algae

I posted a while back looking for advice on building an automatically-irrigated raised bed system for my Sarracenias. After some great ideas from John B. on the ICPS forum (stock trough float valves!) and finding a YouTube video of a guy using a 12v demand pump, a car battery and a small solar...

I have a relatively new terrarium (about a month old) and after only a short while it seemed to filling up with some algae. are they harmful and how do i get rid of them?

Recently I purchased a tub of live sphagnum. I pulled out a few pieces to start a culture today. Then, I filled the containers the cultures would be in with dried sphagnum I had purchased and drenched in a container. However, when I dug through it to get the softer, wetter pieces from the...

Hey everyone! So there has been this question in my mind I'm wondering if anyone has tried. Using a phosphoric acid sanitizer in the water for the CPs? Like Star San by Five Star used for homebrewing. The CPs love acidic conditions right? So why would or could this be bad for preventing the...

anybody know of anything that can kill algae growing on soil surface without damaging drosera seedlings?

The Reef Aquarium Volume Three: Science, Art, and Technology by J. Charles Delbeek and Julian Sprung http://www.amazon.com/Reef-Aquarium-Vol-Science-Technology/dp/1883693144/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321167990&sr=1-2 what this book is not: it does not discus care for individual fish or...

Guess this is for those that are unsure just how dry Mexi. Pings can go without ill effects. Not the most pleasant photo to view, but what you are looking at is the following: P. esseriana sproutlets that fell out of a pot at some point, or maybe it was a leaf that broke off and dropped down.. I...

I'm trying to germinate some Nepenthes seeds. I used sphagnum moss as a medium and I basically put it along with the seeds on top of it in a food container. My problem is algae has grown on the moss and practically coated the whole surface after just a few weeks. How can I remove these things...

looking for stuff for a couple nano tanks, various polyp's like zoa's or different colored mushrooms, algae and open to suggestions.......have various CP's the cooler you have the more im willing to part with rarer stuff..... also looking for mantis shrimp....

This thread shall be dedicated to algae. I hope to compile all the data I can about algae including its many appearances,look spikes, cause and effects, preventions and cautions. Wikipedia Excerpt Algae are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from...

Back at the BACPS show and sale I remember seeing snowball shrimp suggested for helping keep algae off of utricularia roots when keeping utrics in the Geoff Wong-style display or elgecko pots. It got me to thinking: could I have a sustained population of neocaridina with U. gibba or would the...

OK, so I live in VA, so I have been keeping my plants outside. I had 2 VFT's, a Purple Pitcher, and a N. Miranda (under a fern so it was shaded during the hottest times of the day. Anyway, while I wasn't at home we had a large storm. When I inspected my plants (which were doing great up to this...

Hey folks, I know at least of few of you are into planted tanks. Hopefully I can get second+ opinions on the lighting for a tank I'm rebuilding for my fiance. Her 20gallon long is a bit overgrown and over populated. Luckily, I have some supplies stored here to do a relatively easy upgrade for...

I would like to know their names, and for those i've already know their names, i'm just checking if it was correct. Thanks! Here are some cactus. --------------------------------------- http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1A3A7ZkAcjw/TgRfqNDDdCI/AAAAAAAABr8/qjrsamJQPcQ/s1600/Cactus%2Ball.jpg...

I had lots of really nice home grown sphagnum but I moved it to my new HL chamber and now it's bleaching out. I was wondering if it would be OK to mix up a very light high nitrogen low phosphorus fertilizer and mist it on the moss to hopefully green it back up without encouraging algae. I've got...

I just dumped a pot because it got covered with a mix of mold and algae and some other green c@#&. It looked like this but 100x worse, with dark green dry patches and fluffy white mold everywhere: It was one of my first pots and I did not wash and microwave the peat : perlite mix that it...

I found the following pic, and shocked by the beautiful moss (previously I saw lots of pics showing such beautiful moss, but currently I just found this one). It's amazing! What's the secrete to grow such moss? I know high humidity, bright light are the necessary conditions. But in my case, with...

While I usually keep all my plants well separated and labeled, I'm contemplating dropping a few Drosera in my Heli terras. I'm thinking of dropping some in the pots of my Heliamphora..unless you guys think I should drop some sphag in the terra itself and drop them in that, or just in entirely...

Well I was in need of getting my mystery snails a good source of calcium and I ran across a technique on the applesnail.net forum for this DIY calcium brick / weekend feeder for snails (or fish) that anyone can do in a few minutes. So I played mad scientist tonight and took pics along the way...

I got a shipment of pink and purple mystery snails a while ago and they are growing great and eating like little vacuums but they are no longer pink & purple. More or less yellowish with a brown swirl, a rather common color scheme. Have any of you had these pinks and seen them change on you...