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    Amano shrimp breeding project bis

    I'd say it makes sense as roughly 40-50% of shrimp's exoskeleton is made of CaCO3 so by raising kH we are supplying more of it.
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    What has UKAPS done for you?

    We are United Kingdom Aquatic Plant Society, not to be confused with Aquatic Plant Society of United Kingdom which we hate more than Romans. Splitters! And Society of United Kingdom's Aquatic Plants! Splitters!!!
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    Resolved! Down voted / up voted

    Pi hole, I also use it as my external dns filter when away etc. But it won't block ukaps, not allowed ;)
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    Resolved! Down voted / up voted

    Software only? Bro, I have a little raspberry pi rig filtering all ads across all my home network ;)
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    Amano shrimp breeding project bis

    100% agreed, just don't mess with the parameters, keep them relatively stable and ALWAYS have some spare of salt water algae (aka green water) culture at hand. If the original get exhausted for some reason and will die, you can quickly feed/rebuild again with a new one.
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    Resolved! Down voted / up voted

    @LondonDragon I know that's a tricky subject, but not necessarily the most upvoted one can be a solution or a quick answer to the problem etc.
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    Resolved! Down voted / up voted

    Will it not break the continuity and logics of the discussion?
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    Avocado idiot

    @AlecF I believe this is due to the persin - a toxin present in avocado, harmless to humans but deadly toxic to many animals. Not to mention that those large avocado seeds contain cyanide, fortunately in amounts harmless to us if someone would decide to eat one.
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    Falling out of Love

    hey @Cd2021 I mean literally remove all the water etc, maybe rescape substrate and so on and grow aquatic plants in their emersed forms - actually lots (if not most) of plants we grow submersed have their emersed forms which are quite nice looking too. Not to mention that limnophila aromatica...
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    Taking back the jungle

    What would you think about converting all grass/gravel area to old skool meadow with a tons of mixed meadowish flowers and herbs etc? Bees and other little boys and girls will have a lot of fun in such an environment. Not to mention that there is no better pleasure than just lay down there for a...
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    Falling out of Love

    @Cd2021 I'd convert all tanks you don't feel love with to emersed ones - much easier to control while still can be beautiful and give lots of satisfaction. And then after some time if you'll feel it again, slowly submerge them over few months.
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    Making an all in one

    Hey @LFNfan I think you should avoid keeping Fe and P together in one bottle, some forms of Fe (III) will very likely coprecipitate with Phosphorus and coagulate over time.
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    Anyone ever come across this water lettuce

    @Danlacey1988 I think <this topic> may shed some light on your lettuce.
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    Journal Pondering it all…

    Man, this is a proper aquatic porn What's the difference between a lady and a diplomat? When a diplomat says "maybe" he means no, when he says "no" he is no diplomat - when a lady says "no" she means maybe, when she says "maybe" she means yes, and when she says "yes" she is no lady.
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    Lowtech tank unknown issue with easy plant

    hmmm... I'm really curious of your findings, personally I think there is absolutely no need to add any additional carbon in any form, at such low levels of light plants won't be even able to build their bodies out of it at acceptable rate, not enough energy coming from the "sun" at all. What I...
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    Lowtech tank unknown issue with easy plant

    @Heelllooo I think the main problem here is really low light vs completely unnecessary high amount of ferts vs lack of added CO2 - it doesn't means you need to add CO2 at all but some things could be straightened up. Vast majority of your plants need much stronger light but they don't care...
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    Front aspect 3:2 vs 5:3

    @Simon Cole 5:3 is closer to golden ration than 3:2
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    Curious case of no Nitrates? Expert opinion needed.

    Ducks gentlemen, ducks are the solution.
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    Yellowing anubias

    frankly speaking I'm not sure - JBL advertises Proscape as a solution containing all necessary nutrients but I think they may be not necessarily available for plants. Probably the best solution for you would be feeding additionally with N, P and possibly Mg through water column. Cheapest option...
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    Yellowing anubias

    @kschyff Ferropol contains no nitrates or phosphates, it's quite useful for initial growth of young plantlets as it's K/Fe/micro mainly but you must additionally supply N and P (and probably Mg/Ca, depending on what's in you water - do you have water report maybe?). I can guess you have heavy N...
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    Maq's low-tech troubles

    hey @_Maq_ - am I seeing it right? Are you trying to apply terrestrial plants dosage routine to underwater plants? Or is it for emersed forms sprinkled occasionally with rain water infused with ferts? Do you keep them in mud or in the tank fully filled with water? There are some reactive...
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    George visits Dennerle

    c'mon, you won't trick us, we all know you've been making vodka at the same time!
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    George visits Dennerle

    ahh so that's why @George Farmer looks a bit dizzy on the vid ;)
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    ADA Pro Razor money saving tip

