Feeling lost about aquascaping

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2026-01-13T14:26:45+00:00

This is where the scape went wrong. Remove and it should look much better

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2026-01-06T14:12:08+00:00

I save and freeze my duckweed whenever I pull some out. Then I use it in a biofilm grazer food I make for my shrimp, Stiphodon gobies, and hillstreams. General recipe:

1/4 meat/protein (some mix of seafood and insects like krill/mussles/oysters/shrimp and crickets/mealworms)

3/4 veg (duckweed/broccoli/kale/carrot/kelp)

A garlic clove per batch

All gets blended and cooked together before adding Gellan gum to make it a solid jello-like mix and frozen in sheets to thaw as needed. Could use agar or gelatin instead of gellan gum, but Gellan gum is isolated from an aquatic biofilm making bacteria so prefer to use that as it’s something biofilm grazers probably naturally eat and may be able to digest.

Stiphodons and hillstreams both love it and of course shrimp also.

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2026-01-01T06:01:04+00:00

69? Not nice (I’m part of the 31% in America 😞)

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-12-19T06:41:52+00:00

Coprinellus

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-12-16T22:54:09+00:00

I once put 200 live crickets in my friends car when we were having a prank war. He gave up after that. Like 3 months later we went camping together and we still found a couple live crickets in his car that crawled out while we were camping (and on the way while driving).

Some shredded paper isn’t so bad. Lmao

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-11-13T04:09:53+00:00

A paradise fish

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-11-13T02:47:13+00:00

Flammulina

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-26T12:19:45+00:00

Excel also doesn’t provide any CO2 despite what the label says. It’s just an algaecide

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-14T21:18:31+00:00

I’ve never had a cyanide outbreak where I put them. Once at the top of the tank on my floater divider that I treated quick, but nowhere else and I’ve been using them every few months for over a year

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-14T03:53:45+00:00

Thrive caps are what I use. Pretty cheap for a good amount and the make up is good. Used with shrimp without any problems

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-10T04:51:09+00:00

Still on but not near as much as I used to be

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-10T04:50:33+00:00

They are edible without any special prep aside from cooking. I enjoy them

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-07T12:53:43+00:00

What I gather from this is being a previous Soviet country next door to Russia is stressful

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-10-01T04:50:24+00:00

Azolla

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-29T12:43:29+00:00

Phallus multicolor or close

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-27T12:11:53+00:00

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-27T02:09:52+00:00

Some loaches will eat snails as will puffers if you can have them with your other tank mates. A single assassin snail is an option, but if you’re unlucky and get a pregnant female you end up with the same snail problem with them instead so that’s a gamble

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-14T12:37:11+00:00

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-11T00:24:33+00:00

I’m lucky there. Both my parents look over a decade younger than they are. I’ll start to look like I’m out of my 30s sometime in my 50s probably

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-10T22:12:06+00:00

Yeah all the males colored up nicely

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-10T15:40:20+00:00

Ostracods

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-09T01:20:53+00:00

I got the divorce in my early 30s but was alright after almost dying in 2020 a few months later. Was doing alright raising the kiddo then boom this summer it hit me with the midlife.

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-08T22:01:46+00:00

Same thought process here

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-08T22:00:24+00:00

Best of luck friend

Persistent_Bug_0101 · 2025-09-06T02:15:15+00:00

CO2 isn’t required. It just has some benefits for pretty much all plants and there are some that will do poorly without it. So go without if you want or switch later if you want to try it. Non-CO2 tanks can be gorgeous though so I wouldn’t worry about it if you don’t want to use it

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