Recent content by TML182

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Ive found that my German blue ram is quite hardy actually. I was like you though and thought that they were gonna be impossible to keep with my ph only being slightly lower then yours. Both my lfs and one of my close friends both sayed they had a hard time keeping them but I've been lucky and my...

Hey, so I'm almost completely satisfied (minus the ugly substrate) with my tank now after many changes and hard work. I have around 12 different plants in the tank now and all are showing some good growth. Running 2 WPG on this tank with no C02 and adding exel every second day :D Had some...

Yea I do 40% a week and can't seem to get those nitrates lower I'll test my tap water later and see if there's any in my local tap water thank you!

How would you suggest removing those nitrates? More pwc?

My usual nitrate reading are usually between 20 and 40 ppm. What should the nitrate levels be in a planted tank? And no I don't have a phosphate test right now but I'll try to go pick one up. Yah I figured there's always gonna be algae of some kind, just getting a little worried because some of...

Heres a pic of the worst leaf in my tank at the moment all the others have varying degrees of algae but this ones the worst.

Its only been about a week since I stopped dosing the leaf zone so its hard to tell if there's been any more or less growth as of yet

Yah I do use fertilizers, I have root tabs under the root feeding plants, I was also dosing API leaf zone but read online that it may have in balance in some of the nutrients that could cause algae so I've switched to dosing excel every two days.

I got about 2 watts per gallon running now over the tank with 8 plants in the tank. I leave the lights on a timer set for 9 hours a day is that to much?

No im not dosing co2, I wish lol, and I'm using API leaf zone and occasionally exel for the plants.

Hey, so my tanks been set up for almost a year now and been doing great. I'm now noticing quiet a bit of brown algae (diatoms) on the leafs of my plants over the last couple of weeks. And just a few days ago saw some hair algae. Ive cut down on feedings and put in a phosphate pad in my canister...

ive kept a dojo loach in my tropical tank for over a year now and he's been thriving. When i bought him from the lfs he was in a tropical tank though. Ive also had them in coldwater tank and they've acted the same (always crazy lol) and as long as you keep a hood on the tank he wont be able to...

Wouldnt all the good bacteria have died since there were no fish in the tank for a while there for having nothing to feed the good bacteria? And when he introduced the new fish the water had nothing to break down that ammonia and potentially had a ammonia spike? Just wondering cause without any...

Hey, so two of my angelfish just bread? (don't know if thats the term lol) for the first time! They female has placed the eggs on a large leafed plant near the front of my tank. There are currently probably 150 eggs on the plant at the moment. There in a 50 gallon tank at the moment with 2 other...