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Our bristlenose plecos, cory cats, and zebra danios have all begun breeding recently. When the cories and danios laid eggs we didn’t have a spare tank to move them to, so they didn’t last long. Since then we’ve been given a 2.5 gallon tank that we’ve deemed the nursery. We plan to move...

I assume when you first filled the tank you used tap water, do you have well water or city water? Did you add any chemicals to increase the ph and kg?

A big thing to keep in mind is that aquatic invertebrates are osmoconformers, meaning they can’t regulate what is going into their bodies like vertebrates can. So your water parameters may very well be safe, it’s just that the exposure to a new water chemistry might be too abrupt for them to...

My 20g freshwater aquarium was set up a year ago, and I made a rookie move to not test the water until I was having problems a few months ago when my fish were losing their appetite, becoming lethargic, staying at the bottom and eventually dying. Currently my survivors are 2 mollies, one...