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If the brine shrimp were feeding on the cockroach, I wonder if it has improved their nutritional value by stomach loading them?

That's too small really for "some guppies". It might be fine biologically for 1 or 2 guppies, but not a lot of swimming space. Only really big enough for shrimp or a single Betta (and son here would say too small for the Betta). If you meant 12 gallons you are probably fine, but 12L is only...

I was mildly concerned that my tank was measuring a tiny bit more gH than my tap water. The I read another post on here and realised there is Ca and K in flourish comp.

Sounds good. Yes I don't like that JBL pH test either - but that is because it is a wide range one. They sell refills of the two shorter range tests if that helps. I'm using my hold API pH test at the moment. (If you buy the JBL tests separately and not just as refills you will get spare test...

The OP isn't doing a fishless cycle they are doing a planted cycle, other than that I would agree with @threecharacters. I would add some (not all) of the fish first and be conservative with the feeding until you have tested a few times. I would also consider using a supplement such as flourish...

I've seen people on youtube use natural looking bathroom tiles on bare bottom tanks for aesthetic purposes

I hate to admit - but I gotta say every picture I see of pirate fish ornament in use.... I like it (where's that unpopular opinion thread got to?)

Feed just once a day for the moment, you are doing what is known as a "fish in cycle". You will need to do a 50% water change probably everyday also, the fish are excreting ammonia and the fish poo and uneaten food is rotting to produce more ammonia. I suspect most of the symptoms are because...

Would starting off in a dry tank first work? For the unlimited CO2 and stuff? Though I think mould is a risk because you need to keep everything moist and humid. I guess that ship has sailed, and you need the water for fish and the other plants....

I forget....

I don't think you will realistically be breeding them anytime soon. Not sure how safe the eggs and fry would be in a small community tank, I think gourami parenting ends after the eggs hatch, I could be wrong. You will need it much better planted including either floaters or long stems that are...

The dimensions are technically too small for gourami, but not by much to be honest. I would consider a single male, it will be difficult for the female to run away and hide when the husband is building the building the bubble nest. Dwarf gouramis are less gentle as regards that sort of thing...

But ye, if you divide the shoals between tanks like I guess you are planning you should have room for reasonable sized shoals, though many on here are probably more strict than me as regards stocking rules. They are good place to start, but crowding issues and water quality will let you know...

If you got enough plants, I reckon there's easily space for even more at least in terms of the shoal sizes you are obviously thinking of, the bioload is likely smaller per liter than what most people will happily house goldfish or oscars in, and you are far from crowded in terms of swimming space.

Then this thread will have to moved back the original fish related opinions thread?

I remember a post @Byron made where he said he'd contacted someone , perhaps Seachem, to ask about that and they suggested it might be better to add the supplement the day after the water change because of that..... although personally I suspect the plants will still use the heavy metal...

My unpopular opinion: dayglo pink plastic plants is the ADVANTAGE of fake plants cus you ain't never gonna get colours as pretty as that using real plants...

Ironically I believe anubias is terrestrial, but it happens to do fine in water as well,

I saw someone on reddit have a cat pee in the sand on their brand new tank They wanted to know whether to throw the sand or use the pee to cycle

And the theory is that freezing essentially does the same but apparently that requires a reference whereas clove oil does not?

We can't know freezing to death is painless to fish anymore than we know being forced to hold their breath until they die in clove oil. IMO a club to the head is the fastest, especially if you manage to squish the brain in one blow.

Soon you will be one of the experts around here, you must be learning lots by just doing it.

So many people think a goldfish isn't a commitment because "everybody knows" they don't live long or get very big. I wonder why they don't live long....

Neither have I but I expect the theory is based on how enthusiastically they gulp their air when in a frisky mood; I regularly hear them hit the lid.

People often say they couldn't kill an animal for food, and I sit there secretly thinking the only reason I actually couldn't is because in modern civilisation most of us don't learn the life skills to do such efficiently and humanely anymore. I mean anyone squeamish about butchery who eats meat...

If you have nitrite you are not cycled, it has taken a week for you to remove the ammonia. Because of the goop you might have sped the cycle up, I think you should add another ammonia dose and test one day after to check.

Don't thank me yet, remember the first words I typed were "don't know"....

Even if a vet knows nothing about fish illnesses, it will be a safe bet they are ultra intelligent and at the very least will know who to contact about anything they are clueless about. I wouldn't be surprised if a basic fish health lesson they learn if they do not choose extra courses in it, is...

no idea... I expect so, its tiny tiny amounts of sodium hydroxide, but other bottles will have other stuff I have no idea about. At least you have no fish, so even if there is a problem, no real harm done, worst case you do 2 or three large water changes and start again with the ammonia dosing

Water change day is terrifying if you have hatchets, they basically fly like some kind of insect.

Admit it! You have shares in Tropica (the real reason for your fast cycles, and having read your journal if anything you were being overcautious).

But how many of them actually have the space?

That's why fantasy and sci fi is so awesome. It makes you think about psychology, history, science and culture in ways that would not be possible in fiction that was realistic.

The fact that they are recognized as separate species and given the choice will only breed with their own kind is partly what defines as species. The fact that they breed makes them biologically the same species, but they have been geographically separated which allowed the two populations to...

lol - could you rig an automatic feeder to dose 3ppm every three days and then hope for the best? :P

If the tank is drilled and plumbed for the external couldn't you just get hold of some extra hosing and use the filter the same way with the tub as you would with a non drilled tank .and just baffle the flow as best you can if the volume is much smaller. You will want flow going through the...

While I agree with @Byron on this issue, to play devil's advocate, no-one seems to see the harm in doing the same thing various kinds of Cichlids and Livebearers. Though I suspect that will be the point that @Byron will make, do wild guppies still exist for instance, or do we just have global...

You have also hit upon another reason to do useless testing on our water, provided of course, you buy the test kit at the shop rather than more cheaply at amazon.

NASA know about the sister planet because of the effects of its gravity on the other planets. They are too busy to find proof because they have to patrol the massive ice wall that surrounds the flat earth that most of us have been taught is a fictional continent called "Antarctica" at the bottom...

Sorry have I spoiled tomorrow's unpopular opinion prematurely?