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I suppose theoretically they should, yes, but of course you would probably need quite a heavily planted tank to see any noticeable difference.    You may be asking too much of your plants to reduce from 40 to 30mg/l. Also, the rate at which they use nutrients is also determined by other factors...

Some other members may have a fool-proof, 100% way of treating plants without chemicals, but, I can't think of anything that would absolutely guarantee a snail free zone. The eggs can be sticky and very small.   From ebay or from your local fish store there might always be a chance of...

If I may offer a more convoluted suggestion...   What if you got a 3 way connector and cut the hose to fit a second branch coming in from a pre filled container carrying the hot water and the water treatment stuff. It'll all mix inside the hose and come out into the tank de-chlorinated and a...

I'd stick to the tablets or try some Tapsafe from Interpet or Stress Coat from ATI..!

That was easy!   You don't have to wait at all, no. You can get plants in there right from the beginning. They don't need to be in pots. Most people place stem based plants straight into the substrate, sand, soil or gravel. There are many different types of plants available, some of which are...

It looks a wee bit like Hottonia palustris, but, I'm not convinced that's what it is...I'll keep looking! Ah, well done flutter, it does look awfully like a terrestrial fern plant. 

Most welcome. Definitely get live plants! Some of them are beautiful, they're very interesting to learn about and keep and also serve a very valuable function in the tank.    Good luck!

I think it would be preferable, although, it could depend on just how deep your tank is...    I'd personally go for 2, if finance allows, so that there's a nice even balance of light across the whole tank length. That would be even more important if you have live plants as well. If you placed a...

Some of the larger species of shrimp should be fine, Amano, Bamboo etc. Large enough ghost shrimp should be be alright, I would think.

It's never a guarantee but in general they should be fine. There's a chance that snails will eat slow moving shrimp, if they get the chance, but normally they'll leave each other to their own devices...except when the shrimp eat stuff off the snails from time to time!

Yeah, agreed, very likely. Can't remember the statistic but it's a huge percentage of females who are pregnant when purchased. If you have 5 females look out for lots of fry! :)

Amy, my intention wasn't to lecture you. It's difficult to gauge how much a person knows about fish keeping, cycling, fish types, etc after only a few posts. So please accept my apologies for appearing to give you a hard time. You will hap upon some very passionate people on this forum and we...

Hi, welcome to the forum, Candace!   While CPDs are gorgeous fish (I have 10) they are extremely timid and really need to be in groups of at least 6 to have any sort of chance of being settled. They like lots of hidey places, too, like the shade under plant leaves. 

Same response from me - some good quality sponges in place of the carts!

I know what you mean...   There's probably a much better, tried and tested way of doing this, but, all I do is feed flakes (or whatever you choose) to the top dwellers and at the same time put in the sinking food. Usually by the time the greedy ones that feed from the surface have had their fill...

Don't be sorry! And no, it's not as basic as it sounds at all.   While it is possible to do a fish-in cycle (I did it and some other folks do here, too) the overwhelming majority of people would advise a fishless cycle. Excellent guides can be found...

I'd love to have some of those guys, but, I'm just not set up for proper cichlids at all. Argh...I need more tanks!   They look really nice even as youngsters...I've never had fry before... aww

Those guys are all in a 19ltr tank? Please say you mean 19 Gallons!!!   Even your 60ltr tank isn't really ideal, I'm afraid.    You really, really need to get a larger tank or re-home pretty much all of those fish. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but, I'm genuinely surprised that fungus on...

B. coccina Size = no idea Guess, bubblenester.

Technically speaking, your own body is doing that to you as an over reaction to something that it thinks is attacking it.   I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, that it's actually your own doing...       This isn't the right post to quote, but I don't feel like finding the right one.   Cats...

Technically speaking, your own body is doing that to you as an over reaction to something that it thinks is attacking it.   I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, that it's actually your own doing...  :)

Haha, is it really possible for a cat to be self centred? Surely only humans can be self centred!

That may not be the cat's fault!   It might just be dust mites or dander for which the cat cannot be held accountable. You're a mean man not to like cats...I like cats and I'm a nice man.   One with 2 faces might just be pushing my love boundaries tho... Do they both sleep at the same time? 

Would we love a cat twice as much because it has 2 faces?

I think it would be a gamble to put her back in then if you've ruled out stress. And if it were me, I'd probably not take the gamble until the patch has healed.

Has anything else been going on in the tank out of the ordinary? Could it just be a discoloured 'stress patch'?   Sure doesn't look like columnaris. How about another week in solitary, since it's already set up, and see what happens from there?

If you're using ferts and CO2, no wonder your dwarf hygro is going mental, it'll soak both of those up like a sponge!!!

In short, you can't, well, probably not that one anyway...   You just need to prune really, really regularly. Because of that plant's explosive growth in just about any conditions you just need to cut it back often. Certain water conditions will slow it's growth a bit but I sure wouldn't begin...

Take 2 eaglesaquariums 3 times a day until you feel the love!

If it were me, and I know very little about bettas, I would try hard over the next 2-3 days to treat him.    You say he is at least pooing, so that seems positive that he might be eating, at least. See if you can get your hands on some highly nutritious food for him, perhaps with extra vitamins...

1st one could be Hygrophila sp. 'Araguaia', perhaps.  

I think the second one might be Proserpinaca paulustris 'Cuba', and it's quite a nice plant by the looks of it!

OK, definitely no baking, and definitely no boiling! 

Hello Canada person, welcome to the forum. I'm sure there's quite a few of you guys here, so you're not alone! Plus, I'm from Scotland so we're pretty much related, hehe!   Pictures are a must on here so get clicking!

Please don't bake the rocks! Some can have trapped air pockets and in an oven this air can expand breaking the rock apart with force!   Boiling's probably OK, but perhaps just pouring boiling water over them a few times is just as good. A clean with a brush and then another soak with boiling...

There'd be no way at all to guarantee the survival of all of them without completely separating them from everything, even then, it's not 100%, but at least they won't get eaten.    How about just a very small tank from PaH, one of the plastic ones to grow them and then put them into your larger...

*sniff sniff*...I care!    Anyhoo, it was just sarcasm, hehe. It's a defence mechanism, sorry!

What if one is unsure of the answer but wants to participate just the same? Do we have to just imagine the raised inflection in our heads and stop our fingers from typing a question mark? As a self confessed grammar nazi I'm going to find that difficult.

Looks like a Mickey Mouse Platy to me...no expert, though!   Oh, sorry, and welcome to the forum!

Could it be as simple as being a guppy...? Albeit with a straggly tail...