alanmin4304

It has fish. That is where the fancy fertilizers and CO2 injection come from.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I meant aeration drives off CO2 and CO2 is good for plant growth so aeration is not always a good thing. Some water supplies suffer from high iron which tastes terrible and stains. The way to get rid of it on the cheap is to aerate it. This drives CO2 off and that is what keeps the iron in the ferrous state. Ferric iron is almost insoluble and can be settled out. Water has a greater affinity for O2 than CO2.

I soak it in warm water until it sinks. I have decaped myself and frozen it into icecubes which I ised to add direct. I did this with a pound tin I bought which had a very bad hatch rate

Humans excrete urea in their urine and fish excrete urea also including through the gills. I don't know if fish excrete all their urine through the gills but it is this that makes men sit cross legged when thinking about a little fish that tracks the urea and ends up in the wrong place with humans if they swim in its habitat. Bacteria change nitrogen compounds like urea to ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and back again. I am not sure if fish excrete ammonia also.

As Caryl says it could be aborting. Don't forget that live bearers have eggs too, they just hatch before they are ejected. It is not unknown for live bearers to discharge eggs before they have "hatched"

You don't need any aeration unless your tank is stocked heavier than the tank can support naturally. Aeration is a way of getting away with overstocking. Having said that when seriously breeding fish I used to overstock and overfeed to a mighty degree. It does make for a lot of work though. I have a 1200 tank with an electric sponge filter only and heavily planted which seems to keep the temperature pretty even and the fish and plant happy. Aeration will drive CO2 from the water and that is good for plant growth.

In summary---You pays your money and you takes your pick.

I have a couple of 1200mm tanks full of plant that are mirrored back and sides and they look fantastic. The plant goes on forever. The fish don't seem to worry. I have kribs breeding in one.

Great, let me know

No doubt he will be cross examined when he gets home.

I want some. Albino or nigerianus. Got to gety this posting thing right anyway---will try your australe in a few days.

To clarify my thoughts: Wunder tonic and furan are usefull meds. Furan is a very good med. If people are tempted not to use furan properly because it is expensive then they may be better using another med like wunder tonic and using it properly. I would not normally use Wunder tonic but I would use some of the ingredients on their own. Any bacteriacide is likely to have an effect on bacteria other than those being treated and people should be aware of that. Have a good day. I would send roses but they are too expensive and you might take it the wrong way.

Send them to me next time. Mine have been on strike and I just set a trio up this morning in the hope they have changed their mind.

I think it is pretty pathetic that anyone who does not agree with you gets called an idiot. After training as an environmental Health Inspector and getting top marks in New Zealand then working in that area for over thirty years I do regard myself as having some knowledge of both chemistry and microbiology. I don't think you are an idiot but I do think you are very arrogant

Are you assuming that people who do not agree with you are not learning?

pyrethrum may be natural but it is not good for fish. Most insecticides also have other ingredients which may also be toxic. Botox is natural also and is one of the most toxic things known. I think what you suggest would be the way to go.

Good thinking----Would work OK provided they were wet. Microwaves work on the water. Don't know about the floats though. I think I will try and see next time.

My plant tanks have the lights on 17 hrs/day but it depends on what type of plants, what strength of lighting and the depth of water. It will be try and see realy. I would start with 8-10 hrs/day.

There is no way I would want to live in a house being sprayed with insecticide every few minutes and the fish may not either.

Growlux is high in UV which the human eye doesn't see. The K rating is also about a peak but that is not the only light emitted.

With an established tank you are only sustaining them with baby fry you are trying to get them to grow as fast as possible so I could feed 4 to 6 times a day and have pilot lights so that they feed at night as well.

I use vermiculite because you can boil it up and reuse it, and it stays with a good texture. The trouble I had was leaving the little buggers alone and letting them do their own thing until they get hungry and wandering about. Once I left them to it things improved dramatically.

I have. We may need to agree to differ.

You are of course exactly correct. Can you absolutely guarantee that Furan 2 will have no adverse effect on any good bacteria----because that is my point. Very few drugs would be completely selective. In a broad sense most disinfectants tend to work best on gram neg or pos bacteria and that is why some are better for the control of one or the other.

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