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Lol on the normal clothes, having said that dont change who you are for some guy, if he doesnt like you for who you are hes not worth your time.;) Having said that, bring on the fish store friday pics!!!

Totally agree and as you well know as i over stocking incorrect stocking leads to lots of stress. Good discussion!:)

I get what you are saying here trust me i do but if it were just about best interest of the fish they wouldnt be in a glass box in our house, for instance in the wild neons live in shoals of 100s yet in my 20 gallon i only have 10, sure 10 is better than 6 and way better than 3 but whats best...

Id do water changes every day at least 75% and blackout for 3 days, take the ice cream away from that cynobacteria. And clean the filter. Theres always a lot of goo in filters.increase water flow decrease temp.

I agree get some root tabs throw out the excel. The sword is suffering from chlorosis in my opinion. When a plant cant produce enough chloraphyl due to lack of nutrients the leaves will turn yellow and in extreme cases like yours white. Plants need a lot of different nutrients the 3 they use the...

Sounds awesome!

Think of light as cynobacteria ice cream. I dont need ice cream to live, if i dont eat ice cream for 3 days im not going to die, but if i eat ice cream for 7 hours a day for 3 days im going to get fat. Light makes cynobacteria fat and while the absence of ice cream(light) wont kill it it will...

Exactly. Blackout without water changes wont do much because the bacteria will still feed on the organics, which is why water changes no feeding no fertilizing is important. Taking a comprehensive approach eliminates the most variables.

After the 3 days i didnt have any live cynobacteria just dark dead stuff floating around in water and on top of substrate, so i sucked all that out during the 3 days and after wards because it still contains spores. The 3 days worked for me for some it may not. I dont think there is an exact...

Id get 2 more skirts to round out your skirt shoal. 19 neons is about 19 inches of fish, skirts get around 2 inches each with 6 would be around 12 inches of fish which would be around 31 inches of fish in about 26 gallons which is slightly over. Just keep up with weekly water changes and you...

Yup. The plants arent going to die in 3 days. My tank with cynobacteria was heavily planted as well. The plants may get a little grumpy but the cynobacteria is killing them anyway, as long as the roots are intact the plants will be fine and bounce back. I put a towel over my tank for 3 days, and...

More often.Its tough to telll when tanks are over stocked the bioloical filter struggles to keep up with the bioload and break the ammonia down to nitrate and when it does nitrate accumulates quicker in the tank. While nitrates arent as dangerous as ammonia or nitrite in excess nitrates above...

As others have said livebearers and tetras require different water. Tetras do best with lower than 6DGH mollies 10DGH or higher. Having said that if you have soft water 6DGH or lower suitable for soft water species dwarf pencil fish inhabit top to mid live with neons in the wild and are around...

take it to the Maury Povich show;)

There is a consensus on this board among some posters that will refute this because they think its an outdated myth but in your particular case and in a lot of cases it applies. General rule especially with small community fish that stay around an inch like tetras and in your tank that is longer...

Yup silver dollars will eat up all your plants, even when fed vegetables theyll still eat your plants. Maybe they wont eat java fern, most fish wont touch it so you could try that if wanted plants with discus, though there is no guarantee they wont eat that either.:(

When had cynobacteria i did a total blackout. While cynobacteria has shown to be able to grow with out light it doesnt mean light wont make it grow. Blackout the tank it will decrease its growth rate, increase tank circulation and dissolved oxygen and turn down temp. Again while cynobacteria can...

Sounds like the plants are doing the job;) Peas are easy. If you have a clip that suctions to the glass theyll eat lettuce. Zuchuni works. Could try sweet potato uncooked

Yeah there is one bolivian Ram in there some where with them.:)

Lol :)

not 3 times a day like it says on the bottle. I feed once every other day.

I read physiology as psychology and i was like whoa dude thats deep:)

I had a capped soil substrate and didnt have any ammonia issues or cyno bacteria in the 2 years i had it. In fact the only time i ever had cynobacteria oddly was with a sand substrate. The biggest issue i can see with potting any plant instead of planting it directly in the substrate is it...

Id suggest she use whatever she thinks is best for her plants and fish.

Diane walstad didnt do water changes she just let the plants act as the filter and her tanks were heavily planted, its a good theory and one she proved is possible but at the end she concluded it wasnt sustainable over long periods of time because as ive stated the soils nutrients run out.

Again im not suggesting dirting her tank, i suggested she read diane walstad to determine how to sustain a tank using plants without water changes. Having said that ive dirted a tank it worked great the plants did well and while it can leach into water nutrients from root tabs can also leach...

lol i know what you mean. I wasnt suggesting dirting your tank just thought some of her methods using plants to filter tank to avoid water changes as Walstad didnt do water changes.

Walstad method would be dirting the whole tank. This is just dirt in pots. The biggest draw back to dirted tanks is that the soil uses up all its nutrients after a year or so and becomes dead and anaerobic. Just like a veggie garden the soil needs to be turned over. The advantage of having...

Id suggest reading diane Walstad. She ran filterless tanks with no water changes.just plants as filters Though in the end she concluded it wasnt sustainable over long periods. But it may give you some ideas, she also used dirt for substrate capped with gravel.

it would be similar to buying one neon. Angels are shoaling fish and should be kept in groups of no less than 5, unless theyre in a bonded pair in which case theyre even bigger jerks;)

Id rehome the angelfish. They belong in groups of at least 5 and your current stock doesnt allow for that many angels. Also loaches and corydora dont belong in the same tank together plus clown loaches can get about a foot each at which point theyll reall be a problem for your corydora. The...

Get organic potting soil. Sift the wood and junk out of it, make sure the soil doesnt have any manure in the ingerdients then take your plants out of tank plant them in soiled pot and cap the top of the soil with gravel to keep it from getting into your water column. This is basically the same...

:) theyre conspiring to start a revolution

Where is Busan? Im sure i could find it on my map if i knew where to look.

yup you should be able to grow pretty much every plant provided you supply the proper nutrients. If the plants dont get the nutrients they need they wont grow and algae will take hold. Its a tricky balance. As far as PAR google PAR depth charts, or go to rotalabutterfly light calculator and plug...

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In nature the presence of like species actually help eachother feel safe as it indicates the absence of predators. A shoal of neons and say black neons in the same tank with the same swimming style,slow, calm ,in shoals ,is calming to eachother, where as if one puts blood fin tetras with neons...

I worked at PETSmart years ago and the bags from fish shipment were mostly in methylene blue.