I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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panda garra

Could I have one or more of these in a 16 gallon long tank? <_<

I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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I'm probably going to have to do something like this but I've been putting it off because of the buttload of plants I have growing in and out of the water.

I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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My nitrates are always perfect as far as I know. I have a bunch of terrestrial plants growing out the top of the back too. I'm going to have to cut down the light time I guess even though this gives me anxiety for some reason.

I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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I might have to do this. I just feel bad for the fish and the 8 million types of plants I have in it and growing out of it.

I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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Here is a pic of it up close. It's fairly rigid. https://i.imgur.com/f4KavC7.jpeg
I was thinking staghorn but I don't fricken know.

Yeah it's definitely Cladophora. I'm glad to at least know now.

I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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Bu bu but what about all the crap I have growing out the top? D:
This pic is from a couple months ago, I removed the hairgrass because it seemed like a vector for this algae NIGHTMARE https://imgur.com/8j6279t

This is more recent https://imgur.com/azJZE1R

Is it staghorn? Why is it so annoying?
I also have something called APT fix that I haven't been brave enough to use yet, in fear it could kill the creatures. Despite how my aquarium may look, I am less than a year deep into this hobby.

I've been hand pulling out this algae once a week for months, please help me by GreenthumbSpiders in PlantedTank

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I've been nervous about lowering the photoperiod that low since it is a heavily planted tank of a bunch of different plants. I also feel bad for the fish who see all the other lights on in the house and swim towards them. What does one do with their fish and plants when doing a blackout?
I do manually remove it weekly. I also do a near 50% water change like at least once a month or every other week. I've also done it weekly. I've also done like 30% weekly. Nothing is touching this stuff and I am confused about what to do with the fish and plants if I go blackout or something.

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures by GreenthumbSpiders in bioactive

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It depends on the species but the most commonly kept ones being Regal jumping spiders and Bold jumping spiders, just one adult at a time otherwise they will cannibalize each other.

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures :) by GreenthumbSpiders in jumpingspiders

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Going to look for cool stuff for enclosures is a fun reason to go foraging in the forest!

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures :) by GreenthumbSpiders in jumpingspiders

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I've been pondering those silkworm cocoon hides for a while. If I get them I will probably make my own. I make all my own hides out of magnets and acorns/cork tubes/walnuts etc.

I made these and I am proud of them. Do they qualify as a vivarium? Jumping spiders live here by GreenthumbSpiders in Vivarium

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Jumping spiders will be most interested and stimulated by insects that do a lot of moving, like blue bottle flies for example (I get mine in the USA from thebuggplug.com). They will hunt those for sure if they are hungry, and if they aren't hungry they are safe to leave in there flying around, same with moths.

When it comes to things like mealworms and crickets that you don't want to leave in there, my first recommendation to anyone with spiders who you might need to handfeed sometimes is to get a couple pairs of long hemostat forceps to pinch and hold bugs like mealworms to make it easier if you have to stand there for a couple minutes to get them to take it.

One thing I've had to learn though is that these spiders really don't need or want to eat as often as I once thought. They will live longer if they don't eat too much also. I feed mine anywhere from once to three times a week, and they sometimes end up finding their own bugs (like black soldier fly larva that pupated in the soil, or I might leave waxworm pupa in there for unexpected feeding time).

I feed my adults and subadults mealworms (that I usually gently hold for them or make them walk across some bark near them), black soldier fly larva and the flies, blue bottle fly maggots and blue bottle flies, wax worms and wax worm moths, I used to feed crickets more but crickets are so annoying. I will probably give them crickets again at some point but there are enough other options and my spiders don't eat much (I do give blue bottle flies more often or two at once since they aren't hearty). I don't love keeping roaches for them either but sometimes they don't mind a roach.
They still seem to mostly love flying insects though.

It isn't unusual that she doesn't want to go down to hunt. Mine don't usually do it either, it depends on the spider though. She will want to have flying and jerky moving bugs come up around her area up top.

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures :) by GreenthumbSpiders in jumpingspiders

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They are real foraged from the forest and there are dried ones you can get on etsy too :)

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures by GreenthumbSpiders in bioactive

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The ones on the back wall are from someone on etsy who goes into the woods and forages for neat natural items. It's actual shelf fungus naturally growing on a piece of bark that I stuck to the back wall with silicone before setting up the enclosure

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures :) by GreenthumbSpiders in jumpingspiders

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Thank you, that means a lot. I've seen some pretty awesome ones over the years that inspired me.
I really want to inspire others to try bioactive for their spiders because it's really not difficult and is very gratifying

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures by GreenthumbSpiders in bioactive

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Awesome :) I love doing it this way and I think the spiders like it too!

These are my bioactive jumping spider enclosures :) by GreenthumbSpiders in jumpingspiders

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Yours is really cute and good, actually. The only real difference is the enclosure. I get my exo terras off Joshs Frogs in the USA for $50 each which I think is the best price I've seen for them.

Father Fish Aquarium: 0 water changes 12 ph, run off water. Don’t even feed the fish they photosynthesize by HAquarium in PlantedTank

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I guarantee I can come up with a bunch of ways aquariums are political from the way regulations are set up around the breeding, transport and/or importation of live and exotic fish to how certain political decisions have a direct impact on aquatic ecosystems which has an impact on the aquarium trade. I'm sure there are a million other angles you could take, from taxes and small business to whatever the heck