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Love the goby, the light, the coral and even the starfish! Looking good!

How's the tank doing?

A Nylon will work well.

My cycle is finished!!! Nitrates are high, ammonia and trites are finally zero. We are doing water changes, and once the nitrates are down we can put the Betta in? There's nothing else to do to cycle right?

Looks like I have some thinking to do on whether or not to keep him or rehome him. Thank you all for giving your advice!

What are the red plants in this tank?

I like it. I think it looks beautiful and I'd feel relaxed watching it. What do you have in it as far as your fish? How big is the tank?

The local fish store guy said it's an orange marmalade although he doesn't have any black spots or marks like ones I've seen online. I've looked online and seen that the "red zebra" cichlid looks very similar, even though it isn't red. It said captive ones look more orange than red. Lake...

I love that Coraline algae on your rock! It really makes that coral "pop". Keep testing your water. Be prepared to do water changes if the ammonia or nitrites start to spike. My dream is still to have a saltwater tank. One day I will have one... one day!

Well hopefully this attaches right. This is a week ago after we added the plants, lights, driftwood and lace rock. It's a lot cloudier today.

My daughter 10 gallon aquarium project! Fish out cycle and planning for this to be a Betta tank for her Betta and hoping we can add a few community fish. This will also be a planted tank.

Update: so ammonia is gone now, nitrites spiked to 5+ and now seem to be coming down slowly, and nitrates are so high it's crazy. Ph is good at 7.4. So do I leave the tank alone and let it do it's thing, or should I do a water change? I feel like leaving it alone should be fine, but I...

Hello! My daughter is in the process of setting up a 10 gallon tank (with a fluval 5-20gal HOB filter) for her betta who currently lives in a 1 or 2 gallon tank. We just got an LED plant light for it today. The cycle is going good I think- we started it at the end of January. We used a...

That's a good way to do it. Very little clouding and faster than how we did it. When my daughter put her substrate in, she rinsed it in a bucket really well then scooped it into a cup and lowered the cup into the tank and poured the sand/gravel mix directly onto the bottom of the tank. It...