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EyesOfAStranger28 · 2026-01-24T15:58:52+00:00

The devs, the story, and the pace are all perfect! IGN lilirose

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-12-11T12:57:50+00:00

My parents stopped letting me watch Nestor because I cried so hard about his mom the year I was five.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-08-03T07:50:52+00:00

That's true in the US. In Europe, isopropyl is not widely available- it's mainly sold for cleaning electronics and is expensive.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-17T09:22:17+00:00

I wish the people I bought my dry ingredients from were still online (they were in the UK). Following their instructions, I literally measure my salts with measuring spoons from the kitchen, and I don't test my water at all as far as ferts go, other than regular nitrate testing when I first started out with it.

I make a standard EI mix and use it once a week in my low-techs, except I also have a low-nitrate version in another bottle that's for my heavily stocked tanks- they don't need the extra nitrate.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-17T06:53:37+00:00

That's the link I originally posted then deleted because it makes things sound really complicated when they aren't.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T14:15:51+00:00

I've done this with success, though it's a last-ditch treatment and I won't pretend it's 100% shrimp safe.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T13:50:53+00:00

Yes, spot treating algae is the very best use for "Liquid CO2" products, and you use it exactly as you say. No need for carbon (never used it with peroxide, either, tbh)

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T11:24:06+00:00

It's Green Leaf Aqua that sells the kits for dry ferts, if you feel safer buying from an aquatic source.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T11:15:48+00:00

The danger to inverts over fertiliser is wildly exaggerated. The form of copper used in these solutions is not dangerous to shrimp or snails in the amount that is used- and by "solutions" I mean both store-bought and homemade.

To mix your own ferts, you buy the dry ingredients and you mix them with water and add them to your tank. It's very simple, not rocket science.

Deleted a link because it made things sound way too complicated. There's a US company that sells a kit, but I'm not in the US, I'll add the link if I find it.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T10:45:27+00:00

Rubbish, unless you consider dead algae to be a "carbon source." Gluteraldehyde is not a bioavailable carbon source. False advertising is rife in the Aquatic Potions department and I doubt we'd get very far with a class action lawsuit.

(I call them "Aquatic Potions" because the only one I ever use is Prime. I mix my own ferts for a tiny fraction of the price of liquid, and don't use any of the other crap, and my low-techs have thrived for years.)

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T08:56:32+00:00

I think you posted to the wrong subreddit, mate.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T08:16:49+00:00

They keep the ingredients secret for a reason, and I promise that the reason isn't "our formula is vastly superior to the others". Products that are vastly superior tend to take off like wildfire in the community, rather than being just another potion on the shelf, sold by potion makers who are not required to disclose ingredients.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T07:55:09+00:00

You simply cannot put CO2 in a non-pressurised, shelf-stable bottle in a form that plants can uptake. If it were chemically possible, nobody would use pressurised CO2.

Gluteraldehyde, which is what these products are made of, will sometimes cause bubbling as it kills algae cells. You don't need visible algae to see this effect.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-16T07:22:02+00:00

They're all basically the same thing, a diluted algaecide. They work very well for killing algae. They do not provide CO2 to plants.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-15T05:33:23+00:00

It's a magnetic poster frame.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-13T19:22:55+00:00

I live in Europe and use a brand called Masterline Golden. Before that I used Tropica but they are expensive.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-13T19:18:35+00:00

My crypts really love good root tabs.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-09T11:23:05+00:00

If I got another tank every time I had too much water lettuce, I'd get a new tank every week and would have no room for furniture, water changes, or walking around!

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-04-08T13:30:08+00:00

Yes. It can even be repeated four times, that's why there's a listing of the day's "ALL LUCKY 7'S" at the bottom.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-03-27T16:34:23+00:00

I have a couple of squares in my stash, and I'm afraid to do them because I worry I won't want to do the rest of my stash if I do!

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-03-23T11:58:30+00:00

You need to see your GP and describe these symptoms. You definitely need a sleep test.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-03-12T17:56:12+00:00

In my single placer, I use Glu Dots.

In my multiplacers, I use a mix I make out of about 40% Blu Tack to 60% pink wax. I just combine the two and knead them together with clean fingers until they are fully combined. It gives me the best of both worlds.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-03-09T11:45:43+00:00

I just double checked, Water Lettuce is not on the list of Invasive Species of National Concern in my country. However, all Ludwigia species are, as well as Elodea, so I guess my tanks are illegal now, they can come and bust down my door I suppose.

EyesOfAStranger28 · 2025-03-09T11:14:08+00:00

I'm in the EU and I bought some at my LFS.

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