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The aquarium is already cycled, I have tried using one of the clarifying products hat coagulates the algae and it cleans it up in a couple of hours, however in like 4-5 days when the nitrates start to appear the algae feeds on it an reapers. I have a constant 0 on nitrates instead of them...

Hi, I'm starting to get desperate. My aquarium has 6 weeks, all the water parameters look great but nitrates are still 0. They went up a little bit 3 weeks ago and suddenly the water became green. We've been doing water changes, change the filter and even used a couple ignore times acuarel f...

The water looks more white than green. The nitrites continue to drop and is almost zero today. Nitrates still at zero they were about 20 a few days ago. Ammonia is zero for more than 2 weeks. I am clueless as per what is going on. Just as a precaution I have lower the light to 7 hours and I...

Hi, This is the fifth week for my planted aquarium plus 5 neon tetras. I've monitoring the values to make sure it was not dangeryfor the fish. Ammonia has never been above 0.5 and it has been 0 for the last 3 weeks. Nitrites peaked at 1.0 and it finally started dropping a couples of days ago...

Mystery solved. Thanks for all the advice and comments I figured out what was killing the tetras.*It was the other inhabitant of the tank the betta. I did not think of it initially as I had had bettas with neon tetras before with no issues. This betta seems to be a sadist, it does not really...

The plants where from Petco but not the ones from the tank they come in canisters, I rinsed them before planting. Water was treated*and the aquarium was running with just the plants for*about a week before I added the first fish to start the cycle. Should I empty and start new?

I will ask tomorrow for their parameters. They did die extremely fast*though which is concerning. All water parameters look fine. I do not know how to measure TDS. Is there such thing as fish suffocation due to excess of plants or poor lighting?

Amonia = 0 Nitrites = 0 Ph = 7.4 aprox Kh = 40 Gh = 30 The filter is indeed HOB The tetras where acclimated by letting the bag float for about 10 mins and then put some water of my acuarium in the bag wait 5 mins repeat and finally to the acuarium. I did not put any water from the bag in the...

I added a few neon tetras to the aquarium as the first population to help ciclying the aquarium using life bacteria. I have been monitoring all valías and the are all normal and ammonia at 0. The tetras died within 6 hours. I believe they had no oxigen and the problem is the plant and bad...

Thanks for you answer! Amonia between 0 and 0.25 Nitrite 0

Hi, I set up a new planted aquarium, no fish added yet, the water was treated to removed chlorine and chloramines. After setting it up the water was cristal clear and after 24hours it has a white cloudy looking like in the pics. Should I be worried or do something ? What should be my next step...

thanks!!! Thank you all for your responses! What do you think about a 20 gallon tank?

Hi guys, I'm planning on getting my first aquarium and I was thinking about a 40galons and installing in a in wall tv stand I have in my living room. I have attached a picture to see if anyone can advise me about the aquarium weight and if I should be concern about its weight. What do you...