Pet Forum / Aquaria / Plants / June 2004

6/27:
Today we met up early with 15 folks and headed to Rainbow springs
State Park about 8:15am.
Ay, brave souls indeed.

The AGA Aquascaping Contest is now open for entries!
Opens: June 1st
Closes: Sept 15th
Fee: $5 per entry

OK this is REALLY strange. Have an established 65 gallon with a sump. One
Large Goldfish and a few plants in there he won't eat. Bad case of Blue
Green algae. Used peroxide many times in many tanks and never had a problem.
Treated this one this morning and left for most of the day.

Hi! Recently I've been noticing bites about a 1/8 inch wide in some of my
hygros...only 3 or 4 here and there and they are usually on the new leaf
shoots. Some of the ends of the java fern and crypts are also missing...I
don't know if those are bites.

Just goofing off yesterday, did some rearranging... low and behold, my kribs
decided to arrange things back, and then they moved out... they had this
clay pot and have used it for 2 batches recently... Sunday, they decided
they liked the accomodations under the driftwood instead... ...

Tadpoles are devouring my water lilies one leaf at a time.  Is there any
way to keep this from happening?  What can I do to eliminate the
tadpoles?  Will the water lilies grow back if the  floating leaves all
get eaten?

Howdy,
Even though red ramshorns are supposed to be more plant friendly than the
orange ones, 50 of them still reak havoc on many plant species since my
original pair started to make like they were on the Discovery Channel.

Whilst looking for a better bottle / tub / barrel to build a new co2
reactor, I happened on a home brew shop.
I found the perfect 15 litre sealed barrel,  which not only gives me a
massive co2 output, but is also easy to clean and maintain.

Well, little-league baseball season is almost over.  My poor tanks
have been neglected for the past few months.   The 75g was massively
overgrown, and many plants were being starved for light.   So I
finally got in there tonight and did massive pruning.

I wonder if anyone can help me with a (very stupid, I think) query
regarding artificial lighting and plants. Everything I read on the net
tells me that planted tanks need artificial light. What I would like to
know is why? If I have a tank in a position with bright natural light ...

I started playing around with my Fluval 404 in preparation for getting my
55G planted tank finally setup.  I have a bunch of plumbing connected to it
(partly base       tmax's design) and according to my calculations/tests I
have a flow rate of around 130gph (down from the 225gph ...

I have a 75 litre tank with Sera substrate. Using DIY CO2 and 55W
flourescent.
I am having problems as I usually end up with needle-like leaves with some
plants in my planted aquarium.

I seem to have learned the basics of keeping the fish alive, but am still
hopeless with aquatic plants,so am considering starting again using Duplarit
G in the substrate.  So here are my circumstances--perhaps someone will be
kind enough to advise whether Duplarit will be worth the ...

Ok, I've had a few aquariums for over a year now, so I think I'm ready
to start my first planted tank.  I've been reading everything I can
get my hands on and have asked questions at the LFS, but now I'm
overloaded with info.

The second meeting of the San Diego Guppy Association is going to be on June
27th, (Sunday) at 2:00 at the home of Kirk and Barbara Bean (That's me, big
grin!) in San Diego, California.  Please, please come join us in some guppy
fun!  You can email me for directions and a map at ...