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Like tiny lime green cotton balls on dark rocks. When looking very close you see they're on teensy threads. Guppies and other browsing fish seem repulsed by them. Also some growing on gravel where it looks slightly like moss. Syphoned most of it away but sure some is left. What is it?

180-gallon. 3 weeks with a lemon bristlenose pleco and I've only seen it in this "invisible" crack--many times. Only once did it venture out to the light stone for a few seconds. It's about 4 cm long. Do I have to wait for it to outgrow the crack to ever really see it?

Established 180-gallon planted tank will full animal load. Tap water pretty nasty. It's "ph and softness adjusted" by the city and varies but typically ph 7.5-7.7 with kh 6 and gh 8. Have a water softener installed on the home system but always put it on bypass when using any tap water for...

These five were were all purchased at the same time/size about three years ago. I know it can be difficult to sex these fish but I suspect the two smaller ones are males. Their dorsal and ventral fins are particularly long and pointed, their coloration is different from the other three being...

After six months just removed all the plastic from my 180-gallon. Yay! All plants are fully established but not yet fully grown. The tank surface is 6' x 2'. There is a very active bubble wall along the entire back lit with 50W of full-spectrum LED. The bubbles do a wonderful job of...

Am ready to add a school of 80 neon tetras to an established 180-gallon. Have been using rainwater to gradually bring down the ph and hardness compared to our hard, alkaline highly treated tap water. Have found a seeming "hold" spot through many water changes that stays at ph 7.1; kh 3, gh...

In need of a long (18", 45cm) narrow (3/4", 2 cm) leaved plant for a corner of a 180-gallon. High or moderate light, moderately planted, no CO2, ph 7.1, kh 3, gh 5. Any suggestions appreciated.

Nearly a year since my my first post here. Found that the tank was a 180-gallon (nominal). Thanks to all who have responded and aided me here. This old-time aquarist who learned from the excellent and still completely relevant tomes written by experts to whom mechanical aeration was *the*...

Put two julii corys into a freshly cycled 160-gallon tank about 15 November last year. Tankmates are five adult blood red cichlids, one adult firemouth, one 18" plecostomus, and about 30 fancy guppies. Lots of natural stone in many sizes and a half dozen plastic plants. Staple foods are...

How quickly does the ph fluctuate when using CO2 fertilization systems? How long after the system stops until ph rises to "normal"? hours? days? weeks? If target ph is 6.7 with tap water ph 7.6 (5 Kh, 8 Gh) mixed with rainwater does a large water change stress the fish who can tolerate...

Received a large order of plants from liveaquaria.com in early February. All chosen to work with local water conditions even though I intend to bring down the ph and hardness using a rainwater collection system I scored on closeout sale. All planted in 2" plastic trays of various size using a...

I decided to make a 6' bubble wall across the back of my large tank. Have always had difficulty getting the bubble plates to stay down so I decided to epoxy them to 2" marble threshhold that I've used many times to finish the edge at doors to tiled bathrooms. I did it in two 3' (about) pieces...

Am ready to begin planting my 160-gallon tank designed to be a true community. I was away from the hobby for decades due mainly to burnout but couldn't pass up two complete tank setups of this size at a "surplus" auction from a government facility for next to nothing. The aquarium has external...

I'm planning a 2' x 2' x 4'H terrestrial habitat to install above 1/2 of my 160-gallon fresh water tank. The base is key as I want a "connection" to the tank for semi-terrestrial inhabitants, a watering hole and "ground" water for plants. Below is my idea. It will be made from 1/4" Lexan and...

Have the nitrogen cycle working perfectly in my new 160-gallon and am ready to begin introducing more inhabitants to this planned true community tank. Tap water in my town has a quite regular ph of 7.5 and KH of about 8-9. Current inhabitants are five adult blood red parrots, one adult...

My new 160-gallon tank is fully cycled and I'm ready to introduce some new residents. It present it has five adult blood red parrots, one firemouth, a 12"+ pleco and heaven knows how many fancy guppies as to my amazement the fry are being completely ignored. While not yet introduced I intend...

Any chance to include a few shrimp into a 160-gallon tank with 5 blood red parrots and 1 firemouth cichlid? All of the cichlids are adults about 3 years old. To my amazement they are cohabitating perfectly with a bunch of fancy guppies that I put in expecting they would be "treats". They...

Am working on a large (160-galon) new tank and am curious about lighting as I've never used anything more complicated than Aquari-Lux fluorescent tubes. I'll have a mix of real and plastic plants. Fully spectrum using three different colored LEDs in the fixture seems the way to go, correct...

This may seem a strange question but any suggestion for a small (when fully grown) carnivore/omnivore to add to a large (160-gallon) well-planted tank with a lot of guppies (among other fish). Something that will snack on some of the newly or recently born fry without going after or nipping the...

I'm setting up a large (160-gallon) tank to be a true community. Experimented by putting a few small female and one vivid male guppy into to 75-gallon tank with 5 full-grown blood-red parrot fish, a full-grown firemouth cichlid and a foot-long pleco. I expected the guppies to be snacks but...

My first post. Umpteenth home tank but first above 80 gal. Will this work? It's my first aquarium with both water and land. I plan on invertebrates, amphibians, common small non-cichlids, mosses, terrestrial plants, aquatic plants, semi-aquatic plants. Intend large groups of guppies...