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Due to an unexpected move, I was forced to leave a tank full of melon swords with a friend. My friend failed to mention to me that my tank started growing mass quantities of hair algae and I’ve had to pull all of my plants to clean it off as best i can. Unfortunately these plants are a foot tall...

1 What type of fish is afflicted? In addition, please describe what is wrong with the fish to the best of your ability (i.e. cotton like growth, bloated, etc.). Zebra Danios. Two over the last week have suddenly started the death swim and died within 24 hours. Now I have a 3rd sick with a red...

No co2, running low tech since I'm on a budget. My water isn't overly soft or hard, no idea about kh but my hardness and ph stay stable. And no other fertilizers.

I have 4 tanks with major algae problems mostly centered on my plants. I have at least 4 species of the stuff and it's completely out of control. Manually removing it is getting me absolutely nowhere so now I'm just contemplating kill methods I can perform outside of the tank to protect my...

I suppose I should have stated in the original post that this is simply a two week fix to keep a single ram from dying of stress before she can be properly homed.

I started the hobby with one 20 gallon in November 2016. The twig and green phantom will be moved to my mother's 60 gallon tank within the next few months. The two ropefish are being moved to a 14 gallon until they get big enough to go in my friends 90 gallon (he has two already, but his...

Something you should keep in mind is that captive bred fish are more forgiving to ph than wild caught. It's more important to keep your ph stable and properly acclimate than it is to match your ph to the exact preference of the fish. Wild caught fish are more sensitive and can't handle ph much...

Pics of the tanks Pics of the tanks in the order I listed them in the original post.

I have 4 fish tanks. Two 20 gallon, one 10 gallon, and one 5.5 gallon. I need to find the best way to keep all of these fish in these 4 tanks. Yes I am aware that these fish in this percentage of water is overstocked, all tanks are heavily planted and I stay on top of my water changes. I need to...

I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 rainbow sharks, 2 male Kribensis, 6 zebra danios, 1 ADF, 1 banjo cat , and 3 GBR I THOUGHT were all female. Oh lord was I wrong. I've got a breeding pair and they're beating up anything that comes near the eggs (including my hand). I purchased a 10 gallon tank...

I actually wound up having to rehome my zebra danios to this tank. They weren't handling the high water flow in my other 20 gallon very well. But as soon as I can get another tank to permanently rehome them, I'll check out DG's. I've had some before, but I suspect they had that disease specific...

Aqadvisor..I've never heard of it, but I'll definitely check it out (: thank you for your assistance. I may add another filter to each tank or see about getting a small sump for the problem tank. Small apartment, so I'm kind of limited on space :/

I also just realized I failed to mention my ADF and banjo cat in the cichlids tank. I make sure to add the shrimp pellets because I'm not 100% positive the banjo eats the other food as I only see him when I dig around in the tank. The veggie based frozen food is for the Kribensis, as they...

I gravel vac with every water change. I am fully aware that the sharks will need to be separated when they start showing signs of aggression and happen to have a friend willing to take one. As far as feeding goes, I feed twice a day. The tank with cichlids gets a small amount of flake food...

The heavily planted tank has two rainbow sharks(3 inches), two kribensis(2 1/2 inches), 6 zebra danios, and 3 dwarf blue rams. The lightly planted tank has 19 white cloud mountain minnows, 3 hillstream loaches, and 5 neon tetras.

Tetra Whisper 30's with carbon filters. One tank is heavily planted and the other is lightly planted. Strangely it's the heavily planted tank giving me the most issue despite the fact that it's actually more lightly stocked fish wise.

I have two 20 gallon tank setups, one heavily planted, the other lightly planted. They are both slightly overstocked, but cycled. I do water changes of around 30% every 2-3 days but recently my nitrates have just refused to go down properly. I have started doing water changes of around 50% the...

I'm looking for brightly colored, SEMI aggressive freshwater fish with a max size of 3". I want something relatively peaceful, but capable of holding its own with the more peaceful small cichlid species such as Blue Rams and Kribensis. Any suggestions?

My water tested stable at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 5-20 nitrate (water changes) for Teo more days, and now all of a sudden I'm back at .25 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate. I guess I'm doing another water change and dosing with prime today.

Gravel from an established tank at a very trusted LFS. There are only two small plants in it and they both received high concentration salt baths before placement.

Toad has the right of it. You need a tank large enough and decorated enough that the line of sight is broken often and any fish being picked on can hide. It's also key to add them all at once so there is less chance of one seeing another as invading their territory and so the pecking order can...

I just started a new 20 gallon tank in an attempt to recreate a natural river habitat for my Hillstream Loaches. My tank has been set up for 3 days and had 8 zebra danios in it for 2. I checked my water parameters yesterday and I was reading ammonia at .25 ppm so I added Prime to protect my...