Recent content by robo-snickers

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Quick background. I have a female emerald that has a sickness that i am hoping you guys can help me diagnose I first noticed it about 5 weeks ago when she was not swimming around the tank much and kinda just swam near the top (always an active eater though). Looking at her i noticed she has...

Hello all, I am wondering if a koralia pump 1150 would be to strong for a 75 gallon. Online it says its good for 70-150 for a planted tank and i am looking to upgrade to a 125 in a year so i Would want a powerhead that works for that tank aswell.

I do a PWC weekly. About 50%. I typically dont do gravel vac cause i use ADA AS but i do try to suck up some debree on the surface when i see it. I do plan on changing some plants around soon and moving some rocks. Normally i see alot of gunk trapped underneath them. Ill See if that helps

I lowered the lights about 20% and cut down on the fertz for a bit. We’ll see where that goes. Are the blue lights in the LED bad? Should i dial them back more Went through the thread. There never seems to be a concrete answer which is why im so confused. Should i lower the light output, or...

Hi, i have a fluval planted 3.0 and i am wondering if the setting i have is to strong. The tank is a 72 bowfront that has been set up for 8 months. See attached image for light setting. Im am getting alot of brown algea on plants that are exposed the most to the light while the ones that are...

No I haven’t. Im thinking of putting the intake on the side with plants but am not sure if the plants will block the water from being sucked into the filter

So, after a long debate with myself i have decided to rescape my 72 bowfront and reuse the drift wood, rocks, and plants (and add a few news ones) because i don’t really care for the way my current scape turned out. The idea i have is to have the layout be like a large triangle where the plants...

Is it possible, or a good idea to say add a layer flourite then a layer of ada aquasoil on top of it. I am mainly want to do this to add a thick layer of substrate and adding pure aquasoil is expensive. Also, flourite is said to add alot of iron. Another idea is adding a think layer of Osmocoat...

hello all, I have need for some advice. I am currently running a planted tank in a 72 bowfront, C02, liquid fertz, root tabs, and 2 T5HO. half the plants seem to be doing really well whiles others are not. I am thinking its the lights. the fixture i have is from odysea and is a cheap fixture...

i have a very thrive Crinum calamistratum thrive in my tank for months. its leaves grew to about 2 feet and i didnt see any signs of it dying. this past week however i notice the leaves started browning somewhere in the middle then fall off. Now all my leaves are at least broken in half. i...

Would you guys say a canister filter is better in general? And how much and what size to get the same kind of filtration?

Why hello everyboy, i have a filter question i have a 72 gallon bow front with a marineland emperor 400 and a marineland penguin 350.. all together its rated to clean about 160 gallons. these filters have done great but i have a major issue with them that maybe you guys can help. I do water...

Whats a good indicator for how much CO2 you should be adding to your tank via pressurized C02. Right now i am pushing about 2 bubbles per second but when I look at my diffuser (a class one from CO2 art) the stream of tiny bubbles doesn't seem like that much... I man there is still a stream of...

so my 72 gallon bowfront is going through some type of plague that i hop you guys can help me identify it and kill it. my bowfront has been running fine for 7 months and i haven't had any problems until the last few days... I went to the fish store to buy a two corys to add to my school. I am...