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    Garage farm tank, White Anubias petite

    It's not a hard plant etc..........just folks get weird when the price is high, they do not want to kill it. I've gotten back some plants from a couple of folks who likely would have killed their Anubias and Buces..........a couple came back covered 99% in BBA. I put them in a tank next to this...
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    Garage farm tank, White Anubias petite

    All submersed grown, not really limiting for the given rate of growth and the plants, ADA AS is fairly new in this tank.
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    Garage farm tank, White Anubias petite

    I had one of the original ones way back in the 1990's, I let it die though. That same stock ended up 15 years later being this same plant. I like them for contrast purposes only. And they are rather easy to grow, any fern/Buce, Anubias tend to be good money makers over time. New leaves on all...
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    Deutch 10,000 litre paradise... not Mr Knott either

    He may not have had a choice about many of the fish. Good thing there's no foreground plants. I'd be interested to see how many of these fish are here after 1-2 years. I've added 100's of otto's many times, only to be left with maybe 10 later. No way shrimp of any sort would live, Rose lines and...
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    ADA Video - WOW!

    H2S needs/requires a continued source of reduced carbon, the only REAL source of this might be an Aponogeton bulb that dies. This is basic stuff for wetland soil, and anyone worth their spit in that field.... knows it. So unless you have a high loading rate of reduced carbon coming into the...
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    ADA Video - WOW!

    They like the work, they are getting paid and they get to be Amano's minions. The hours of work suck though, 12 am till about 6 am? Amano is likely too old and stiff to do this type of work. These guys said they got nose bleeds from hanging upside down:-) You do get a massive headaches, I've...
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    ADA Video - WOW!

    Hey, we love the way you say "Aluminum and Vitamins". Keep the unique parts of the culture. It's what makes you who you are and different.
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    ADA Video - WOW!

    If you own 10 aquariums, then managing that will drain time and detail away from doing say 1-2 tanks VERY well. George has 1 smaller tank, but he does a lot of nice work on it. I reduced the number down to 3(reef not included or holding tanks), but had 10-12 at one point. I think the ferns...
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    ADA Video - WOW!

    If it's anaerobic in the sediment, then by the very nature of anaerobic soil, you cannot have circulation from above, because then it would no longer be anaerobic, it would be aerobic. If there's no circulation, then it cannot pose an issue because it's isolated from the aerobic zone where the...
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    ADA Video - WOW!

    Where do you think aquatic plants grow naturally? In anaerobic soil. All flooded submersed soil is anaerobic. Unless it's like pure sand or has no organic matter.
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    Hell frozen over: 120 Gallon video

    Well, you can see the depth of the tank much better, scale and general patterns/shapes etc, that are lacking in most 2D pictures. I think a lot scapes look very different when you video them.
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    Hell frozen over: 120 Gallon video

    Flow in the tank is deceptive. I cleaned the return and placed it down a bit so there's less effect. About 800 gph.
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    Never give up.

    This was one of the first planted sites mostly because many of the people were IT folks. But if you look at how questions were approached and the attitudes, it is unlike anything or forum we have today in the hobby. Dupla was very $$$ back them and like ADA is today. So many sought to figure...
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    Never give up.

    Interesting and true also. I gave an old Dupla Optimum Aquarium book from 1986(English) to a local member and I looked through it, they got about 90% of the stuff right. Not bad for 30+ years ago. Heat cable thing was wrong, but most of the other stuff was right. ADA is similar, most of the...
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    Never give up.

    Well initially, the groups on the net were a bit more rational, they took what they could find and made hypothesis and went about testing it. Then modified it to suit the falsification. Information(the net today), is NOT knowledge. There is no net "filter". No one vets the information, so...
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    Never give up.

    Well, if you had the nasty BBA covered nasty stuff, most would give up. I just started ignoring that and looking at the new growth that was free. That's when it dawned on me that it's the plant growth, not the algae, that should be the focus. Amano figured that out as well as have quite a no# of...
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    Never give up.

    FYI, Amano spent 10 years dealing with BBA and other algae. I spent 3 and yes, both us still get algae every so often, but we both can cure any algae issue, at least at some point.
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    60cm - Shallow

    The Hygro is such a nice plant, easy to grow and little trouble.
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    Sneak Preview

    Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides might look better and be more appropriate for a smaller tank like this. Any shrimp or??
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    120cm - George of the Jungle pg.5 new pics

    One can add both chaos and order. :idea:
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    120cm - George of the Jungle pg.5 new pics

    Re: 120cm - George of the Jungle When Science goes over your head you best be suspicious of what is causing what. Particularly when it comes out they are selling it. Belief alone is dangerous thing. Asking good questions is not. Testing these questions is even better.
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    Some of my tanks - Octopus

    He is one of the best nano tank scapist around.
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    4 x 2 x 2 Low maintenance 'scape

    CO2 is the only other thing if you have the GSA on glass if it's not PO4, adding more PO4 quickly addresses it otherwise, I dose about 1/2 teaspoon 3x a week. The Java fern will suffer and the Cypreus if the CO2 is poor compared to the other species. Often getting a tad blackened and not as...
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    4 x 2 x 2 Low maintenance 'scape

    Whaaaaa? You do not like trimming and weeding the stems no more? I thought only "advanced" aquarist do stem plants :crazy: haha Try going without the HQI's. Or run them only 1 hour. I use 4x 54W on my 120 gal, similar sized tank. My 180 gal has 2 w/gal also, I have HQI for all the tanks...
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    60cm play tank

    Well, easy carb is not really no CO2 in a sense, however........... The tank looks nice and grows at a nice reduced rate. With slower rates, sediment based ferts really do really well, easy etc, then you add some traces etc, and some fish and feed them, not much else is required. If you dose...
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