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tank looks really good. good job!

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It depends on the Betta. I would make sure that there are lots of good hiding places for the RCS if you decide to give it a try.

Not that I am aware of. I think anything done to the water is done by the city.

This is the size tank I'm hoping to get after I move later this year. I've heard that it's a great size because it has room for background, mid, and foreground plants.

I posted this in the Scientific section about a week ago without any help. But I have some questions about the hardness of my water coming out of my tap. I was using the API hardness test and the GH turns green after 1 drop. This doesn't suprise me since the water here is very "soft" and it...

I have a three gallon tank that when I wanted to upgrade the lighting I got a WavePoint 6" 8 watt LED.I got the model that is a very pleasant 6500 k, but there is also a 10000 k model. I got it off of Amazon and am liking it a lot.

Also the Ph coming out of the tap (after resting a day) is 7.8. I thought soft water went with low Ph.

You can use regular super glue to glue rocks together. You can use silicon too, but some types are okay for aquariums and some aren't.

I have some questions about the hardness of my water coming out of my tap. I was using the API hardness test and the GH turns green after 1 drop. This doesn't suprise me since the water here is very "soft" and it doesn't take much soap to wash dishes or anything. on the other hand, the KH seems...

I thought I'd update my tank journal since it's been a little while. Hardware wise, the light that came with the tank wasn't working well for my plants so I replaced it with a WavePoint 6" 8 watt LED that is a very pleasant 6500 k. The filter was an internal canister model that took up way too...

Great pictures. It feels like you're right there in the tank with him. :)

If the tank feels cool you might want to double check the temperature of the tank with another thermometer. You could try an instant read thermometer or another aquarium thermometer. Sometimes the scale on the thermometer is off so it might say 80 but really be cooler than that.

I have a retired racing greyhound named Thursday (named after the G. K. Chesterton book the man who was Thursday). He is the best dog I've ever had. We go to one of the local hospitals once a month to visit some of the cancer patients and cheer them up. There is nothing in the world like getting...

So I am wanting to start adding liquid carbon to my tank and I had a question about dosing. The back of the bottle says add 5ml per 40l of water after a water change and then 5ml per 200l of water daily. From what I read it sounds like the liquid carbon is only active in the water colum for...

That's interesting. It sounds like the plants do a whole bunch of different things with the nitrogen then

So I know that the bacteria in a cycled tank convert ammonia to nitrite to nitrate. It is also my understanding that that live plants will also use the different types of nitrogen. What does the plant do with the nitrogen? I'm trying to think back to my high school science classes, but am coming...

I do. I've been using Topfin Water Conditioner. I do about a 50% water change every 2 or 3 days when my ammonia gets to about 2 ppm.

I think they turn a pink color when they die. It looks like the molted skin to me.

So I've had my tank up and running for about 7 weeks now. It is a 3 gallon tank with a betta and some live plants. I've been testing my water regularly and have yet to get a test that registers any nitrite. This has me confused because I would think that this length of time with having between 1...

  So I've got the Java Moss planted and the dark green fern was starting to look a little rough so I replaced it with an anubias that I think is looking good. I'm starting to get some new growth on the Java Ferns and the Java Moss is starting to green up.  While cleaning the tank I found one of...

I like the look of the anubias. Its got a nice darker green that would be a nice contrast to the lighter green of the Java ferns. I'll have to pick one up. :) On a sad note all the red cherry shrimp seem to be gone. I caught the betta eating one and I think he got the rest of them. What a cool...

I just had a chance to read that article. What I understand is I should be waiting for my test kit to be reading between 2 and 5 ppm before I do a water change. This way there is ammonia in the tank,but not so much it harms the fish. Is this a correct understanding? Also once I get closer to...

The Ph is between 7.4 and 7.6 when I check it and the tank temperature is about 78 degrees F.

How long do you think it will be before I start seeing Nitrite in the water?

I have a small tank (3 gallons) that I have running with an internal canister filter, planted with 1 betta.  The tank has been running for about a month now. I have been checking my water parameters, hoping to get the filter cycled. What is happening is I am getting ammonia readings between .5...

So I rearranged the tank trying to get the flow of the filter a little more even through the tank. I'm still trying to adjust the intake on the filter to get a balance between keeping the water moving and the betta from being pushed all around. i think I got it pretty good for now. The betta...

The package the fern came in had a Latin name that I looked up after I bought it (I can't remember of the top of my head what it was) and it looked like it was a plant that will last under water for a while but is more of an out of water type of plant. So I figured I'd leave it in there until it...

Your tank looks great! I love the driftwood.

So with 16 LEDs in the fixture, you only have 0.96 watts of LED light, and the PAR reading at the bottom of the tank will be very, very low, since its not designed for growing plants.   Java fern and Java moss are low-light plants but IMO that may be too little if the rooms dark, you'll want to...

After several years of being tankless I got the bug again. Since I know that I'll be moving in a few months I decided I didn't want anything too big and hard to move. I found a Marineland Crescent 3 that was on sale and figured why not.    I got it filled with some decorations and plants and a...

The light is the stock one that came with the kit. Its a Marineland Crescent 3. It has 2 rows of LEDs with 8 lights on each row. The box isn't very helpful as to what kind of lights they are other than being LED. I took a quick picture from the top and bottom if its helpful at all.