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So I tested my ph on my shrimp tank today and was surprised to have to pull out my high ph kit. It looks like it’s running around 7.6-7.8 or so when my source water runs about 6.8. Tested source water again today and it’s at 6.8 still. So what is bringing up the ph in my tank? It’s a very...

I just moved and in the process upgraded my 55 to a 75 gallon and am thinking about filling out the schools a bit more and maybe adding something but I'm not really sure... It's only moderately planted at the moment because I replaced substrate and replanted. It will eventually be pretty...

So, I’ve had mini ramshorn snails in my sons guppy tank for ages. The tiny ones that don’t get bigger than a mm or two. They didn’t really bother me at first but lately I’ve decided that I’m over them. I am well aware that they are quite beneficial to the ecosystem but I just don’t like them...

I have been having the worst luck with my Pygmy cories lately. Seems like every few weeks I’m seeing one looking a little pale, listing a bit or with slightly clamped fins. No water quality issues, others look fine. Within a few weeks they’re gone and another looks a little off. Nothing...

Moving to a new house, I decided to set up a 75 and just move the inhabitants/ plants. This is my first attempt giving any elevation to the substrate itself and I like the look of it! Probably should have made it even higher! The back and sides are just eco-complete and the front is black sand...

Dang it I got caught by it again. Once before, a few years ago, my tank got almost entirely wiped out by chlorine poisoning due to a water change unfortunately done during the water companies spring flush.( In which they add a crap ton more chlorine to the water temporarily.). And I just got...

I am now the proud owner of five definitely-not-ghost shrimp that I bought thinking they were ghosts. I clearly wasn’t paying attention because I do know the difference between ghost and whisker shrimp! Help me decide where to put them!? One is berried and I had planned to put it in my cherry...

So I have never had trumpet snails in any tank. Debated adding them before but always wimped out because I knew I’d never get it snail free again if I changed my mind. And today I see this little guy! MTS right?! Here’s the fun part. None in any other tank. I haven’t added plants (except...

So some of you may have seen my thread detailing my unsuccessful attempt to treat what I think was a bacterial infection in my cherry colony. The last post in that thread I had received a replacement order for some DOA’s which I kept separate from my main colony for a while until it became...

I have a 55 gallon running with: 6 tiger barbs 7 white skirt tetras 20 rummy nose tetras 5 otos and 2 nerite snails. I think panda cories are adorable and I’d love to have something in the tank that utilizes the floor space. I usually use shrimp as a clean up crew and to add activity to the...

...Still have tiny heart attacks when they see shrimp molts! This bamboo shrimp is possibly the coolest critter in this tank and I still have a split second of panic when I see the molt in the tank! I’d love to get a few more but I started with 5 and all but this one found a way out of the...

Anyone ever seen a picking / cleaning behavior where their shrimp (mine are cherries) kinda pick at their bottom dwelling fish? I have Pygmy cories in my shrimp tank and every once in a while I see a cherry picking at one of the fish. The fish seem healthy and will eventually get annoyed and...

So my 55 gallon tank is pretty fully stocked (I think? you can see the full list in my profile.) It has been cycled for ages (filter moved from an older tank) but ever since the plants took off I pretty much don’t see nitrates or phosphates. My plants are all pretty low maintenance (val’s...

My Pygmy cories, until recently, shared a tank with a bunch of voracious guppies. The guppies got an upgrade so in the last couple weeks they’ve had far less competition for food and are getting fed much better. And then this evening I came home and saw these. Is this just Cory poop from...

Just finished setting up a new-to-me planted 55 gallon, I updated the details on my account page. The only fish in there are 5 glo- skirt tetras 4 glo- tiger barbs (and a few dozen shrimp.) The planting will eventually be pretty heavy but it’s just starting out so there’s not a ton of cover...

What do you guys think? Honey or gold. It’s being offered to me and the person thinks it’s a dwarf gourami but I think it looks more like a gold which would get too big for where it is going. What do you guys think? Update: identified

I have inert black gravel in my 29 at the moment. Fairly thin layer (when I first started the tank I had nearly 100% plants that didn’t care much about rooting. (Anubius, java ferns etc) so there’s not much in there. I eventually added some val and boy did it take off and some other things...

Anyone have an explanation for this one? For the last few days When I first turn the lights on the 29g tank it appears ever so slightly cloudy. Within an hour or so of lights turning on it’s crystal clear again. Thoughts? If it were bacterial bloom I wouldn’t expect them to care about the...

Figured I would make a new thread as we have drifted far from the original topic of my other thread. I have been losing shrimp at a rate of one or two a week consistently for weeks. Sometimes I’ll go a week with no loses and think everything is good again then the next week back to losing a...

I am currently deworming my son’s glofish tank (yeah... “his” tank. At 18 months he was very insistent on needing a tank I promise :P) I had lost a tetra to internal parasites recently. (They’ve been in the tank for a while and a couple fish were staying smaller than the others. I incorrectly...

So I thought I’d post something I’ve seen in the last few weeks which is just more data on a semi-controversial issue but may be useful to someone down the line. I was curious whether assassin snails would eat mini ramshorns. They were gone from my main tank though because glo tetras/ barbs...

Hey guys, my turn for a question! So I just noticed one of my white skirt teras (glo tetras, technically) has gotten very skinny and is being bullied a bit by the other skirts. Now these fish were not all the same size when I bought them (a little over 2 months ago approx.) and without...

I’ve seen this shrimp in my tank for a while but haven’t been able to catch a picture of her. This is the largest and presumably oldest shrimp in my tank and she acts totally normal. She eats ravenously, even standing up to the amanos for her spot at the food! She has not always looked like...

Mama cherry casually checking to ensure parameters are ready for her little ones. (This is also the first time I’ve noticed the little eyes on the berries, always missed them before!)

Thinking about making my first ‘expensive’ shrimp purchase. I’ve only ever done cherries before... But now the cherries are breeding like crazy and I want to try my hand at something new in there (that won’t cross breed.) My source water is on the harder/ higher pH side and the substrate is...