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Many have read on the web that copper is toxic to invertibrits and that the concentration should be no higher than 0.001ppm. I can tell you this is not correct. There are 3 sources of copper in a tank fish food, Copper dissolved in your tap water from copper pipes, and copper in...

I think smaller very frequent water changes are west in this case

The tank was inside a large building which was temperaturecontrollled. Also the topical salt water fish so temperature should not have been the cause. Fatigue is normally aissue in any structural construct. Bridges, aircraft, ships, and buildings Basically anything that gets repeatably flexed...

The leaves are dying on the frog bit. The older larger leaves appear to show general yellowing. Eventually the leaves die. This is a good indication that you Likely have a nitrogen deficiency. When I first set up my aquarium (low tech) using flourish comprehensive I had zero ammonia...

I use 100% RO water and make my own nutrients. And recently I was able to eliminate it from my tank. Cyanobacteria appears to prefer water with deficient levels of micro nuents. I disappeared once that deficiency was corrected.. So it is not caused by high nutrient levels. Lighting only...

You can get a Gh booster like Seachem Equilibrium and dose it to achieve a GH of 2 which could be sufficient for plants. However the high KH causeless another issue. The KH will react with the KH in the micro nutrients in your fertilizer (Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), and Copper (Cu)) creating...

Outside on a clean day at noon there is about 20,000 lumens of light.Indoors light leaves are typically 500 lumens or less. MY aquarium light ca put out 3000 lumens but I typically run at half that. So in nature light levels are typically much brighter than you see in aquariums. And yet sun...

Natural sea shells are mainly calcium carbonate with a small amount of magensium carbonate. If there is free caroline in the water with will react with the calcium carbonate creating Calcium chloride and CO2. This also pushes up GH. Calcium chloride is safe for animals and plants and it is...

If that tap is softened water then your water softener is not working or it ran out of salt. I would expect the GH for softened water to be about 1 or less but I don't have a water softener. Check other facets around the house and outside. Typically softened water is plumbed to interior...

Flourish advance provides mainly calcium and magnesium plus some plant hormones that healthy plant should be able to made. With your CH of 180ppm there is no need for this. Flourish has enough potassium and and sulfur so you probably don't ned it. Iron should only be dosed if you see signs...

You water softener removes GH calcium and magnesium) by reacting it with sodium chloride. this removes all of the calcium and magnesium. It leaves behind sodium bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate will increase PH potentially above a PH of 8. Now you are fertilizing your water with thrive...

Hydrothermal vent are often a result ofcubsurfce volcanoes. The water they release is full of slfuric acid. These would destry the calcium carbonate shell of most animals. The animal can protect the sehell with with an organic layer. The color of Nerve snails is from a hard organic coating...

The brown in the leaf is narcosis (dead plant tissue). This is the primary symptom of nutrient deficiency. Plant nutrients come in two basic varieties, Mobile and immobile: Mobile nutrients can be removed from old leaves and moved to support new growth. The old leave eventually die and fall...

That is the first problem you need to solve. As long as that window is cracked open you will not be able to increase the humidity in your apartment. Talk to your land lord and and the people living in the apartments below you and ask if they have the same issue.. Verify the thermostats are...

Can you provide a line to the actual report. The pictures a unreadable iafter I zoom it to read it. So the information about lead is so blurry I cannot read it. You can test your water with chlorine test kit and an ammonia test kit. If only the chlorine test is positive they are use...

Then your vernal hardness (GH) if it is 1 degree or higher you have enough calcium. shrimp cannot eat cuttlebone or egg shells because it is essentially rock. But these will slowly dissolve in a tank if the water gets slightly acidic. And once it is dissolved the shrimp can use it. However...

If you use cotton thread you don't need to ever remove it. It will slowly rot away. white cotton string will also work. However many threads sold today are actually polyester or some other synthetic materials that don't rot. be sure to buy thread that is 100% cotton.

Thunder and conic booms are basically cuased by a pressure pulse in the air. They can be caused by lightening, bulets, aircraft , or meteors passing though air at a velocity faster than the speed of sournd. Explosives can also cause a similar sound. And it is also possible have dry lightening...

Duck weed is ver small plant so it needs a very small amount of nutrients to grow. Larger floating plant need more nutrients. duck wed doesn't need much light and it gets CO2 directly from the air . So if you have problems with floating plants the likely cause is lack of nutrients. You...

your waterutilityisprbably using chloramine to sterilize the water. It is a molecule consisting of chlorine and a amine molecule NH2. it won't harm your plants at that low level. Nutrient deficiencies ar common in aquariums. Plants need 14 nutrients (excluding carbon oxygen and hydrogen...

