Minimum Aquarium Size - EU Regulations

Mr. Gardener wrote:

It's kitty cornered to the window. I
don't know the European equivalent of kitty corner, so bear with me,
friends from across the pond.

Just for the heck of it, the American equivalent is "cater-cornered" -
"kitty cornered" is a corruption of that. Cater meant diagonally, and
had nothing to do with cats :-). See:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-kit1.htm

I'm just a fount of useless knowledge :-).

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Moments before spontaneously combusting Mr. Gardener at
was heard opining:

Well. That tank's done. A little over 2 hours. Left a pretty bad mess
in the living room. Pruned a lot, clipped off a lot of leaves, pulled
a couple of Amazons and trimmed back healthy roots, removed soft brown
dead roots.
============
I didn't trim any leaves at all. The plecos and ottos removed the black
crud and fuzzy stuff. Since adding the Excel no new spots are appearing on
the other plants and new plants. The cleaned off leaves look ok. Rather
than stress the plants any more buy performing amputations on them I'm going
to see what happens. Most have nice new growth anyway.
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Charles wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:11:17 GMT, Altum
wrote:

Funny. I can't get E. uruguayensis to even grow indoors. I put some in
my ten gallon, and it's still sitting there with no new leaves. I wish
it would take over - I love the plant. Outside, it's grown like crazy
and is getting ready to flower.


http://www.pbase.com/image/54806429

mine in a 55G tank

That's glorious! I'll have to take pics of the flowering spike when
mine finally blooms. It opens the flowers a few at a time for a couple
of months. They're small, white, and quite fragrant.

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Funny. I can't get E. uruguayensis to even grow indoors. I put some in
my ten gallon, and it's still sitting there with no new leaves. I wish
it would take over - I love the plant. Outside, it's grown like crazy
and is getting ready to flower.

Try adding some iron rich clay to the substrate and adding some
incandescent light. I had the same problem.

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the other plants and new plants. The cleaned off leaves look ok. Rather
than stress the plants any more buy performing amputations on them I'm going
to see what happens. Most have nice new growth anyway.

Um, a plants response to losing lots of tissue is more vigerous growth. The
more you price the better they grow.


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Um, a plants response to losing lots of tissue is more vigerous growth. The
more you price the better they grow.

s/price/prune/



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I'm just a fount of useless knowledge :-).

Oh yeah? Where are my keys?


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Moments before spontaneously combusting Mr. Gardener at
was heard opining:

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:48:09 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:

Moments before spontaneously combusting Mr. Gardener at
was heard opining:

Well. That tank's done. A little over 2 hours. Left a pretty bad
mess
in the living room. Pruned a lot, clipped off a lot of leaves,
pulled
a couple of Amazons and trimmed back healthy roots, removed soft
brown dead roots.
============
I didn't trim any leaves at all. The plecos and ottos removed the
black crud and fuzzy stuff. Since adding the Excel no new spots are
appearing on the other plants and new plants. The cleaned off
leaves look ok. Rather than stress the plants any more buy
performing amputations on them I'm going to see what happens. Most
have nice new growth anyway.
==================
Well, if underwater is anything like outdoors in the soil, root
pruning and careful leaf pruning can have an invigorating effect.

This is true but these plants were already under stress from being covered
with this crud. And the leaves cleaned off look healthy. All I can see is
remains of some "soot". The excel doesn't seem to kill this stuff but does
stop it from growing. It's had no effect yet in a 10g tank thought. The
black crud looks the same (no plecos or ottos in the 10g tank). I ordered 2
liters of the stuff this morning. The only fish in this 10g tank are two
small goldfish. Because I cut back on feeding they ate all the elodia (pond
weed).

I
have a good sized lawn made from several "squares" of micro sword,
someone tell me the real name for that stuff, please, and I gave it a
haircut straight across, just the tips were affected. Your way or
mine, either should work. I'm low on algae eaters at the moment, I've
lost two of my three ancistrus to the ominous "red spot", and I
haven't found any ottos that appeared healthy enough to purchase yet.

They're coming into the stores here now in large numbers. You'll probably
start to see them soon. The clown pleco also works over the plants and he'll
only get to 6" maximum. Each 55g now has 2 ottos, a clown pleco and a
regular pleco. Every other night I drop in a slice of zucchini but have no
idea if they're eating it.

I'm watching a few at my lfs that he is not selling until he is
certain they are fattening up. A good thing that came out of today's
job, I haven't seen my third ancistrus for a couple of weeks, so while
I was already making a mess in the tank with the water level down to
40%, I moved some driftwood and rock work, looking and feeling for
that guy, all in vain. So I went back to my plants and when I tucked a
little java moss into the opening of the ancistrus pvc cave, he came
flying out of there - he's added some whiskers and weight since I last
saw him. So I'm in search of a lady friend for him again. Never
dreamed I'd find him in his cave.

LOL!!! Where else would the little stinker be? :-D
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Moments before spontaneously combusting Richard Sexton at
was heard opining:

Um, a plants response to losing lots of tissue is more vigerous
growth. The more you price the better they grow.

s/price/prune/
====================
I may remove a few of the leaves then.... most leaves looked fine once they
were cleaned off. I now fear the algae eaters will starve. There isn't
must algae left in the 55s. I hope they eat the cucumbers and zucchini at
night.
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Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:09:56 +0000 (UTC),
(Richard Sexton) wrote:

the other plants and new plants. The cleaned off leaves look ok. Rather
than stress the plants any more buy performing amputations on them I'm going
to see what happens. Most have nice new growth anyway.

Um, a plants response to losing lots of tissue is more vigerous growth. The
more you price the better they grow.

Yes. That is my experience with outdoor agricultural pursuits. It took
me a long time to trust the advice that pruning encourages new growth.
But we do it all the time, with our shrubs, our perennials, even our
lawns.

-- Mister Gardener