Recent content by Nortzy21

I have a heavily planted 29 gallon with a Marineland Penguin 200B filter rated for 50 gallons. Current stock list is as follows: 2 zebra striped angelfish 8 neon tetras 7 harlequin rasboras 1 albino bristlenose pleco 4 amano shrimp I WOULD LIKE TO ADD SOME SORT OF BOTTOM DWELLER OR...

I would go with a bristlenose pleco. From my experience, the barbs are less likely to be bothered by a pleco than a oto. Mine does a great job keeping the algae down in my 29g planted tank.

Did a 50% water change today and cleaned up the overgrown baby tears. DIY CO2 currently has a leak so I added some silicone around the bulkheads---hoping for the best. On a good note, plants are thriving and everything is looking great

Any good aquarium YouTube channels that people like? My personal favorites are Dustins Fish Tanks, King of DIY and Rachel O'Leary. You can never know enough about this hobby!

Update, finally! The tank is doing really well and plants are growing in very nicely, especially the Amazon swords and baby tears. Notice the difference from a month ago in my last post to now. I'm still running the lights at 60% for only 7.5 hours. Please excuse the random plant placement of...

I do have a red eared slider turtle I could feed the unwanted fry to. Guppies are turtle safe, right?

Couldn't have said it better myself. Natural selection is the driving force for any healthy ecosystem.

It's not that I don't want the fish. I just don't wanna overstock my tank. There are probably 10 in there now including the babies and that along with my other fish will create too heavy of a bioload if I let the guppies grow out.

Hello all, I have a 29 gallon planted tank that is doing very well but I want to find a way to control my guppy population naturally. It seems like every time I look at the tank, I find a new baby guppy. Right now, I have about 5 full grown guppies in there along with a few babies. In addition...

I have a 24/7 myself and I run it on a timer for about 8 hrs on 70% power. I had it on 24/7 mode when I first got it which led to algae growth. I do have diy CO2 and mainly low light plants so the strong light from the 24/7 mode wasn't needed. If you have pressurized CO2 then I'd try out 24/7 mode.

Update Plants are starting to take off, especially the baby tears. My lighting level still might be too strong for the crypts and swords even after I turned it down to 70%. I also still have a bit of algae bug hopefully that will dissipate as plant mass increase. The diy CO2 is working like a...

Ok I removed the fluorescent bulb and I just want to test out 24/7 mode for a week or so and see how the plants respond. The CO2 is running nicely and I ordered some flourish trace to dose along with normal flourish. The lighting coupled with nutrients and CO2 will hopefully balance out but if...

Yes I'm running a finnex 24/7. It's on 24/7 mode currently which I like since I can view the tank all day. In this mode, the lights are at their strongest for 9 hours a day so maybe I should just turn them normal on/off mode for 8 hours or so? Let me know what you think.

Did a 50% water change a few days ago and rescaped the tank using Bert2oo1's suggestions....and it's looking great! Just need to let the plants go in a little more and cover up some of the equipment in the back. Diy CO2 is running well. I need to change out one of the bottles out today. Here's...

Just tested and according to my pH test kit I'm sitting at about 7.6 which is good since it will only go down as more CO2 is dissolved. My tap water must be slightly basic