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once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny...

The fluorescents might not break because of water, but you should probably try to keep something in between the lights and the water because if water can get at the bulb, it can probably get into the electrical contacts, which would not be good.

I'd say it's a good time to make a pond in the backyard.

Fancy guppies have not been bred for their tolerance to water conditions... they have been extensively bred for looks, and when you do that, you always lose other positive traits. The original (wild guppies) are some of the most adaptable fish out there, and they won't care much about water...

i've seen females even more "bloated" looking just from being pregnant, but I don't remember the scales ever sticking out like that. I think it's dropsy.

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find it.... Do you need filtration in a heavily planted tank that has no fish or other macroscopic critters?

Cool. Do you think the plants would attach to a hole drilled in stone?

Not sure where you live, but if you're in a temperate climate, get it from a lake or river near you. The stuff in the LFS may be a tropical variety (it SHOULD be anyway). I'd think that the temperate variety would be more adapted to a pond.

Cabomba Boom! Just keep enough light on that stuff!

Filter. If the tanks are next to each other, you might even be able to connect them with a water bridge (siphon tube) and use a single filter. Fish don't like change. They like stability. Stability with less than perfect conditions is probably better than perfectly clean with frequent...

Maybe the acclimatization of the old fish did not go so well. Was it mostly the old fish that died?

They look good. By the way, remember the beneficial bacterial live on the tank surfaces, so don't too TOO much cleaning! I wouldn't worry much about the cloudy water. If it's cloudy green then it's algae - decrease the wattage or time of lighting or get more plants or decrease the phosphates...

Carbon in the tank will remove most of the pollutants that you may be adding with your tap water, so it is not really the same as doing more water changes, unless you are using distilled water. RO water may still contain organic polutants, btw. Your tank health depends a lot on the quality of...

I know with terrestrial plants, some will grow under 24 hour light. Some need varying amounts of darkness every day. I can only assume aquatic plants have the same variability.

skeletonhand, that is a nice stump. Is the val growing out of it? or just behind it? Do you have soil inside it?

Maybe he got injured somehow?

why would it kill labyrinth fishes?

The fish were not modified for hobby or pleasure, but for environmental research reasons. In case you don't know, this is done every day by biologists... the difference here is that the organisms normally aren't marketed to the public, unless they are beneficial (for example, more nutritious...

Guppies (at least, wild ones) can tolerate 1.5x sea water, if acclimated. So if you had guppies die, I don't think it was the salt water. Can you describe your tank more? What kind of filter, what kind of gravel, what kind of aeration? any other rocks or ornaments?

Carbon will adsorb chemicals out of the air too, so if they haven't been kept sealed, they might not be good anymore. If they were in closed containers or bags, I'd use them.