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Your choice. Personaly I wouldn't put anything from the sea in my tank. Tom

Very nice looking tank, ever so slightly overstocked. :)

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+1, show & tell time :)

Unfortunately the feeder blocks do seem like a good idea but can cause ammonia issues because its no different than adding a weeks worth of your normal feed all at once & we all know that is a bad idea. Tom

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Please do another water test & post your readings. What kind of test kit are you using? Also please post all your stats, water temp, ph, nitrite, nitrate, ammonia. Once we have this information then we can hopefully help. Tom

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Do a full blackout, it easy. Turn your co2 off, turn your lights off & chuck a duvet over the tank, DONT PEAK at it for three days. Tom

great to know its not just me then :good:

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Ok, I am not to sure what you are asking here. Your diffuser is working fine, your circulation seems fine, whats this glasplate you mention? Tom

I feed 5 days a week & miss out Tuesday & Thursday. If you do every other day its kinda hard to keep track, a week being 7 days an all. :unsure: Tom

Good luck, every time I try to grow this stuff it goes wrong. Tom

Hi & welcome to the forum. How old is your tank? Tom

Those stats are promising. Do a 25% water change to get the ammonia down to a reasonable lvl you want 3-4ppm. The Ph is a bit of a concern, if it goes lower it will crash your cycle, chuck in teaspoon or 2 of bicarbonate of soda, this will raise it to 8 again. Tom

+1 Rummynose Tetras, awesome shoaling fish. Tom

What colour is your "cloudy" water. This is important. White or milky = Bacterial Bloom. Green = Algal Bloom. Bacterial will clear up by itself, Algal needs some further investigating. Tom

Yes, 25% is 25% no matter the size of the tank. Then as the filter matures, up it to 30-40-50% in stages. You are doing a great job & at the end of it your ML wont believe the change in the look of the tank & the general health of the fish, Kudos to you. Tom

I have a my filter outlet & an additional circulation pump blowing across the back of the tank from right to left. This causes most of the waste to gather in the back right corner of the tank. I then use a 1" length of food-grade hose to suck the waste out into my garden drain, this is done...

I have been away for 5 days on holiday & have just returned home. The first thing I did was check my tank (as you do)& blow me down if I didn't spot a tiny assassin snail, about the size of two grains of rice side by side. My colony of assassins is growing, I know it kinda hard to STOP snails...

If it is small enough put it in your toilet cistern. A complete change of water 10 times a day is great. Tom

If its free, chuck it in, if it costs money then that is entirely up to you. Tom

Buying a snail eating fish is addressing the problem & not the cause. Most snail infestations are caused by overfeeding so the first thing to do is to stop feeding your fish for a few days (they can quite happily go weeks without feeding). Baccus has suggested putting a carrot in the tank, I...

Never ever ever ever change your filter media. Tom

Me too, wife & kids love it. Tom

The second stage of the cycle (the nitrite eating bacteria) typically take twice as long as the Ammonia eating bacteria to establish a colony. Patience. Tom

What do you mean by your water "has finally settled"? Tom

You are nearly there, my fishless cycle took NINE WEEKS, & then overnight, boom, lovely double zero's. Tom

+ 1 for playsand, thats whats in the tank in my sig. Tom

Very nice, now comes the hard work :good: Tom

1 hour, that includes, water change + sand vac, Glass cleaning & pruning of plants, cleaning of light tubes & reflectors, change reagent in drop checker. Add another 20 mins to that if I do filter maintenance as well. Tom

That is completely normal. Your ammonia eating bacteria are now very healthy & producing lots of Nitrite waste. This in turn will be eaten by a new colony of nitrite eating bacteria which take on average twice as long as the ammonia eating type to get established. Tom

I wouldnt put anything from the sea into my freshwater tank. Tom

I wouldnt put anything that has been in the sea into a freshwater tank. Tom

If you are doing a fishless cycle then dont worry too much as the excess ammonia will probably kill the eggs or babies. To clear the adults weigh down a piece of lettuce in the tank, in the morning it will be covered in snails, remove & dispose, then use a new piece of lettuce. Do this three...

Social fish like to be in schools of 6 or more, this way they can always see 5 comrades & feel like they are in a bigger shoal so behave in a nice natural way. So up the corys to 6. Tom

Are you doing a fish-in-cycle or a fishless one? Tom