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Happy day...agreed, and you can visit Youtube and search out Foo the Flowerhorn to see his wonderful videos about his 5g and the gourami.

Happy day...its perfectly normal for tanks to have algae, and it will come and go over time, and in all sorts of amazing shapes and colors. You can use a naughty child's toothbrush to wind around the stringy stuff until the tank is done cycling, heaven knows that kids need more green matter in...

Happy day...that's a great background. Those little wormy fellas will make for a nice snack. Carry on.

Happy day...so the question everyone is dying to ask...did you discover if the gator spoke Norwegian?

@Flushable Pets Here's a pic of the tank and some of the inhabitants....25 blue dream shrimp, 3 blue mystery snails, 1 purple mystery snail, 2 amano shrimp and now a boatload of what I think are the pond/bladder snails but maybe are the blues? or purple?

Happy day....so I wonder. If I smoosh a snail and send in the slime as if it was mine...I wonder how that would come back? I'm sure people have done this before, so they must have some way of coping with it. I often see ads on aquabid where the seller talks about a certain genetic line for...

Happy day...both Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams are from the UK, so I am certain that the lilt is written in there. And @ClownLurch is correct, there are hundreds based on neighborhoods and the migratory patterns of breeding-age adults. Sometimes I ask people to read what I write with a...

Happy day...thank you for the kind words. As a child (please ignore my wife's petulant insistence that I still am), my parents encouraged avid reading of fun and exciting books, and we had a library with hundreds of science fiction and fantasy novels as well as a treasure trove of...

Happy day, I'm surprised that we haven't heard "fish don't have eyelids" piece. I agree with Nicrew as a nice budget option. I have a fluval 3.0 nano plus with the fabulous app that allows for all sorts of tomfoolery designed to mimic nature..sunrise, sunset, all sorts of cool stuff. I...

Happy day...ok, now I need to know. What is it that you are trying to decide if you were being honest about? Is it obtaining the heater and filter? Really wanting to keep it alive? Really giving it to your son? That you are thankful for the advice? One thing about this forum...it is a...

Happy day...in the intervening days, I dropped in 30 blue dream shrimp and two amano shrimp, and picked up the Tweezers of Pinching Doom. It is also a dirt tank, so it would have needed a complete rebuild. But I do thank you for taking the time to share the thoughts. I will do cucumber bowls...

Happy day...I would like to make...a confession. My heart and soul have blackened like toast in the fire with the crushing, crushing, crushing of each snail. The wanton wreckage of snail carcasses littering the substrate would disgust even the most pious members of the Church, even though they...

Happy day....I saw that you had only received 98 cents worth of advice, so I decided to add my 2 cents so you could have a whole dollar's worth of advice. There are definitely truths to what's been written here, and you're kinda stuck between a couple of worlds. World 1 is the industrial...

Happy day...that depends on whether or not you have an HOB filter or something else that would be pressing up against it. The cardboard will dent, and may absorb water. Peeling off the old and re-applying it might be annoying, too. Instead, consider going to Home Depot or a similar store and...

Happy day and thank you all for your responses. 1. Although I do suffer from MTS and have five tanks, in the context of a snail discussion, MTS = Malaysian trumpet snails. And yes, they have their uses for churning through substrate. And yes, I have been coping with an outbreak in a...

Happy day...that's what that is? Snow? Huh...I always imagined it to be...well, more like the pictures we drew...5-pointed star sorts of things. The only time we get white stuff on the ground is when a small, low-flying plane hurriedly drops cushion-sized bales of cocaine...

...always lead to snail infestations yet again? Alas and alack, my plans of a shrimp & purple mystery snail-only 9.6gl tank have been torpedoed by small little brown/black snails, perhaps generously described as a pond snail, although it might be a bladder snail, too. It is a Walstad-method...

So now I just need to find one deserving of such punishment. One particular female has been carrying on in a most tawdry and salacious manner. It does mean I will have to feed them, though...you know, when I dreamed up this escapade of putting a tank in the office, the idea was for it to be...

Happy day Itiwhetu, The tank is going to be fishless...blue dream and amano shrimp, only. And a snail of some sort. I do have a collection of cherry barbs in my 125g, so I could definitely fish one of those out.

Happy day Utar...oh, I know my water is good. The beautiful south Florida water, the wood, the gravel I used for gradient, the plants and most of the hardscape all came from my existing tanks. The new things are the Eco-complete, the dirt, the glass, the thermometer and 11 river stones. I...

Happy day, We are gathered here today to deal with a serious matter, a very serious matter indeed. I have come to you, the people, to seek your guidance on...a sacrifice. I have a new 9.6gl quasi-Walstad Method tank. While I did place root tabs, thus violating the purity of the method, the...

Pictures are always welcome, too!

Happy day Micael and welcome to the forums! I happen to type with a French accent, so no worries on pronouncing your name for me. I know this to be true because I once had a French girlfriend and when she would read back things I said in email, she always did it with the French accent, so I...

Happy day...check out Youtube for Foo the Flowerhorn...one of his videos shows him melting hard plastic tubing and making a shape. One of his fan apprecation videos shows a fan who built a multi-colored one that looks pretty cool. I know that the best things I tend to make using fire are piles...

Happy day....I think a requirement is that the tank have life in it, and all this has is a single snail that was hitchhiking on some plants. Happily, the snail has lived in this landscape devoid of life. In a month I'll get some blue dreams in there. Which would also look good in the original...

Happy day...yes they are. The 1 and 4 keys are on top of each other and I meant to type 4 instead of 1. Let this be a valuable lesson to all...when a person is not mentally equipped to type in lengthy plant names and does, other typos are likely to be apparent. I see that I also omitted a...

Happy day...since this is a private chat that no one else will read, this is a sneak peek at a tank I built last week. Don't...show...anyone. I am working on the journal for it. That said, I am terrible with plants, but I went with Bronze Crypt Wendtii, java fern, red root floaters, Damn...

Happy day, Cherry shrimp would look great in there. Painted red/fire red...something along those lines.

Happy day...I don't think that 125 is nearly large enough, and even with a 6 foot x 6 foot square, when one includes the length of the tail, the fish would basically get to swim 2-3 body lengths in any one direction before having to turn. You aren't too far from the Ohio Fish Rescue. Talk with...

Happy day...since you just have one, you could drop a cup over it to hold it in place while you do the cleaning.

Happy day...I couldn't resist piling on. Its sort of like back in old Mother Russia when you saw a line, you just got in it because there had to be something good people were waiting for, even if the lady in front of you didn't know what it was, either. I use the simple timer with the pegs in...

Happy day...I would not have guessed that it was the bichir who did that damage. In my experience with this little fella (see tawdry picture), if he couldn't get his mouth around it, he wasn't gonna mess with it. I would have totally picked out the parrots as being your culprits. The other...