phoenix44

Only if you want to soften your water. You'd need to fix the KH and GH problems if you did use RO water.

We have grown it emersed, and the results were inconclusive. :nilly: Some was wallichii and some was the other, but wallichii was more likely.

Rotala wallichii Looks great.

Do not buy bleach! Ammonia is to be purcahsed as cloudy ammonia or something similar. Woolworths / countdown / foodtown has it.

Yes. Nicest wood ever. BUT IT KILLED MY FISH. :tears: :tears: GBA babies dead.

Lead weights are not a problem. Given their half life they are not about to decay in your aquarium even if you do no water changes for the next 100 years and live to tell the tale.

The structure of the 'leaves' or rather moss. Java doesn't have that particular structure, and xmas does.

Its got frills. XMas moss.

E. amazonicus is more suitable.

hmm.. more cardinals, no more UV (it removes / reduces ferts), and i'd get rid of that particular sword plant. Cordifolia gets too big.

I think it looks wonderful. I'd happily have it in my house.

yeah, all the good ones are :tears:

LOL Love it :lol:

I won't dare ask hahahha.

Only worry past the 40ppm zone. Test the water out of the tap and see what that reads.

peat in a test tube won't be that bright yellow. Even if there is a pale yellow to the tank. The soln. turning shades of red is an indication of elevated Nitrate.

Is that the same place we went to? Maybe they are improving it? (long term) :dunno:

It looks good. I'd personally get 2 halides or T5 VHO if you are upgrading (or thinking of). Everything seems healthy and the corals are happy, so if you are I'd just leave it.

you got the dog hahaha :happy1: made my day.

Getting the moss looking like that is the easy part. Finding wood like that is the hard part. :tears: I'd love to do it. Someone find me wood like that :lol:

Ah yes, that was my old camera. It's absolutely brilliant. I love it.

That.

Welcome!

Here's me making an educated guess based on how it works with other animals. If you have a juvenile fish that is born and raised in a tank with a UV filter; it's immune system will be fine given its surroundings but considerably weaker as compared to a fish that was raised under normal circumstances. Most animals (humans included) inherit a certain amount of their immune from the parents (again - not sure how this works for egg laying species) and some of the immune develops within weeks to months to even years after birth.

Today is a public holiday, so today is good too! :happy1: