alanmin4304

Thanks for the advice.

Hopefully.

Japanese fire bellies are morphing at the moment. When is a safe time after morphing to sell them?

Just kidding

It has been snowing here since the wee hours. I'll bet it aint in traffic jam land. I don't think I'll let the newts out to play. Keep your eyes on the brass monkies.

Under tank can heat the tank and under gravel can heat the gravel

Undergravel heating is a booster only and is intended to create water movement in the growing media. It is not intended to heat the whole aquarium. I have two 1200 x 450mm tanks heated by 300 watt heating pads (made by Argus) between the tank ant the polystyrene and controlled by Love TS digital temperature switches. One tank is divided into 6 compartments and is used for breeding fish and the other is used for growing plant and displaying male killies. The planted tank has a growing media of sand 35-40mm of sand evenly across the bottom and has quite a lag in period between the thermostat cutting in and out because the sand slows up the reaction time for the thermostat to turn the power off. It therefore has quite a fluctuation in temperature even though the hysteresis is set at 1 degree C. You want a thin even layer of media or you will have problems. I find both setups very good for their intended purpose.

That is how it is when grown emersed (which it usually is commercially) I have S. microfolia emersed and it looks just like that but about 50mm.

A good example of that attitude is in building a house. The most expensive but safest way is to get an architect to design and supervise the construction. Often a builder will design and build and then there is little independant supervision. People forget that the Inspector is there to seek compliance with the building code and some godam awful buildings can comply with the code. The good jobs are the ones where the owner knows everything and applies as the builder when making the Building Consent application, then employs the cheapest "builders" to do the work labour only. When it all turns to custard because no one knows what they are doing they all try to blame everyone else. THE OWNER IS THE BUILDER AND IS THEREFORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUBBIES---COMES AS A SHOCK TO SOME.

Both Sag and E. tenellus have a widened leaf tip when grown emersed but only Sag submersed. E. tenellus has one main vein and Sag has three. The best way is to flower them and Echinodorus sp. have a bisexual flower (one flower that is male and female) and Sag has both male and female flowers. My guess would be Sagittaria subulata.

Same thing happens with humans too.

Got a pic? Do they have large easily observable cell structure and do the leaves have one vein or three? They are probably Sag as I don't think much else would survive the cold weather we have had. Are they emersed or submersed?

Sorry about the xtra posts. It didn't want to play the game, then posted them when I wasn't looking.

Methylene blue I don't know about removing but malachite green can be neutralized with SO2. Sodium metabisulphite is used by home brewers to sanitize bottles and will remove the green stain. Methylene blue was used to treat athletes foot. Forget the smell of wintergreen and look at your feet. Best guess might be nappie san it is used to remove beetroot and red wine stains from tableclothes by caterers. When in solution it produces sodium carbonate (washing soda) and sodium peroxide.

The post office use courierpost. They have lost one of my parcels and delayed one for two weeks and I have sent a lot over the last few years. The problem is that what I send is not permitted material so it is no good making a claim. What they don't know doesn't worry them. I am happy to stay with them. It is cheaper to send through the post office (who use courierpost) than to send directly through courierpost.

If it is JBL AquaBasis then that is what I use, but I put washed sand over the top. It is a source of micronutrients but needs something over it or it will get very cloudy. Warren is correct. Using media with high organics is more trouble than you need and I would get rid of it before the tank gets established and becomes a disaster area.

I assume the stuff you are talking about is JBL AquaBasis which is a source of micronutrients. I use it and put washed sand on top to hold it down (otherwise I think it would go very cloudy, and you only need a bit, and it would not be enough for a complete substrate.)

I assume the stuff you are talking about is JBL AquaBasis which is a source of micronutrients. I use it and put washed sand on top to hold it down (otherwise I think it would go very cloudy, and you only need a bit, and it would not be enough for a complete substrate.)

You are on to it. You could plant each of those and they would convert to submersed but only if they get some light (you have a good crop of riccia there)

Marble queen is a hybrid with cordifolius and has similar charactristics. I was recently given both as unknown submersed baby plants and converted them to emersed to ID them. The first plant has changed the form of the leaf and both my plants had that rounded leaf all the way through. Gave them all away---they get too big for me---all you see is stalks. I think if it was marble queen or cordifolius it would hane gone mad and taken the lid off the tank by the time it grew that many leaves. Nice looking plant though.

Who said fish are expensive?

Off the subject a bit but it branches like that in the picture when emersed and will grow roots at each branch so that they can be cut off and planted as seperate plants. The same thing will happen when submersed if you get the stem established then weight it down so it is horizontal and it will grow a whole heap of new verticle stems with roots. An easy way to propagate in a hurry.

As stated, what you are smelling is the chloramines.

Try adding a little microworm when they are 2 days overdue.

Down here it is seldom available in the shops because most plants are grown commercially emersed and no one wants to buy Rotala that way. I used to grow them emersed to get them to flower so they could be identified.