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100% water change.

One of the up sides of doing a fish in cycle is that you get to watch some fish while the tank cycles. One of the upper sides of using...

It just takes time, you are 4 weeks into what could easily be a 3 month process. A water change can sometimes help out a stalled cycle...

It just takes time, you are 4 weeks into what could easily be a 3 month process. A water change can sometimes help out a stalled cycle...

It almost looks like it has ick and Epistylis at the same time. Ick will look like uniform round dots while epistylis is less uniformly...

I've not heard this but Goldfish do eat plants so I wouldn't have them in a planted tank to begin with. :unsure:

Correct. Larger fish pose a threat, smaller fish pose as a meal for the snakehead. 😲

That looks like ich to me. Lets wait for a 2nd opinion from @Andy Sager before deciding what to do next.

Has anyone had any bad experiences with hornwort? I have had a planted tank for a few years now, but I’ve only been using hornwort for...

IMO, since you already have the snakehead, I'd say anything new you put in the pond will be food for the snakehead. If you were starting...

Sadly, the box stores do not have a good reputation for having workers that know what they are doing. That doesn't mean all of them ( I...

That could be part of the problem. Not enough food. They should be getting as much as they can eat in 2-3 minutes 2-3 times per day...

Okay, good to hear. :thumb: :thumb: ( Congrats on having that 0 nitrates. Your plants must be doing one heck of a job. :) ) So we know...

Okay. Do you understand the nitrogen cycling process? If you did nothing but just let the tank run for that first month, nothing was...

Nitrates are the end biproduct of the nitrogen cycle so they will not go down on their own like the ammonia and nitrite did. ( refer to...