Aquarium rant: if you have a home aquarium slightly smaller in size than the reflecting pool’s 6.8 million gallons, plecos are a terrible choice for algae control. They get way too big and introduce way too much ammonia. Snails and neocardinia shrimp are a much better choice and can actually live off algae and crud on the bottom to a large extent.
Has there ever been a push to make the reflecting pool more natural and self regulating? It would look pretty cool with some water lilies and koi. You can even get lilies in red, white, and blue. Or use a native alternative if that's more appropriate.
Probably not, because it does get pretty cold and snowy in the winter at times, which would kill the ecosystem, and there’s a lot of ecosystem that would need to go in that reflecting pool
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 67d
Aquarium rant: if you have a home aquarium slightly smaller in size than the reflecting pool’s 6.8 million gallons, plecos are a terrible choice for algae control. They get way too big and introduce way too much ammonia. Snails and neocardinia shrimp are a much better choice and can actually live off algae and crud on the bottom to a large extent.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 31 pts · 67d
Terrarium rant: if you have a home terrarium it is not the same thing as an aquarium and no, do not put fish in it.
They will die.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 67d
I’m helping them evolve!
jimmux@programming.dev · 8 pts · 67d
Has there ever been a push to make the reflecting pool more natural and self regulating? It would look pretty cool with some water lilies and koi. You can even get lilies in red, white, and blue. Or use a native alternative if that's more appropriate.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 66d
Wouldn't be much of a reflecting pool if it's covered in lilies.
And just to be clear, I'd much prefer it being covered in lilies.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 67d
Probably not, because it does get pretty cold and snowy in the winter at times, which would kill the ecosystem, and there’s a lot of ecosystem that would need to go in that reflecting pool
FishFace@piefed.social · 2 pts · 66d
Clown plecs don't grow big - three inches or so. And they do keep algae down, though so does a scraper on a stick
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 67d
Why, you gotta thing for working for people who dont pay when the job is done?
Oh. And he rapes kids.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 66d
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 67d
He doesn't suck enough to get hired by our current government
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 67d
The ecosystem is already full of bottom dwelling scum suckers.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 66d
Especially in DC
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 66d
True.
Also, I forgot to add: no offense to the entire family Hypostomus. They actually clean up the swamp.
Jessicat@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 67d
How do the feel about hydrogen peroxide?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 67d
They always wanted to be blonde
Jessicat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 67d
That sounds like a solid win then!