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Think I'll go ahead and order some more carbon for now and check into the other later. I've been using fertilizer so I wonder if maybe that's what is making the plants go so well. I had just heard the same as you had regarding not using carbon with plants and I had found the purigen while...

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Sorry filter fiber.

Thanks. Sorry didn't see your post. What is the fiber fill? Where do you get it? My plants are doing fine as everything is right now and they were fine with the carbon while it was in but I was afraid it might have a long term bad effect on them and I wasn't sure what would be best for the fish...

Hi hoping that someone can help me out with this. This is my first planted tank. It's a 29 gallon and I have two HOB filters. One is a Aquaclear 50 and the other a Aquaclear 20. I did have carbon in the filters along with sponges and the aquaclear biomax. I have since taken out the carbon and...

Sorry for the length. This has been a lengthy ordeal. It was almost like a disease in humans that attacks the immune system. You know someone with one of those diseases almost never dies directly from it but from a resulting complication. For pesticides contaminating the wood makes sense to me...

I'm sure I did but the alternative was far worse and remember this was after I had tried doing frequent water changes and adding salt. I was convinced certain initially it was poisoning but never imagined it to be from the driftwood. After all it came from the store as ready to go and had been...

Oh and I did wonder if it was from the rock we bought there maybe leaching out heavy metals or some sort of deposit in the rock. I took the rock out fairly early and then things kept getting worse even with a massive water change (to try to remove metal if it was present) and changing all filter...

That of course would also explain why the illness wasn't behaving as any type of fish illness that I could find and the symptoms kept showing up differently in individual fish. If they were poisoned that makes sense. And to start with I thought it must have been ammonia poisoning but none of the...

OMG you're a genius. That would make perfect sense. When we shopped there it was clean but disorganized. And since then we found out that the store is hit and miss. Some weeks might be clean tanks other weeks everything dying. When we visited they had several cardboard boxes sitting out on the...

I've seen some gel slow release food online that promises not to be messy. No idea if it actually does what says though. I think it only got rated by users something like 2.5 stars out of five. I almost bought some to test out but then ended up backing out and not ordering it.

Wow, that's awesome. I don't think I'd get any sympathy from my boss.LOL. Still haven't given up the idea/hope though. Hey seriously your tank is fabulous and I hope you'll post updates/photos on your work tank project -very interested. Love your tank. I have a 1 1/2 gallon that we bought just...

Sorry probably photo overload. These are so much better. You can see the light off of the aerator in the background.

Closer view of tank I took about 5 weeks or so ago with only 6 zebra danios in tank. One of them you can see up by the heater to the right. I'm using Flourish Excel fertilizer on the plants one a week. The Java ferns already have shoots and the bannana plant has shot up. They still have a long...

The water in first pic looks yellow in pic. I swear it's not. My living room walls are currently painted a neutral tan-ish color. I'm halfway through painting them.

Photos of 29 gallon tank with main light turned on and aerator with blue LED light. Please keep in mind this is not what I hope the end result will be. I'm hoping the plants will keep going enough to hide the heater and filters. Plus we are repainting the walls of our living room "chocolate...

A couple of pictures of the underwater aerator. These were taken from the side of the tank close to the wall. It's actually camouflaged by the driftwood when viewed from front and other side. My flash also went off so the light is really just an overall blue glow from that side of tank. Gosh...

It's an underwater aerator. It just blows bubbles out without requiring an external pump. It's quieter IMO and you can adjust it so it's a good bit more powerful than the external pump I was using. I like it a lot better than the air hose/air pump/air stone set up. With it there is no airstone...

Ughhh... FTW?

Sorry I'm a dummy. What does LFW mean?

Ummm... sorry re-purpose the driftwood not repupose. Auto correct. Why haven't I turned it off yet? Oh the bristlenose. Honestly I had rather get rid of a couple of the barbs than to get rid of him/her. I just love catfish. Except the scary big ones they fish out of the Tennessee River. Man...

My driftwood that I currently have has been in about 3 weeks now. I didn't want to soak these pieces because I wanted the tannins in to hopefully help with bringing down the PH levels some. We have notoriously high PH in this area and there is so much limestone around here it's unreal. It's also...

LOL no you don't. I'm told it's called being long winded- ha ha ha. Discus are gorgeous. We just saw a turquoise blue one in our LFS. My husband had to remind me that we have no place for it. Then I had to pull him away from the cichlid tank. A 55 gallon would definitely be fun. I've also fallen...

Just a thought but have you considered neon tetras and some ghost shrimp? Also although it's not officially recommended we have successfully kept only 3 Cory cats once. We only did it for about a month though as we were stocking our fish slowly and didn't want to put them in all at once and Bio...

I don't really know much about them personally but rummy nose tetras were suggested to us as a nice option for our 29 gallon. I did the search because the rummy nose are a schooling fish and I think most of the tetras tend to be. From what I found online just doing a quick search (so please take...