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Add more plants! Add 5 more swords that same size. Maybe some E. tennellus as a foreground weed. Regards, Tom Barr

Told you theysn't wain't no troll. Takes time to gel, look and decide for themselves what makes sense. You are never going to force this stuff, they must come to the conclusions on their own, this can be rapid or take years, decades for some. I've been posting since 1995 on mailing list. So...

Yes, very true, some are full of it, but I'm not one of those folks. Initially some think so after falling for the general dogma that strongly prevails within this hobby. A good myth is a very hard thing to kill. If you see the tanks in person, there's not a lick of algae, well, you might find...

Lessy take a long look at that one: You been to my house when I was not looking? hehe I have 170 Cards in here, 10 L filamentosus, 400-500 Fire and Cherry shrimp, 4 Chocolate emperor plecos, a goldy toe, a vampire, 6 P leopardus, and 5 Checker board cichlids, I feed heavily(the source of...

Wait? I'm now also a salesman? Where's all my money? Someone owes me a commission..... now who is it? :rolleyes: You mean I was suppose to be getting paid? Doh! Regards, Tom Barr

I do not think this person is a troll. Regards, Tom Barr

That would not be nice, nor the goal. Play nice kids. Regards, Tom Barr

Haha, no manure. Proof is in the pudding? Regards, Tom Barr

Algae can easily go several days without nutrients and the they store it for long time frames as well. There's little real competition between algae and plants. Focus on the plants, not the algae. Then you get at the root issue and goal, growing plants. Many seem obsessed(I'm not sure why)...

Best to ask around for vendors who folks think is best and then also from classified from local hobbyists or on line, folks give nicer, healither stuff than most vendors. Here's the how to mod for the needle wheel: Feed CO2 into suction side, done. Regards, Tom Barr

Use a Rio 600 or 800, cut the impellers, it'll work 2x as good as this. See needle wheel CO2. Regards, Tom Barr

I bred these in an EI tank: No one else has in the USA, I know of anyway........ So....... There's the toxicity answer.......... 3x a week: 2 tsp KNO3, 1 tsp KH2PO4, or 15ppm per dose/5 ppm per dose 3x a week each. Regards, Tom Barr

Hummmm.........BBQ..... :cheers: Better than some boring old meeting. regards, Tom Barr

Yes, the pH should rise. Maybe 1 full unit. It also rises if you do say a 50-80% water change inside a few minutes, and yet fish and plants are fine, week after week after week, years after year,......... But........a good effective CO2 diffusion method will knock the pH back down in 30-45...

Well, there's some trade offs. They are cool to look at and watch. they cloigged, but if you take Tilex, and spray them good say 2-3 week intervals, they run nice and consistent. Reactors are nice because they require little maintenance. Same for needle wheel, and they cost less as well, some...

Stuffed? where's dinner? I'm hungry( eternally). Regards, Tom Barr

Orlando is a good guy, nice too. Adding extra K2SO4 is fine, I add it also, but it's in a mix of GH booster, which is 50% K2SO4, so it's added weekly. Adding more GH and K+ has no ill effects. Both have a long history of dosing. A small group claimed issues with these a few years back, some...

At the time, folks where all doing PMDD, I just happen to have had high PO4 in the tap. I was initially turned off by all the "chem speak", thought I needed to know more than I really did, knew folks simply would not bother to test much. Most of it was human social habits, not science so much...

As far as the AM 1000 reactor, well, that's just one brand, I do all my diffusers DIY or maybe a glass Rhinox off the ebay thing. They(Rhinox) look and work as good as the ADA models for the most part. 20$ or so for a 5cm version. I also made a dual venturi style Reactor, works better than the...

AM 1000, not 100(sorry), the 1000 is much better for adding CO2 to a tank this size, the 500 is more for maybe 20-40 Gal tank max. Add as much flow as you got to the CO2 and mixing it good in the tank. This will help a great deal. Well, EC has nothing to offer really, ADA As or the worm...