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  1. Ravenswing

    Emersed hybrid

    Hi! Guess this is not pure emersed culture but something like that. This is the tank replacing broken 600l The stand is under construction (its too big now) and there will be some more emersed growing Anubias. Echinodorus is either E grandiflorus or E grandifolius wich I bougt to grow...
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    Emersed hybrid

    Hi Edvet! I suppose they didnt, or alternatively I just didnt cought it but never saw such behaviour thou males cheated females sometimes. They are pretty young ones. I still have them but in a sons full filled (=more traditional) 300l-tank. Very beautiful and nice fish in every way indeed and a...
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    Emersed hybrid

    Thank you all for your kind words! Looking those pics makes me cry! As soom as I get full time job (now home with four kids for some time), Ill order the new tank. This was second hand, Im pretty sure I will never buy such again thou I know the accident was just bad luck (or was it? Silicones...
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    Emersed hybrid

    Im so sorry I have to say "no". The tank started to leak without any warning (well, isnt that the way this usually happens....?) at the beginning of this month and we had to empty it immediately. Oh my, it was a total chaos but fortunately we (incidentally!) noticed the leak before it caused any...
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    How high TDS is still ok?

    Hi! When I bought my EC/TDS-meter, it showed about 850uS/m almost in every five tank. We have soft water fish species. Earlier, before I had the meter, we used to have Hight-tech/light tanks with for example Discus. Im sure the EC must have been over 1000uS/m at that time as we used to add tons...
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    Best moss for attaching to branches?

    Fissidens is my favorite too! You can also glue it instead of tie it.
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    My new low tech attempt

    That moss ball lawn around Crypt is absolutely cute! Great idea!
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    Went RO, lost tens of Cories

    Hi all! Just one death after my last post so it seems that problem is gone. Only thing that comes into my mind causing the whole mess was low pH combined with fertz. I do fertilize all five tanks but the interrelate thing between two tanks loosing fish was pretty high amount of fertz. I really...
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    20cm of water, ideas

    Rice? Really? Thats interesting! Have you personally tried or heard someone done that and if, wich wich species? Never heard of this! My tank is pretty cold, 21-22c, so wonder what would rice like about that...
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    20cm of water, ideas

    Thanks OllieNZ, I just recognized your answer. Yes, that excatly what Im hoping for. Some Hygrophilas look indeed very nice growing emersed. I found Ophiopogon gigantea-labelled plant from LFS :)crazy:) wich has grown nicely emersed for about three weeks now. It is growing in the pot filled...
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    RO under 100 quid?

    Wellcome to my.... 530uS/m. Not funny. Taste strange. Can I and my fish move to all of you? Someone...?
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    Went RO, lost tens of Cories

    Hi Darrel! Yes, thats nearly same TDS as I get from my RO-unit. pH drowned, thou slowly, from about 7,2 down to 6,2 (WC 50%rw-50%tap), pH of the rainwater is about 5,2-5,4. I avoided to use rw about 10-30min since rain started, but still there was sometimes black dust (smutch) from the roof...
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    Plant I.D

    If I can just see well enough, leaves diverge from the stem as Bacopa monnieri tends to do, but there is a small possibility its Hedyotis salzmannii. Axil, node and base of the leaf should be observed carefully.
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    Went RO, lost tens of Cories

    Hi all! Sorry it took so long to thank you all, Iv been busy at work right now. Then...some thoughts and information, thou Im afraid well never know what (has) happend. I guess the only way to get out of this is patince and waiting. No new fish before this is surely over. I didnt assume that I...
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    Went RO, lost tens of Cories

    Hi all! Sorry, long story...I turn to you with this (at least to me) mysterious case what began last September-October as we started collect rain water for our five aquariums. This was because we have a bit nasty tap water with pretty hight TDS (450-530uS/m) with lots of NaOH and NaCl, other...
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