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10 Bloodfin Tetras (the yoyo loach chased 2 of them around so much they jumped out a small gap in my tank and died on my floor while I was at work -_-) 6 Peppered Cories 1 yo-yo loach (his friend was an and was going to return him to store for a different one but he decided to off himself...

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everything i've read about brown algae/diatoms says that it's quite popular in new aquariums and as parameters stabalize it goes away on it's own, it's usually due to high nitrates (even though my readings aren't above average, my plants are just starting to settle in so i imagine that for...

So a small update: I finally finished fully stocking the tank. Part of me wants a focal fish, but I don't want a betta (i mean I do but not in this tank, not with these tetras and 2 filters lol) so idk. The tank now has 12 Bloodfin tetras, 6 Peppered corys, and 4 nerite snails. Everyone is...

well the store didn't have khuli loaches (really wanted to try em) or chili rasboras, which i was going to switch out for the bloodfins, BUUUUTTT a'las, they had neither. So went with my original stock, Got some bloodfins, all they had (8) and all of their peppered cories (6). No pleco (the...

i'd up the cory count to at LEAST 6. guppies and platies are live bearers, So be prepared for them to breed like rabbits. I'm not to knowledgeable about gouramis, but I've always been told their real big meanies. I think Honey Gourami's though are some of the more docile ones, but remember...

Yeah. All my plants are from: Welcome to Planted Aquariums Central - Live Aquarium Plants Plants always came in healthy lookin'. They do insulate their packaging with fiberglass insulation stuff so if you're allergic to that be very careful, but their plants are wonderful! Great prices too! I...

OKAY HERE IT IS!!! Plants in. They're all decently easy plants to keep, not very demanding, but with the dosing of ferts, co2, and my expensive LED light I'd like to think they'll flourish. I bought all rooted plants this time instead of clippings, as I read they don't melt back very easily if...

Tank should be 100% done by next week. I've deciding to rework the plants a bit in my tank, I want to get rid of the brazilian pennywort and actually replace it with a dwarf pennywort, as I want to apply moss ontop of my rock 'cave' and i fear the large pennywort will end up blocking too much...

ty. I'm so relieved to finally have this done. Never had such a huge issue with cycling a tank before omg haha

-sighs- so nice to see this... you have no idea @_@ Ganna let this run till friday when I get paid, if everything still checks out, I'll go to my LFS and give them my list of fish lol

Well, gravel came in today, so here we are re-scaped. Made a little cave with the rocks this time around. 1 and only 1 piece of driftwood. We'll see how it goes @_@

Probably the Ornate Bichir (Polypterus ornatipinnis) most likely.

Okay so this is something that's been buzzin' around my head for awhile and I'm genuinely curious about these answers. Normally when I start thinking about what kind of fish I want and what can go in with them, I look them all up in different tabs/windows and compare things such as where they...

After some debating, I think I may... sadly, scrap the driftwood. I'll keep the smaller of the 3 pieces in there for the pleco and my anubis, it shouldn't effect the pH as much as 3 total chunks. I guess i'll just have to put them on stand-by until I can get a better system hooked up or a higher...

Is it generally pretty reliable? Does it ever need to be replaced? I assume if I were to add it, I'd start with a much smaller amount than what I "think" i need and then just add a little more until it matches more closely to my tap pH? Would I add it when i add my driftwood? Or should I add...

Been awhile since I updated this... a lot has uh... happened since my last post. To start things off, my cycle stalled. I did a huge WC and gravel cleaning (nasty home depot gravel was covering the whole tank in dirt. Never again) about 3 weeks ago. Since then, my cycle had gone from daily...

the last WC I did was about 1 week ago, since then my tests have been at a standstill. I just dumped a good amount of apple cider vinegar on my gravel and it fizzed like mentos in cola... I tested my decor rocks when I first got them and nothing, but spaced on the gravel. I assumed it was OK...

Just did the test. Tap comes out at 5 drops. did the tank water just cus and in 1 drop instantly turned yellow.. lol not surprising I guess. So 5 drops comes out to about... what 90ppm? From what I've read, that's a decent KH buffer. So it's clearly one of the rocks in my tank yea? (either my...

So I should prob pick up a test kit then today while I'm out. How much baking soda? and should I just go ahead and add it now? Or after I test? Is this something I'll have to do all the time? Or once the cycle is done, will it return to normal? This is all new to me, as I did not experience...

there-in lies the problem perhaps... my tap is 7.5...... but my tank water is reading 6.4....... What the...??! o-o So when I did that huge WC... I just dumped a bunch of 7.5 ph into a tank with BB used to 6.4... What in my tank could be bringing it down so much o-o. My rocks were from the...

I didn't swap filter media, just cleaned the tank and lightly shook off the dirt from the sponge in the filter in used tank water. I do my tests to a T. Just like the directions say. I haven't tested my ph yet for awhile, I'll do that today

So this is new to me, as the last tank (and first I ever did) I started went flawlessly with the cycling process. I've done the same thing this time but with 2 changes. We'll get to those later. Before, I was dosing to 4ppm of ammonia and withing 24hrs it was almost gone, so I'd drop in a tiny...

cut my lights back from 7-7 to 10am to 4pm to hopefully kill the algae that's beginning to grow on my rotala. Once it's gone I'll increase my light from 10am to 6pm and that will give the tank 8 hrs of light. My fault with the algae as I was having the lights on fo 12 hrs (7am-7pm), its the same...