What did you do with your tank(s) today?

DMD123

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Just a generic name of “Chocolate”? What about Hershey, Lindt, Cadbury, Godiva (girl fish name), Toblerone, Ferrero Rocher (that one sounds too formal)...lol :rofl
 

DMD123

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My day was spent up on the roof, blowing off pine needles, cleaning gutters and doing some outside winter clean up. Had to take advantage of a warm, dry day. Only fish related stuff for me was feeding the little monsters and I decided to do a parasite treatment on the pleco before he gets the move over to the trimac tank.
 

FishBeast

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Water changes over the weekend! Moved some QT fish (sailfin mollies) into another tank.
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Finished up insulation for garage doors to save on tank heater electricity costs.
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Water polishing a shrimp tank that had cloudy water thanks to @Jared Payne :rofl
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Gave the Bichirs a new food to try called Aqueon Pro carnivore formula. Seems pretty good.
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sir_keith

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Just tie it or super glue to driftwood or a rock. One of the most maintenance free plants you can get. Pretty tough too!

True enough! I use super-glue for all my Anubias, but be sure to get the super-glue gel, otherwise you'll end up gluing the plant to your fingers!

If I manage to keep it alive...

I worried about the same thing when I first decided to try to grow Anubias in pH9 water, but now look at them! Super easy. My only issue is keeping algae off them, so I have SAE's.

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FishBeast

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True enough! I use super-glue for all my Anubias, but be sure to get the super-glue gel, otherwise you'll end up gluing the plant to your fingers!



I worried about the same thing when I first decided to try to grow Anubias in pH9 water, but now look at them! Super easy. My only issue is keeping algae off them, so I have SAE's.

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Those are impressive Anubias! How old are they and do you prune?
 

sir_keith

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Those are impressive Anubias! How old are they and do you prune?

They are just over a year old. The trick, for me at least, has been to start out with really healthy plants, and all of these came from the Aquarium Plants Factory in CA. I do prune them periodically as the lower leaves start to turn yellow. The pic posted above was taken last summer, and since then the plants have grown quite a bit, as shown below-

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Two of the plants are now approaching the water surface, and I have no idea what to do about this, so any advice from the plant experts out there would be appreciated. Roy, are you listening? I probably should have tethered the rhizomes horizontally, but I do love the mass of roots they sent towards the substrate when mounted vertically. :D
 

fishguy1978

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They are just over a year old. The trick, for me at least, has been to start out with really healthy plants, and all of these came from the Aquarium Plants Factory in CA. I do prune them periodically as the lower leaves start to turn yellow. The pic posted above was taken last summer, and since then the plants have grown quite a bit, as shown below-

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Two of the plants are now approaching the water surface, and I have no idea what to do about this, so any advice from the plant experts out there would be appreciated. Roy, are you listening? I probably should have tethered the rhizomes horizontally, but I do love the mass of roots they sent towards the substrate when mounted vertically. :D

You can prune the rhizomes. Make sure you use a sharp razor blade or a quality pair of scissors. The other option would be to carefully peal the roots off of whatever you attached the plant to and then trim the roots and reattach.
 

fishguy1978

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Okay not a clue what to do with this thing...View attachment 7184Bought a live plant for the first time.

What @FishBeast and @sir_keith said. Dollar store super glue is the same as the fancy seachem plant or coral super glue. Make sure it’s the gel for sure. I still tie anubius on to wood or rocks based on size of the plant. Smaller get the glue.
Nana is a good one. Barterii, coffeola, or a nana petit are good. Frazeri and congensis are larger growing species.
 

DMD123

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I want to use black lava rock as my plant base since it will be going in the puffer tank with the black/white sand. I have a piece of red lava rock but I feel it would stick out like a sore thumb. I will stop by petco tomorrow to see if they have a piece of the black.

I had a $3 off a TopFin decor item and then saw the live plants, so I decided to try it. Just 2 or 3 live plants in there and it should look pretty good.
 

sir_keith

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Yes! Leafless rhizomes will grow leaves. It can take a month though
Yes, that's what I would have thought; it wouldn't make much sense biologically otherwise. I think I'll try it on a small scale and let you know what happens. :whistle
 
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