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I've recently started a heavily planted tank. I bought an LED light which currently I'm running 10 hours on red only and 2 hours on blue only. Is this a good way to go about it? Do I need to use any white light? FYI the fish I have like low light and the plants are from low to medium light. I...

My fish have been dying left and right for a week now and I thought it was for a disease or an incident that happen with my CO2 attachment coming loose and releasing CO2 like crazy. So had a close call a week or so ago with CO2 almost killing all my fish, luckily I noticed the problem to fast...

I have 6 cobomba aquatica, 1 amazon sword, 3 anubias and 4 java fern. I was using 24/7 setting on NICREW RGB plus but recently been doing the lighting to 6-8 hours manually.

So I currently have two AquaClear 70 filters running on my 40 Gallon. One I believe might be overstocked/too many layers but not sure; it has a foam filter, activated carbon layer, two BioMax bags (the original one was too small) and a layer that supposedly is supposed to remove ammonia. The...

Re: How do I use K1? Do I remove all components in the filter or just the coral to add K1? Also, below is where I'm at with the level:

After a few days of 50% water changes, my ammonia is now 2.0ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm Nitrate <5.0ppm. Water is clear now and I was able to find what probably was causing the ammonia to stay so high; all algae eaters + 1 tetra died and was found rotten. I recently measured GH and KH; GH: 2 dGH & KH...

After a few days of 50% water changes, my ammonia is now 2.0ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm Nitrate <5.0ppm. Water is clear now and I was able to find what probably was causing the ammonia to stay so high; all algae eaters + 1 tetra died and was found rotten. I recently measured GH and KH; GH: 2 dGH & KH...

It's crazy how many different answers I get which conflict with each other. Anyway I did a 50% water change and added more Nitrifying bacteria. Ammonia is now 4.0ppm, Nitrite at 0ppm and Nitrate is at 10ppm. PH levels have been a constant chase for me so I'm thinking of buying some sort of...

Thanks everybody! Very helpful information. I also heard that low PH can stall the cycle. Right now I've been trying to get my PH to 7.0 but has been stuck at 6.6. Should I get the PH of new water higher than 7.0? I plan to be more aggressive with my water changes ; did a 50% change today so...

I'm in the middle of a fish-in cycle with my new 40 Gallon planted aquarium after PetSmart employees did not mention/explain the cycling process. All other water conditions were properly prepared ahead of time. Now I'm in a situation where the ammonia is too high. I've dumped at least 100$ worth...