Recent content by alexthecichlid

I also use plants hydroponically to filter

3 on 10, 5 will be on 20 gallons all my tanks I over filter. MY 46 gal has 1 canister 2 hob, 5 gal 2 filters and 75 gallons has 6 including a canister xl

basically is the amount of ammonia the same in the 10 as in the 20? If so there shouldn't be any spikes, right?

Hello all, I've been in the hobby a while but never really understood how to properly upgrade a tank without losses. I have beautiful juliodochomis and I don't want to lose them as well as some shell dwellers. I have 3 filters on the 10 gallons and they filter a lot as they are for 30-50...

my ideas have worked it's already clearing up seachem excel small doses and limited light have been so far successful as well as activated carbon

Hello, I will post photos as I am very confused as to what this can be growing on top of my beautiful algae. I think it is cyanobacteria from the research I've done but I can't be sure. It's not on my glass or gravel simply growing on top of already matured algae. Is it mold? Slime mold I'm...

how big is your new tank? I do south American tanks it sounds like you add fish from many countries and continents. Have you considered a biotope?

mine died this way to was really sad I did everything I could I even bought garlic guard and seachem entice nothing worked sadly he was bullied to death and wasn't allowed to eat by others. I've seen this behavior beyond discus. It's nature with animals only the strong survive it's the same with...

Oh it happens every time you add new wood don't worry its harmless and some fish will eat it

Hello all, Not sure if this is the right section to post this in but here we go, I have an African Cichlidé tank and my goal was to grow algae green on my rocks. Nows I am dosing Seachem flourish and Seachem phosphorus and have a power glo 18,000k t8. I took some rocks from my garden as I...

So i just started a riparium and its been really fun to experiment and try something new it looks natural (to me at least) and my tetras love it! i tried to add gif it changes it to a jpg

hello, i took your advice and it seems to be working already! thank you!!!

hello everyone, i have a co2 dyi i just bought for my smaller tank 40 gal and i have plants but i don't understand really what I'm dong with the diffuser at all. Are the bubbles supposed to be going to the top and popping or should the be staying in and around the tank?? i saw online people...

i have tried to upload images of my test results starting from day 1 reading which is a example of what happened inside tank from a cup demonstration. The ammonia was the highest on the first day the second test was the result from the soil removed from my tank leeching ammonia in to sample...

hi and thank you for the advice! i honestly decided to just dig out the pots with the soil in them, at this point it wasn't worth it to me. Did a 75% water change after digging them out incase of another spike and added Kordon AmQuel. My cichlids have been doing really bad because of this...