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Something is still wrong in my tank and I’m not sure what to do. I’ve tried to slowly add fish until I feel things are right. Bottom feeders seem to be doing well. Kuhli’s and Bristle Nose are growing and doing a great job. I lost a Betta after about three weeks. No real symptoms except...

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I’m actually not sure how long this has been here. I just noticed it today. Any ideas? What I’m looking at are the black round dots

I have it at 78 f. I might just go without moss. I don’t like to go much below that temp

I have a couple of plants that are just using the water column. They were placed on a piece of driftwood. The roots are starting to grow quite lengthy and are somewhat unsightly. Not a big deal but trying to find out if someone can just manipulate them around the driftwood so as to hide them...

I wish I could find the test results. I might just have to get a hard water test separate from this one. I know we don’t have very hard water as we really don’t have a lot of build up around faucets etc.

We are on a well. We had the water tested a year ago or so. Not a state test but a private company did the water test. The water here is very very good. I understand the issue with medication. I needed to do something though, and it appeared to have worked. Can’t say I agree with you on...

Well things seem to be getting better. I gave the tank a couple doses of an all purpose medication for parasites. They seem to be doing much better. Utilizing more of the tank and not hanging around the bottom. At one point I thought one was dead and I tried to pick it up only to have it...

I am planning on a CO2 system as well. Thought that might help

Java and I think the last one was Christmas moss which might have been the same thing I believe the light is a full spectrum light. It isn’t on a timer. I manually turn it on at 7:00 in the morning and turn it off about 8:00 or so in evening.

I have a few plants that are taking off. I would like them to do better but more on that later. I’m really having trouble with moss though. I’ve tried three different times and all that happens is the turn brown and die. I did have my first ones come back a bit but ultimately didn’t make...

I just don’t really like the looks of them. There’s a lot of them and their shells are building up. I figured I have enough problems without messing with snails…:)

As does happen there must have been some freeloaders on some plants I ordered when I set up my aquarium a few months ago. As does happen I now have a crapload of the annoying little critters. So a couple of things. I got a couple of Kuhli Loaches to help eliminate them but they just aren’t...

No picks of the shrimp. They are all gone. I water change about once every two weeks. I remove about 25% or so. We are on a well so I don’t worry about dechlorinating. The tank has been set up for about 4-5 months I use a Shark 600…the smaller one. Filter media is just foam. I clean...

Not sure of our water hardness but it is ground water so I would imagine fairly hard although we don’t really get a whole lot of build up

So I can’t really say I’m new to the hobby but I’ve been away for quite awhile. I decided to set up a small 29 gallon tank to re-introduce myself to the hobby. I decided to go with live plants this time. So I set it up. Let the live plants get started. Got it cycled and ready to go. I...

As a child I cared for the usual 10 gallon aquarium. In college I bumped up to a 29 with a single Oscar. We had her for a number of years. As life went on I would periodically set up a tank or take one down due to a move or other life changing event. I always had good luck with them…for the...