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Your water hardness is 9.26 dgh which is moderately hard. Its not soft nor is it hard. 9 DGH may be a bit hard for rams especially german rams. Most Corydora can handle 9DGH as well.

They nibbled off the fans on your bamboo shrimp??? Not cool, not cool at all!!! Hopefully your tank returns to a state of homeostasis.

Yeah lol on fish store employees sexing neons:) Nuts that your neons were homicidal, little too much piranha in them;)

Cool. Ive never had ember tetra. Back when i had a 55gallon i had a shoal of neons, glo lights, black neons, Von rio, and rummy.The glo lights and von rios would try and shoal with the rummys and the neons and black neons would kind of do their own thing and the neons and black neons were always...

If you think neons are terrors then you wont like kocha blue tetra. They arent too nippy but are very active fast swimmers, slower tetras like black neons will be freaked out by their erratic swimming and the blue tetra will out compete them for food. Blue tetra pair well with bigger or more...

I was wondering if sparkling gourami would eat shrimp. Sparkling are pretty small fish. Maybe Amanos would be ok but little shrimp like cherry just expensive food?;)

Not to dampen your enthusiasm, kubotai are pretty awesome, and wonder if youve looked into sparkling gourami? They are a dwarf gourami that get around and inch in 15 gallons 2-4 would work. They arent shoalers of course but very busy cute little fish and too small to eat bigger shrimp though...

looks great so far, Tank on!

Its a rough guide. And its US gallons yes. For instance lets say one had a 10 gallon tank according to the rule one could put a 10 inch cichlid in the tank. So use common sense. Fish with longer slender bodies need longer tanks while fish with fuller deeper bodies like gold fish, angels, discus...

Im guessing Arizona like Utah has hard water though could depend on where.

Least expensive good substrate is play sand. Itll cost about 7$ for 50 lbs. Get at most hardware stores.

Either get a test for gh ph and kh, or look up your county water website, if GH isnt list add Calcium and magnesium ppm and divide by 17.9 to get DGH( degree general hardness)

Cool looking plecos! Even though the other fish are mid to low and betta are mostly top doesnt mean they dont interact. Especially the swordtails whom are also top feeders. Your betta is most likely always hiding because its stressed out. Bettas belong in tanks by them selves and while you may...

Looks good. I had jungle val in a 55 gal the stuff is a weed. As for reference sword tail are hard water fish everything else are soft water fish. Depending on your water parameters somebody is going to be stressed. Also keeping betta in a community tank is asking for trouble as it will stress...

All the research ive read suggest excess potassium has zero effect on algae growth. Tomm Barr has said their are 2 nutrients most tanks are insufficient in, one of them was potassium as most water municipalities dont add potassium to water. Ive been adding potassium in the form of k2s04 for...

RO water is the only thing i know of sorry. There was another poster i cant remember who and he had really high nitrates in his tap water and came up with a way to recharge his nitrazorb but not sure if the same would apply for phosphates. Sorry maybe somebody knows the poster im referring to i...

The CO2 from two months ago shouldnt be an issue then. Most likely the new light combined with high phosphates. Also phosphate absorb pad /media doesnt do much in my opinion unless one is continually rinsing them or changing it. If you are seeing a decrease in your phosphates from using them...

At the top of the box you post there should be a box above that that has a bunch of icons in it. One is for posting pics.

Water remember to put water in tank;) Having said that find out your water parameters GH and PH

I agree with Byron about the light could be causing algae. If the light isnt being utilized by the plants due to spectrum or intensity then algae will use it. Also high phosphates will contribute to algae as when the plants arent using the phosphate algae will. Tomm Barr has said that the two...

I actually have 1 female guppy. I got a few ghost shrimp once and when i got home i noticed there was a tiny speck with two eyeballs in the bag. I said hmmm maybe its a guppy. I figured it would just die as my tank wasnt fully cycled. Six months later shes a full grown pooping machine. I had her...

Black diamond blasting sand isnt suitable for bottom dwelling fish! And live bearing fish are the worst, especially sword tails and guppies, mollies and platies are less annoying but not much.

Lol yeah i try to limit plastic with contact with me and fish, it seems weird cuz the bucket i put the water in is plastic but i like putting a glass container in the tank to catch water plus glass sinks and plastic floats, its a weird quirk i have As for the Chocolate, dont tell my wife;)

Lol the secret baby tank under the tank is possibly the best thing ive heard this week. I thought hiding chocolate from my wife in my fish tank stand was bad :)

I keep most my stuff in a couple 5 gallon buckets but my shame is that occasionally ill steal my wifes glass measuring cups for water changes, shes not a fan of my choice to do so:(

i live in Kansas which is like tornado capitol of the world but never seen one, ive only been here a couple years, so i still got time, fingers crossed;)

Sounds awesome, cant beat free! Awesome about your rescue crypt, theyre scrappy!

I think a typhoon would be more apt, and with typhoons you can name them. No one ever names a tornado:)

Sounds like a conspiracy perpetrated by the glass lid manufacturers to get us to by more lids;)

Did that once moving an empty 20 long.:( Hey howd vacuuming with sand for the first time go?

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Great minds think a like;)

Thats why i get play sand or blasting sand which is usually around 8 bucks for 50lbs. If one can afford that fancy aquarium sand though its good stuff!

Yes! I told myself when i set it on the couch that i wouldnt forget it and boom just like that, glass in my body part that rhymes with glass:)

Did you also sit on your lid???;)

I really like the look of that sand but that price? No thanks.

Lol i did this a few months ago. I sat on it heard a crunch and realized i just crunched my glass versa top:( glad to know im not alone!

Thanks, crypts are one of the few plants ive never had any trouble growing i think theyre just great plants. When i first got these they melted down to nothing but the roots and now a few months later theyre thriving. I think sometimes people get enamored with difficult plant species out of a...

Get lost were full up with crazy in here;) Welcome hope you enjoy the place!:)

I hate that fish store Friday no longer exists, it really grinds my gears:(