Analogue photography (B/W film, darkroom and alternative printing) and wildlife photography; amateur botany, especially wildflowers; growing...
Glad to hear you like it. I share my other half 50/50 with her yarn and needles. But it is her work more than a hobby - she authors books and...
It is debatable whether you really need peat moss. Any hard plant material will produce humic and tannic acids as it decays. The advantage of peat...
While not having the supposed 'magical' properties of katappa, the good old magnolia leaf is very similar in size and hardness, and in my view...
I look forward to seeing this tank as it settles down. Looks very promising.
@Barend Labuschagne : Don't take it too personally. The experienced fish keepers have all managed to kill many fish during their fish keeping...
Sheesh, that's a lot of work. Agree with @MariaS that you shouldn't even contemplate moving a tank with water or rocks inside. Been there, done...
Thanks @dorff, makes sense. By compensating for higher pH, do you suggest I use a softening agent/buffer? Alkalinity and hardness are two...
Hi CJ, if it is any consolation at all, I have had great success with swords in one tank, and then they simply refuse to flourish in another tank,...
That was 25 years ago ;-). I would love to go back with a different mindset, and an underwater camera. At this stage, it is a bit of a stretch,...
They were admiring Samantha Flying Fox's pectoral fins.
Looks much better now. There are no aquatic plants to speak of in Lake Malawi (I have been there). So the fish are totally indifferent to plants...
"Bumblebee gobies will also adapt to brackish water very readily, a specific gravity of around 1.005 being adequate for keeping these fish...
Oy, those are nice fish. You have something special that very few of us can put together, in terms of time, cost, space and dedication.
Let's do the calc: Sea water is 3.5% salt (35 g/L) give or take. So at 100% of sea water, your 60 L aquarium would use 2.1 kg, or exactly one...
Make up with your girlfriend - problem solved.
It is better to avoid hybrids if you can. So either prevent them from breeding (which they tend to automatically do if they are more or less well...
Seed shrimp found their way into my shrimp tank, too. It is amazing how active they are. They infest the buckets with green water that I keep...
My understanding is that you can trade RCS, including on TASA, but not import. However, the same is NOT true for freshwater crayfish or lobsters,...
There are cheaper snails to feed to loaches.
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