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Cool thanks. Hoping to get a school tomorrow

Hi AA. I'm thinking about getting a small school of hatchet fish this weekend. Here is my current stocking 55gal planted aquarium: 4 gbr cichlids 1 pearl gourami 7 Harley's 8 or so cardinal tetras 3? Oto cats Anyone have experience with hatchets? Think they will get along with the other...

Ya me too. Oto's definitely taking care of problem. I have 3 in 55g tank. And they are algae eating machines

I got some oto's and they are cleaning up the diatoms in my tank nicely

Thank you so much for your help rivercats! I hope my tank really takes off now!

Yes I mixes the N, and K-P in separate bottles. Sounds pretty straight forward, I'm excited to get started! So you dose daily, and test at the end of the week to fine tune your recipe?

Gonna start with pps-pro... Seems much simpler

Ok all set up with mixed solutions! I read that it is better to dose the macros and micros on different days to prevent unwanted reactions... But how often do you dose the tank? Obviously ill test the water pretty frequently to see where I'm at getting started. Any suggestions? Also green...

Thanks for the info! Reading up on both methods and def can't wait to start. Dry ferts are on back order, but bought some seachem phosphorus liquid fert for now. And some amino shrip too for good measure lol!

I hope so :)

Tested phosphates and turned up zero.

Thanks river cats! I really appreciate the advice, my only friends in the hobby have African cichlids so they not a lot of help with the plants. Went ahead and orderd the ferts/bottles.. Def seems cheaper then the liquid products. Just got the phosphate test about to test.. Suspect it's will...

Going to get phosphorus testkit tomorrow and find out... Sorry I'm new to the hobby and will read up on dry ferts... They used like root tabs and go under substrate?

Must be angle pic was take .. No 2 geissman bulbs one daylight one flora max. Other plants seem to be growing well. Like sword and hygro and rotala ...

Been battling brown algae in my tank for a while now...with a 6 hour photoperiod, dosing liquid carbon and adding nerite snails it's getting better. But now I'm getting what I believe to be green spot algae? It seems to be spreading and plants seem to be suffering. Pemnywort barely hanging on...

Ya have a few nerites... Thanks for the help, all fish are ok! Got concerned cause is couldn't figure out how the spots (snail eggs) got into my qt tank that has no snail. Then I saw the huge floating water sprite I put in the qt tank... Duh!

Right between his eyes.. Dark discoloration. Had a fuzzy spot there two days ago

I recently notices a fuzzy white spot on my pearl goiramis head. I places him into the qt and began treating for ick. After a day the whit spot was gone but a dark spot remained where the fuzzy spot was. Now I'm treating my 55gal main tank for ick as I noticed a rasbora with some ick like...

Ok thanks. Probably good thing... 2 pair in my 55gal is more then enough attitude

Oh how do you know when they are fertilized? Haven't kept them for very long... But yes have two males and 2 females

Looks like gbr's are breeding? Anything I should do?

I made some custom legs for my aquaticlife 2 bulb t5ho. And it sits about 1/2" above the top. It gets a little warm but it runs for 5 hrs at a time and doesn't heat the water or anything. 1/8 is pretty close... I'd leave a little room for air to circulate. But you should be ok

Looks great! Is there any aggression between your two pearl gourami?

Worst part is I can't put him back into the qt because I'm treating a pearl gourami with ich in there. Def wish I would have held off on buying him and waited for a female.. Doh!

I might try to make a partition.. It's going to be at least a week till the fish store gets more in.. Thx!