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Your tank looks good dude. the only thing i would change would be the pot. Ive never been a fan of them. diying a nice rock cave would compliment the natural look of the tank.

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I probably wouldnt worry about running air unless by the end of the day your fish are really gasping for air. If you wanted your diy to be efective you should probably add another bottle to the mix alot of people think anything over 20 gal is useless when it comes to diy. Just make sure you have...

Because your using diy you may not even need to run air Just make sure you have a good amount of surface agitation and thats usually enough. You can run air but it all depends on how effective your diy is. What size is the tank?

Co2 and o2 at the same time is a good recipe for algae

I did a combination of both steel frame then cladded with marine ply big learning curb for me

Theyre really easy to diy if you wanted to try one out

Sorry iread that as .5 mummas exactly rite What test kit are you using??

welcome to the hobby!! By the looks of it you may still be at the start of your cycle ideally you want 0 for all your tests especially nitrites and ammonia as these are more so toxic to fish than nitrates. Do you have a good understanding of how a cycle works as neon tetras arent really a great...

Stem plants get alot of nutrients from the water column could it ever be An issue??

You can use silicone and the on the side that dosent come into contact with water you can use knead it its a putty that binds to plastic that goes rock hard make sure uyou use the correct silicone and massage it in to get gopd contact

Ime Steel can acutally be cheaper than wood to buy however its the welder the skill to weld that is the real cost and challenge wood is good but factos like type of wood and sealing and joining also add to the cost

K is usually pinholes with blacl around it. It could be black spot algae search it up and try and compare some pictures if so you can kill it with flourish excel in high doses or any fertilizer with glutaraldehyde or however you spell it

I had massive fluctuations with my ph At one stage it was the highest it could go on my api test kit then i took out my buffers and it whent to the lowest even unidentifiale colors on my kit and havent lost a single discus or ram which are 'apparently' more sensitive to changes in their...

Just to throw in my two cents wpg only works with t8s im pretty sure