I hope this doesn't seem like a silly question but I seem to remember someone telling me that they washed their local found water plants in a chlorine/water bath in order to get rid of any clinging eggs or larvae that may be living hidden from view on the plants. Does anyone know what the best...

I'm probably only a few days away from bringing home my 4' freshwater aquarium, which I aspire to eventually have fairly densely planted. The filter is similar to an external filter (except that it's incorporated into the hood) with the filtered water returning at the top of the tank. The hood...

As header, has anyone tried water cress as a pond or aquarium plant? TIA. Paul. -- Paul reply-to is valid

I've got a Samolus Parviflorus which was doing really well about a month ago.. I have since switched using co2 tabs and gone with a 10lbs bottle with the whole setup. (overkill, i know) Since then, it has been developing light algae. ph - 7 all other levels are normal using the test kit light -...

hey all.. I just had a quick question. I just got back from petsmart and i picked up some hornwort for my 29 gal community tank. I really like the way it looks, and wanted to find out how much of it I should get. The tank could probably hold three or four plants of the size I had purchased, but...

Flourite!!! "Doug and Lois" wrote in message ... One of my planted tanks has become a nightmare. The alage growth is overwhelming. I am quite sure that I made a mistake with the substrate when I set the thing up. (Trust...

Hey folks, my LFS had a major overstock of a bunch of "assorted bulbs", and thtey made me an offer I couldn't refuse. So now I've got a couple dozen random plants, all of them with bulbs on the bottom. Most of them are pretty scraggly, heart shaped leaves, mostly green, some purples. A couple of...

I would like to put together a planted 30g tank but I have no idea where to start. I've found a lot of websites online but I don't want to take advice from just any website. I figure a 30g tank would be large enough to start out with but what equipment am I going to need? How do I pick the...

I have a 55 gal. tanks with 2 55 watt CF bulbs and I'm looking for a foreground plant. Something that will fill in all the empty space and will grow with 2 wpg. Any suggestions?

We have a 12 gallon planted Eclipse tank. It's very established but I've noticed lately that every so often the Crypt's start to melt by themselves and then come back. The only other plants in the tank are anubia's and they are doing very well. My question is: is the tank too small for all...

Hi, Can anyone identify these plants for me ? http://users.pandora.be/tazmanian_be/pictures/plant1.jpg and http://users.pandora.be/tazmanian_be/pictures/plant2.jpg Thanks ! tazzzie

It MAY encourage new submerged leaves but then again if it's trying to reach the surface it more than likely will keep trying to do so. If you're gonna remove it do so at the lowest point possible. If you cut it higher up, the remaining stalk will start to decay and could possibly introduce some...

How do you make your clown loaches eat snails? I have 5 in a 280L aquarium, and have heaps of ramshorns snail that might have come in with a plant (although all were bleached) or fish; although they seem happy enough, they don't seem to take any interest in snails (as in eating them), contrary...

When starting up a new tank using the fishless cycle method, should I include aquatic plants or just the gravel and driftwood? If this is going to be a high-light, CO2-injected tank, consider using Chuck's no-cycle method: http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_newtank.htm If you can't do...

....plants online, either in the UK, or from a store that ships to the UK. Marcus

I finally got tired of the weedy stem plants that shaded my tank a couple of days after pruning them. So I decided to redo the tank and get rid of all the stem plants. I ordered a bunch of small sword-type plants online (great service, btw aquariumplant.com) and today I got to work. I took out a...

30 gal. 80% planted, no florite substrate, just small fine gravel 110watt lightning Injected CO2 9 neon tetras, 4 angels, 1 sae, 4 fast growers, 5 swords, 2 large, 3 smaller 2 slow growers between 1/4 and 1/2 water changes /week

The Workhorse 5 is not a kit, just a ballast with the appropriate Black White wires for AC input and Red and Yellow wires for connecting to you light sockets. You will have to get the sockets on your own. They can be wired for either bi pin tubes (T12, T8 etc) or for CF. Just follow the wiring...

Hi; I just received an order of plants (Wisteria, Sprite, Java fern and Anubia nanas) but the Flourite won't arrive for another week. Is it ok to just let them float around for a week and plant them after the Flourite gets here or do I need to plant them now and uproot and replant later? Thanks...

I was told that it's because of too much blue in the spectrum, or something similar... One color makes it grow tall, one color makes it bushy, not tall.... IIRC, blue makes it go tall, red makes it bushy.... Anachris is the same way, if the light has more reds, it'll be bushier leaves,...