Recent content by Tyler_Fishman

When I bought my first heater I didn’t know (that that brand heated up instantly), excited me plugged it in and I had my hand gripped around the coil region at the base of the glass part and... ouch! I got a nasty 1st degree burn on the lower part of my thumb not fun.

What’s your substrate? It’s gravel or sand it’s likely what’s buffering the PH, my PH directly from my tap is 7.8 however the diet in my tank buffers it to around 6.0, I would suggest changing the substrate or seeking high PH fish like live bearers like guppies, cichlids,rasboras, or cooler...

Guppies are hyper prolific, my poor girls can’t get a break, new fry pop up every day, I love black Moscow guppies your fry will look great!

You should do a mangrove setup, have some red mangrove trees in the sand soil mix, you can even buy this stuff called mangrove mud which is mangrove mud unsprisingly, the reef keeping hobby uses it as a growth medium for their mangroves in the refugium part of their sump (if your familiar with...

I did find out later that this fish in particular had callamanus worms, possibly that was the reason?

Soft water, high tempatures followed by a cool water change usually stimulates breeding mode in most locariids, they also need a good amount of food, try giving blanched veggies, they are group spawned aswell, usually a bunch of males will follow the female, though this is not needed having more...

I do but they don’t seem too tempted to climb out

From what I have seen shaded bacopa under low light will take about a month just to grow about 9 inches in length, exposed to high light submerged it can grow to that length in half the time, and emersed under high light it can double its size in a week, it’s ideal if you want to donate a...

this is what happens when bacopa is not trimmed. It grows up out and onto the side of your tank, wipe this does look rather cool, I can only imagine the nightmare aquascapers must go through with Bacopa, especially because the very apex of the plant is what’s pushing out new growth you can’t...

No doubt it’s a nice little sword plant, the spike seems to be reaching the surface however, unlike my E.cordifolious, who’s spike simply bent and grew plantlets in the water. No plantlets yet just developing buds.

My E. Parvifolious sent up an inflorescence, it’s quite happy in the corner which is where it receives direct sunlight for about 2 hours each day (depending on weather though). I know that the inflorescence can produce tiny plantlets as an asexual means of reproduction, which I would prefer, do...

If your doing cold water you could try some native varaties, eleocharis acaicularis can grow in almost any tank as long as it gets high to moderate light, it’s a carpeting plant too although when I grow it I take squares from the margins of lakes and throw it it my tank, as it will take...

Bulb actually

My guppies never so much as looked in my bettas direction but I’ve heard horror stories of guppies ganging up on a bettas.I’d say a tank with some nano fish would be nice. Neocardina shrimp stand out certainly but require an acidic to neutral PH. Have you considered plants? If you use fluvual...