Search results

1 light should be enough if you are going for low to med lights plants without co2 2 if you are going for high lights plants

try low light plants like moss... xD

i suspect excess nutrients since they don't look like fast growing plants.. for me, best way to get rid of algae is to use a fast growing plant with med to high amount of light to soak up all the nutrients.. xD works better than introducing pest snails... Otto is too gentle, it won't get rid...

More info on your tank setup will help... and what do you mean by a fishless cycle? for only 2 days, your water is probably not cycled properly... even if you add bacteria, it still takes some time to be fully established. how is your lighting level? Temp? water parameters?

Perhaps you can check the water you use to change, what type of water, how much you change, etc. Most people will need more info to help you. As for buying Otto Cats, when buying from shops, choose your otto carefully. One easy indication is to look at their stomach area, if it is flat or...

lol.. i have this problem not just with long plants.. even short ones like glossostigma.. I started by planting them sparsely.. they look kinda bare for about a month before starting to spread nice enough.. after a couple of months, they make a nice beautiful carpet.. after that, they ran out of...

I used to keep a couple of high light tanks and have to trim my plants like once every 2 weeks or it will turn into a jungle in a month.. It can get pretty tiring when I'm busy with work. lol.. I'm just wondering for those with High Lighting level Tanks and fast growing plants, how often do...

not too sure, the ones I tried seems to do well. perhaps they can adapt to both full freshwater and brackish. The only issue I have with them is that they tend to be fin nippers

Don't think it's over. I usually use a over rated filter for me tank. it usually works better. Some fishes like strong current, some don't. So it will really depends on which variety of fishes you have in the tank.

lolx, I guess most people shake in tank water to defrost. For me, I just place the cube on top of the aquarium light. The heat defrost it pretty fast, then I just dump them into the water. Normally I just feed 1 cube or 2, depends on the rate of feeding. Just add normal flake food or something...

I seems to have several white worms and some weird creatures in my shrimp tank.. The white worms doesn't seem like planaria and the weird creature looks white and round and about 1-2 mm size. They don't seems like snails and they move pretty fast when they want to. Anyone have any idea what is...

there are several plants that behave this way: cryptocorybe parva - long leaves that spreads open under high light, almost vertically up in low light glossostigma - will grow up and not spread unless under high light

I can think of 2 possible causes 1) Light too high, try lower the wpg. 2) Type of light used. I read somewhere that blue (actinic) works better for red plants. But unable to verify this. Something to do with green plants absorbing more red lights and red plants absorbing more on the other...

Hmm.. not too sure about Java Moss. Somehow it refuse to grow well in my tank even though the rest of the plants are doing great, even my christmas moss is growly very fast. The few things I noted is that it does better in my moderate light tank than my high light tank with co2. If I am not...

Crystal Red is also a sort of bee shrimp. It will breed with the common Bee.. Not sure about the rest. Usually the best is to avoid putting different species together unless you are trying to cross breed 2 species

I have been growing riccia for quite a long while. I use stainless steel wire mesh, spread the riccia over it and tied down with hairnet simply by hooking the net to the jagged edges. My riccia grew like crazy as I have more than 4WPG. It took about a week for the riccia to grow out of the...

Tiger Barbs are pretty aggresive.. it is better to have either the barbs or the guppies moved to another tank. If you want to keep barbs with guppies.. get cherry barbs instead. they are more peaceful. keeping yr guppy in the QT should be fine, they will grow back the tail but that will take a...

haha.. I also often go to the lfs and have to remind myself not to buy any more fish or plants... but sometimes the temptation is too great... :lol: hehehee... I just went again earlier... and I brought a small tank plus another 15 shrimps.....

I have water sprite and I do not see any algae killing properties since my algae are still growing at the usual slow pace. The only thing I can think of is if your tank have lotsa nutrients, nitrates, etc, the watersprite being a super fast grower simply outfights the algae for the nutrients...

My water is acidic, guess it's around 6.5 since my tetras are doing very excellent. My Cherry Shrimps are doing very well with nice deep red stripes.. however, my Amano Shrimps ain't doing so well in the acidic waters... although they are still surviving. =) Also, the shrimps are very good in...

shld b refering to blue/black algae. i also think it's black algae.. looks similiar to the glosso in my tank.. some of them are like this too. :wink:

I believe I read in some articles that the plants need actintic light to stay red. Can't remember why exactly but my guess will be that since plants usually makes use of the red & blue spectrum for photosynthesis as the green leaves reflect off green light. Red leaves will actually reflect off...

Oh! Thanks Joe and all the rest for your help. :)

Definitely not a FW Blennie.. I think it's some kind of loach too.. The pic of the batik loach you posted looks more similiar than the one I found at http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/268.htm Not sure but the mouth looks slightly different.. There are 2 or 3 sets of barbels I think...

Hi, can anyone help to ID this fish? I have been searching a lot of profiles and can't find one that match...