Recent content by LindaC

My large male Blue Ram whos been with me for about 2 1/2 years now is having problems swimming, he's been this way for almost a week now. He appears to have some type of issue where he cannot swim straight so he stays hidden at the bottom of the tank except for feeding time. When I feed the tank...

Thank you all, I've tried everything short of leaving my CO2 on 24/7 and still cannot seem to rid my tank of this stuff. I keep removing it, cleaning my tank to the point of none being there and within a few days, I see it start appearing again! I know my CO2 levels are good do to my drop...

Thank you, it was very helpful, however, I thought I was doing everything I'm supposed to be in order to combat BBA, but obviously I must not be. I think I'll purchase a few more fast growing stem plants, I already have wisteria, bacopa monneri, hygro. rotala, etc. I'm not sure I even have...

I've been dealing with this stuff for weeks, it seems ever since I bought this house and moved to a new location. I never had it, or I should say, I did have some but nothing like I have here. I'm constantly pulling it off of the subtrate and different equipment within my tank. It also gets...

Your tank is lovely, plants look extremely healthy and lush, I love the driftwood!

Is it okay to do water changes with fry in the tank? I dose ferts EI so I need to change 50% of my water this coming Saturday and I also need to clean my tank, will this be okay? I know my Kribs trust me because I've had my hands in the tank removing dead leaves and such, although I try not to...

Thank you, I just hope the Rams are okay in the 10 gallon for two week, believe me, I did not want to pull them and put them in that small tank, but I want them to be okay and they wouldn't have been if I left them in the 29 gallon.

Well my Kribs have finally spawned and I now have a ton of fry swimming around the tank with both the parents, however; I also had 3 Rams in this tank (1 male and 2 females in 29 gallon). I had to remove the Rams last night and put them in my 10 gallon tank because they were really being picked...

I've been having problems off and on for months with BGA in my 10 gallon tank, I have not used Marcyn due to fish in this tank. I have blacked out the tank twice already and it has cleared the BGA but it always seems to come back. I do have a powerhead in this tank and it is at the top...

JustOneMore, thanks for posting your dosing regimine, that's basically what I was dosing before I added the 2nd 65 watt light and was seeing stunting on my Rotala and the stems of my Narrow Leaf Ludwigia were melting, this is why I decided to try adding a second 65 watts. Starting today, I am...

What is your modified version of EI like, can you give me a rough estimate. I believe I may have been dosing too much when I only had one 65 watt bulb because I was seeing some stunting on my Rotala indica and Ludwigia repens. Many thanks to all of you who responded! Linda

I am curious as to what people who have medium lighting over their tanks are growing? I upgraded my lights to 2 x 65 watts of light over my 29 gallon tank but I'm having a lot of problems and it's just too much to keep up with, it really does leave much room for error. So now I'm seriously...

Thank you Zezmo, good point on having all the plants ready so I can set it up to me liking, so I think I'll wait then, it will give me another week to get prepared. I have already started to use both lights and added a little more ferts. I think I may put both lights on seperate timers and...

I already purchased the Power Sand, but if I add the power sand, I shouldn't have to dose the tank for a few weeks, isn't that correct? Thanks for the tip on the carbon, I wasn't aware of that. I will probably just wait until the plants come in then, I have a couple of different shipements...