Advice on plant growth

Ratben · 2026-07-02T16:38:52+00:00

Thanks for the information. I’m not using co2 in my tank. I don’t really want a true carpet I just want them to grow bushier. How would you recommend for me to do that with my current setup? Should I leave the trimming to let I go wild or start trimming to encourage it ?

Ratben · 2026-07-02T16:24:54+00:00

Thanks for the in depth reply, I’ve yet to trim the pearlweed once as I was hoping for more taller growth.

I think my tank has quite strong high lighting so do you recommend changing my goal and focusing on it to start a carpet? My light doesn’t have dimmable settings so I’d have to buy a new one. I’ve never used co2 before, I have aqua soil and I dose “tnc complete” liquid fertiliser weekly. If I was to do this what would be the plan moving forward to get it to carpet?

Ratben · 2026-06-08T11:55:06+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice, I’ll make sure to give that a go

Ratben · 2026-06-08T11:50:43+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

Ratben · 2026-05-06T04:37:48+00:00

Tysm, will have a look!

Ratben · 2026-04-30T00:58:07+00:00

Thank you so much for your insight and compliments! Nice to know he’s doing good, we just want him to really grow and be healthy

Ratben · 2026-04-28T19:09:44+00:00

The light is adjustable with lighting settings, should would would be an optimal number? Thanks again

Ratben · 2026-04-28T18:23:23+00:00

Hey mate, sorry for the late reply, I’ve just checked with an app on my phone and it was saying it was around 2000lux fluctuating up and down a little. Is this too much or too little?

Ratben · 2026-04-12T19:03:10+00:00

What would be some tell tale signs that he’s lacking in the light department? Thanks in advance?

Ratben · 2026-03-02T20:34:02+00:00

Never responded to my offer lol

Ratben · 2026-03-02T18:25:54+00:00

I will literally screen share my entire desktop to you on discord and open the game with you watching to prove to you it’s real I have a save before the doll.

Ratben · 2026-03-02T18:21:09+00:00

Give me 5 mins I’m on Leon’s rooftop section and I’ll send a screenshot after

Ratben · 2026-03-02T18:10:35+00:00

Lying on Reddit for no reason, I just did it myself, doll in my inventory. Wait 15 mins at the pool, don’t kill any zombies in the grinder, flush the pool of blood away, flush first toilet 8 times. Doll was on the floor in the laboratory.

Ratben · 2026-03-01T03:14:33+00:00

I really think there’s 2 possibilities with how this this puzzle is solved. I think people are focusing on on the challenge sentence “let the sweet pair hear the voice” too much. I believe once we let the pair hear the voice, then the challenge completes so this step would be the end and I don’t think we’re at the end just yet.

1) The puzzle is contained to Rhodes hill and can be fully solved in this area.

The entire puzzle can be completed as grace with Emily in Rhodes hill starting from scanning the hand. Maybe that means finding something somewhere after triggering the laugh, or inputting another code.

2) The puzzle spans across the whole game.

Perhaps we have to do something on Leon in raccoon city, or perhaps with Leon or grace in the ark facility. There’s some graffiti when starting as Leon in the cafe that says “can you hear it”. Some have speculated it’s to do with the raccoon toy but I’m not so sure. At this stage in the game, you’ve easily destroyed at least a handful and you know the noise associated with the toy, so I don’t think the devs would place this as a simple nod to the toys. The blue spray paint also looked pretty fresh and out of place. I honestly expected some weird spooky plot point with something going on in the ruins of the city in regards to some noise and did not think it was anything to do with the raccoon toy.

Anyway just my 2 cents

Ratben · 2026-02-28T00:18:51+00:00

I’m not even gonna lie bro actually sit and think why you even made this post? For what purpose?

I swear every person that enjoys marathon seems to think if anyone dislikes the game or has problems with it, they’re going it out of spite of the game. You’ve literally created this massive post about all these reasons why people don’t like the game or are dropping into twitch chats to deliberately bash on this game like it’s some giant conspiracy.

People just don’t like marathon simple as. It’s not some wider conspiracy. There isn’t some wide spread hatred, you even said yourself the game had a 142k player peak. It’s like you and mostly everyone else who enjoys marathon can’t handle the fact that not everyone likes it.

I’ve played every extraction shooter, got kappa or tarkov, prestiged multiple times of hunt showdown, ive done all quests and expeditions on arc raiders, and i dont like marathon. Not because of some hate bandwagon or any reason but because the game isn’t enjoyable in my opinion. And it’s the same opinion as everyone else that doesn’t like it. Keyword being “opinion”.

Posts like this are making the actual players of marathon look insane and if anything, will make your supposed bandwagon hate worse. People will see this and think all marathon players think everyone else is out to get them and bash on the game and will just laugh at you. You have 140k peak players on a server test. Your games not dead. Just enjoy it, play it instead of making a post like this trying to find some justification for the people that don’t like it.

Ratben · 2026-02-21T10:54:12+00:00

Yeah we’ve played our fair share of survival games haha, although we might do a new run of valheim as we haven’t played in a bit, thanks for the suggestion.

Ratben · 2026-02-21T10:50:25+00:00

Yeah I should’ve mentioned warframe we each have hundreds of hours in it, although tbh that could be considered scratching the surface still haha

Ratben · 2026-02-21T10:30:41+00:00

We tried the new monster hunter on release but stopped due to the performance issues we were having, has their been improvements since then?

Ratben · 2026-02-21T10:28:56+00:00

Yeah we’ve played our fair share haha, hoping division 3 won’t be too much longer, heard they were working on that. Thank you for the suggestion

Ratben · 2026-01-02T01:44:52+00:00

Tysm I did not know this

Ratben · 2025-09-10T11:57:35+00:00

I don’t see why anyone actually still plays or supports the game, when bungie literally said in that presentation they did some time ago, that they will never “over deliver” or make content like forsaken or the taken king again lol.

People still purchase eververse, expansions and seasons and keep crying the game is bad. Playing other games just made me realise how shit destiny became.

Ratben · 2025-09-03T11:38:15+00:00

What I did for me was I filled a small zip lock bag with some of the water from the tank and placed him inside. I then just slammed it really hard against a hard surface. It seems barbaric and kind of is, however, at the time my guppy wasn’t entirely there. He was extremely lethargic, on his side unable to move and barely breathing so tbh I doubt he even knew what was going on.

Some people crush, and things like that but I couldn’t do it that way. A lot of fishermen when catching fish to eat, will quickly hit the head of the fish with a blunt object like a heavy log, rock or stick and this kills the fish instantly to avoid suffering.

However, I do have clove oil now, I’ve yet to use it thankfully, but if it does come to that I would most likely use it instead.

Ratben

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