c I have (or will have...

The method of choice appears to be dissolving a perscribed mixture in water, then dosing by liquid mL. Is there anything wrong with simply adding the dry powder directly to the filter? I've done it once, and it all seems to dissolve beofre it gets into the tank. I added it to the "In' side of...

In about two weeks I head home for christmas break for 3 weeks. I'm bringing my fish home and setting it up in my old 6 gallon temporarily- so that's taken care of. The problem now is the plants. With no fish in the tank, there's obviously not going to be any NO3 produced for the plants, not to...

I had been having trouble to get my java fern to grow at all since it's intro to my tank about 6 weeks ago... the leaves were really dark green and getting covered in a blackish brown coating I think are Diatoms. Also, it wasn't the nicest specimen to begin with (petsmart's plants always look...

I got an Aquaclear 20 filter for my new 10g today. Petsmart's website is having a sale, the AC 20 for $13.99... Printed the page out and brought it to my local petsmart and they honored the web price- which is 40% off their shelf price. I was quite happy, as I was about ready to order one...

Hello, I'll be building a DIY hood shortly with the AHsupply 2x 13w bright kit for lighting a 10 gallon. I'm wondering if the fancy reflectors they sell are really worth it-I was originally planning on just painting the inside of the hood white or making a simple parabolic reflector out of...

Hello, I see around here the reccomended light kelvin rating is 6700 or so, but I"m wondering how big a difference this makes, as I have some CF tues laying around I'd like to use but they have a kelvin rating of only 4100... how much of a difference does this make? TIA

I'm planning on building a hood for the 10 gal tank I'll be picking up soon. Basic design will be super simple; I'll probably remain reasonably close to these instructions on Cichlid forum: http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_canopy2.php I plan using a 2 x 13 Watt Bright kit from...

In a few weeks I'll be going home for thanksgiving break, which means I'll have to bring my fish home too, as there won't be anyone around to take over feeding. My plan was to purchase one of those cheap walmart 10gal tanks, along with a decent filter, and run that at home. I plan to transport...