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I'm running two canisters, Eheim 250 and Eheim 350. It's a 50G tank. I used to use the Fluval edge prefilters as well, I too find it clog up easily. The ones I'm using now is the Eheim prefilter. Not sure of the exact model number for that though. There's a lot less clogging now and no...

Hey guys, I recently transplanted some plants from my smaller tank to this bigger tank and what I thought was HC is growing quite large... not sure if this is really HC as I know their leaves size are supposed to be very small. Would any of you guys have any idea what it is and why it's so...

Wow thanks guys, it does looks like mine is a whisker shrimp. I read them up and it say they are a predator shrimp and eat fish... Are my fish safe? I know my fish treats it like a 'monster of the deep'. What should I feed it? Or will it just scavenge off whatever the fish left over?

Hey guys, Couple of days ago, I bought a Darwin Algae Eater from my LFS. I noticed the shrimp and the pictures of DAE on the internet, some features of my shrimp doesn't quite match the ones online. Notice my shrimp have two front pincers that's long and thin. He's around an inch long. The...

Latest update, ammonia has now dropped down to 0! no signs of nitrites and nitrates are between 5 and 10. Is it cycled now? I haven't seen any signs of nitrites since setting up the tank. I did have ceramic media from a friend's tank. maybe that sped things up a bit? As for loaches, I'm...

Recently in the last couple of days, we started noticing tiny snails appearing around the tank. The live plants from the local fish shop must have had some snail eggs in there... The snails are around couple of mm big and looks like this: A friend is recommending to get some clown loaches, but...

l haven't done any pwc for a few days now. The ammonia is staying constant at 0.25, still no signs of nitrites and nitrates have climbed back up to 5ppm this morning. Odd... does that mean any signs of nitrites was immediately converted to nitrates?

Hey Delapool, It's been nearly 3 weeks now since my first test. Ammonia has dropped to 0.25ppm and staying constant. The ammonia level was flutuating around 0.25 to 0.5 before. There has been 0 nitrite. For the first time, nitrate have dropped to 0. There's been some build up of algae in the...

Thanks for the link! Looks like my fish are in the safe zone :) With my tank temperature at 25 Degrees Celcius and pH of 7.5, it's in the safe zone. I will keep up with the water changes and addition of Prime. How often should I monitor the ammonia level? Daily before and one hour after...

Thanks for that! The pH of the water is around 7.5. I tested the tap water, there's around 0.25ppm ammonia, 0.25ppm nitrites and 5ppm nitrates. So that's where the nitrates in my water came from... Strange that it has nitrites though...

Hey guys, I've started up an smallish (55L) aquarium around 2 weeks ago, from the look of the ammonia test results, it looks like the bacteria that converts ammonia isn't present yet, is it normal? I started my aquarium with 6 Neon Danios and 3 Cory catfish. I wish I have read around first and...