Continue daily WCs until ammonia/nitrite are both at zero. Reduce feeding amount, you can even skip a day, 2 on, 1 off.
What are your other parameters?
I believe that newly treated tap water with chloramine will give false ammonia readings. If you have treated water, you will reduce the levels by the amount of water changed. Check today.
I'm toying with the idea of a tank for a centerpiece or divider in a room rather than against a wall. What is the best tank setup to both hide equipment and allow views from around the tank without the clutter of HOB etc? Has anyone here set up a tank in this way?
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When my Buenos Aries Tetras juggle Hikari sinking wafers, or drive around the tank looking like a fishing lure with the wafer spoon looking thing attached to their mouth.
You could use a hose Y splitter hooked up in reverse from normal use. The problem is that flow rate is dependent on pressure so the higher pressure input will result in more flow, or backflow. You could feed each input via a separate header tank to mitigate this problem. You will have to...
To keep me sane whilst being a WFH engineering manager and father of teenagers, aside from fish, I'm growing a few herbs and veggies in planters. I have a plethora of jalapeños and banana peppers so tonight I make refrigerator banana pickles.
I like my Inkbird controller ITC-306A. It has dual temp probes for cross check and dual output relays for redundancy. There are cheaper models without Wifi. And you set without your phone.
With scientific names there is no (less?) ambiguity across regions and cultures. Even more important given the number of Cory species.
From wiki (only because it was easy)
There are currently 161 recognized extant species in this genus, as well as one known extinct species:
Interesting, I may try this to get my feet wet before creating a sump.
Make sure the water volume in refugium tank is less that the above water volume in the main tank. If you loose siphon, the entire refugium will empty into the main tank.
Assuming your tap is at zero, that means your tank had a pretty high nitrate level. Up your water change frequency and amount, 20 ppm is a bit high. Try to keep it at ~10 ppm max. Less than 10 ppm is even better.
Hmmm, params seem 'normal'. though a large WC to lower nitrates will reduce stress and promote healing.
How often do you do WCs and how much? Do you vacuum the gravel?
If you can afford it, you may need that extra hose at a later time, and your Python will still be with you. Within reason, more hose is better. Also, flow rate (and suction) is proportional to the ID of the hose.
I've only used a Python and can recommend it. The big cost of these is the hose. Speculating, but the Python hose my be more pliable, larger ID, less danger of toxic chemical leeching.