    Wait, what??? The only thing which could justify paying 5 quid for razor blades is if they are made by Hattori Hanzo, otherwise it's just pure marketing thing, they can't do better than standard blades (not to mention that if standard blades are thinner, they adapt better to flat surfaces)...
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    Amano shrimp breeding project bis

    How old are the females? I see you've started this thread at Oct 22 so it's roughly 8 months till now. I'm guessing (as I was never sure how old were my females when I bought them) that Amanos become fertile in not less than 1.5-2 years since birth, probably even longer - and when I've bought...
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    Resolved! A proposal for a little change of one of UKAPS features

    So... I've just realized that I'm quite often missing lots of interesting posts/threads where I was involved as a participant due to the way notifications work. There is a little Alerts bell in the top right corner where I (and obviously other UKAPS users logged in) can see if someone was...
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    Plant Names, Taxonomy and Reference Books

    ...like ludwigia mini super red for example - probably the most annoying "new" name for aquatic plant I know - in this case ludwigia palustris in various forms mostly caused by playing with ferts etc.
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    Is my tap water too soft for Amano shrimp?

    Or going even further: from Yamato Basin, Sea of Japan, Tsushima and other places where those shrimps are freely living (ok, the fry, adults are another subject) while not being interested in what we are talking about.
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    Melting floaters!

    @Katie656 hey KT, if you'll look closer you will notice that the smallest/youngest leaves are almost white - this is very likely Fe deficiency. As Fe is a kind of base for further Nitrogen transportation, I think it also affects older leaves (being grown with lower level of Fe) - older leaves...
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    Utricularia graminifolia melting

    @SSK101 Utricularia graminifolia isn't a true aquatic plant, it's only periodically submerged over the year growing in the marshes and I think it rather belongs to <<this>> group of plants. But it's sold here and there and promoted by various plant growing companies due to it's carnivorous...
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    Amano shrimp breeding project bis

    I totally agree re temperature overall, without any doubt the temp is most important driver of their activity and life span (apart from food haha), however it still seems to me extremely quick, do you know what exact temps they were kept in? I had success in both of those levels you've...
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    Not sure.

    This! Or some fungal infection maybe? Coz it looks to me like some floating mycelium or bits of plants covered by it.
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    Benefits of aeration, - proved!

    @sparkyweasel Awesome! Have problem with unnecessary buildings around? You can remove them with proper aeration! Cheaper than an a-bomb!
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    Tropica have adopted the Duckweed Index

    @dw1305 You should be mentioned as the author of the Duckweed Index , hopefully they won't claim an ownership of this idea like many companies do. Hey Microsoft and Google! I'm talking about you, you greedy f.ckers.
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    Dilemma

    ahhh... so this is how we balance chemistry in white waters these days, must admit it's pretty energy effective - no need to throw tons of oxygen, using milk instead.
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    Dilemma

    My kids taught me the another way some time ago: 1. Drop whole cup of coffee into the tank 2. Watch the coffee flow with admiration.
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    Quotes from yesteryear.

    One-legged irishman is one of my favourites, but I have another gem - don't remember exact wording so from memory: "Commercial ferts and beer have one thing in common - they contain mostly water" Ba dum tss! Kudos go to @Simon Cole
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    What other hobby's do you have?

    point taken, but looking at what's going on in the book industry, I'll say that yes, sth like reading books. just one example: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-rewrites-criticism-language-altered
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    What other hobby's do you have?

    with all respect but I think watching tv is an addiction and some sort of dependency on others way of thinking etc.. Television. Tell a vision so worshippers may follow it.
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    31ppm of K and Getting Pinholes

    at what water hardness and ph? Fe is a tricky subject especially in hard water - if you have hard-ish water, Fe may go mostly down the drain. Overall I think the more soft/acidic water you have, the more nutrients are being available for plants (without going too much into the details).
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    Green spot algae on rocks

    I must admit I love algae as well, they are like mushroom, fungi etc, but in the water environment - eating/attacking anything which is not healthy enough. Just keep them at bay and they even may look beautiful depending on the conditions.
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    Green spot algae on rocks

