waterdrop
Enthusiastic "Re-Beginner"
Hi LL, Finally got back from practice and came to see the pics and boy are they nice! There's no doubt about it, you are an artist - that is exactly the right touch of texture and height for that shape/size tank (of course you're probably an artist even at "quintus" 
.) I think if you were ever down and out you could walk into any florist shop and get a job as a top floral designer for something, lol.
I have my doubts I'll ever be able to put hardscape and plants together like that, its a lot harder than it looks. I keep getting hooked though as its so much harder than fish and changes the challanges so much.
Hey, I really want to know how small those pumps are. Can anybody give the exact dimensions of the little 200,400 ones? I was telling LL that I keep wishing for smaller pumps than the littlest Koralia Nano that I currently run. It just seems like it would be so flexible to have tiny little less powerful pumps that you could dot around in hidden places in the tank and create local water movement. Does anyone else ever think that?
Wow, your Madagascar is doing better than mine! Mine, the one that lived, was not the sterile bag one but an auction one that had a rather large bulb. The bulb still has some fungus on it so I'm still worried about it plus I'm scared to move it because I don't know if lace plants are prone to melt if they get moved. Does anybody have a guess about that?
Oh, and I forgot what you told me about your water hardness at the conference. Am I remembering that Miami has pretty hard water? A three year ongoing thing with me is this theory that super soft water like mine (KH=0, GH not much more) is a handicap and one of my next experiments (hopefully in this decade, lol) will be go get Paul (if he hasn't been flooded out down there, ugh) to help me implement Tom Barr's booster idea. Of course I know you're not a testing person so you probably don't even own a GH/KH kit that you could use to tell me what your numbers are but I'm curious.
And one final bit of trivia.. I don't think its flow so much with getting fish into those intakes. I've always just thought that the intake grids on the Aquaclears is just a tiny bit to big. I've had to put mesh over mine in the past and its a pain when you do that bacause you have to remember to "unstick" it periodically or it inhibits flow. Of course it might also be that their intake tubes are a shade narrow too, contributing to higher pull compared to eheims and other more highly engineered systems.
Anyway, lots of tidbits in there for you but the bottom line is Thanks for the entertainment of the pictures and videos and the great looking scape!
WD
.) I think if you were ever down and out you could walk into any florist shop and get a job as a top floral designer for something, lol.I have my doubts I'll ever be able to put hardscape and plants together like that, its a lot harder than it looks. I keep getting hooked though as its so much harder than fish and changes the challanges so much.
Hey, I really want to know how small those pumps are. Can anybody give the exact dimensions of the little 200,400 ones? I was telling LL that I keep wishing for smaller pumps than the littlest Koralia Nano that I currently run. It just seems like it would be so flexible to have tiny little less powerful pumps that you could dot around in hidden places in the tank and create local water movement. Does anyone else ever think that?
Wow, your Madagascar is doing better than mine! Mine, the one that lived, was not the sterile bag one but an auction one that had a rather large bulb. The bulb still has some fungus on it so I'm still worried about it plus I'm scared to move it because I don't know if lace plants are prone to melt if they get moved. Does anybody have a guess about that?
Oh, and I forgot what you told me about your water hardness at the conference. Am I remembering that Miami has pretty hard water? A three year ongoing thing with me is this theory that super soft water like mine (KH=0, GH not much more) is a handicap and one of my next experiments (hopefully in this decade, lol) will be go get Paul (if he hasn't been flooded out down there, ugh) to help me implement Tom Barr's booster idea. Of course I know you're not a testing person so you probably don't even own a GH/KH kit that you could use to tell me what your numbers are but I'm curious.
And one final bit of trivia.. I don't think its flow so much with getting fish into those intakes. I've always just thought that the intake grids on the Aquaclears is just a tiny bit to big. I've had to put mesh over mine in the past and its a pain when you do that bacause you have to remember to "unstick" it periodically or it inhibits flow. Of course it might also be that their intake tubes are a shade narrow too, contributing to higher pull compared to eheims and other more highly engineered systems.
Anyway, lots of tidbits in there for you but the bottom line is Thanks for the entertainment of the pictures and videos and the great looking scape!
WD
. I haven't actually ever owned a betta however about a year ago I planned to breed them at one point so I did LOADS of research on them. Sadly, I decided I haven't got enough room 
