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I'd imagine that the lighting is good enough to keep plants, right? I know that most places will tell you that you can do "Hardy" plants with the stock lighting; and then I have the LED on top of that. My problem is, locally, it's like 3-4 plants only. Anacharis, Wisteria, "Assorted Potted...

Well not amazingly populated. I'd say I have about 6-7 plants in there that are around the size of a baseball glove. I actually took 2 out this afternoon as I siphoned because they were pretty brown. I used a Marineland LED Double Bright with the 2 stock lights, so it's a little difficult to...

API Test kit. Pretty new I do have plants in the tank, but I've noticed no change good or bad with them over the year+ I've taken plants out, added new ones, etc.

This has been a problem for some time now, as my tank is about 18 months old.... Problem is, my tap water has an Ammonia level of like 3-4PPM and the PH is around a 9-10. There's also a slight hint of Nitrate in it. So when I do a water change, I don't like to use the tap water because it's...

Maybe they're hungry, but I'm feeding them twice a day, flake food. They eat it, and then let a lot of it just float around and the other fish get it. So it seems like they're fed...

Is it normal for Angels to go to the top, and basically take a bit of air? They'll go to the top, spin around, and take a little bit of the air, making this "Pop" noise from the water splashing. They do it all day... It's not a problem at all, but it's surprisingly loud. The water parameters...

Now that you said it, I remember it being water sprite

First of all, I'm not 100% what this plant in question is. I believe it's Anubias? I just picked up a variety of stuff. I've had it in my tank before, and I added it again this time when I recently re-did the tank. Both times it's started browning, and I'm not sure why. My lighting is just the...

I went out today to buy some Cories, but the one store didn't have any, and the other just had these grey looking ones. I didn't really like them, so I bought 5 Gold Algae Eaters. They seemed more lively. I also grabbed 2 Red Velvet Swordtails, which the guy said would be fine, so we'll see...

More along the color side. The Rumys and Neons are cool, but they're tiny and mostly silver you know. Maybe like a Pearl or Blue Gourami?

Would a Red-Tail Shark work? Or too big, too aggressive

I asked the guy about getting some kind of Catfish or bottom-feeder and he said they'd probably go after the Neons. It didn't sound right, but I'm more knowledgeable with Saltwater, so I was like "OK..." I know about the pairing. I'm hoping that by that time I've got even more plants and maybe...

Finally got my tank up and running again. Converted from an African Cichlid tank... I have 10 Neon Tetras 5 Rummynoses 1 Black Veil Angel 1 White Pearly Angel 1 Black Marble I'm somewhat worried that the Angels might go after the Neons, but the Angels are really small, so maybe they'll just...

OK, thanks. That makes sense I guess. So tomorrow I'll plan on putting the dechlronitor in a bucket of tap water, and testing that. Then doing some water changes this week. So if it turns out that the dechlorinator + Tap = 1PPM or so, and I do water changes and the tank gets down to 1PPM does...

So I just tested it: 0 Nitrites Basically 0 Nitrates, I have the API kit, and it's never quite yellow yellow for 0, but it was pretty close to yellow. 0-2PPM maybe And Ammonia was somewhere between .5 and 1PPM, those 2 color squares are almost the same, but it wasn't 2ppm. So let me just make...

0 Nitrites, let me go test the Nitrate real quick.

I'm using dechlorinator, yes. But wouldn't putting fresh tap water of around 1PPM Ammonia really not help much? Even if it's "Detoxified", isn't it still 1PPM Ammonia?

I took it off, and cleaned the tank, putting the filter back on in about 2 hours. Then got fish the next day. So maybe 18 hours without a direct source (fish)

Oh yeah, and 1 additional thing. I did buy 10 Neon Tetras that first day, assuming that everything would just be fine b/c of the filter and such... But they really do appear to be perfectly fine, which seems weird if the ammonia is 1 or 1.5PPM, right? They're not struggling at all, swimming...

Quick recap: 55G, had African Cichlids for about 7-8 months, decided I want to do something more community-type. So I filled a Styrofoam box with the African' water, and put the filter on that box, and let it run... Then I emptied the entire tank out, hosed it down, put in new substrate, and...

Ok, should have done that first... Thanks. Any PH effect? Bag says it might raise it temporarily.

Just picked up 40lbs of this stuff today. I wanted black substrate, and it's going to be planted, so it seemed like a smart pick... The gravel doesn't look very large, which is kind of nice because at first I wanted black sand. Anyone have experience with this stuff? Good, Bad, Ugly? It says...

Oh... I see I'll have to see what a few stores have in stock I guess and either go with the double bright or get something like in that link.

I guess I just had in mind not using the stock-hood for whatever reason, but could I just get better bulbs for that? It has one of those florescent starter things, so would they have to be florescents? I guess I could just buy more wattage or better quality right?

Ok, thanks.