    All you need is a cow. You can drop the cow in one side of a tank and while piranhas are busy eating it, you can spot dose carbo in other places. Easy-peasy!
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    Green spot algae on rocks

    BBA enters the chat
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    What is goingnon with my limnophila

    I think that particular one on the right may be a Ceratopteris Thalictroides. It could be one of the Cabombaceae as well - they look quite similar to Limnophilas and may be mixed accidentally. I think its leaves are too feathery for aromatica. Limnophila aromatica is actually quite easy to be...
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    Amano shrimp breeding project bis

    Hmmm... probably those breeders were a bit unclear, this is how it looks like in my opinion: molting > release of pheromones > intercourse > 4-5 weeks for egg maturing (eyes appear at around 3-4th week or so) > release of larvae I think inciting female to release larvae is not a very good idea...
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    Amano shrimp breeding project bis

    I think berried female should be kept in the tank on the right instead, approx 3 weeks after molting and being berried - this will give her approx 2 weeks to adapt and eggs (or rather larvae) will be released without any stress, so no premature birth really. The larvae will very likely stick to...
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    Maq's low-tech troubles

    Maybe they are getting old, who knows ;) Neither plants nor humans do live forever. Especially when it comes to annual plants.
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    Reducing nitrate & phosphate levels in the Wye Catchment with substrate attached algae

    My most favorite is the Yellowstone wolves case:
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    Reducing nitrate & phosphate levels in the Wye Catchment with substrate attached algae

    Interesting idea overall, but doesn't the above (of course slightly taken out of overall context) sound like fighting plague with cholera? Don't you think massive introduction of other algae may led to (yet another) imbalance in the system which is already struggling?
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    Is it necessary to buy special food for fish ?

    @eminor I think nothing can beat live food or for example plants collected somewhere when it comes to feeding carnivores, omnivores or herbivores. Special food for fish is in most cases just highly processed food similar to processed foods we eat or feed other animals with. live larvae, worms...
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    Ripe for Picking: a Guide to Collecting your own Bountiful Botanicals

    I'm afraid it's not, illicium verum pod has 8 nodes, this one has 6. Grayanotoxins* (being present mainly in leaves and pollen of azalea) are water soluble so technically we could use azalea roots after some period of soaking. *There is a very specific kind of honey made (by bees ofc) of...
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    Learned a new English word today...

    What amount of coverage counts as a flosculous?
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    The poster's statement doesn't make sense unless those plants were developed from scratch (including their genetic modification etc. ) to survive only at artificially elevated levels of CO2. What happened to them before CO2 age in aquatic hobby? Were they even growing and reproducing in the...
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    Yet the author expects us to not doubt that inaccurate data. Hopefully it's an exception and not common way of doing scientific research because if overall state of todays science would be based on such "valuable" data, we would be doomed as a humanity.
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    Why not? Questioning the results its the essence of science and research, while not questioning anything is an essence of faith and dogma. CO2 (mg/L) = 10^(pH - pKa) x KH x 3.467 - of course we assume that the only source of alkalinity in the water is from carbonate and bicarbonate ions as per...
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    Botanicals that last longer?

    @Robbie X Bark and cones of common alder (alnus glutinosa) are rather on the hard side so they may survive for quite long of time, but I believe they release tannins very quickly. But in terms of the look I really like the buds roaming here and there in the tank.
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    Get your garden out

    Tim, you must be kidding! I'm not especially into flowering plants for their look (but year by year keep quite lots of allium ursinum, mandragora officinarum and acmella oleracea for their, well... flowers ;) ) but looks I need to do a trip to our local garden center for herbs hunt. BTW is any...
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    We also know that many people breathe an air like this (think of it as of additional amount of CO2 injected into balanced water environment): while others breathe an air like this (think of it as a water with naturally balanced amount of CO2) : Do people living in conditions like on the 1st...
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    Maybe it's a <<Fictious entry>>, who knows...
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    Few years ago I had a great pleasure of discussion with Sidinei Thomaz about rivers and ecology in Brasil, he admitted that lots of measures he and his team had taken years ago were completely f..ed up and they should do many things differently - most common problems were taking measure of...
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    Long term effects of co2 exposure

    Did he mentioned where on the Earth such a high concentrations of CO2 occur naturally in surface waters? And what plants and other organisms do grow there? Statistically it's less than 10ppm (including when waters are mixed etc.), concentrations of CO2 may be higher in underground waters but...
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    KNO3 and Urea

    Ha! This leads to my eternal question: should my plants look and grow ideally (for example relatively common bacopa xyz growing and reaching full maturity leading to flowering etc. within 6-8 months as it does in nature) or should they look like and be overgrown (as you said bigger leaf size...
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    Songs from the Man Cave!

