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This is a true non CO2 low tech approach. Soil is aDA aqua soil, tank is 60x45x10cm, a single small internal filter is used, and a light, no other electrical devices are used. I dose about once a week or two,a tiny bit of everything. Trimming? Not much, I thin some plants out maybe once every...

This rock is highly textured and has a green blue hue to a nice earthy brown. Mostly it is thin plate like, which is most useful and it can be cut and broken without too much effort. I have about 600 kg sitting here I've collect. I sold 300 kg off thus far. I mountain biked over it along a trail...

I'm getting ready to break the tank down and redo it. Many of you know me for the wood, but I've been busy collecting some really nice rock locally here in California. I run and mountain bike a lot and many of the areas I've spotted rock that is very well suited. I'm thinking of several of these...

Let's look back at some history: PMDD: https://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Fertilizer/sears-conlin.html Frankly PPS is blatantly plagerizing PMDD. "Edward" never once acknowledged anything he took and posted to the original authors of PMDD. PMDD predates PPS by 8 years. I know both authors for...

I'd swap some faster weedy species for slower growing and non stemy types. Since you are already neglecting the trimming, maybe maybe not, but the shallow nature leaves less time to between trim before it throws off the scape. Maybe a corner's worth of stem plants, something pink or more red...

Ya'll know , do we really NEED CO2 gas enrichment? Or NEED high light? Well, depends on your goal, but the generally answer is certainly a resounding no, you do not. Folks love the haggle about ferts, but not CO2, or light, even though those are the two main drivers.

I've considered the 90 cm ES versions for the 70 Gallon I have, finding T5 bulbs is troublesome for the 39W and the RBG mix works, but I like some more user friendly controls. Radion Ecotech has a FW light where you can control and adjust lights and intensities, and colors...

You might consider adding some moss(say weeping or mini Xmas) to the wood. Would give a nice feel and "age" the look more. Big water change and then add moss with super glue gel. Refill 5 minutes later.

It's not a hard plant etc..........just folks get weird when the price is high, they do not want to kill it. I've gotten back some plants from a couple of folks who likely would have killed their Anubias and Buces..........a couple came back covered 99% in BBA. I put them in a tank next to this...

All submersed grown, not really limiting for the given rate of growth and the plants, ADA AS is fairly new in this tank.

I had one of the original ones way back in the 1990's, I let it die though. That same stock ended up 15 years later being this same plant. I like them for contrast purposes only. And they are rather easy to grow, any fern/Buce, Anubias tend to be good money makers over time. New leaves on all...

BTW George, you can schedule Sept 4th and 5th, the flight and a few meals are free from Houston and back.

Hoping we will get him back again in Sept.

It was good to finally meet George and Emma in Washington DC. He gave an excellent talk, you all are lucky to have him over there. Ironically the last thing on my mind was to talk about aquariums, I wanted to run through some trails and creeks but my foot was bugging me. George like myself is...