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That is quite a dilemna. You could risk giving ick to your betta too. I would not treat the healthy 10 gallon tank if you don't have to. I think I would leave her in the 5 gallon and hope for the best. I am not sure how you are treating for ick, but I have successully treated it on platies...

I have several platies, and most of them are bigger than an inch! I would get just three. If the fry have a lot of places to hide, you will probably get a few survivors that are not eaten. That way you can slowly get to the number of platies that you want.

If your platy is alone, she can only eat so many fry. I placed a large female blue platy in a 10 gallon planted tank by herself. I now have about 20 fry in there with her! She probably ate a few, but there was plenty more to grow up. Platies can have more than one batch of fry per mating...

I have several platy species, and the males can be quite agressive. One thing you might consider is to place your males together in one tank and your females in the other. This will give the females a rest. --Tim

Good job on your 5 gallon tank guppygirl! Why does your tank heats up to 85 degrees? --Tim

I have several platy wild strains, blue platies, and blue spot platies. The hybrid platies like the ones you get in a fish store, will normally eat their fry. That may be why you haven't seen the little one. The wild strains do not eat their fry. All my platies are extremely active. If one...

A "cycled" tank is a tank that has been set up with water and has a good bacteria growth in it. If you got a "used" tank from your brother, does it have water in it now? I was confused at your question about what to put in the tank. You made it sound like it was empty. Generally, if you only...

Debo, If you DON'T have live plants, then you do want to keep your substrate clean. You probably don't need to do it once a week though. But if you don't mind spending the time, I guess it's OK. Once you get the live plants though, clean sparingly. The plants like the gross, brown, yuckey...

I think you should get another light strip. 40 watts will be much better than 20. You may find that this improves your plant health. Give it a try! Some tips: Don't clean your gravel too much. Plants like the gook that accumulates and decomposes on the bottom. Try adding a little more fish...

One observation about the silk plants: Before I switched to all live plants, I had some silk. I noticed that if they get algae on them, it is difficult to get rid of it/clean it off. The algae takes hold between the weaves of the fabric. --Tim

What :o Chloramine is GOOD for plants! I would like to hear more about that. It is added to drinking water to kill bacteria. Won't that also kill the beneficial bacteria in your tank? The fish? The snails? I am a plant advocate, but not to the expense of other life in the tank. Where did...

I agree with AquaNut. Don't fertilize! Just add a little more fish food in the tank for the plants each day. If you have crystal clear water. Enjoy it!

I have read that many plant hobbyists dip their plants in a weak solution of 1 part bleach to 19 parts water for 2.5 minutes. This should kill many kinds of hair algae that may be on the plants. I have never tried it. --Tim

:lol: Another Touche!

Thanks A.A for that info. So at that high of a temp, both the CO2 and the O2 have problems because both are gases. So both plants and fish loose out. Interesting. Have you ever read "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium"? You seem to understand the science, you would find this book very...

:lol: Touche! A.A. :lol: On vote for Alien Anna for "best comeback" of the month!

Shew! I must be lucky not to have gotten those plant-eating snails! I have several varieties and all of them so far have been nice. I do have the Malaysian Trumpet Snail that burrows into the substrate - they come up at night to feed on algae. They are also good cleaners, but have not...

Agreed, spectrum is overrated. Your original post said nothing about the cost of lights vs the spectrum. I thought you were talking about spectrum on it's own. Sorry about the confusion.

I am not sure about the Riccia root system, since I don't have any of it :( but since it is a floating plant, I would not think that it needs to be actually rooted in the substrate or that it would necessarily like it.

Here is another suggestion: If you have the standard flourescent hood, sometimes you can remove the light fixture from the plastic top. If you can, remove the light fixture, get a plain glass top for your tank (they are called Versa-top - All Glass makes them...

It's me again :D Just curious, why do you want the PH to be that low?

I don't use CO2 or filters or airstones, blah, blah, blah ( I know you've all heard that before :) ) but my tanks are not running at that high of a temperature. So there is a connection between the temperature and oxygen? My assumption would be at a higher temp animal metabolism increases thus...

OK, poor focus, we always get a little off the subject. How much are they going to charge you for this CO2 system? :lol: As Alien Anna said in a round-about way. She ADDED and airstone when she got the CO2 injection. I am not sure why she did that, it doesn't seem logical to me, but I don't...

If anyone has read this post, I have edited it.... I was wrong :( Well, I have done some research.. According to Diana Walsted's "Ecology of the Planted Aquarium" plants DO use oxygen, put they store it in special cells during photosynthesis. They prefer to get the oxygen from these...

Oh geez revengeishere, I hate to do this to you, but you are right and you are wrong. :blink: Some clips: "Critical experiments show that maximum growth of most plants under cool white fluorescent lights will be equivalent to or better than that obtained under the blue-red phosphors...." and...

If you searched the net, for example using Google, you would find that Riccia fluitans is actually a floating plant. The plants should have been tied to the net. If not, it was up to you to tie the plants to the net so they will stay down. Riccia fluitans is generally used by advanced...

OK, I'm here. Applesnails are tropical snails. They need a temperature above 68F. I am not familiar with the barbs that you have in your tropical tank. You need to be concerned that your fish may nibble on the snail's body if they have already killed some of your other fish. If you have...

Yes. Land and aquatic plants "respirate" at night. Basically plants produce CO2 24 hours a day. When it is light, the plant cells will also produce oxygen through photosynthesis using up the CO2. At night, the process is really not reversed. What happens is that at night, the plants stop...

:sad: Whaaaa! I'm jealous! They look a little livelier today though.... The temp in the tank is around 71 degrees. It has been a little higher in August though. So I can't say that temp is the problem.

:lol: :lol: Ooo a Boston Fern! I never thought of that one. Think of the possibilities! ;)

Oh, and yes pictures please!

OK revengeishere, I'll go first. So when you converted your gravel tank, did you leave the water in it? If so, did you really wet the soil into a mud before adding it? Did you take the fish out? If so, for how long? I have a 29gal Angel tank with gravel only. The plant growth was real...

I resent the personal message to your My Controls Inbox. But then I decided to look at my regular email, and your reply showed up there. I replied back to your hotmail account. --Tim

Just in case, the ceratophyllum is commonly known as hornwort. That would be great. The cabomba is beautiful, but requires higher light ( oops, I forgot, AquaNut breaks all the light rules :D). You may want to try Ambulia (Limnophila Sessiliflora) for lower light levels which looks similar...

Hey angel_lover, I sent you a personal message about those babies! --Tim

Yep, Jungle vals are the same as the giant. There are several varieties, this one having the longest and widest leaves. The corkscrew val is much smaller and twirls as it grows! Well, you know me and that I have mostly filterless, soil substrate tanks. The jungle vals that I had for a month...

Very pretty killifish! How big will these get? --Tim

Very cool. Great shots! My guppies don't eat their fry, but it is always better to be on the safe side. That baby swordtail is looking at the baby guppy with "hunger" in his eyes. Ya better watch 'em (jkust kidding).

Hey! Very sixties retro orange B). I have all live plants, and you can't do that with a planted tank! Very grooovy....

Thanks you guys and gals this is really nice of you! But really, I just threw them in there! On the rockwool (the gray fiber stuff - thank you!), yea it probably would be a good idea to keep it there if you have gravel only. I would imagine that the fish poop/food could penetrate through it...