Page 95, In a sealed jar, A mouse dies from a lack of oxygen and a build up of CO2. In 1771 Joseph Priestley observed that by adding a sprig of mint, the...
my 3 bottles have been sealed for about a month now, and they've gone through considerably changes. the population's died down a lot, and i've noticed spots...
i took a peek at the bottles a few days ago...the ones closer to the plant lamp aren't doin so good. the ragu bottle died, but there's a healthy growth of...
I think your plan sounds very ambitious. I would love to hear how your progress is going... I am going to start my masters soon and will have even less time...
Rymel (and others), you might want to look into a book: Dynamic Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems by Walter H. Adey Some real interesting stuff in there....
... it is very ambitious, but i have crazy friends so it's doable :P i just started up school again this year too, so this will be done in my spare time. it's...
i'll have to check that book out, thanks! i'm honestly not sure if i'm gonna have salt or freshwater in that large sphere. it most likely will be fresh unless...
Years ago, a guy by the name of Sam Goemens (I've lost my bookmark) wrote quite a few articles about Natural Nitrate Reduction (NNR) for salt water aqariums....
Here is a link worth reading per the NNR discussion. http://mars.reefkeepers.net/USHomePage/USArticles/SandAndNNR.html NK [Non-text portions of this message...
Wow... Listen to you guys thinking all sorts of mechanical wonders for your projects... Eheheh... To keep my plants going I just blow a straw on the water......
... your ... water... The ... of ... low-tech! ... hrm, how come you're blowing into the water for plants? for the CO2? you could try those bulk feeder...
http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/livesandsetup/ This link is to a link page with a lot of info on NNR systems and includes links to Sam Gambles articles (14 in...
... I am not blowing CO2 into the containers regularly, I only did that once because the plants stopped 'bubbling' all of a sudden. I thought they were gone. ...
If you need to add CO2 (temporarly or long term) but don't want to add fish quite yet, try a cheap CO2 generator. The yeast fementation process results in...
Yesterday I decided to throw some shrimps on my container, but they didn't make it overnight... :((( Bwuaaaa... Snif. I wonder if they died because they ate...
you might not wanna do that as it's a little early to have a good bacterial buildup, unless they're not that big. even still i'd only leave like 1 or 2 to...
... LOL! That is just what I have. Or had. 2 Shrimps, only because they were $4 each, the guy at the fish store garanteed that it was the same shrimps they...
the guy at the fish store garanteed that it was the same shrimps they used on the 'biosphere' in San Francisco. I guess they were called japonica shrimps? What...
the guy at the fish store garanteed that it was the same shrimps they used on the 'biosphere' in San Francisco. I guess they were called japonica shrimps? What...
Just some more information on the Caridina japonica shrimp: http://aquaworld.netfirms.com/Invertebrates/Caridina/Caridina_japonica.htm My shrimp have shipped...
I am not sure, I didn't even know they had one going there. The guy from the fishstore said that they have one on the discovery center. I guess that is by the...
I couldn't find a website for it, but I'll ask the guy when I go there in a couple of weeks. It's been so long since I went to SF, the guy might as well had...
... oooh, you chose a good shrimp but bad for spheres. i was originally planning to use those til i found out just HOW WELL they clear a tank of algae. i...
I just noticed that behind some of the leaves of the plants there are some really thin white slimmy things that look like a little goo string. At first I...
... BTW: (assuming freshwater) round is likely ramshorn and the spiral are probably malaysian trumpet. Most snails are hermaphroditic. Actually i think all...
i got fry! i was right, the little fat sitter in my freshwater bottle WAS pregnant! but i only got to see 2 fry, 1 of which disappeared by the next day :(...
... really thin white ... was 'snail poo trail' but ... might be hydra. there was a thread just now on this in the aquaria list i'm on. white, sticking...
... I am really not sure, they are whitish and about 0.4 cm long, both ends look the same but it seems it moves mostly from the same end... ... Yes, the...
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