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I do use root tabs, every few inches near the base of all root plants. My only C02 is excel. The substrate is definitely not the best, it's just plain small aquarium gravel. I've never looked into dry ferts, I'll do some research. I have 2.5 w / gal. Would that be considered high?

Do you have C02? I'm a little concerned about cutting off plant nutrients all together after 2 years. But I need to cut down on algae. Small dots on the plants. Green on the glass. So what's with the yellowing leaves, starting to wrinkle?

The leaves on a few of my plants are wrinkling and fading in color. Their colors aren't as vibrant. And many of my older leaves are covered in spots. I'm seeing my newest anubias begin to wrinkle around the edges and I really want to stop that from happening!! What's the shortest I can leave...

I can't move any of the fish, other than bring some back to a LFS. I covered the tank with a blanket a few days while I went to work to keep out external light. So far, so good, the plants look healthy. I don't want to cut the light down too much more than about 7 hours. I have lots of plants...

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Just cleaned it. 40% water change and razor blade to the walls. Looks pretty nice now! How do I keep it this way?

Yea, it's fully loaded. 3 spotted Cory cats 3 harlequin rasboras 3 small pencil fish 1 (f?) gold ram 1 (m) steel blue apisto 1 (f) apisto agassizii (I think) 1 Siamese algae eater 1 dwarf frog 3 nerite snails 5-10 small pond snails

What can I do to stop the green algae (?) from growing on the side of the glass?? I didn't have it too bad for the first year or so of having the tank. But lately it's been growing fast. I scrape it weekly with the magnetic scrubber, and sometimes with a razor blade. I even siphon the water...

interesting. I've had a trio of cats for over 2 years and they've never laid eggs before. They were going bonkers all day, swimming vigorously together nonstop . I'm curious to see what happens! Thanks for your reply, good luck with your rams.

Is there anything I can do to stop the green algae from growing on the side of the glass?? I scrape it weekly with the magnetic scrubber, and sometimes with a razor blade. I even siphon the water as I scrape to get the majority of it picked up. It's a fairly heavily planted tank dosed with...

I just found about 30 eggs in various places around my tank, mostly on the glass and a bit on the plants. I've been trying to watch for a few hours but haven't seen anyone actually lay them. I THINK its my Gold Ram but I only have 1 Ram. She's acting very nervous and I saw her carry some eggs in...