Recent content by Grakk

That's just HM (Hemianthus micranthemoides; ie "regular" Baby Tears") that I haven't properly trimmed. :lol: It is the same material as the thick hedge nearer the center.

I started with about 30 stems like you. 3 bunches of ~10 from AZgardens.com (I live in Texas, US). I wanted a very bushy clump to one side as you can see. They will not send out runners like an ambulia or a ground cover, but if you plant them with a little space between stems, they will bush...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9CVVb-C-eY His video info says <$20 for everything.

If it sounds noisy and isn't pumping up to snuff, it sounds like either the impeller or motor might be at fault. Did you remove the impeller and inspect it.clean it? I'd give it a good thrashing with a scrub pad if you haven't. I may be mistaken, but I believe there are 2 small black rubber...

It is a beautiful mid-to-background plant, but it has a few quirks to getting started. Stems will turn black and rot off if it: -doesn't get enough light near the base before roots are developed -doesn't get enough iron (it is primarily a root feeder) -has its stem planted into the substrate...

If you can get a rubber band around the feature you want to attach to, that works too. Attaching at the rhizome will let the plant keep growing as it had, but strapping down a leaf will eventually make the plant form new rhizomes from the leaf-- you will get small 'plantlets' sprouting from it.

2 watts/gal would correspond to 180W total in your case. I currently use more on my planted tank because I have some high light ground cover I want to develop (75gal w/ 260W = ~3.5W/gal) but 2-3W/gal is perfectly fine. If you decide to move higher into that range, just be careful not to overfeed...

Do you have a backflow guard on your CO2 line? You might be getting a little pulsing in the line. If CO2 bubble rate is still unsteady, you might have the diaphragm valve open too far. The needle should only be used to regulate beyond what you can achieve with the diaphragm. Here is how I...

Zeiro, I have experimented for a couple years with soil substrates (4 different tank builds) and it is very doable. Do not use potting soil. It is laden with tons of organic material that will go anaerobic and cause problems later. There are aquarium soils, but I don't find them worth the...

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but you can get compressed CO2 refills at places like Praxair and Air Liquide that have a public sales office. These places supply many other industrial gases, but sometimes they will sell to the public in their walk-in office. In my experience they are much...

Austin, TX. Btw, looking for fellow aquaculture/aquarium buddies! All our local societies are defunct.

Thanks shelagh! I hope it will look better once my ground cover and a few chunks of riccia get a chance to fill in completely. By the way, when you all plant HC Cuba, do you remove them completely from the potting fiber? When I started to do this (like I did with my normal HC) I found the...

On second thought, Gourami LOVES plants. I read some other threads and decided to add some vegetables. A strip of nori I dipped in the water was ravenously attacked and devoured. Apparently my fish understand a balanced diet better than their owner. Hopefully he will stop bugging my plants...

My ~4" gourami has recently decided it would be a good idea to attack my fledgling dwarf baby tears. What's his problem? I've been feeding him dried blood worms and small Spetrum Grow floating pellets a couple times a day thinking he might be hungry, but he just seems annoyed. I set up this...