alanmin4304

To import plants that are not already here or on the approved list (which are plants that are already here) is super expensive because you have to go through all the ERMA fluffle.

Just out of curiosity how much did you spend on test kits? I have been breeding fish and aquatic plants for over 30 years and have never owned one although I have desighned and built hardness and pH testing kits for sale.

Only fish people talk in degrees hardness which is "German speak". Christchurch water is about 45ppm hardness expressed as calcium carbonate which is about 2.2 deg. so at 5-6 deg (110PPM) your hardness has increased quite a bit. Christchurch water has a pH of about 7.2-7.4 so it has dropped quite a bit. Your goldfish are heavy feeders and heavy polluters and your filtration will generally take out the lumps and harbour bacteria usefull in the nitrogen cycle. It generally will not alter pH or hardness and these changes are arising in my view from the load on the water from feeding and excrement. Change the water and you will change these two factors or spend a fortune on chemicals and keep the fish shops and yourself very busy. One of my tanks has 3 large chunks of marble in it and I doubt that it increases the hardness by much. There are many forms of calcium carbonate and they are all but insoluble except in acid conditions. If you change the water you will not need to buffer it and you will raise the pH again. 6.2 is not very acid--- Coca Cola is about 4.6 if remember correctly.

I don't think I will be able to make it but best wishes.

Ill will change my mind and go with Nitella also. Organism should know as he had Utricularia in the shop last time I was there.

It looks like bladderwort OK.--Utricularia which is permitted as far as I am aware. A bit like venus fly trap, it eats little creebies in the water.

Col can be a problem but it is more that it is more difficult to convert to submersed growth when they have been growing emersed in cold conditions.

It is hard to advise without knowing your growing conditions and what sort of plants you have.

His plants are good but grown emersed and they may be having a problem converting to submersed growth.

It looks like it is Ludwigia repens and may have been grown emersed and having difficulty converting to submersed.

What type of plants are going black?

I have a 1200x450x450 tank heavily planted and with gardneri nigeriatum, gold and choc. australe (all males) and they have mock battles but no damage is done. They realy do look good.

What is the active ingredient on the container?

The first lotof offspring will make a packet then see what happens.

They do look great, hiding in the plant and zapping out to play "who is the boss?"

It is usually available in the shops and is one of the true aquatic plants grown submersed and sold as cuttings (along with ambulia)

What medication are you considering using?

Just joking---you should get into killies

To be honest I have never heard of lacustris. Where did you get it from?

I always thought blue hygropgila was stricta.

They will fall to the tank bottom and still be feeding on the yolk sac. Then one morning they will all rise up and swarm like bees (that is free swimming) and that is when you start feeding them.

If they have distinctive white spots like salt it will be white spot, if it looks more like fine pepper it will be velvet.

Bird grit is broken up oyster shell

The non jumping ones don't breed very well though.

The plant in the picture is Sag. subulata. Plants are seasonal as most are grown in a glasshouse or by hydropnics and it is now getting too cold fore tropical plants to grow much. Growers (including me) will now need to try and hold some plants for a good start in the spring. I have S. microfolia but only enough to get started when the weather warms up.