About 10-15 years ago I bought a LaMotte DPD Free, Total & Combined Chlorine Kit (Model 3308-01) kit and it has been great. It has come time to replace it and I was wondering if there is anything better on the market or if the little test dip sticks are now the standard.
My water sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides) fails to produce long stems and breaks up into floating plantlets. I use ferts including CSM + B but I don't know why the water sprite fails to grow properly. I know that Fulton County has soft water and would like to know if addition of Calcium and Magnesium would help. I have not done that bc I have no data to support that idea. Can someone who has strong growth of water sprite help me understand if or whether this problem has a solution?
My neon tetras have recently spawned a couple times so I've been watching them closely to collect eggs. While watching, I noticed I have baby Siamese Algae Eaters in my tank! I adopted a group of 7 SAE during COVID - in 2020 and have never seen anything that suggested breeding behavior before. I didn't think it was even possible in a home aquarium.
Anyone have tips?
Part of me wants to move them to a baby tank but on the other hand - they are growing in a community tank on their own so I think I should leave them where they are. The tank is heavily planted so it may prove to catch them anyway.
As far as breeding SAE's goes, it's never been truly done in intentionally, but every now and then a rare accidental occurrence has been stated in home aquaria, props to you for doing who-knows-what to manage a captive spawn without even knowing you did who-knows-what correctly!
Since very little is known about raising SAE in home aquaria, I'd suggest leaving them in there as long as there aren't any predatory fish or aggressive cichlids since the presence of biofilm and algae from the established birth tank would most likely be best for them to graze upon.
I want to take pictures of fish and the egg development cycle of my fish that breed. Anyone have recommendations on macro lense or adapters for my phone or PC?
TIA!!
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I had the exact same issue in my 8gal nano cube. No matter how many times I replanted it, my water sprite would just break up into little floating plantlets. I then set up a 13gal long tank with approximately the same water parameters and substrate etc and transferred some of the plantlets to it and planted them and they took off. I now have a good number of large healthy rooted water sprite plants in that tank while it still refuses to grow in the 8gal. The only difference I can think of is that the 13gal is shallower so more light reaches the substrate and maybe that's what the plantlets needed to grow into full plants.