Dear Garthoman
Garden soil is rich in carbon content, in Diana Walstad type tanks it provides plants it source of carbon and not oxygen.
Lateraite is used in planted tanks to provide iron to plants in a form that plants can easily absorb.
(Our holy father)
Take us from Untruth to Truth
from Darkness to Light
from Mortality to Eternity.
P.S. This is translation word by word, for actual meaning books could be written on it.
In short words you might think this life of ours is full of Falseness, Darkness (of ignorance) and all type of pains. We pray to our holy father to take us away from such life and provide us sort of moksha or in your words behest garothmaan.
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I have both the snails and I can send you the same if you want them for the bowl.
If you want to add the Zebra one, you'll need to maintain a little higher pH and hardness but no such probs with the MTS. Both are very efficient scavengers and Algae Eaters ( MTS is a better scavenger and the Zebra is a great algae cleaner)
Please let me know if you'd like to have them and I'll courier them to you. Otherwise your bowl looks truly awesome ! Just try your best to keep the population in check by removing any babies that the livebearers produce. It will also be ok to keep the same sexes only (preferably males as they're more beautiful) - but if you have rescued these fish or if you're attached to them, then it will be great to keep them in this beautiful home itself.
Anyways, again great looking bowl and looks like a cute-little, balanced habitat to me. Thanks again for sharing the pics...
I guess your fish are in a much-much better place than the filthy-dirty-uncared tanks & fish bags (in which the Fighters are kept for days and months) of most LFS's and Breeders here I really apprecite and congratulate you for that (honestly)
Guys if you all REALLY-REALLY do care for the fishes and dont just mean to rebuke a single person, and if you really want to make a change - then please focus on improving the conditions is such shops - I guess it will benefit a huge population of poorly kept, dieing fish rather than just 4 livebearers in a bowl ( just IMHO )
Take care everyone and have a wonderful week ahead !
Keep smiling brothers !
Regards and Care to all,
Kush
p.s
Hey Garoth,
If I may say / suggest this (please dont think that I'm criticizing you - just trying to help) the Substrate (laterite or anything for that matter) does not help in providing Oxygen to the Water but neither do the Aeriators do it directly (like someone had mentioned in a post of his, in this thread) I'm really not trying to say that what you know is wrong but maybe someone gave you a wrong information or maybe you misunderstood what you've read somewhere. I guess it happens to all of us but only a few have the courage to accept it - and I know you do have it. Please do take it in the right spirit, Friend :)
The only way dissolved oxygen gets added to the water is thru either the Actively Photosynthezing plants (byproduct of photosynthesis) or by the surface disturbance of the water (where gaseous exchange takes place - one can say that the water body is literally breathing from there - by 'taking in' oxygen and giving out all other unwanted gases)
Many people think that the aeriators / airstones are directly adding 'dissolved' oxygen to the water, while what they're really doing is just taking the bottom layers of 'low-oxygen' containing water to the surface (with the help of the rising bubbles) where gaseous exchange takes place as I mentioned before.
For aeriating (providing dissolved oxygen) to your bowl, I would suggest that you either get a cheap air-pump and connect it to a small, in-expensive airstone (hide it effectively behind a small rock, so that it doesnt spoil the naural look of your beautiful bowl) and keep the flow to the minimum possible (heavy air-flow thru the airstone would really cause too much water turbulance inside a bowl) or otherwise if you have a very small fan, you can set it up such that it blows over the surface, causing a mild disturbance of the water surface... Just take care that it doesnt lower the water temps too much.
I really hope all this made sense and that you will kindly take it in the right spirit, as a caring, friendly advice rather than criticism... I really dont mean to show or express that I know it all ( actually I dont ) - I guess noone is born with knowledge, we just learn everyday as we progress thur our lives... Take care, Friend :)
Friends, please correct me if I've said anything wrong or untrue, and I will correct myself
If I may say / suggest this (please dont think that I'm criticizing you - just trying to help) the Substrate (laterite or anything for that matter) does not help in providing Oxygen to the Water but neither do the Aeriators do it directly (like someone had mentioned in a post of his, in this thread) I'm really not trying to say that what you know is wrong but maybe someone gave you a wrong information or maybe you misunderstood what you've read somewhere. I guess it happens to all of us but only a few have the courage to accept it - and I know you do have it.
Maaan we all learn from our mistakes.... BUT YOU NEED SOMEONE TO MAKE MISTAKES FOR YOU...DONT YOU?
The only way dissolved oxygen gets added to the water is thru either the Actively Photosynthezing plants (byproduct of photosynthesis) or by the surface disturbance of the water (where gaseous exchange takes place - one can say that the water body is literally breathing from there - by 'taking in' oxygen and giving out all other unwanted gases)
Many people think that the aeriators / airstones are directly adding 'dissolved' oxygen to the water, while what they're really doing is just taking the bottom layers of 'low-oxygen' containing water to the surface (with the help of the rising bubbles) where gaseous exchange takes place as I mentioned before.
For aeriating (providing dissolved oxygen) to your bowl, I would suggest that you either get a cheap air-pump and connect it to a small, in-expensive airstone (hide it effectively behind a small rock, so that it doesnt spoil the naural look of your beautiful bowl) and keep the flow to the minimum possible (heavy air-flow thru the airstone would really cause too much water turbulance inside a bowl) or otherwise if you have a very small fan, you can set it up such that it blows over the surface, causing a mild disturbance of the water surface... Just take care that it doesnt lower the water temps too much.
I really hope all this made sense and that you will kindly take it in the right spirit, as a caring, friendly advice rather than criticism... I really dont mean to show or express that I know it all ( actually I dont ) - I guess noone is born with knowledge, we just learn everyday as we progress thur our lives... Take care, Friend :)
Friends, please correct me if I've said anything wrong or untrue, and I will correct myself
My Wndow breeze does that ... and I have mentioned it on this post
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:43 am Post subject: Re: The Magic Bowl
man this has to be the most famous bowl on iah or for that matter any fish forum...it has 6 pages dedicated to it!!!!and i actually went through all 6 of them
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I really apprecite and congratulate you for that (honestly)
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, if you can see... plants are growing too...but leaves are crispy..
using the watering rose is the perfect tool for sober raining... 
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