Recent content by kjt1776

How are the plants holding up GFT?

I like Danios! Have two of them currently along with three sunburst plattys. Of the three plattys one is a mickey, another a wag platty and I swear the third looks like hitler. Could be why the two go after it so much or its because it two males and a female lol. Maybe a bit of both. Had to...

Also any algae/diatoms are going to take good nutrients out of the water for themselves. So its kind of a double wammy on the plants.

From my experience, which recently was algae out breaks covering my leaves, I am going to say yes. When algae and black beard type started showing up for me I noticed my leaves were affected for sure. They did not look as lively and of course even the thin layer of coating on them seemed to...

Hello gft, my thoughts on this are the decrease in light. Whats happening with them right now may be just a new transition phase. It maybe they are adjusting to a new need. From what I know and have experienced when light source is increased or decreased I always see a slight change in my...

Everything Aiken Said! But also I wanted to add that if your dealing with some algae fast growing check your phosphate levels from your water source. If its just tape water your using I will say for sure you have plenty of dissolved solids and phosphates in your water. I would recommend...

Hello, I myself am still a beginner after two years, however I do a lot of reading and recently came across info on different substrates and of course I read it all. It was probably the 5th time I read the information but something that struck me from your post was that the tank has been going...

Just did the first 50 percent water change. Yes it does clear it up a lot but I do expect it to come back over the next 24 hours. Kind of hope it does then then im positive it is the tannins. Tanks doing good and Keith and Ozzy (zebra Danios) are still kicking. Actually they are named after...

The carbon i replaced it with was around a month old. Earlier after your first post i moved the new carbon to the top. I have a aquaclear by fluval. Since its new we will see after a few days

Thank you for response Aiken. Yes i do have activate carbon in the three stage filter i have. I thought same thing and changed the carbon bag to a new one few days ago

I am pretty sure this is coming from the piece of wood that I bought that was preplanted but want to run this by everyone. 7 days ago I changed my 10 gal. over to a planted tank. Only one plant was pulled as it was on its way out. I changed my substrate from gravel to Fluval Stratum. This...