    I haven't done it yet but I'd like to cycle around Chan Chan.
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    Purigen Alternative

    Pure sand (called quartz (SiO2)) can have the same effect on tannins like the purigen does - assuming it's rather rough so not coming from African desserts where the sand particles are rounded by winds etc. Idea is to have as much area available for bacteria and spores as possible when it comes...
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    Found in park!

    As @Tim Harrison says it's a milk thistle, I feel an urge to add some info to it as it's a very unique plant: its seeds contain compound called silymarin which is capable of neutralize (to some extent) effects of death cap mushroom on humans liver. It's also useful in liver "refreshing"...
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    High, medium or low?

    Oh no, I'd personally never trim such a nice taxiphyllum moss, its large branches add another dimension to such a small tank, optically unachievable in larger tanks - just my 2 pennies.
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    Help with stunted Rotala growth

    We are seriously living in a mad world where similar effects (hardness etc.) can be obtained by the fraction of the price. I'd vote for lack of Iron (by the hardness of water overall and inability to consume enough of Fe at the early stage of growth) covered by Darrel anyway. @Vishnuvarthan...
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    Ripe for Picking: a Guide to Collecting your own Bountiful Botanicals

    I got completely shocked when realized that my mum is true expert (and my grandpa was a master of mushroom foraging, but that's another story) in herbs etc which we can find around us - not a placebo ones but those which are really useful in daily life (I've tested majority of them). The best...
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    Ripe for Picking: a Guide to Collecting your own Bountiful Botanicals

    @shangman Tilia (cordata, platyphyllos and european which is a hybrid of the first two) - not directly useful for changing water parameters etc. (folks, if you know any use please comment) but dried block of tilia is probably the best (and cheapest) air stone you can make with little diy needed...
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    Best way to raise GH/KH in a heavily planted tank?

    True - it can rise N heavily, I should be more precise and add that I keep water hardness at very low levels (1-2 GH ) plus use some Calcium Chloride and Magnesium Sulphate for compensation (to keep lower levels of N if needed) but not as much as we have in the tap (I use remineralized RO/rain...
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    Best way to raise GH/KH in a heavily planted tank?

    that will definitely do, but my preferred ones are CaNO3 and MgNO3 (plus H2O) as they obviously add more of the N to the water column and less of Cl and S (which are abundant in most of UK areas anyway). Don't going to start the ideal Ca/Mg ratio war though ;)
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    Fascinating Fungi

    Hey Tim, this is very likely Deconica Montana known as Mountain Moss Psilocybe - quite confusing as it's not of Psilocybe genus at all and it doesn't contain neither psilocin nor psilocybin.
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    Persistent GDA on plants

    Hey @RickyV what's your water parameters in general? Hardness, Ph, NPK and Fe to name them first? I doubt you re-mineralize RO etc for such a large quantities so assuming it's a tap water. Your plants look generally healthy (no melting etc) but with obvious algae which are a chancers so if it...
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    Learned a new English word today...

    With my ability to aquascaping I'm afraid interarboration may quickly turn into interaberration :)
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    Stemphobia

    @Myrtle apart from very helpful instructions from @KirstyF it's worth to add that Phosphorus in many forms is one of the main ferts/additives you'll need for good root system. Others are auxins, but usage of the synthetic ones can be a little bit tricky as they are toxic to plants in larger...
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    What are your two of the most eye opening threads/topics on the UKAPS?

    Name/link only two please. Two only. For me these two have changed totally my way of keeping aquatic plants: I always bow down to the experimenters Weekly nutrient consumption in planted aquarium and to the inventors (it's a search through the UKAPS, not direct link to the particular...
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    Strange white things in tank.

    @richard brown I'm 99% sure these are amano larvae. I can bet vast majority of them have ended up in the filter etc and as @neofy705 mentioned they need to be moved within 3-5 days to at least 15ppm of salty water to survive. Females release approx 50-300 of them in one go (depending on their...
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    New set up algae

    https://ukaps.org/forum/threads/please-read-the-guidelines-for-algae-help.60672/ Dear Member Please give as much detail as possible regarding your aquarium set-up, when requiring advice/help! Please upload photographs if possible. Copy and Paste the numbered questions and add your answers next...
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    Vitamin supplement for fish?

