Recent content by Magnum Man

I was kind of disappointed, the other morning I saw 2 mature coffeefola leaves had been broken off the bunch… a couple fish were kind of beaten up worst end of it was the female flag fish… so I don’t know if active breeding or some other fight went on over night… but I left the leaves float...

normally they look like this… when vegetation gets below the surface…

maybe because the house is so dry during the winter months??? or they tolorate that with 20 feet of terrestrial vine above the tank???

another in this tank…

it’s always typically been a terrestrial plant, growing out of the water… but I have 3 tanks, the the vines started growing under the water ( not fallen in, and lived for a while, before it dies ) they don’t grow as fast as aerial vines, and in the case of the one in this picture grew for a...

we have what we call Christmas cactus… this year ours did not bloom around Christmas, but is full of blooms now, just before Easter not an intentional picture as I was taking a picture of the celery starts, but it is visible in the background… looks like the same plant???

I do get my hands wet, but keep a various tool kit here, so I don’t go usually any deeper than my wrist… it’s still a potential, but so is doing anything in the local lakes

finding the best diet for your suckermouth fish, can be challenging… there large differences between the otto’s, hillstream loach’s, and the pleco families… algae is a good place to begin, but plain common “sterile” aquarium algae alone will sustain very few fish… aufwucks ( the word used for...