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I’m been attempting to grow Utricularia graminifolia as a carpet plant in an 15 gallon iwagumi set up. This led me to do an online search to see what conditions have worked for others. In addition to the usual specialty web sites I looked at various blogs as well. So what follows is the progress...

Does anyone have any experience with Ista CO2 tablets for the planted tank? If so, what are the ingredients? And, more importantly, does it work? The videos I've seen suggest that the gas goes straight up and gasses off without any consequential amount dissolving in the water. Also, there is a...

I've read the post in 2011 about cleaning the inline diffusers by soaking in bleach but am concerned about the plastic. How long should I soak an old UpAqua inline diffuser in 20% bleach?

I am in the process of up grading my CO2 system on my 300 gallon, heavily planted, aquarium. The system I’ve been using is a collection of assorted parts which have all been reasonably successful on smaller tanks, but are proving unmanageable on the larger tank. I am considering purchasing a...

I live in a city that has extremely soft tap water (total hardness is usually about 6 dH), but a friend in the country wants to set up a fully planted tank with tap water that has a total hardness of over 40 and a TDS of 440 ppm. I get the impression that the water in the UK is generally hard...

Now that I've got a workable dosing regime, I need to consider what to do when I'm on vacation. What is the conventional way of managing not dosing for 3 or 4 weeks. I've got too many tanks to consider dosing pumps, so I'm considering reducing photoperiod from 10 to 3 or 4 hours per day and...

I am under the impression that dosing fertilizers before the lights are turned on has benefits. Is this correct? And if so, why? And when is the best time to dose? I'm dosing macros on days 1, 3 and 5; micros on days 2, 4 and 6.

Does anyone have experience with aqua soil Africana? It's quite a departure from Seachem's fluorite, which is what I've been using to date. Cheers to all.

I've been involved in the aquarium hobby for over 22 years. I didn't get serious until the last 3 or 4 years, and found the planted tanks were the most interesting. I'm a member of the Ottawa Valley Aquarium Society, and as a subset, one of the 'plantaholics' group. I have 8 tanks and a...