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Add aragonite sand in a bag (I use pantyhose legs) to your filter and replace the bag every month as a biofilm develops on the sand. This buffers your carbonate up and works a treat. You can also fill the bottom of a barrel with aragonite sand and age your water in the barrel for a few days before you add it when you do your water change. Once you work out how much the aragonite buffers then you can easily work it into water changes. My gh is 1 and kh 2 out of the tap. Keep in mind that once you start engineering your water parameters you must maintain those levels so there is no crash in your tank.

Thanks guys. I will try a low dose on the swords. If they die I have a lot more to replace them with. I will be careful with my other plants.

I have bad blue/green algae in one of my tanks. I have to break down the tank next week and start again with new substrate. There is so much of the bga that it has infiltrated the entire substrate layer and it looks like the surface of the moon, with humps and hollows, only bright blue/green. I need to sterilize the filter equip. in the tank and want to treat all the plants with Hydrogen Peroxide. I will brush and wash the majority of it off before I soak the plants. I have a 35% solution of H2O2. What strength solution do I need to make up to soak my plants in? For how long do I need to do it for?

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Yes. I got mine in a clearance sale for $2. It was not doing well in my bathroom and I was going to throw it out. But then I started reading up about vege-filtration idea's. So I washed the soil off the roots and put it into the top of my fish tank. I have not seen a healthier plant since.

Have you considered one of the variety of Java Fern for the right hand foreground? Perhaps in a small crevice in a stone.

The amount posted on the outside of the Vitapet bottle that you calculate for the full 180L should be good. The idea as I understand it is that the plants will use *most* of that up, so you dose for the full tank after the appropriate time period. I usually dose immediately after my water changes. I have found some plants are just fussy and won't like your tank no matter what you do. Just find which ones work for you in your set up. Having live plants does work for sure in reducing the nitrate levels some though PS. GAC = Granulated Activated Carbon. A filter medium used for short term to remove things like excess medications and some dissolved compounds.

Phoenix that is an awesome tank!

Ozchik ryanjury's suggestion of Indian fern is great. It floats and spreads over the top with some surface leaves and some submerse leaves plus all the roots. Your Killies *may* benefit from this as spawning mops. I have found this a great no-fuss, low-light plant. I have my indian fern planted in my 60g tank and it has spread from 3 original small plants to 20 plants in only 3 months. If your leaves are melting away and dying are they getting enough light? Have you been adding any plant supplements?

A couple of ways I keep my nitrates low are: .more than one water change. .less feeding - every 3 days. The fish spend more time looking for food so are always out and about. .plants growing at the top with wet roots - emerse? This way the leaves get CO2 from the air and grow steadily. This is my 80g with peace lily's in the top.

Me too. I like twenty-oh-nine better though.

Totally crying into my beer right now.

LMAO only the more mature ladies give you THAT look I find the anklet ones are the right size. They last about 7-8 months in my tank which was how long it took for the wood to be waterlogged. The fishnets didn't last more than 3 week in my tank. The snails and acid water did them in. Here you can see the centre piece anchored by two stones. They are not obtrusive at all.

From a search cross reference I think it is different, but there is nothing too concrete. Some sites list it as the same, some list it as different. Xmas Moss << This Willow Moss is NOT what I have. Virgil you will most likely be able to find some choice pieces near a river mouth on the beach. Wood which washes up as driftwood is washed clean in the salt water and bleached under the sun *usually*. It will just need to be weighted down which you can do by putting rocks on it in the tank, or putting rounded rocks in a nylon stocking and tying to the wood. This is what I did in the beginning for some of my driftwood from the beach. Just hid the black stocking with a plant.

And so called popular opinion or belief does not make it Absolute or Law.

In your opinion.

Go walking along the river/streams around you looking closely at the corners and bends. A lot of pieces can be found under the banks often hidden by overhanging grass and margin plants. You will have to get wet

I went down to the river to search for some wood for my tanks. There was tons to choose from. This piece looked wicked so I got it. I filled it with christmas moss and put it in my 60g tank. Here is a shot including the peace lily plantlets growing out of my tank. While I also picked up some bunches of this low plant for my goldfish. There were a bunch of pools in depressions that were fed by seepage water. I spent ages looking at all the insect larvae swimming around. Some logs in the river were literally covered in millions of eggs. There were a bunch of 2" fishes in the pools and a few 6" ones too. Other than saying they were grey I have no idea what they were. The water was crystal clear. You could see all the way to the bottom in the deep pools which were about 6' deep I guess. I saw a couple of mid sized eels too.

Can I be a little pedantic and say they have been on the world map for a few centuries already, and are they not one of the main producers atm? With this their political history and record is particularly shady when judged using a western democratic standard.

What size is your tank? Housing two species of anabantids together is asking for trouble to start with. Then overstocking said fish is not helping your cause. Remember fish will always act true to their nature no matter what your expectations of them are.

I agree. I think spending that vast amount of money of a glorified circus performance is bollocks.

Yup Powerheads push water around, whereas a Filters have a compartment for some kind of filter medium.

Not sure which one you have, but pull of all the old leaves and leave one or two new leaves.

That is really sad. I am thinking about you guys too. It would be great if Tga City could pitch in with a plan to keep the park as an asset.