Recent content by AshleyXavier

1 light should be enough if you are going for low to med lights plants without co2 2 if you are going for high lights plants

try low light plants like moss... xD

i suspect excess nutrients since they don't look like fast growing plants.. for me, best way to get rid of algae is to use a fast growing plant with med to high amount of light to soak up all the nutrients.. xD works better than introducing pest snails... Otto is too gentle, it won't get rid...

More info on your tank setup will help... and what do you mean by a fishless cycle? for only 2 days, your water is probably not cycled properly... even if you add bacteria, it still takes some time to be fully established. how is your lighting level? Temp? water parameters?

Perhaps you can check the water you use to change, what type of water, how much you change, etc. Most people will need more info to help you. As for buying Otto Cats, when buying from shops, choose your otto carefully. One easy indication is to look at their stomach area, if it is flat or...

lol.. i have this problem not just with long plants.. even short ones like glossostigma.. I started by planting them sparsely.. they look kinda bare for about a month before starting to spread nice enough.. after a couple of months, they make a nice beautiful carpet.. after that, they ran out of...

I used to keep a couple of high light tanks and have to trim my plants like once every 2 weeks or it will turn into a jungle in a month.. It can get pretty tiring when I'm busy with work. lol.. I'm just wondering for those with High Lighting level Tanks and fast growing plants, how often do...

not too sure, the ones I tried seems to do well. perhaps they can adapt to both full freshwater and brackish. The only issue I have with them is that they tend to be fin nippers

Don't think it's over. I usually use a over rated filter for me tank. it usually works better. Some fishes like strong current, some don't. So it will really depends on which variety of fishes you have in the tank.

lolx, I guess most people shake in tank water to defrost. For me, I just place the cube on top of the aquarium light. The heat defrost it pretty fast, then I just dump them into the water. Normally I just feed 1 cube or 2, depends on the rate of feeding. Just add normal flake food or something...

I seems to have several white worms and some weird creatures in my shrimp tank.. The white worms doesn't seem like planaria and the weird creature looks white and round and about 1-2 mm size. They don't seems like snails and they move pretty fast when they want to. Anyone have any idea what is...

there are several plants that behave this way: cryptocorybe parva - long leaves that spreads open under high light, almost vertically up in low light glossostigma - will grow up and not spread unless under high light

I can think of 2 possible causes 1) Light too high, try lower the wpg. 2) Type of light used. I read somewhere that blue (actinic) works better for red plants. But unable to verify this. Something to do with green plants absorbing more red lights and red plants absorbing more on the other...

Hmm.. not too sure about Java Moss. Somehow it refuse to grow well in my tank even though the rest of the plants are doing great, even my christmas moss is growly very fast. The few things I noted is that it does better in my moderate light tank than my high light tank with co2. If I am not...

Crystal Red is also a sort of bee shrimp. It will breed with the common Bee.. Not sure about the rest. Usually the best is to avoid putting different species together unless you are trying to cross breed 2 species