Recent content by lolli

No, indirect sunlight. It doesn't grow that fast but nothing is keeping it back, there aren't enough shrimp to eat it so I'm wondering how to clean it out.

I have a small 6.6g tank with cherry shrimp and a few java ferns/mosses that is developing algae problems. All my plants are covered in a thin film of slime algae and the walls of the tank are covered in that hard circular algae that doesn't wipe off. The tank is only about 2 months old and...

I have a little bookshelf aquarium that came with a HOB filter, and the 10 gal I had growing up had a HOB in it as well. I always just bought the little cartridges called out for by the stock filter, but then I came here as I'm planning to get a 20 gal and it seems filters are supposed to be...

You sure the assignment isn't "no artificial light"?

Hmm never considered putting shrimp in. Are they hardier or need less space?

I have a little 6.6 gallon bookshelf (long and low) acrylic tank and am looking to find out what I can put in it. I've looked around the forum while I set it up, and it has a heater, a stock filter that uses one of those white cartrides full of charcoal, and is in the process of being cycled...