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Ok so if it's not a lighting, nutrient or placement issue then what could it be?

Im going to work on getting them to more suitable conditions but they have never had any signs of sickness or ammonia poisoning so I believe that they could stay in there a little bit longer. Also they are just feeder goldfish that you could buy at Petco. Any suggestions on how to rehome them or...

We have a 20 gal tall tank with several plants 2 goldfish one is about 3 inches the other is about 2.5 we where going to get tropical fish but my family got attached to them so we never got rid of them. Now that their getting bigger were going to have to get rid of them some way but anyway to...

Sorry about that, I use flourish excel its liquid. Also my gh is 75 or on the little bottle it says soft.

Alright I'll stop dosing iron don't know if it matters but i only dose about once a week also I was wondering if it could be a macronutrient deficiency my tank doesn't have many fish and the snails eat any excess food plus I do 50% water changes once every 2 weeks. Would this affect it in any way?

This is what it looks like on 1 leaf I have another java fern that was taken from the one in the pictures rihzome that had the black spots so bad I had to cut it off.

It is tied to a piece of drift wood and gets 8 hours of light but there is only one light bulb and is very low watt and it has duck weed over the surface, however it does get indirect sunlight from a window.

Yes I do use fertilizers but i cannot get a picture right now. I use seachem flourish, iron, and c02.

My java fern has black spots over the top of its leaves and I don't know why. Does anybody know what causes this or how to prevent it?

Thanks I was just wondering because I do feed him omega micro pellets and mosquito larvae but it's gotten to the time of the year were I can't find any thanks for your advice though!!!

I recently bought a betta fish and once I got home I realized badly I had chosen when they are in the little cups you can't see them very well the one I had chosen had swim buoyancy problems and could only float at the top of the fish tank but it was also EXTREMELY thin. The first few days it...

Ok thank you very much. Today the sick otocinclus had its nose at the surface and its belly was so big that its tail couldn't touch the wall. Do you know anything that would help or what I should do?

My chili rasboras FINNALLY got their natural color but then I got a blue green algae so I put a blanket over the tank for 3 days but it only killed half of it. I'm going to buy a solution tommarrow to kill it but i just wanted to know if the blue green algae would poison the otocinclus I that I...

I know they gave me chili r asboras because they have the markings of chili r asboras also at the time I bought them there was another tank with exclamation point r asboras in it. Is there a possibility that there aren't enough chili r asboras in my tank and that there too stressed?

So I have had 8 chili rasbora in the tank for probably a couple months now. I noticed that they have grown and gained a little bit of color but not as much as they should have. I feed them regularly more pellet food than live food though the parameters are right its not too bright for them and...

So I''ve noticed that after it flakes off it doesn't float it just falls to the ground also there is no algae on the rock so that's probably why you can't tell what it is. Should I just let the algae fuzz stuff fall off on its own andtake it out or what, I have no idea what to do.

Ok so is it normal for it to flake off by itself?

If I remember right you said that when it dies it turns red. My beard algae might be dying but not in the way you said it is sort of flaking off kind of like dead skin, is this normal? I put a picture below of what It looks like.

Ok that is good to know, does it spread fast and if it does how do you keep it off plants, does it always start on wood first and if it does why doesn't the other piece have it?

The reason i said it wasn't spreading was because I've had it in there for months and the only thing it's on is the wood. Plus it isn't green it is sort of a light gray I think it is fungus because the wood is darker and most of the pet stores wood that has fungus have lighter wood which makes...

No it's not algae because it doesn't spread. It only grows on the drift wood. It doesn't need sun(I don't think) it is growing there because the wood is releasing carbs. To me it just looks really ugly and is annoying because the duck weed sticks to it. I read that many algae eating fish would...

Ok I guess while I quarantine them I could put in a small piece of it to see if they eat it and if they don't I'll work on getting them to eat veggies or wafers. Do these sound like appropriate steps to take? I put a picture of what the fungus looks like.

I know that they are picky eaters and planned on separately growing some soft green algae on a stick or something while being quarantined and then once I put them in my tank I was going to let them eat the fungus off my drift wood then experiment with some other things to see if they eat algae...

Ok I read a couple articles about whiptail catfish and they were not promising, they said they weren't good in captivity and were best cared for by an experienced aquarist- definitely not me. Also I really like otocinclus I mentioned getting them instead of cories to control my algae (which is...

I know that sand is good for cories but i like the gravel more than the sand Idk why and its not because I'd have to take everything out. is there some sort of small cory or catfish that would be compatible with sparkling gouramis and chili rasbora.

Well I would like all my fish to be happy and healthy but to change from gravel to sand wouldn't I have to take everything out then put in sand and then put every thing back in? If this is the case I'd just like to find different bottom feeders (I'm lazy)

Ok so I can provide them with all of the things mentioned except the sand. Is sand needed or prefered?

Yeah your right I didn't mean normal cories I meant dwarf cories but i dont have sand substrate but i dont have big gravel I have more fine gravel do you think this would be ok. Also if i left most of the front of the tank plant less and just had a couple carpet plants in little groups would...

That's very good to know thank you. As mentioned before I was going to get some cories (I haven't yet) but i was wondering because cories like to dig around in the gravel should i get carpet plants, some carpet plants in only certain places, or no carpet plants at all?

I don't know I just found out that that report was from about 5 years ago so the ph is about 7.2 now and I'm still not sure of the hardness but i would assume it's the same.

Ok thanks I've heard of snails coming in on plants I know I should've thought of that before but i dont have a snail infestation yet I don't think but i hear its a common problem, how would I get rid of or control the snail population?

So acquiring more plants and decreasing the light would make the algae decrease

Well my camera is very bad so I'll just describe it: its mostly only in areas of strong flow and its brown some of it grows in short strands in a group, and some of it grows in one really long strand by itself on the drift wood.

Ok so I have a bit of an algae problem do you think that instead of 9 pygmy cories I could get 6 otocinclus or should i just figure out other ways to control it?