Recent content by lljdma06

Take your meds...

Now I think you're the one who's had too much coffee.

This may help you for future purchases. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/297782-a-survey-of-non-aquatic-plants/

The first thing I was going to tell you after having read the thread was to lose the canister. Man, does it take up real estate! If I could quibble at anything, it's the planting methods. Eleocharis and Hemianthus really do best when planted in much smaller clumps. Yep, a huge, tedious...

So you assumed the filter would take care of the ammonia produced by the florabase?

I find this a bit hard to digest. I've run several planted tanks in the past with brand new filters and have not experienced this and I didn't cycle any of those tanks. They did the silent cycle. Also, why, in a densely planted tank, would you even bother cycling a tank or using mature media...

Only "good"?

The 20g will grow the crypts and other things fine with 15W of T8, so basically stock lighting is totally fine for most low-light plants (java fern, mosses, crypts, swords, etc). No CO2, no fancy substrate. Check out this thread...

Those look way different from each other!

It's Cyperus helferi. Aquatic. Up the daylight bulb photo period to 8 hours, turn off the air stones. While you need some surface agitation, having run many non CO2 planted tanks in my time, you don't want water breakage, that's for SW, but ripples that don't break, if you know what I mean...

You live here... And I think, the owner allows for pickups. Nice guy, we've exchanged emails a year ago. http://tbsaltwater.com/ You might want to see if you can schedule a pick up of any LR you do order. Tampa is actually one of the most active Marine reefing hubs in the country. If you...

I no longer work as mod here, so I'm in the dark as to what has happened. I'm sure the new team will fix it. L

I have too many tanks...

Look at the classifieds for people who are taking down their tanks. That's usually a good place to find decent LR with stuff on it. I'm US so I don't know derbyshire. Also, be sure to check out the nano resource center in the pinned topics above. I highly recommend that you add all the LR...

Ok, I was supposed to get a pair of pearly jawfish today and my LFS had a pair of pearly jawfish. I, however, am stupidly picky about my fish and one had a ripped fin. On the other hand, there was a delightful single pearly jawfish that looked better, so I just took him. Already digging...