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I’d say you guys are right and thank you all so much! I hate it but I really don’t have any room to add more and they’re a schooling fish. Even though it’s a pretty heavily planted tank with an overhauled filter I think I’ve pushed it to the limit already. I guess I’ll see if Petco will take it...

The body shape and fin placements do match up nice and it does have the same black speck on the tail. However the main color of this fish isn’t a blue at all and it has no stripes, it’s just a solid silver body.

Okay cool! So would high dosages of fertilizers have any kind of affect at all on water parameters?

Pond snails. They’re harmless to your plants and fish. They’re easily overlooked when packaging plants and sometimes fish to the pet stores and from there to your home aquariums. They eat algae and waste and aren’t a problem as long as they don’t have enough food available to multiply to the...

When I stocked my tank I asked for 10 ember tetras. After watching for a month this particular fish just doesn’t seem like it’s an ember. I can’t find any other fish that looks like it. The embers are a transparent red and they rarely move their fins when swimming. This fish is more silver and...

I’m not 100% sure I really can’t tell ya one way or the other but I would think that if they’re safe enough for people to drink through they’d be fine floating in a tank

Oh yeah for sure. You can use airline hose to make a circle it works great. I squeeze gel super glue in one end and fill that end up good and then just kind of fold the other end a little to shove it in easier. If your hose has any kind of kinks that won’t come out and it’s shaping weird you can...

No not really. I use two clip on desk lamps with medium intensity led bulbs on my tank and I dose liquid fertilizers but they’ll do fine without it

I’ve even been considering starting a legit goldfish tank just so I can feed them excess plants from my tank so nothing goes to waste lol

I know it’s ridiculous that’s how I got mine. Not trying to undercut people’s business on eBay but I’ll gladly give them to anyone for free because I love them and I’m proud of my success lol

I’m located in Oklahoma and I have a TON of red root floaters that I need to get rid of but I don’t wanna go through the hassle of selling them on eBay or anything, and I hate to just throw them away when there’s people out there that would use them.

I read the article and there’s some interesting points in it. However to say that a filter only makes the water clearer and not cleaner and then to say you find that sponge material makes a great platform for beneficial bacteria seems kind of conflicting. Fact of the matter is yes a filter does...

Mystery and nerite snails. Affected them both the same.

I’m posting this for future beginners who run into fungal issues in their tanks. My problem with fungus has been solved for weeks but hopefully my experience can keep someone from killing their snails in the future. After doing research about the product everything I found was conflicting...

And to me it makes me wonder, wouldn’t dosing such massive amounts of fertilizer and nutrients increase your waters hardness? With shrimp being so sensitive to water hardness such a case would be catastrophic to my tank and my own emotional health lol

I was not aware of this I’m glad you brought this up. I have read incidents where people overdosed their tanks with it and their plants melted and died. But I’m very careful with my dosing these fish are my babies lol. I did read one mans thread where he did an experiment on his tank with...

I would say add some bio filter media to what you already have in that filter, add some beneficial bacteria to help jump start the media, and if your tanks cycled, I would do water tests every few days for a couple weeks to see if your filters handling your bio load.

With that many fish in a 10 gal I would suggest getting a larger filter and using coarse songe, fine filter floss, and some kind of bio filter media such as seachem matrix. There’s no such thing as too big of a filter so long as you can adjust the flow and it’s not turning your tank into...

And keep in mind if you have invertebrates such as shrimp or snails, some fertilizers will be toxic for them because they contain copper. So if you choose to keep them be sure your fertilizer is safe for them. Some brands even have fertilizers that they label as “shrimp safe” or “for shrimp.”...

There are a lot of good brands out there. All I use at the moment is flourish and flourish excel and they’re doing wonders for my plants. Flourish contains all the micro and macro nutrients plants need and excel is liquid carbon which is good if you don’t want to run a co2 injection system to...

Also keep in mind that if you have a thick patch of non heavy root feeding plants, such as hornwort which doesn’t typically grow roots and can just float in your tank, using root tabs in that area is a waste as the plants won’t use them. Liquid fertilizers added directly to the water column are...

You simply insert the tab into the substrate. I’m sure different brands have different recommendations on how far apart and how often to renew. I use seachem root tabs and they recommend inserting one every 4 to 6 inches apart, and renewing every 3 to 4 months.

Hi, I’m new to planted tanks and fish keeping. I use fluval shrimp and plant stratum. It has done wonders for my shrimp compared to when I was just using eco complete. My plants are doing fantastic. However I do use root tabs and also dose liquid fertilizer to ensure my plants are getting...