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As far as I know it was found submerged. Will try to find out from the one who found it. Will see if the person will just come here and post more information. They will hopefully have better pictures soon so we can get a better ID on it.

I signed up with them yesterday but still haven't been authorized as a member so it will have to wait I guess. Does anyone have any idea of what type of plant it is? Maybe a general group that I might be able to research? The only things I could think of is Guppy Weed or Pearl Weed and...

I have a friend who found this plant and we need an ID so we can figure out if it legal to posses and even more important, legal to ship. It is a very cool looking plant and looks like it could be a good compact thick foliage plant I have been looking into for a long time. Sorry about the photo...

Okay, that makes more sense now. Sorry if I came across as Snide JohnPaul, was not my intent. Chemistry was not my strong point when it came to reactions and such. All I know is how to dose and to do regular 50% water changes to prevent levels from getting too high. The odd thing is, I have...

That's interesting because at one time Gregs sold Potassium Chloride as a fert option for Chloride. That and they still sell Calcium Chloride as one on the recommended sites for dry ferts. Shop online at AquariumFertilizer.com . Not sure why it would soften my water. Is there some kind of...

There is the option to move the light above the tank, maybe way above. lol. This would slightly reduce the overall amount of light that penetrates and could even light up the tnak more evenly. Might even have enough light that way for the tank and the Bonsai. I would think that 12-18 inches...

I would order it but it would only be the K2SO4 so the shipping would be more than the cost of the ferts. If I needed to make a whole order it would be worth it but I have enough CSM+B to last 5 years and enough KNO3 to last another 2. I will have to see waht the additives are. Have not been...

I have found Potassium Chloride in my local, Home Depot being sold as water softener. I need Potassium as when I ordered my dry ferts the first time I got plenty of everything but K. Is it okay to use the KCl water softener tablets as a source of K in my tanks? Is there anything specific to...

One thing to certainly remember though if you don't do gravel vacs regularly. Make sure that you do a very good one if you are gonna do any major landascaping and it has been a while. Every time I would remove my Wisteria to replant it after a couple months it released a cloud of gunk that took...

Makes sense to me. I have had bubbles release from the substrate many times using gravel but only once was it smelly. Most of the time I think it is air trapped and not sulfur gas. It would make a difference for sure with all the root tabs I use because of the root feeders I like for plants. I...

Hmm, I have never considered not doing gravel vacs in my tanks but I guess it could make a difference. I have always been worried about dead pockets and sufate gas building up from decaying matter. I may have to see whatkind of success I have with doing so in a plant only tank though. Maybe...

I tried the peat moss thing a while back and couldn't leave it alone long enough to keep from being sucked up when I did a gravel vac. Was just a terrible mess. Layinering for me wound up the same way. Good layters to start with but then become a mess after 2 months of gravel vacs. I know I...

I have come to somewhat of a conculsion when it comes to using standard gravel as a substrate. When I first set up a tank and get it cycled, my plants grow slowly, almost painfully slowly. They mope and grow a little here and there but never really take off. I even add root tabs all through the...

I asked about 100 questions, collected all the information tried a little of everything from everywhere and eventually got it to work for me. The range of advice given here made it easier to get enough different ideas to make it work for me in a way I wanted to do it. Many techniques I could...

When I had my mystery snails I had a tank full of algae on all panes but the front. They did very little to actually "eliminate" it. They grazed here and there on it but never controlled it. I don't honestly think they are a good choice to remove algae. I also think that they need to have...

Well slow growth is often a sign of low nitrates. Have you tested them? I got the same problem when I got Hygrophila Difformis, Wisteria. The Wisteria was taking up the nitrates about as fast as my fish could make them, reading went from 15-20 to 0 in about 2 weeks. When I started dosing...

I lost power here for 5 days and my plants have suffered. I won't talk about the fish short of saying I am starting over, completely. The plants I thought had come out of it fine but now they are losing their leaves suffering badly. The temperature got down to 40F or lower in the tanks for 3...

I just wanted to share this with everyone as I thought it was a pretty cool way to feed brine shrimp to your fish. I came across it and had to try it and it works wonderfully. If you have regular eggs, you decapsulate them using water and bleech after you hydrate them. Once decapsulted then...

Is there any way to kill hydra without killing snails?

If you put them in the water they will drown. Removing them and placing them on some styrofoam will work and does for a lot of people. I think there are instructions in the DIY section although I don't remember for certain.

Congrats on the new LFS, no get your application in there so there is someone there that knows what they are doing, lol.

Well you could still do shrimp but I think they need a pH above 7.2 and they need a high GH and KH which you should have with the plants. This can be done and still have high enough levels of CO2 to help the plants but I don;t know if it is really feasible to get it to and keep it above 30ppm...