20 gallon long build
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Hopefully byron see this and can hrlp me with the species. Theh were sold to me as wild caught apistogramma pandini( i forgot the second part of the latin name). I grabbed what i believed to be a male and a female. If i can keep the 20long ill need to buy a few more females to let the male choose his mate.
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LOL that might be the first rap about me ever written!
To clarify, I am not injecting CO2 artificially. I am just taking advantage of what happens naturally when the lights are out... CO2 builds up because it's being produced by livestock and not being consumed by plants. Then when the lights come back on it's like morning round two for the plants. I suggested it because you said you had high light but no way to inject CO2 at the moment. It should help you avoid an algae bloom from having more light than the plants need.
As Byron so famously always mentions, floating plants would cut down the light's intense effects in the tank as well. He's absolutely right about that! I've never had a floater that grew as rapidly as water lettuce btw... Fast like duckweed but not as hard to manage. I have plenty to share with you in our trade, Sam.
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To clarify, I am not injecting CO2 artificially. I am just taking advantage of what happens naturally when the lights are out... CO2 builds up because it's being produced by livestock and not being consumed by plants. Then when the lights come back on it's like morning round two for the plants. I suggested it because you said you had high light but no way to inject CO2 at the moment. It should help you avoid an algae bloom from having more light than the plants need.
As Byron so famously always mentions, floating plants would cut down the light's intense effects in the tank as well. He's absolutely right about that! I've never had a floater that grew as rapidly as water lettuce btw... Fast like duckweed but not as hard to manage. I have plenty to share with you in our trade, Sam.
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It looks like an Apistogramma panduro or pandurini don't know if there is an actual difference or if the name is interchangeable. The females seem to show color (almost all yellow with black spots) quicker than males can when juvies. The males from what I've seen would show a little color around the edges at the same age.
Funny true story, frogbit is on the line up list provided earlier. 
And Zorro, you and I said the same thing. Only one of us made sense while doing it though... LOL and it wasn't me.
Also side note, plants have not been sent yet. That was to be Saturday. I can't fully access your pm on the mobile app so all I saw was don't send.
Um... Oh I turned down the brightness of my led light. I going to see how it reacts before I cave and add water.
Ktrom, that thing is tiny, but really cool looking!
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And Zorro, you and I said the same thing. Only one of us made sense while doing it though... LOL and it wasn't me.
Also side note, plants have not been sent yet. That was to be Saturday. I can't fully access your pm on the mobile app so all I saw was don't send.
Um... Oh I turned down the brightness of my led light. I going to see how it reacts before I cave and add water.
Ktrom, that thing is tiny, but really cool looking!
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That's what I said in short... Don't send them right now. All of my mail gets routed through Pensacola, FL, and they have all kinds of problems with flooding right now, so all of my mail will be delayed incoming and outgoing until they can clean up the mess.
I like frogbit, but mine seems to be dying back as Byron mentioned before. It was doing so well, and then started disappearing. It might be the variety I have. I'm loving some water lettuce in its place though! I can't believe it, but I'm running out of planting space, so I am going to have to plant some Sterilite tubs LOL!
I like frogbit, but mine seems to be dying back as Byron mentioned before. It was doing so well, and then started disappearing. It might be the variety I have. I'm loving some water lettuce in its place though! I can't believe it, but I'm running out of planting space, so I am going to have to plant some Sterilite tubs LOL!
OK good deal. I will wait until instructed otherwise. I have not seen or had water lettuce before. I have noticed my frogbit tentacles growing long and everywhere, then they just disappear. The leaves seem fine though...
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OK good deal. I will wait until instructed otherwise. I have not seen or had water lettuce before. I have noticed my frogbit tentacles growing long and everywhere, then they just disappear. The leaves seem fine though...
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Leaves are what's disappeared on mine. They turn yellow and are soon to be snail food. Water Lettuce looks similar, but it has a thinner, more oblong shaped leaf with lacy looking roots. It's more fragile, but bounces back quickly from damage.
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A 75g on the horizon well you don't sayopcorn:
Here is a teaser!
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Looks great...
homemade stand? and if so, any links to the plans for it, or chance that someone could convince you to put some together?
