Anubias nana – ‘Snow White’ I was looking for an epiphyte to grow on the large sculpture in the aquarium which has lots of nooks and crannies that could be colonised. Such a plant has to be small and stay small. Narrowed down to either anubias or bucephalandra, one of the smallest is anubias “snow […]
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Today I gave the ludwigia palustris its first trim. A couple of the stems were just under the surface so I clipped off the three tallest. This ludwigia, in contrast to some reports, doesn’t have very many aerial roots but where there were a few part-way down the stem, I trimmed to just above the […]
Read more →Now that the plant is settled in and well-established (19-Dec-2020) it’s at 17 cm and while the tops are still attractive, it has an exposed bare understory layer with plentiful “aerial” roots – at least that’s what they’d be called if the plant weren’t underwater – that are somewhat unsightly. I’m not sure what to […]
Read more →It’s challenging with a small tank getting the CO2 flow to be both low and stable. I use 600g disposable CO2 cylinders with a single stage regulator that is ok, but not very useful for fine control. There are several downstream valves that further reduce the gas flow. The CO2 over the last month or […]
Read more →The Kessil LED light and LED lights that come as “point sources” rather than as strips of lights can have a feature called “shimmer” which is where they make ripples of light on the bottom of the tank. I’ve never really observed that with my set-up in the past, attributing that to not having the […]
Read more →The configurable menus in WordPress have a checkbox labelled “automatically add new top-level pages to this menu” where if checked every time you make a new page it gets added to the menu. That might be good for drop-down menus but otherwise very rapidly clutters up the page. By default themes come with a ‘Primary […]
Read more →As reported in the Guardian “Going for gold(fish)” the pandemic with associated lockdowns and work-from-homes has led to a upsurge in popularity for aquariums at home. Something nice to watch from the side while on those conference calls. This is good news, but problematic in some ways as the investment in time and maintenance is […]
Read more →About every three weeks or so I have to give the algae a good scrapedown with a credit card blank. It involves getting essentially my whole arm into the tank with some complicated manoevering to get through the narrow access at the top of the aquarium. It takes a pretty good hour to get things […]
Read more →We put the clocks back to British Standard Time last weekend, but I haven’t yet reset the timers on the lighting and CO2 for the aquarium. I have been limiting the time on for the lights to 6 hours per day to combat green spot algae which means it’s tricky to actually get to see […]
Read more →Sorting through BoldGrid Ok… so finally I decide to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS on how to actually use the BoldGrid software that comes with the WordPress installation on the DreamHost hosting site. This after some frustration with things like “what do all these on/off flashing symbols mean?” and “isn’t there an easy way to just make […]
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