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"platinum white anubia" grown emersed: A pair of breeding m.e: A garden of emersed aquatic plants:

Maybe the a. thomasi though i suspect he would be happier with platy or guppy frys/youngsters. The a. pulcher isn't a big meat eater so i wouldn't push him in that direction. You just don't have the traditional heavy meat eaters most of your fishes are going to want salad or invertebrates...

Frankly for the fishes you listed i wouldn't mess with black worms.

The fish in column 1 of post #1 on the right side is: Lamontichthys llanero sometime known as "Royal Whiptail Cat"

Not my sister; she is allergic to eggs so it makes her vomit ;) One way to not eat too much cake.

This is my c. hastatus/green neon tetra aquarium: While it has around 12 green neon tetra; the problem with putting in leaves is they all end up under the leaves; this begs the question is it good put leaves in your aquarium ;) Also despite not seeing many it has around 20 hastatus. Luckily...

Yea you better check that spider daily for cancer; and if he gets cancer plan on chemo-treatment ;) Btw i saw a movie that showed what happens when spiders are exposed to radiation. They grow like 50 feet and eat people !

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I'll be honest my kribs never dug up my plants but they did dig this lovely nest under a piece of drift wood: One of the advantages of having decently deep substrate ;)

This reminds me - when i was in college someone said they were going to get poppy seed cake and i thought it sounded disgusting because i think of poppy seeds on bagels (btw boston have fantastic fresh bagels if you get there around 6:45 when they take them out of the ovens); anyway it turned...

Don't you need a lot of sugar if you make your own frosting ?

They come out at night and stare you down and for you to do their bidding. It is true bees are evil. That is a nice looking woof ;)

Beeeee raid ;)

They don't eat plants per sey at least mine never did. I'll admit a bit of bias as i just hate plastic plants personally ;)

real plants work a lot better; esp with kribs as they eat a lot of plant matter.

I'd skip that last one; it is known to work by killing the host :(

Gary, these are excellent questions; BUT where are the answers? I ask my teachers many questions over the years but they never gave me the answers either :(

Yea i had a mystery snail with a hat of algae on it; should probably take the time to find it on my phone.... BUT i still find them boring ;)

A few new pictures update on discus i have had for 11 months and another fish i have:

I did get a covid jab; but i never bother with the flu shots. Mostly because i'm paranoid about the long term effects some folks get from covid; i know direclty or indirectly about 5 people who have had long term impact from covid. - flu - i never get sick why bother.

Probably will go to sleep.

Today I woke up. Is that not enough ?

I think i would suggest these critters: dario dario -> require live food shrimp - a million and one shrimps another beta but one of the more unusual ones - there are several i suppose but i never bother with beta. one of the smaller shell dwellers might work - not sure haven't kept them but i...

Not relally; you could stuff pygmy in there I suppose a group of 6 or 8; but it is not great for them. I usually keep them in a 20 long or larger.

I think in my crude and imperfect understanding it is more than stability; i think it is that buffering which holds the ion that raises kh. You can artificially change the ph (which is why i hate it when tools mention the ph) without fundamentally changing the water (injecting co2 is my favorite...

No. The issue is that you can have low gh and not so low kh. The issue isn't ph but kh. Anyway my very finicky softwater fishes breed just fine: And I don't bother to measure their ph just their ec. These are said to require ph very low 5s to 4s to breed. Though just because someone claims...

I fail to see with how this is related to using kh/gh instead of ph. If your kh is 5ppm and your gh is 6ppm your water is going to be very soft and acidic. If your kh is 300000ppm and your gh is 5ppm your water is going to be very alkaline. If your water is .... The problem is that kh/gh are...

Be sure to test it by turning out the power. Also there is virtually no benefit to putting it in the 40b; you can use a 40b as a sump by lining it with sponges (which are more efficient than bio media - here is a picture of what i am talking about...

Just be aware that hatchet fishes are proficient jumpers and a tight cover is required. Even a small hole will lead to fishes on the floor.

First sizing is really recommended not absolute. The way a sump works is water flows from the aquarium to the sump - through the media in the sump and then back up to the aquarium - much like a canister filter so a sump wouldn't be 'in' the aquarium it is typically below the aquarium though in...