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Hey everyone, I working on understanding a good fertilizer regime for my little 10g. It is relatively heavily planted with a small fish load. Some of my plants, most notably the microsword (which by the way has completely taken over) and the baby tears. I've posted pics below showing what is...

I've tried the lettuce thing once before. I set a pretty large piece of iceberg lettuce near the bottom of tank and let it sit for approx. 18 hours. When I checked it in the morning there was only one snail on it! I think they prefer to cruise around the plants more than the lettuce...

I have heard of dwarf puffers having an appetite for snails (and shrimp unfortunately). I actually do not feed my fish anything. There is plenty of algae for all the algae eaters to keep busy munching on.

Hey people, I've got quite a snail population boom in my 10g tank now and they show no signs of slowing. I'm assuming they are just the simple pond snails that hitchhike on the plants. I don't mind a few snails but now there are too many and they are quite messy. Snail poo everywhere...they...

I just started a 10g planted myself. I went with an AH supply 36W to go along with the cheap lightstrip that came with the tank (replaced bulbs with 10W CF). For CO2 I went to drsfostersmith and orderd just the diffuser *thanks to everyone on this board that directed me that way the 2L CO2...

I just started my first planted tank (10g) also. I'm currently using an AC 20/mini. While it is a bit more powerful for my liking at full power I have turned it down such that it filters at about 50% its flowrate (~50gph now). It makes for feeding easier and now my little harlequins don't get...

Add another person with this same problem (if it is a problem)...maybe it will just go away with time. I actually have a newly setup FW planted tank. I first noticed it around the rubber suction cup of my thermometer. I cleaned it off but it came back again. This thermometer has been removed...

I'm taking my first major attempt at finally getting a decent planted tank going. I want to DIY CO2 but when I tested my KH it is way too low. I've read that 3 dKH is the bare minimum for CO2 but I'm measuring 0 to 1 dKH (out of the tap I get 1 to 2 dKH). GH is not much better at 2 dGH. I...