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@AdoraBelle Dearheart there you go its coming together slowly not looking to win any awards just looking for a overgrown but maintained looked, my otos love getting there noses down into that detritus so that would explain some of the weird things I see them doing 🤣🤣

I have 5 otocinclus mariae (1 died he was an awful lot smaller than the others when I first got 6) around about a month and a half ago my tank is only around 3 months old I'm very impatient when I want it I want it 😏 I think myself lucky my 5 otos seem visibly very happy swimming together...

Evening all can anyone explain to me what this orangey coloured liquid is noticed it awhile ago never got round to posting a picture (hopfully you can see it) any info would be great. thanks

Sorry to highjack this but I had the same thoughts with my platy and mollie fry I have 130 litre tank planted tank with 12 platys/mollies and 6 otocinclus cats I've been netting the fry just as I would like to see the fry grow, at the minute they are in 2 small 19litre tanks my main question is...

That looks really nice I've had to cut the rotala tonight on my water change its literally grow 3inch this week since the extra irons been added

As I'm el dosing with seachem products if I'm dosing more iron will I need to adjust my other nutrients to suit, yes I've watched some of his videos he's a real straight forward guy doesn't likw to complicate things abit like myself mainly because I don't know to much 😅😁

@Stan510 i didnt have the testicles to double the iron for 3ml to 6ml but however this week I have been dosing 4.5ml of iron just to make sure the fish were going to handle it and the growth rate on the rotala is insane and the plant to the left of it (can't remember the name 😀) is also going crazy

It's growing upwards I'm trimming it once a week to keep it short and trying to get it to spread more than anything

Yes I didnt think about that at all 🤦‍♂️ not one of the sources I was reading from mentioned fish at all should of picked up on that I will always read something then come onto this forum based of the knowledge the members here have and get a fast reply 👌👍

Evening all was doing some research on why my dwarf hairgrass is kind if brownish and growing slowly, I'm using a seachem el dosing schedule and using co2 maybe im being abit impatient but the grass has been in the tank around month and a half and i keep adding more but what i saw tonight was...

OK thanks for the advice I will try that

How much are we talking what is a suitable increase in your experience, I'm still very new to the hobby so I'm absorbing as much info as I can get

I am currently dosing 3ml of iron 3 times a week maybe I should try upping the dosage?

I was just expecting it to be growing alot faster from when I've watched and read its 1 of the first plants I planted and I've only trimmed it maybe 3 times in 3 months only a handful of stems almost reaching the surface the trimmings I've replanted and they seem to stay around 6inch tall

I believe this is the light that came with the tank if anyone has any recommendations of lights they use it would be much appreciated I've changed filter from the original aqua one that came with it and il always looking to upgrade for better results

I did think about getting a new light, the light I'm using is still the light I got with the tank (aqua one horizon) when I bought it but lighting I have looked at other lights but I have no idea what I'm really looking for or what is best for what I have in my tank some people just use cheap ol...

So everywhere I read rotala rotundifolia is very easy to grow until now I've got really thought to much about its my tanks around 2-3 months old just letting it do its thing, today I was watching a few videos on rotala I thought my rotala has literally done nothing since its been planted ive...

The tank was only running around 3 months never had any problems with ammonia/nitrites other than abit of algea here and there which was my own fault for not having the light on a timer was my sons tank which of course I had to look after it, even did a fish in cycle without knowing what I was...

Just for the record I moved the 4 platys into a bigger tank with other platys and mollies and they have gone back to their usual greedy selves and don't get spooked no more

Im just home from work and for whatever reason the water has gone gin clear again 🤦‍♂️ I added today's dose of iron expecting it to get worse and everything is normal again I have no idea

Bring this post back up I've just noticed my tank has done the same thing over night not as cloudy as yours but it has a cloudy tint ammonia nitrite nirates are all 0 over the past 2 weeks I started to follow a dosing schedule using seachum products I will attach a pic of the dosing if that's...

OK thanks for that's I won't be buying no more balloons 🙄

Back again with another ballon mollie not looking well an few hours ago I noticed him just near the stop of the water just still not really moving just keeping himself in 1 position, few mins ago I thought where is he I can see all the other mollies and platys as normal went looking for him he...

Evening all, ive not thought much about it but I noticed a week or so ago the 4 platys in my sons 19l tank seems to be really shy and hiding, normally I will walk in the room each morning turn the light on check they are all fine and go about my daily business come home from work feed them...

She had died this morning, but thanks for replying to my answers given me some info I can carry on forward with 👍

She is just upside down in the breeder box now hasn't moved for hours just breathing extremely slowly Will the salt effect the other fish within the tank, mollies platys and 6 otocinclus mariae's.

I'm no fish expert but I have just noticed one of my ballon mollies swimming upside down and round and around but looks like something to do with the swim bladder? I've tested both ammonia and nitrite and they are reading 0 all the other fish are swimming around as normal is there anything I can...

I have 8 platys, 4 mollies and 2 ballon mollies and some snails, Tanks only been up and running nearly 2 months off the top of my head I'm going for an overgrown but managed looked plenty of hiding places everywhere, I am getting alot of fry 😅 which I knew would be the case so maybe having...

Can livebearers ( mollies and platys) and shrimp live together I've been reading/watching different things about it but as most things within the hobby it seems to be mixed reviews and experiences so does anyone have first hand experience? Thanks for looking

Whatever the white tips on the plant were they have now gone 🤷‍♂️ there for a few days and today gone how strange 🤔

Do the surface plants actually cut that much light out to a point the other plants may suffer?