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I assumed the same about the Algae Fix, I'm wondering the effect that plus the Hydrogen peroxide had on the tank? I dosed as the directions said and that's when the plants seemed to be better as all the algae was dying off, however I think the damage was done as some of the plants only have top...

May need to start a new thread here.. So I thought I was able to kill the algae, but apparently not. I did slow it down a lot though. I pulled all the plants and driftwood and did a peroxide soak, then scrubbed the tank of as much algae as I could. I did a 50%+ water change during this as well...

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**Update** Ok, so I took a break and tried to get into a good groove by not adding anything new to the tank. After several weeks I felt quite confident that I had my water parameters rock solid, every week the same readings with slight fluctuations in the pH. Also, I'm colorblind (like the King...

Actually it looks like this is a better option for a planted tank:http://www.seachem.com/acid-buffer.php

I'd prefer not to have multiple containers of water to manage, so I don't think this would suit me, however i appreciate the advice. I think the cycle is fine, however It's been a long time and quite frankly I want to actually see some fish in my tank rather than just these plants and what...

So I did a water change today and tested my water as I normally do, it looks like with the peat pellets my water is back down to about 7.8 pH. Although due to the lack of fish my Nitrates are very low so I need to get some more fish in my tank soon. See the results in my photos. KH was 3...

I added some Peat granules to the filter and now the pH is down to 7.8. I've also lowered the temp so now it stays around 78F. I think I may have been overly concerned with pH and not measuring my water during PWC and adding the correct Decholorinator possibly. I use the Python sink/hose system...

I don't want to out anymore driftwood in my tank, I bought some peat pellets so I'm going to try that

78-79 degrees constantly. Not sure what DW is but I don't have a lot of space to invest in this.

So everything was stable for a very long time, over 6 months, so I went and bought some Golde White clouds 4ea. and added them into my tank as a test group. They all survived about a month before the largest one died, then 2 weeks later a second died, then a week later the 3rd one died. The...

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I cap full for every 10 gal for the initial dose or after major water changes. Then 1 capful for 50 gal of water. I do slightly less than a capful

So i've added root tabs as suggested: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000255QLG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And placed several of them burried deep in the substrate as the instructions stated. I also purchase some Seachem Flourish Excel...

If you had water running in the tank for quite a while you may have had a tiny amount of bacteria in there, not a total loss. At least you know the tank won't leak, better to know that before you have a tank full of fish! I too was very impatient after hours or research, I was ready to go.. But...

Be careful with over dosing, I wouldn't go past 5ppm. I over dosed one time and it threw everything off for a few days. Do you mean your ammonia was at 1.5ppm after the overdose? Thats exactly what happened to me. I only saw a small amount of nitrites at first, but have never seen any since...

Thanks for the advice, I will try dosing with co2 and see how that works. The idea was to setup a low-tech planted tank to ease into the hobby with minimal cost. We then planned to move into medium to higher light plants. I was considering the planted light in my response above, also I have a...

Thank you for all the advice and analysis, It sounds like you are right on with you assessment. I had the same assumptions about the issues I'm seeing, which you agree. I did a lot of research about Eco-Complete and it was often recommended by several posts and articles for planted tanks, it...

In the past two weeks i've noticed quite a bit of green algea on the glass walls of the tank. Not sure how to address it? I have two fish left.

The LED's are just the basic ones that came with the tank kit, they aren't specific for growing plants. That's why we picked low-light plants (or so we were told they were) I did a lot of reading and saw that standard lighting would be OK for low-light plants We are definitely interested in a...

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I float the inner plastic bag from the store for about 20-30 mins then pour most of the water out in the sink trying to only dump as little water as possible from the fish store in my tank everything is described in my post, I apologize for the length but I did explain all that. As far as...

I started out with a fishless cycle and within 3 weeks the tank was completely cycled. I used Eco-Complete substrate and re-used old rocks and an old piece of driftwood, both unused for over 20 years but I boiled them for over an hour and dried them completely a few days before putting the tank...