Pet Forum / Aquaria / Plants / October 2004

Bought a few plants from a lfs. Each plant is planted in a small plastic
basket with holes, inside that is a piece of sponge I think. I was
suprised when the salesman said don't forget to take the plants out of
the basket before you plant them, otherwise you have a problem with ...

I have a cycled 20G tank (high) that currently has some Java Fern and
hornwort thriving. Substrate is plain gravel 1 inch deep.
Since I'd like to add rooted plants what would be the best way to
proceed? Do I add flourite to the existing gravel bed to build it up

Ok, started off with pmdd, dosing drops per day, but read that you need to
keep 5 ppm nitrates in the tank.  Plants seem to be consuming tons, so I'm
adding up to 20ppm per day (per advice in this forum), and I can't keep the
levels up.  Fish start getting sick and dying, and I ...

My bubble counter did not come with any directions. How deep should I place
it in the tank?
I'm not getting any bubbles and there is about 6" of water in the airline.
My C02 reactor (O.J. Container) is swolen but does not seem to be producing

What can I do now?

I've read in this newsgroup (haven't bothered looking it up) that motion on
the surface of the water will deplete C02 levels in my fish tank.  Does that
mean that if I inject CO2 into perhaps an AquaClear filter's intake (the
kind that hangs on the back of the aquarium and trickles ...

Bought a juwel vision 180 tank. The 2 25watt tubes that come with it
seem to be near to ordinary household tubes. Any suggestions for 2 tubes
to use. Its 18" deep, what would you recommend for 1 tube to show off
fish colours and 1 tube to encourage plant growth.

 I have 3 black mollies in a 50gal planted tank.
At first they were like lawnmowers in eating any green hair algae.
But now they are mostly surface skimming and ignoring growing green
hair algae. (at least the surace is nice and clean!)

Has anyone does this? Seems like a natural?

What do you think about "planting rocks" ? For example:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=6316&Ntt=planting%
20rocks&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Np=1&N=2004
Looks like an easy way to incorporate some interest and dimension into the tank,

I am trying to set up my first aquarium, read a number of books, FAQ,
lurking here for a while and finally totally confused by some of the
options that I should chose.  I have a 29 gallon tank (30x12x18), I
plan to have low-medium light live plants and a variety of fish (for

Has anyone ever made a plant filter out of an hagen aquaclear? if so
what type of plant did you use and did the filter keep it's biological
filtration capability. i have a 10 gallon planted tank just started
10/8/04 with a 24 watt pc light and flourite substrate with a

                  I am wanting to add both a pressurized CO2 and a nice
lighting system.  My question though is which one should I add first? I
currently have a DIY CO2, and around 100 watts of flourescent lights over a
135 U.S. Gal tank.  The lights will be Metal Halide (these ...

I just bought two oto's. The purpose is to remove some black beard algae.
Will they work? I wanted sae's but they didnt have any...
thanx,

We have a new 30 gallon tank we want to set up.  I would like to have a
broader range of plants to choose from so choosing the right amount of watts
for our tank is the problem right now.  We were thinking of a 30'' lite
strip with a 65watt 6500k compact fluorescent by coralife ...