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It's not in clumps. It's covering the walls, the plants, the rocks. You have to wipe/scrub it off to clean it.

Thanks. I'll take a look. Everything I read about diatoms say they are common with new tanks and they tend to go away on their own. Mine never really did. So, it leads me to believe I might have them in my water.

After starting with a 4 gallon, I got excited and got a 6.6 gallon (sold the 4). Then a 20G (sold the 6.6). Then another 3. Then sold the 3. No matter what I did, I had diatoms. Brown crap everywhere. Months passed, and then a year, and still, brown crap. It's easy enough to wipe off aquarium...

Thank you! I'll look that over. Thank you so much. There's nothing to see, actually. The clear-ish thing hanging from his anus is gone and he looks the same otherwise. He was flashing against some stuff last night, so that indicates internal parasites to me. I'm headed to the pet store...

:( Juicy Fruit (that's his name) is still kinda hiding out in the back corner. Not interested in food. Lethargic. I don't have a quarantine tank, and no idea what meds to even use, so I really don't want to go $40+ (quarantine tank, heater, filter, meds, etc.) in the hole just to throw some...

I've had my dwarf gourami for about 10 months. In the last few days, I've noticed he's been hanging out near the bottom back of the tank. Not as active as he usually is. Not interested in food during feeding time. Just tonight, I noticed a thin, mostly clear/transparent thing hanging from his...

I have nowhere to put him unfortunately. I don't have a spare filter or anything.

I gave it an honest go. I really did. I'm tired of my tank being a death trap for live things. :(

They are glowlight tetras, not glowfish. One died a while back, now there are six. Never did find that body. :hide: If the DG was the problem, how would I know it? All the snail and fish deaths are rather generic... nothing really sticks out about the deaths...

Found our water quality report: http://www.amwater.com/ccr/quadcities.pdf

I'm not looking to stay in the hobby. It's been a colossal waste of time and money. I do not enjoy it. I've gotten my fish from two different LFS and PetSmart. They all seem to suffer the same fate. I can't get most of them past five months. The only fish that have done well is a dwarf gourami...

I don't know about the water quality report. I'll look. I will post if I can find a link. I have gotten my fish from two different LFS and PetSmart. I've had problems across the board. The fish that have done well are my dwarf gourami from PetSmart and my glowlight tetras from my LFS. I am...

I was adding Seachem Flourish Comprehensive, but haven't added that in at least three months now, as I never saw it made any difference.

Parameters: Ammonia: 0ppm Nitrate: 0ppm Nitrate: 20-30ppm Phosphate: .5ppm My third and remaining cobra endler is missing. :nono: They didn't even make it 24 hours. No water softener here. Just tap water with Prime water conditioner. I'll dial back the LEDs.

I'll check parameters tonight.

Root tabs are likely long gone by now. Last set put in was 3+ months ago. I have a 20G high tank. Just cleaned the diatoms off of all the rocks, plants, etc. this week, so there's not left now. I'll be pulling most of the plants in the next week or so. There's a few left that are doing OK...

Oh, and I'm STILL battling diatoms. Still. :nono:

Well, it's been nearly a year now since I started my planted aquarium journey. After a lot of frustration, a lot of fish/snail deaths, a lot of money wasted on plants that didn't make it, I have decided to leave the hobby. I apparently don't have the gift of keeping an aquarium and in the short...

Thanks for all the input Rivercats and Sherry. I think watching your dialogue back and forth highlights exactly why I get so frustrated with this hobby. LOL I wanted it to be simple. I want a clean tank, some fish and some plants. The idea of doing multiple water changes and dosing a mixture of...

I don't worry about it too much. I do my best and try to learn as much as possible. I'm not keen on dumping stuff in to the tank when I have no idea what's wrong with a fish. My LFS wasn't kidding when they recommended glowlight tetras as good starter/hardy fish! I like them, too :)

Hey Sherry! No, it's not too preachy at all. I'm glad you're here. :) I do semi-regular parameter testing and the most I've ever noticed was .25ppm when testing for ammonia. I've cleaned the substrate in the following ways: * Stick the siphon INTO the gravel and suck up crud * Wave siphon...

Well, I was going to mix up the nutrients this weekend, but time got away from me. Currently battling gunk... everywhere (see this thread here). Lost my female peaock gudgeon last night. :( Was there when she died. When I was doing a WC, I noticed she was really really skinny. I put her in...

I want to get this under control before I start dosing the nutrients I bought. I do try and stir up the water/debris.... there's just so much!!! And yes, some plants seem to be like glue for this stuff, though it's really everywhere... I do rinse the filter pad every week in tank water...

I have the Marineland Penguin 150HOB which does 150gph. It has two intakes, one that's about 2 inches from the substrate and one that's about 3 inches from the top of the water line. The filter is about 5 months old and was purchased brand new. Thanks for the input. At this point, I'm...

I changed my filter pad, but it's not making any difference.