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Refractometer for testing salinity. I use this one Amazon

Evaporation does concentrate the salt into the water that is left, but topping off or only doing small water changes leaves the salt still in the water. Once you raise the water level to what it was before the salt content should return the what it was before evaporation. That's why in...

You shouldn't have that much to really clean when they are small. Since you are keeping them in their own tank it should be easy. Any substrate will do but go with sand if you are going to keep something like corys in there. Floating plants are always a plus! The other plants are optional imo...

Nah, I wanted more in that tank just the betta was boring. Plus the betta has some company now. I don't see any aggression from the betta at all. People always say betta must be by themselves but it seems they are only agressive to their own species. At least the kind of betta I have it seems.

Just added these 7 to my betta/cherry shrimp 5 gallon tank. Obtained from 360 Aquatic in Houston, TX

I always refeerence this when trying to distinguish between male and females guppies --> How to Identify Male and Female Guppies Pay close attention to the bottom fin. It's longer in the males, the females tend to fan out more.

I have one guppy that looks like this. She has scoliosis (bent spine). She didn't have this condition when I first got her I think it occurred after giving birth to fry. Not much you can do about it. As 10 Tanks has mentioned it's most likely a brought on by a birth defect/genetic issue or by...

I was curiuos about what air tank means as well. If I were to guess, it appears an air tank is designed to make it look like the fish are floating in the air. Just a guess though.

This is my largest tank (55 gallons) Tank Age: 2 years Substrate: Small aquaruim gravel and fine sand. Lights: NICREW ClassicLED Aquarium Light, Fish Tank Light with Extendable Brackets, White and Blue LEDs 48 inch Light Dimmer: NICREW Single Channel LED Light Timer Pro Plants Java Fern...

I was also hinted that if you have too much wood to water ratio that it could cause too much algea growth. I have bad green hair algea in my small 5 gallon with a large peice of wood in it. The reasonsing for it is due to the wood decaying and producing nutrients needed to sustain the algea.

In the past, I purchased 12 very nice and healthy looking guppies and the next day all but one of them were dead, and took a couple of the fish I already had in the tank with them. Not sure what the issue was with them. The one I did keep was a female, she got pregnant and had fry and now has...

To add to this, the waste from fish and dieing plants produce ammonia which then converts to nitrites and then the nitrites convert to nitrates. In an established (cycled) tank the ammonia and nitrites will be converted very quickly to nitrates so fast that you don't detect them at all during a...

Nice looking fish!

I've been doing weekly water changes to keep the nitrates around 5ppm. They go up to around 10ppm usually but last time was 20ppm. I haven't been adding anything extra other then Seachem Reef Carbonate once, usually after the water change. pH stays around 8.4 to 8.5. Recently lost the trochus...

Sounds like a fish-in cycle. Follow the steps in the sticky thread on doing that here --> https://www.fishforums.net/threads/cycle-your-tank-a-complete-guide-for-beginners.475055/

Finally sorted all the guppy fry males and females into separate tanks. The last video actually had a few females in it I just couldn't identify them and catch them until recently.Here are the males. A couple of different pattern and tail types. The panda tails come from the mother. You can see...

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I've always found brown diatom algae is eatin' up by nerite snails. So I have them in most of my tanks.

Seachem Clarity or API Accu Clear is supposed to help with this as well. I've never used either before but heard that it works along with a good filter.

I've had a female guppy that gave me about 26 fry. She was on the smaller side and unfourtunatly didn't make it. I've have another one that gave birth, not to as many though, that got scoliosis after pregancy but is still alive and well. And I've had a larger female guppy produce many fry, don't...

Could be down to old age. Do you have the water parameters? (Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate)? How old were the fish, and what type of fish?

No lies! Just nice spring weather. Hey, I live in Houston. We get a couple months of nice, then we get scortched until October or so. hehe

9 rosey red minnows. I found out early fall last year that they can take colder and warmer temps. It's the perfect fish for the weather here.

The Louisiana Iris Bog Plant - Dixie Deb started to bloom!