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Maybe the trick is having the plant in the tank undisturbed long enough for it to grow a good root system? My anubias plant took more than a month to grow its first new leaf (despite the CO2 injector) and I was starting to think it wasn't growing at all until I decided to move it to a different spot...

Thank you both! I will have to proceed with caution with the java moss, then, and wait a bit on the java fern. Attaching to glass, gravel, rocks, wood, even other plants that moss sounds like really "easy" or "difficult" stuff, depending on whether you're trying to grow it or get rid of it. :P I mig...

Thanks for the tip on anchoring leaves under a rock. There's a sizable dead/detached wisteria leaf I've left in my tank the last few days rather than removing it, hoping maybe the shrimp would like it, but they haven't touched it yet (that I've seen). It's wedged into one of my decorations in a stra...

Thanks for the tip Starsplitter - the vegetables sound like a fun idea to try!

Thanks Jim, I'll have to pick up some algae wafers next time I'm by the pet store. Also I tried your flashlight-at-night strategy with pretty good success, finding 4 of them wandering around.

Thanks for the complements Starsplitter, and np on the sidetracking! Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's met in the petstore parking lot, lol - sounds like your weather was a lot better though. :) Thanks for the tip on finding them, Jim. Hopefully every few weeks I can try to find all 5 at once ...

A couple days ago Jim and I met at PetSmart in Bloomington, Indiana, and as Keith also discovered Jim is indeed as nice in person as he is online. It felt a bit like we were doing something shady, with a dark car at the back of the sparse lot under a light pole, but that just added to the atmosphere...