It depends onwhats available inyourarea. There is no location listed wiithyour name. A lot of people use Seachem b flourish comprehensive but he advised that it works best if you divide the weekly dose and dose a small portion of it once a day or so.Also you should replace 30% or ore of your...

The roots can be curries in the substrate the the rizom must not be burried. The Rhizome is the part the the leaves and roots are attached to. But the bigger issue you have is that all your plants look sick. A lot of yellow leaves. are you using a fertilizer?

Yes you probably have a mix macro and micro deficiencies. You need to try a fertilizer. And it does look like you might have a iron deficiency.

in my experience if a floating plant is not doing well it is because there is a nutrient (fertilizer) issue. When a plant can't get the minerals it need to grow plant growth slows or stops and the leaves may fall of or start rotting. Floating plants are often found in very humid and wet...

Based on the location listed for you I found this 2021 water quality report. I cannot be entirely sure it is the correct one but based on this 30ppm KH and 28ppm Gh plus 18ppm Chloride and 20ppmm sulfate. These numbers are not unusual for tap water. Some of the chloride and sulfates are...

YOu likely have a nutrient deficiency and as a result your plants are dying. Leaves falling off the plants is an indication of a mobil nutrient deficiency. Mobil nutrients are Nitrogen, Potassium, Magnesium, Phosphate, chlorine, Molybdenum or nickel. If just one of the above nutrients is...

I have red root floaters and sylvania. Both are good in a tank. These are very tolerant to light levels low or high. You cannot kill the with low or high light, water current, high humidity, or water drops on the top of the leaves. IN my experience the only thing that harms floating plants...

Plants consume different nutrients at different rates. IF the water has potassium nitrate, calcium / magnesium sulfate and or calcium magnesium sulfate these compounds will not have any affect on PH. When plants grow they need vastly more nitrogen, potassium, and magnesium then sulfur and...

If your snails are feeding on algae and any food you add to the tank that will probably supply all the calcium and magnesium they need. Additionally algae will consume calcium and magnesium from the water and the snails will consume the algae and get calcium and magnesium that way.. A GH of 1 or...

Exactly.

Yes Plant growth does clean the water but the key word here is growth. If there is no growth the plant will not clean the water or produce oxygen for the fish.. If a plant is not growing it can look OK for weeks or months. The biggest reason for plants not growing is insufficient level ates...

KH2PH4 is safer fish I target about 1ppm (1mg/L) K2SO4. For macros I have also used Ca(SO4), CaCl2, MgCL2, MgSO4, and NaCl, KNO3, K2SO, KH2PM4 and CO(NH2)2 (urea) At different levels and not seen any harm. The macro nutrients for plants are Nitrogen (N), Potassium (K)Calcium (Ca), Magnesium...

NO3 is toxic to many animals including people but since people are big it takes a lot to make us sick. Doesn't mater if it iNa NO3, KNO3, or any of the many salt varieties that are possible in an aquarium. Fish waist contains significant nitrogen and phosphate as well as other...

There are hundreds identified but there could easily way more than a thousand. Cyano bacteria is one of the oldest living organisms on earth so there is a lot of genetic diversity. Some are are toxic but most are not. A safe variety is also sold as a dietary supplement. bacteria and algae is...

Using a oven does work. It heated to above the boiling point of water it will be sterilied. But you have to leave it in for a while to insure all the sand reaches the temperature. Or you can put it in a steal pan and put the oven in the clean cycle. The will get it hot enough to convert all...

Simple after draining as much water out of it as possible place it in warm dry spot. Like a closet in your heated home. It will be dry in a few months. Maybe faster if you sire it up to lift the wet sand to the surface. You don't want to put it in your garage or outdoor shed. These are not...

Most of the ones I see on lim are clear. Do you have a link to your supplier? Bite wutg expanded OTFEtiy wicked bit be able to see the fish at all.

If you want to test is the bag is breathable inflate it and heat seal it. If the bad Intisiallhy it will be a ridged baloon However if one time it looses pressure it will decrease and the the bag will no longer be ridged. IT that happens the bag is breathable. If that doesn't happen the bag...

whenever you add shrimp to a tank the shrimp have to adjust to the different water chemistry of your tank verses the water in which they were raised. Additionally if the shirmp were shipped to your they may be hungry. Same for a strip at a fish store. So the combination of a change in water...