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I used to do one 25% change a week but wiht a newborn and my job its hard to take the time to clean the tank and do that big of a change in one night thats why I split it up over two days. I have all female mollies now, my last male died in Jan-Feb. While all this is helpful, still doesnt...

I rotate each week between each side of the tank and vacuum the gravel away from the plants. I have lots of water movement and have an additional blower if needed for more current. I clean out the filters once a month including scrubbing inside and outside of the intake tubes and removing the...

I started dosing with the potassium and iron because my plants were yellowing with a lot of holes in them, since I started dosing the plants have started recovering. Ive been dosing the potassium for about 3 months, the Iron for about 2 but this issue with this loach popped up in the last 2...

Ive been battling it for months because of the molly fry that are constantly in my tank from my female giving birth 7 times. Ive upped the water changes from 12.5 gallons a week to 20 gallons a week over 2 days.

I love them, they are amazing to watch just basically "float" around the tank like little ghosts.

Nope nothing and honestly the one with the cotton swab skin is acting no different from normal. he munches on an algae disk for awhile then back to skirting around the tank.

But the hillstreams are supposed to be between 100-200 ppm on GH, my KH is a little low for them but I can never get the KH past 6. I am also confused on why the one loach looks perfectly fine and the other has that "cotton swab" look to it.

It use to stay below 20ppm but my one molly has given birth 7 times since March so I constantly have between 20-30 fry in there and its killing me. I just tested the GH in my 10 gal shrimp/neon tetra/ snails for my clown loaches tank and it took 29 drops to change color.....thats not even on the...

Tank parameters are as follows: Ammonia-0-.25ppm-This is normal in my tank, the water in my town has high ammonia and we have 3 cats. Nitrite-0ppm Nitrate-40-80ppm KH-50ppm GH-200ppm- This is throwing me off i tested it 4 times, my GH was never over 100-120ppm since I set up the tank and the...

Good Evening Everyone, I was working on my tank tonight and noticed my one hillstream loach looks really bad for some reason. I have two in my tank and the other looks completely fine and this guy looks like he has cotton swabs or something all over him. He is in a 55 Gal Tank with 3...

I just checked the tank 5 minutes ago since the lights are on. No dead fish, everyone is alive. The only family member I cant find is my male fiddler, I am 90% sure at this point he escaped the tank and I cannot find him anywhere. I know my tap water has ammonia in it, so it could be the fact I...

So I just tested the water. PARAMATERS: Ph-7.4 Ammonia-.5-1ppm Nitrite-0 Nitrate-20-40 ppm The ammonia has me worried, so I am going to dose with quickstart again and do another water change tonight. Im hoping it spiked just because of stirring up all the gravel because its normally...

I tried that, the wife said I can sleep with the fish in that case, she is Italian, kind of got a little scared lol. I am going to keep this old tank, me and my neighbor checked it out last night and didnt see any cracked glass so were going to try and repair it. When my wife originally bought...

My PH for my tap water is pretty stable at 7.4-7.6, I usually try to avoid any extra chemicals in the tank and adjust PH with coral, baking soda etc. Yea I definitely owe them drinks or something lol my nephew has been friends of the family since they were in highschool and I coached them in...

Ich is the biggest one I am worried about right now, my corys looked like they had some white spots on them last night but I couldn't tell if it was debris from the water being distrubed or beginning of ich (attached are pictures I snapped of them late last night). After the fiasco of netting...

Anytime I use vinegar I wash it with clean water really well before putting it in the tank or in this case water into the tank. I have always tried avoiding bleach on anything, mainly because I must have a slight allergy to it because my hands will burn for a few days after I have used it. I am...

So I coach football and got home from practice tonight, took a peek at my tank and realized I was missing about 10 gallons of water. I started checking the filters and everything to make sure nothing was leaking out of there and spotted a steady stream of water coming from the front/left...

Only backup tank I have is a 1.5 gal my wife had for a hermit crab lol I had my old 30 gal sitting in my basement but the cats run around down there and water seeps in so I got rid of it before it got ruined. I may be able to snatch one off a buddy of mine because last night I noticed when I was...

I am roughly at about 3" of substrate now. I am going to try and get to lowes this weekend and check for the sand you mentioned (our lowes is kind of crappy) if they dont have it is that caribsea supernaturals a good alternative ? I have enough 5 gallon buckets (used only for the tank) and back...

The kind I was looking at last night were Flourite Black Sand (which is off the list now) and CaribSea SuperNaturals ( says its PH Neutral). What I have now isnt "rough" but it is large pieces and I have watched the cories push the pieces over to dig deeper. I probably check them more than any...

I actually read that same article before lol I read a few articles like this over the year and after talking to people at hatcheries. This is part of the reason I switch to using treble hooks while fishing instead of the "old school" single hooks, because they are less likely to swallow a...

I am all about any advice given. I am still very green at this and open to learn. I am into science by profession (engineering/hazmat) and I have been trying to learn/read/understand as much as I can about managing aquariums. I started out with the Mollies & Platies but I find the loaches and...

I have not set up a new tank yet (trying to find room between 2 squirrels, 3 dogs and cats) I tested the KH & GH last night in the tank where everything is. KH-4 drops- 71.6ppm, GH-8 drops-143.2ppm. Took it to the local store today and they got the exact same results (just to make sure my tests...

I am going to wait to introduce the tabs for about a week or after killing the lighting time. I dont want to make to many changes at one time. I stopped using the Excel and I am going to start using the liquid flourish only once a week like you recommended. I wanted this tank to be as low tech...

See when I did the peroxide dip, I used water hot enough I could barely stand to put my hand in it, I was afraid of going hotter and killing the plant. Afterwards, I scraped the crap out of the whole spider wood piece, trimmed off any roots that had it on it, rinsed it real well and stuck it...