Recent content by Archerfish

Yes, please take them. What you are doing is humane. Those things are unheated, concentration camps. And the double tanks is absolutely sickening. The idea behind those is the two males will flare and be under constant stress. It is disgusting. The single ones are fine for briefly...

I am not a shrimp expert but as with any species, it is tough to know without the binominal names.

Okay, that's really cool. You always amaze me with your energy and willingness to explore. What a beautiful plant! If you place the cutting in your tank, I suppose at some point it has to be removed and planted? Makes me want one!

The auto 'correction' drives me nuts! I want to say their (possessive) and it changes to there! Or it changes the name Maria to Mafia! Good grief.

It looks like a variety of grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella. It could also just be nipping on leaf damage caused by a turtle.

Yes, black really does the job. I had for 18 months, (until I moved) a tank with 300 neon tetras with black substrate and a black background. It was absolutely spectacular.

The introduction and then the sudden elimination of CO2 could certainly be affecting your water. A whipsaw effect. What do you have in the tank that requires CO2? It is easy to throw a tank into chaos with the introduction of CO2 and then not dosing additional nutrients. Unless really...

Looks like you have plenty of "help" setting it up!

The latest issue of National Geographic has a fascinating article about making low (or no) alcohol beer and yeast that produces low or no alcohol. Those of you who are running yeast generators might be interested. It is a complex environment involving many factors. And after studying and...

I was so busy during the holiday season that I must have missed your earlier posts. Please forgive me if you already know this. Plants alone will not cycle your tank. Some of us have used plants (very heavily planted), plus seeded substrate from existing tanks and a filter from an existing tank...

Looks good! How did you cycle the tank?

Yes!!! I thought I was the only one who found mesh bags to be a problem. And to think we actually used ladies nylon hose for bags back in the day. Good post @Magnum Man!

I too went the CO2 route years ago. It was fun, exciting and awful all at the same time. I became a victim of success. Daily maintenance (trimming etc.) was a chore and the pleasure became drudgery. However, my goal of a Dutch Aquarium with its majestic avenues was spectacular. @Boundava I...

I would not use salt to get rid of algae. Especially if you have live plants in the tank. I guess I don't really understand your situation. Artificial tanks? Are these some sort of decoration tanks with no fish, say like in a doctor's office or something like that? All over the county?

Wow, I had completely forgotten about when I had them in a Mangrove tank! It was awesome. Speaking of Red Mangroves...two of mine became so large (one was 8 feet tall with a spread of 6 feet) that we couldn't keep them any longer. So I contacted a shoreline restoration non-profit and donated...