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The one with more vivid colur is chasing the smaller paler one. Can't decide whether two females or one female and a one male. Anyway, it seems that the more vivid one is always making sure that the other stays at the back of the tank. No biting though, only chasing.

Hi, I'm planning to rescape my tank with new substrate system which include crushed basalt rock (not the pourus kind) as a base layer, covered with a used mix of aquasoil, sand and deponit, and a capping layer of pool sand. Is there a way to disinfect the used mixed substrate? It is from a...

How can I anchor these roots - besides glueing the tips to rocks. Cheers.

Hello. I want to scape an Amazon style tank, using only sand as substrate. My plan is to grow only epiphytes, and use roots and cobbles/pebbles as hardscape. I currently have a low tech dirted tank with volcanic rock and driftwood as hardscape. Growing mainly stem plants. - How different is it...

I have fish in the tank for about a year now. Thank you.

No fish cycle with Dr. Tims amonium chloride solution. It has been almost a year since I cycled it. During the cycle I had all parameters as expected (amonia, then nitrites and almost 40 ppm nitrates in the end) and only after amonia and nitrites went to zero ppm I started adding fish. All the...

Specs: A 72 litre dirted tank with an internal canister and sponge filters. I'm growing hygrophilia polisperma, alodea, anubia nanas and some java fern Two 10w lights. 0 ppm on all parameters since I cycled the tank. I'm using the api master kit, shaking the chemicles vigorously every time...

Update after almost a week after adding salt https://youtu.be/SvaR_WU_EeM Notice how its tail seem broken.

Euthanizing vs letting him be So, after many observations and research, in my opinion this is a result of trauma during shipping or while in my tank. The patch doesn't look like its neon tetra disease nore a fungal/bacterial infection: The fish is vital and hungry. Only thing that bothers me...

This is another photo Did my best

Neon tetras for a month, the patch about a two weeks.

I added this fish two months ago The aquarium 4 months old (since it cycled). No new additions to the tank in the last month or so.

This one had an orange/deformed tail since the day I got him. Recently the tail lost its color completely. Other than that his behavior is completely normal.

Thank you