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[Alice B]

But instead people sell fingernail sized portions of Java moss and like a single stem of a plant for $15

Why I am going to the DFW Aquatic Plant Club meeting on Feb 4th. I sell this giant 2 ft Anubias Nana for $15 and they want that for a tiny baby one at the fish store.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Why I am going to the DFW Aquatic Plant Club meeting on Feb 4th. I sell this giant 2 ft Anubias Nana for $15 and they want that for a tiny baby one at the fish store.

Better come to Texas and get plants from you

 

[Alice B]

Better come to Texas and get plants from you

The weather varies greatly you know

 

[JuiceBox52]

The weather varies greatly you know

Oh yes I’m aware I couldn’t live in Texas, my POTS causes such great heat intolerance I’d be unconscious 80% of the time

 

[GaryE]

A couple of years ago, when I was tighter for space, I divided a 40 gallon into 2 2 footers to raise killie fry in. I looked at it last night, and realized with the space I have now, I no longer need that. So today, I removed the dividing glass, carefully, and opened the tank up. I put a HOB onto it, replanted everything to cope with the flow, and now will cycle it. I left all the greenery, and the two air driven filters I was using in it, so the filter should be colonized quickly.

This caused a chain reaction. I moved my African tetras (Bathyaethiops sp) into another empty 40 I started a canister filter on last week, along with a pair of Pelvicachromis roloffi who have been right on the edge of spawning. That'll give them 18 inches more of front glass, and 15 gallons more of water. I changed the lighting, since the tank is low and I am tall. It is a striking one with better lights. When the plants really grow in, it'll be better.

Now, I could watch a Saturday night hockey game, but I am mulling over options instead. I think I'll use the now empty 30 inch tank to breed up a group of Glossolepis wanamensis rainbows. I'm due for another generation, the 4th one here. I can use another 40 gallon for my Scleromystax barbatus. I think I missed some eggs when I was super busy earlier this week, so I'll see if fry appear in their 15. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal. It's worth a try.

I thought I had lost my striatum killies to a brood with a huge number of males and one female. She died a couple of weeks ago, but I have five fry in her tank now, hopefully some future females. They're living with the panda Corys, who are doing very well.

We're under a weather warning for sustained freezing rain, so I sealed up the fishroom for the evening for heat retention, just in case. I installed an outdoor front door on it, and when that's closed, the room conserves well. I hate freezing rain. Last evening, sitting in my study, I could hear the storm surge surf crashing in down the road, but tonight it's all wind - very wild wind. I told the fish it was the incoming monsoon and that the Corys should spawn, but I don't think they believed me.

 

[Rocky998]

That pretty well sums up one of the great conflicts in my life.

True though....

 

[PewPewChris]

Do you all think I should be patient and just order small amounts of plants for my new 10g set up, and let them grow out? Or order a bunch and get a semi completed look right now? It’s so hard to choose

I like watching my scape grow and mature. I say less is more

 

[PewPewChris]

Did a 50% WC today and added 5 more pounds of sand into the substrate.

 

[Fishmanic]

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Did a 50% WC today and added 5 more pounds of sand into the substrate.

TOTM.. hint hint

 

[GaryE]

That is a nice tank! In a couple of weeks when the plants have taken off, it'll be even nicer!

 

[connorlindeman]

I am incredibly broke but also- plants

If only people sold such large portions of plants like I used to do I’d be set!

My local fish store has awesome prices for plants. A big bundle of a plant for 5 bucks. You can fill a 10g for maybe 50 bucks. That would be heavily planted.

 

[JuiceBox52]

My local fish store has awesome prices for plants. A big bundle of a plant for 5 bucks. You can fill a 10g for maybe 50 bucks. That would be heavily planted.

That’s it, I’m moving!

 

[JuiceBox52]

Aquarium co op is expensive. I usually buy on Etsy since there isn’t really anywhere else with live plants. I totaled up my cart, 130.00 that’s too much. Guess it will wait till my birthday. Lol

 

[Rocky998]

Aquarium co op is expensive. I usually buy on Etsy since there isn’t really anywhere else with live plants. I totaled up my cart, 130.00 that’s too much. Guess it will wait till my birthday. Lol

Bro, I made my total go up to like 200 at one point
Luckily I'm known as an extreme deal finder by my past friends and family at times, and I got it down to like 120... Soooo now I just need to get the 40g so I can get all those awesome plants that are in my Etsy cart

 

[Rocky998]

My local fish store has awesome prices for plants. A big bundle of a plant for 5 bucks. You can fill a 10g for maybe 50 bucks. That would be heavily planted.

Aquarium co op is expensive. I usually buy on Etsy since there isn’t really anywhere else with live plants. I totaled up my cart, 130.00 that’s too much. Guess it will wait till my birthday. Lol

At least yall have nice shops to actually get plants safely from! My store I wouldn't buy any live thing from unless they didn't touch their tanks