    Not surprisingly as with many herbs what's good for fish and other animals is also good for humans: Wikipedia: The leaves contain several flavonoids (such as kaempferol or quercetin), several tannins (such as punicalin, punicalagin or tercatin), saponines and phytosterols. Due to this chemical...
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    Struggling with a few plants

    Cabomba aquatica is a very demanding plant when it comes to the light (like most cabombas) - that's why your seems to be quite leggy - it's trying to reach more light. Lilaeopsis brasiliensis also needs strong light and potentially supply of CO2 in some form. This one requires rather hard...
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    Moss help

    Good luck with watching them after conversion from salt to fresh water, any movement and they are gone. I'm still wondering how it was possible to take this photo, they were probably drunk: I think they need lots of places to hide when young, tonnes of moss and dense plants (moss at the time...
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    Fascinating Fungi

    What we can see on your image is only a fruiting body and reproductive organ*, while taking that photo you were actually standing on the turkey tail - more accurately on its mycelium which is the body of the mushroom (and I can bet your turkey tail is at least 20 meters in diameter, connecting...
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    The Original

    I like algae, seriously. Of course when it's not too much of them and they are not overtaking the whole picture. I know from other threads you're plant keeper with quite rigoristic approach so wouldn't believe it's something about the water, there is definitely an abundance of algae spores in...
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    Fascinating Fungi

    It's definitely a turkey tail (trametes versicolor) - one of the fungi considered as medicinal ones - and approved for medicinal use in Japan for cancer treatment. It's also considered as edible (at least in CN and HKG as I remember) but with rather hard and woody texture (I've tried it -...
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    Why?

    Digging in the tank and observing the results is like a meditation. Full stop.
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    Cheapish microscope

    Hey @Alpaca I have one very similar to <<this one>> but it requires connection with PC/Android devices to view the results on the screen. Pros: it's really cheap and simply doing the job Cons: It requires connection with external screen.
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    Fascinating Fungi

    Wow! The Trompette de la mort aka trumpet of the dead - where did you find them? I mean I can guess it's probably Essonne area but what kind of woods, soil etc? They are rather rare in UK. I may be wrong but real Destroying Angel is actually pretty rare, it looks like Amanita Citrina to me -...
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    Halloween!

    Ahhh... so this is how @foxfish looks like after downing a bottle of Sailor Jerry.
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    Storing plants before planting

    That's perfectly fine, you could keep plants like this even for few weeks (however in a longer term too much light coming from the window if in sunny spot may cause some algae and plants may deplete all of nutrients in the water and will start to decompose).
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    Some handy facts about water

    Scotch contains too much water indeed!
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    Fascinating Fungi

    These are most likely Paralepista flaccida/Clitocybe flaccida (Tawny funnel cap) - it's tricky to tell for 100% without seeing gills and spore print as Lepista/Clitocybe species are very variable and often similar to each other within the genus. Some sources say it's edible but other sources say...
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    Caribsea Samurai Soil?

    I like how this thread @FISHnLAB started has turned from question about yet another commercial "golden solution" to very informative thread about one of the cheapest (if not free at all) alternatives - simply a sand. You guys are amazing! ...music intensifies...
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    PH won’t drop with CO2 injection

    What's your water hardness, especially dKH? Your water seems to have massive buffering capacity especially at that large size of tank and with 60kg of Seiryu stone which is made of carbonates, especially calcium carbonate. I think this is where your problem sits, not in general CO2 setup.
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    A noob vs some hardest plants

    The Rio Negro which is one of the richest rivers in the world in terms of species/genus of fish (cardinal tetra among many others) is around 5ph - and it's not a problem at all. Of course it's full of humic acid etc and that's why it's a Black River but personally I'd die for having this...
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    Very poorly sparkling gourami

    @AlecF not sure if it's any help at all but it looks like the only ones having this problem in your tank are the fish with labyrinth organ - is it something about the air or maybe water surface?
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    Caribsea Samurai Soil?

    Don't forget about adding the poo, like the fish and other inhabitants do! ;)
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    What exactly causes BBA?

    And now for something completely different: I just love this song with all of my heart.
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    Caribsea Samurai Soil?

    What about the slogan: "Samurai soil. You'll commit seppuku when you'll see the price."
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    Holes on new leaves (anubias)

    I second that - some leaves of the same plant have darker tissue and lighter veins while others are the other way round - darker veins and lighter tissue - snails can't cause that. But they very likely add to the damage of weaker leaves. I'd look at the amounts of Mg (dark veins/light tissue)...
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