Please check my fish combination/setup.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

I was there the other week as well....I seen them for $10.99 or 9.99ea. with qty discount.

[rad-man]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

i went today, and they didnt have any CPDs. one fool said they haven't had them for months  

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

Ask the old guy with long white hair.

[screename]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

There were some in the shrimp and small fish section....not many, but they were there.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

Hows your HC doing?

[rad-man]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

its bad. I'm thinking about taking it out and growing it in a  seperate tank for a while. I know i've heard of someone doing it in a shallow plastic container, but I can't find the thread. Anyone have it bookmarked?

i found this....

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/general-planted-tank-discussion/52332-new-method-start-up-algae-free.html

I think the combination of my 2 bolivian rams, roseline shark, and amano shrimp ripping it up along with the lack of proper lighting is really hurting it.
So if i can get it going with shoplights about 6-10" above, i'd be able to drop in a full carpet. *shrug*

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

Tom talks about growing it in the tank it's gonna be in and then just fill the tank with the rest of the water.....
What you describe sounds like trying to grow an emersed culture.

[rad-man]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

my HC is already in submerged form. I dont want to go back to emerge.

I'm thinking of setting up more favorable HC conditions in a fishless container. I have a bag of flourite that i never used in my tank. So maybe that in a simple plastic storage container (they have some really shallow ones that are supposed to fit under the bed) with a powerhead for water movement. 90w shoplights will be no more than 6 inches above the HC as opposed to the 24" now in the tank.

I'd just set up a timer and dose with excel. Maybe even some yeast Co2.

let it grow for a couple weeks, and then replant it in the tank.

Not sure yet.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

But then it would still need to be planted little by little again or do you plan on burying the whole container in your tank? and then wouldn't it not die off again from lack of lighting?

[rad-man]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

lol, dont you sleep?

As it is, i'm paying 18$ for 3 pots at FG.
yea, if i can get my own little stash growing nicely, i'd replant it in the tank. Hopefully in the time it would take to grow it, i'll get some lights. And by having soooo much in my "stash" the rams and shrimp could eat all they wanted to.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

Not at night.

I don't think your rams and shrimp are eating it till it dies but I get what you are planning to do. You could try floating it cause that worked for me when I wasn't ready to plant my HC.

[rad-man]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

hmm.... floating it. closer to the light.... already has co2 in the tank..... no need to setup a whole new environment.... hmmmmmmmmm

[screename]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

I second floating it.  No need to go through all that trouble.  Ive grown HC floating and its pretty easy given the right parameters.  HC LOVES CO2 and high light.  If you can figure those two out, youre set.  

Some of us never sleep  

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

I think the main thing that helps HC is the high co2....then the super high light is needed to keep it hugging the ground, basically with any plant really but more so with HC/Foreground plants.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Please check my fish combination/setup.

So how is your $100 patch of HC doing?