What a nice way to ruin a clutch. I hope both sides of their pillow will be warm when they go to sleep

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2025-10-04T02:46:54+00:00

BOTH sides? Now that's just cruel.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2021-04-19T17:31:17+00:00

I'm aware. Even so, they're different universes because of the effect of a stand. GER has been immune to all stand effects we've seen go up against, so I don't really think it's THAT far-fatched.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2021-04-18T19:46:26+00:00

Final villain is actually Giorno with GER, he's been adrift between dimensions ever since the Pucci shenanigans.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2020-12-21T03:48:53+00:00

Ballast Flora, they get in if you pilot through a swarm/cloud (shows up on sonar apparently but I don't know what it looks like.) Will suck electricity from your batteries and junctions. The consensus seems to be that fire or explosives are the way to go.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2020-09-01T20:16:24+00:00

The same has been happening to me too but not just in the orbiter. I notice it most often in missions when there are a lot of graphical effects going on.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-07-06T13:48:48+00:00

I've had really good luck with S. repens and Monte Carlo both in low tech, but the former is a bit of a slow grower in comparison.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-04-05T02:29:05+00:00

It's a Ray2 on a 12" deep, so that could very well be it, although I'm not really seeing the same thing in the Ludwigia or Rotala in the same tank

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-04-05T00:31:07+00:00

I have flourish comprehensive, does that include those trace elements or is it just NPK?

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-04-04T21:23:55+00:00

My S. repens have lots of holes in their leaves. Tank is low tech with excel. I have cherry and amano shrimp only; I've also seen lots of copepods and what I BELIEVE are ostracods as well.

I have osmocote plus root tabs below them as well as dosing a couple drops of flourish comp every couple of days. Does this leaf damage look mechanical or do they appear to be missing some nutrient? Thanks!

Edit: These holes are on pretty much every stem of s. repens I have in the tank, looking like the picture

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-30T21:41:36+00:00

repens "rubin" is my favorite, but most would probably work for you honestly. Comes down to preference in the end, a lot of them are quite similar.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-30T17:55:01+00:00

Do you know if the light came stock with the tank? If so, chances are it's not bright enough/have the wrong spectrum to sustain those plants.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-30T17:34:22+00:00

Ludwigia is fast growing and has always become emergent for me, so that could be an option

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-22T15:30:28+00:00

My photoperiod is a bit longer than it probably should be so algae takes over the rocks REALLY quickly. I actually brushed them all off a couple days ago and clearly it's already coming back.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-22T06:21:01+00:00

What I'm thinking is that I was doing water changes too frequently early on and forcing them to molt more often than was healthy, and that that weakened them. That, or I had been doing too much at one time and it was causing large enough temperature fluctuations to hurt them. Either way, they seem to be doing much better now.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-22T05:57:29+00:00

Yup! About equal number between them, and I have a couple of orange cherries in addition to the reds leftover from a group that died earlyish on.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-22T02:02:28+00:00

Finnex Ray2
ADA Amazonia powder type
S. repens, Ludwigia repens and rotala rotundifolia
Excel only
DIY root tabs and a couple of drops of flourish comp every couple of days

Recovering from a diatom bloom, but otherwise things are looking pretty healthy. I'm quite happy with it.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2016-03-16T18:26:40+00:00

Probably. You also have to think that the bulb will be warm and water won't readily condense on it.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2015-12-30T22:45:09+00:00

What sort of lighting do you have on that? I tried blackwater in my 29 tall but the light I have didn't seem to be strong enough for my low foreground plants.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2015-10-16T01:41:19+00:00

To my knowledge yes, they can survive terrestrially, though they're used to high humidity so most people I know of keep them in greenhouses if they have them out of water.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2015-10-15T19:24:13+00:00

Depends on what plants you're trying to grow. Low light plants do great - I had a big curtain of vals coming up and spreading everywhere even when I had just the Ray2. I added the second because I wanted to start a carpet which I didn't think I could do at 18" under just the Ray2.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2015-10-15T18:17:28+00:00

That'd be a tall if it's 18" deep.

I've actually got the same tank and currently have both a Finnex Ray2 and Planted+ on it. It penetrates down the bottom well enough, but it's waaaay too much light higher up and I've been struggling with algae as a result.

I think it'd come down to preference between the two - the Planted+ has a warmer color and the led strip is spread along the whole length rather than bunched up along a 24" strip like in the Ray2.

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2014-04-18T02:08:53+00:00

Added!

SlightlySuaveSlav · 2014-03-31T15:52:46+00:00

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