Aquariums

> > > The percentage of reef areas experiencing bleaching-level heat stress is increasing by about 1% a week, scientists say > >

I thought this would be of interest to the coral-lovers among us. Ethical reef-keeping could help mitigate the extinction of some species (but is unlikely to prevent all extinctions).

I've been growing some plants emersed, particularly Java ferns. I'm wondering if any of you have tried this and what fertilizers you've found to work the best. I've been using MiracleGro 24-8-16, but I'm not sure if that's the best formula.

This guy was one of 6 bay nettles I kept in a home jellyfish aquarium for around a year

cross-posted from lemmy.world/c/jellyfish: https://lemmy.world/post/191630

Idea for off-shoot magazine (? is that what "subreddits" are called here? Haha) I had:

A space for people to create blogs for their aquariums. I'm in the UK and we have UKAPS as a great forum for people with planted tanks, but I get a bit intimidated by it as they're all generally stunning and healthy in a way that I can never seem to manage. We used to have Practical Fishkeeping forums as a spin off from the (actual, real world) magazine of the same name, and I used to love having a thread on there to update all my rescapes and new stock updates and just share current pictures etc. It was also one of my favourite Sunday morning activities to catch up on all the other blogs people had posted and it was lovely getting to know everyone's tanks and fish and all that community stuff. Anyway, Practical Fishkeeping closed down their forums and now the community is on Facebook, which is fine, but you can't really keep a blog on a Facebook group.

Sorry, a long rambling post, I know. I just miss having a space for blogs to read and write in, so wondered if this could be a new place to start something like that. With a small community it would be easier to really get to know people and follow their journeys, of course it might be too small right now, but just wanted to share some thoughts...

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Hey everyone, I added some badges, which are the Kbin version of Reddit's post flairs. Please use them as appropriate, and suggest any others that you feel would be useful to include.

I have, for lack of a better term, a duckweed infestation. I've been scooping out some of it every day, but it's tedious and seemingly ineffective, as it multiplies every night.

I am running a 40 breeder with medium light and CO2. I'd love to get rid of most of the duckweed (all of it?) so that more light can reach the bottom of the tank, if possible.