Recent content by Advanced Aquarist

I suspect that limnophila is a hyper accumulator. It takes in heavy metals easily (like Blyxa Japonica). It's not suppose to, but it does as some sort of "defence" mechanism. When people grow it with excessive dosing it reacts and colours up in all sorts of unnatural shades and people think this...

Where did you get this idea from? I heard it from a lot of people and I never could see the sense of it considering these people also advocate excess doesn't cause algae. By admitting to this you've indirectly confirm that some fast uptake of whatever nutrients it is, is required. Is that not...

About 2 months in I decided to get 4 Corydoras Duplicareus and 5 Corydoras Concolor to keep my 7 Corydoras Rio Nanay happy. The Rio Nanay corys I never saw during the day time. All they did was come out at night to feed and I had to use a flashlight to see them during the dark hours. By adding...

This was the tank in the early stages and I needed to do a trimming session. As you can see the moss did start to grow on the wood more. Some of the plants were getting out of hand so out came the scissors. I had some Rotola Macranda and I didn't like it that much, but recently it's starting...