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I took our driftwood out to remove the long hair algae. This is the first time I've seen the roots of this plant since we put the wood in. They look odd, is that normal or is there something wrong?
Thanks
We learned our lesson. Our Rainsoft water system needs new filters and we can't purchase them until Monday. It didn't cross our mind that store bought would be a big issue, our mistake!
Lights are on about 8-10 hours a day normally. Since the algae outbreak I've lowered that to 3 hours a day...
PH: 6.0
Ammonia: .50
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 20
This is our first planted tank and it is struggling. We did a water change yesterday and used store bought water instead of our filtered water. Over night one of our fish passed away so I ran tests this morning and the Ph is extremely low! What's...
I just want to make sure this is "normal"
We started cycling the 29 gallon biocube 4 weeks ago. The the ammonia spiked and went to 0 in 6 days. The Nitrite hasn't gone down at all the last 3 week and nitrate is just starting to go up. We have diatom growth on the sand and glass already and some...
I have a really stupid question so please don't make fun of me! We got 2 snowflake clownfish, one of the clownfish died very quickly in QT. A few said it looked like clownfish disease. The other one has been in the QT with treatment and so far no signs of sickness.
My question is can we...
We decided to go with the full spectrum. The other ones were only a few dollars less. Can't wait for it to get here! Temporarily using a freshwater hood/light so I can see! :-)
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Another question. We have a protein skimmer in chamber 1. I was looking at the intake media baskets for chamber 2. Would you suggest that or a refugium with live rock and Chaeto?
To quiet the fall into the second chamber, ideas?
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