Gar tank.

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MonsterMinis;5132626; said:
In everytank but my gar tank it grows like a proverbial weed. I originally got some for my planted tank and had it under twin T5's with 10k bulbs... I could barely keep it under control. I spread it out into a few of my other tanks with standard t8's and daylight bulbs. and it still grows well.

atm I just have glass tops on the gar tank, no lighting. and it neither dies 'nore grows really. But the gar seem to enjoy it. It just floats around and I've found left in a low-current area with enough light it forms a sort of floating matt.

alot less messy ime then hornwort and the other usual plants people use for free-floating. It will still clog an uptake tube if it gets the chance lol. It tends to congrigate around my sponge covered uptakes and is easy to brush off though.

and I have yet to find a fresh-water perameter it doesn't do well in. Our tanks at work are often over-run with it. from african set-ups to community type.

not sure how good a nitrate sucker it is but I rarely have nitrate issues even when I miss a minor WC here 'n there.
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awesome, great to know and thanks for that info! i have a bunch of it in one tank now, but will likely spread it around to various tanks and see how it does. all CBG tanks now have aragonite via that African Cichlid "Arag-alive" stuff you can buy, so it will be interesting to see how it does in the various tank setups. and i know what you mean about hornwort...had a massive amount of that die off randomly and i was cleaning it up for weeks!!!--
--solomon
 
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Just added my 2 M. Dayii spineys that we had gotten as lil' 4" a few monthes back... miss the fire eels.. but these guys are proveing to be almost as fun. and they're patterning is pretty unique. I do have a local LFS looking for a SAL for me but it's liekly to be a baby that will def need some grow-out time. So these guys get to be the new buddies. a Photographer I am not.. so gonan try and get ome better pics w/ better light soon. btw the cuban is in the top right .. as you can see he has packed on some girth and length and is doing excellent.

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hoffers, aquatics nevers keeps in touch when I try and get something in particular from them. I just stop in now and then to see what they have. I also check around some of the other smaller stores around here. but it's always a hit or miss. Otherwise I'll end up going north to the same store I got my fires from. But it's a good hour drive.

Thanks Sol. Hes doing great and hopefully I'll be able to get some more gar from you in the future! I've been put on lock-down from buying any new fish until next summer at earliest. :cry:
 
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