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I've seen my red-tail attack my festivum. There was definetly some nipping involved there. Nitrates shouldn't be 0.

Uuh, pardon me if I'm wrong, but I think that there definetly WOULD be a substantial amount of bacteria in the gravel. If you do not have a lot of bio-media in the HOBs, I would advise against switching it all at once. If you have plants or a colonoy of MTS or any snails, then I would remove...

Woah really, 28 watts?? Jeez, I've got 50W going now... Goes to show how much more efficient t-8s are. DIY hm? Where could I get ballasts... Any old hardware store?

Do these guys munch plants??

If anything, ditch the Pacu. If anything more, get rid of the Frontosa. I'd say all your new fish are dying because of not one culprit, but all of them.

If you have a brackish set up already, I would definitely keep it. I'm sure this is not a beginner fish, but if you're up to it -- that thing is awesome!!!!

Ya, I was gunna say, legos are hard to make sink. Nothing a little (lot?) of silicone couldnt fix. I was raised on legos. To this day we've still got an entire dresser-cabinet filled with tubs of legos.

But Plecosterone, its different from nature. Nature does not have any one confined population being manipulated to breed, solely for the purpose of eventualy feeding ALL of them to a bigger thing. Now, correct me if I'm wrong here... Even that being a point, I don't think it's wrong. Well yea...

I can't find any screw-ins higher than 25 :(. And plus this ballast is only rated for something like 15W so I donno if I wanna push my luck any harder.

Update: Some pics Feb 22nd - Xenotaca Eiseni fry. Active buggers. Feb 27th - First photo-captured pearling. Temporary problem w/ diatoms March 21st - Currently. Now have: Melon Sword, Driftwood w/ Java Fern + Moss, Pennywort (?? Looks like rooted lilly pads, some is floating w/ Riccia...