CrownMan

Nice Tank and Lighting! I'll try to post a pic of my latest 40 breeder soon. Dealing with 35 oaks and leaves currently!!

Be great to have a meeting. It's been 9 months since the last in Feb. I will be down to 4 tanks soon so I will have a few small to medium crypts and african fern to share with members here in SW Arlington. I will replace it (40G) with a 20 rimless this winter. Might even be able to fit my 7G Finnex tank on the stand with it.

Hope everyone stays safe and healthy. I will send out the next meeting notice hopefully in 2021!

Have a great holidays,

jercarr2018

I found one of your crypt pontederiifolia’s hanging out in my tank. I thought I cleared them all out.


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CrownMan

I still have a corner of my 65G with the Crypt P. but I have the same problem with my Limno Aromatica. I thought I had given it all to bsboust but I have 2 nice new stems.

jercarr2018

Plant is such a weed. I think my current un get riddable plant is myriophyllum roraima. Great orange plant but grows to the top of my 40b weekly.
It’s a great non co2 colorful plant also


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Allexx46

So Pretty! Those are awesome lights! Do they give off a lot of heat? I am having an over heating problem and am looking for cooler lights. Cooling units take up more space than I have.

jercarr2018

They are LED’s with built in fans. No over heating problems. NilocG Prizms 16’ 2x of them over a 40b


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Michael

Jeremy, just out of curiosity, are you using tap water? What is the chemistry like?

jercarr2018

Yes I am using tap water. It is absolute garbage. I can get better details when I’m at home. A new trick I learned though for making it not so hard is dosing muriatic acid to deal with the kh.
I have no problems growing syngos, eriocaulons and tonina’s in my tank.

CrownMan

Our water here in SW Arlington comes out of the tap at 8.0 pH so not as bad as west texas water. Having a pool, I have used the Muriatic Acid hack before. Here is the link on how to safely use the acid : https://wattleydiscus.com/how-to-low...cal-fish-tank/ . Good tip Jeremy!

davemonkey

I recall high nitrates in the tap water out that way. It actually played to my benefit for the plants. I played a trick on the PetsMarts folk in Abilene by taking a test bottle from my tank and one fresh from tap. The one from tap was really high and the guy was recommending a water change before I bought any fish. Then I gave him the one from the tank (perfectly clean because of the plants), and let him in on my secret, lol!