Recent content by JessZie368

What kind of nutrients will the floating plants suck up? Is it any different than my submerged plants? I will definitely pick up the pace on the water changes. Should I aim for 75% daily until the levels are down? Just don't want to stress the fish TOO much!

I did check our tap water and it tested zero for both ammonia and nitrite. We do have a planted tank, but take care to remove any leaves that don't look good daily. We really haven't used much fish food. We started our cycle with dosing with pure ammonia and got it to go down to zero in about a...

Hello all! New tank owners here! We just set up our very first 19 gallon tank. We started as a fishless cycle and got to the point of easily covering ammonia to zero in 24 hours. We thought the end was near and we were getting tons of algae so we got 2 mystery snails, 4 nerite snails and 4...