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https://www.microbelift.com/product/amazon-bio-colorant/ My discus colors and fins always seem more vibrant when I cloud up the tank cleaning it. I'm thinking they enjoy the haze as it feels more natural. I've read about dark water tanks. Wondering if anyone had experience using a supplement...

I have had many planted tanks over the past 5 years. One is a discus tank and very deep. 3 feet to be exact. It has about 5-6 inches of substrate that is now pretty old. It is a larger sand like dirt called aquadurt that was for planted tanks ... 5 years now and the plants are struggling. Im...

So glancing around at many aquaecapes on google, I notice that many of these rimless tanks have no backing (which could hide filters) no powerheads (whatever happened to needing good circulation to avoid algae?)... They're beautiful, indeed but what gives? I mean are they staging the tank for...

Ill give it more time and Ill continue to test because again, the point I'm trying to make is people blindly doing EI I feel is dangerous as mine has improved since stopping. My plants are doing better since stopping. Picture today after day 8 OFF EI. Its filling in well. All Im trying to state...

Yes, actually injected CO2 and high light and I still am showing through testing that I don't need to dose. In fact, when all this began I was dosing and my tanks water was yellowing and looked bad. I did two water changes and started testing daily and now the waters clear and my glosso pearls...

After a week of careful monitoring it seems I am reaching what EI intends to by not dosing at all... ha... :face palm: I mean I am getting results in range of what I am thinking are optimal by doing water changes. Day 7 without any intervention of actually putting nutrients into the tank and it...

Well the 10 ppm rule makes sense for lets say Nitrate & Potassium, but I don't think it works for much else. Like Phosphate has to be low, and iron, etc. This is the hardest thing for me wrapping my head around PPS Pro. I would love to see what the target goal of everything dosed in it is...

So Ive read the magic number PPS pro is going for in your tank is 10 PPM does this mean given proper testing after dosing: K2SO4 should read 10 ppm, KNO3 should read 10 ppm, KH2PO4 should read 10 ppm MgSO4 should read 10 ppm Trace mix should also read 10 ppm Now the reason Im asking is...

Cool to see you are using the one from Seneye reef monitor as that is the one I ordered. Based on the reviews it seems that its the most cost effective solution. Its not perfect but for around $200 it seems like its getting close to a VERY expensive alternative (which I can't afford) :) Anyway...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9C23EK4526&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-HI+-+Water+Purification+%26+Filtration-_-9SIA9C23EK4526&gclid=CJm-38LnyMsCFVUkgQodpnoPdQ&gclsrc=aw.ds Yes, overkill possibly but I spent the money on it a long time ago in a fit...

What I find funny is the EI kind of brags about no testing kits needed, so as a new person getting into they believe that this is the case which I find extremely far from the truth because testing seems an essential part of getting the right dosage down. Once you have it, maybe you can toss the...

Thanks for the reply. I do have some testing gear laying around so I will dive into that. Any resource that you know of that shows the target goals of EI? For example: I found this online (not saying this is a great resource but its what I found) CO2 range 25-30 ppm NO3 range 5-30 ppm K+ range...

When I first started dosing EI according to the normal instruction of: day 1: macro day 2: micro day 3: macro day 4: micro day 5:macro day 6:micro day 7: rest water change everything was doing well, pearling like crazy, massive growth BUT now, everything seems to have slowed and no more...

I figure the phosphates are coming from the food and the nitrates from the fish waste. I have 10 fish in there so I figure thats being done naturally, granted they're probably minimal due to the large water changes... but thats the difficulty with the balance of the discus tank and the planted...

So I've always struggled on one tank of mine to follow a decent fert dosing because I do daily water changes of 25% also, it's a low light tank with just Java fern and Java moss in it to keep things simple as this is a discus tank. This is also why I do daily water changes. Any advice on a...

So I've read that Vortex filters can run all the time BUT that it creates such a strain on the fish because of the current that it's not realistic to do. OK, that makes sense BUT here's my thought. What about running it IN the sump, THUS it creates no current where the actual fish are, but is...

Hmmmm, Thanks for that pic. I got bags, not jars and maybe they missed the sticker. The only micro in that pack is the CSM+B, correct? So the dose you're doing is Mon KH2PO4 KNO3 K2SO4 Tuesday PLANTEX CSM +B Wed KH2PO4 KNO3 K2SO4 Thursday PLANTEX CSM +B Friday KH2PO4 KNO3 K2SO4 Saturday...

I ordered a dry fert package from Green Leaf Aquariums. It came with KH2PO4 KNO3 PLANTEX CSM +B K2SO4 Now, when using the EI calculators online it calls for ALL of these EXCEPT K2SO4.(granted it also calls for an unspecified GH BOOST) What am I missing here? Is the K2SO4 the GH Boost the...

So all this debate on which is better and why? My thoughts on my planted tank are combine a strip of T5 and a strip of LED and let the best of both worlds flow. Watcha think? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I've read this is an easier carpet plant but I've read a lot from sales people who want to sell something so I'm hoping for real life specifics to these questions: 1) does it root deep or is it easily pulled up by fish? 2) if my lighting caused dwarf hairgrass runners to float above the plant...

This is ridiculous because it's in MY tank but I have no idea what it is and bought it probably 8 years ago. It's apparently low light and doesn't need CO2. It also creeps VERY slowly, probably because of the low light and no CO2 but regardless, it's proven to be a nice foreground plant and has...

I read in a forum (not this one) about someone recommending lapacho bark in discus tanks for a black water feel that has an added health benefit to the fish. I can't really find much else online about this and wondered if anyone on here had any experience with it. Thanks! I didn't want to make a...

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This forum elsewhere tells me it's nothing to worry about http://www.qldaf.com/forums/help-fish-health-diseases-water-quality-12/strange-pimple-discus-74658/ I would like to believe this to be true:) That particular fish is around 3 years old. I do between 20-30 gallon water changes daily...

Any idea what I should be treating this for? It's on the Orange discus. Is white. Looks like a squeezed pimple. I'm guessing fungus??? Thanks for any thoughts Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice