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My landlord just installed a water softener to the entire house, there is no bypass. I am ready to buy a RO/DI unit and have been researching all day to find the best way to add minerals back into the water. I am confused. There are products that add to GH but won't add KH. How do I obtain the...

I ordered some shrimp food online and the seller gave me 2 of these along with the original purchase. Anyone know what they are? Thanks.

I couldn't resist setting up a shrimp tank. My lfs had 1 Sakura (spelling) Red and 2 Rili left. Anyone heard of the Rili shrimp? They are red with a clear part in the middle. I lost one after a week. I assume they are sensitive to nitrates as mine were 20+ ? ? The tank has a sponge filter...

I saved a few Red Wag Platy fry and have been feeding them powdered fish food ( I grind my NLS to dust). I have also been feeding them freshly hatched baby brine shrimp - so fun to watch that. Does anyone decapsulate their brine shrimp, and is that necessary? I have come across that online of...

I hatched my first clutch this morning. :flowers: They are sooo darn cute! All 100+/- of them. :ermm:

I rearranged some fish so I could adopt this baby Pea Puffer. He's in a heavily planted 10 gallon with spider wood and tons of plants. I have a huge colony of Ramshorn snails in their own 10 gallon for food. Petey also eats frozen blood worms. He is always hunting and hard to photograph but...

I noticed this morning that one of my female platy has a white underside. I have 4 females and 1 male. She is the only one displaying the white color. I have removed her and found it impossible to get a still photo so I took a little video. https://youtu.be/bxmJHaJCNbw The very end of the video...

Ok time to ask for advice. My delta tail "The Big Guppy" is rapidly losing his fins. :(I think he tore them on a decoration a month ago. He was swimming up a tiny hole in a plastic decoration and as soon as I figured it out I removed it. He is not showing signs of illness. He eats new life...

I have a stupid question. When you buy something that says you need 1 inch tubing and do not specify ID or OD which are they referring to? I went to home depot to ask for tubing and they asked ID or OD and I went blank lol.:confused: Thanks

They have started to flush the hydrants in my neighborhood and that means ORANGE water. :banghead: I have to go to the store to get bottled water for a water change. I hope the ph isn't way off. Anyone have a R/O unit that attaches to a faucet without all of the plumbing? I am thinking of buying...

Here are some of my fish. Be kind it's a work in progress lol. :D :fish2: https://youtu.be/Iw9ZlUM58YE

I tried to build my own tank divider out of craft mesh with plastic poster holders on the sides. I thought I had it fitting well and when I tested it my betta made it to the other side in less than a minute. I have another male betta in a 2 gallon quarantine tank I want to get him in a bigger...

I woke up to find my pearl gourami dead. :( My Honey gourami was pals with him and now he is back to pacing all over (like when I first got him). I did a water change yesterday and something happened with the heater plug in the power strip. The temperature dropped from 80 to 71. My apartment air...

My 10 gallon has one male Betta and a Ramshorn snail. Since Betta's do not like fast moving currents I put a filter sponge in a place that slows the outflow of the HOB. I set that tank up close to the same time as my main tank which has lots of water flow. The betta tank had a brown algae...

Can someone please tell me what these plants are. I just finished dipping them. Also, meet Butterfly -he looked lonley- I had no choice :lol:

Z suggested I make a thread on my plants. Here they are :cool: The very bottom picture are 2 new plants and I do not know what they are, they were given to me for free.

I find I'm buying more and more real plants, something I never did in the past. For the moment I am staying low light. I have Amazon Sword, broad leaf Anubias and a little bit of Java Fern. I am considering helping them out a little and need some advice. Should I use root tabs? Seachem...

Do snails fight or is something going on here?

I got a bad batch of glo-danios and I am down to one as of today. It is beating up on my black neon tetras, they are very stressed. I will get more of the tetras as I was adding them slowly. I do not want danios again any suggestions?

I have a problem it's MTS. I now have three tanks:). Last Saturday I got a Sunset Honey Gourami (Trichogaster chuna), 4 black neon Tetras a mystery snail and a ramshorn. Today ammonia 0, nitrites, 0 Nitrates 5-10ppm. The problem is the gourami developed ich so I cranked the temp and it went away...

I am so excited today is the first day I have seen NitRates since setting up my tank! Looks like 5ppm. :dance: Ammonia: 0 Nitrites: 0 Ph 8.2 Temp 81.7 I wonder why I never see nitrites. I put in the Angel Plus bio active sponge last Thursday. Should I do a water change, if so how much? :thanks:

Here we go. I have 2 fatalities already. Those of you who know my struggle with cycling - I am starting to wonder if my test kit is bad. I bought 6 danio rerio 2 days ago my water has been pristine. I acclimated them for an hour. The 2 that died were very small males. The females are having a...

I am the proud mother of 6 Danio rerio. lol Yes I am going to the dark side and cycling with fish. The bio-sponges from Angel Plus will here Tuesday, hopefully it will help. I don't mind daily water changes and testing a lot, keeps me out of trouble. :P :fish2: Hopefully these guys will live for...

Maybe a dumb question. if I used a large food grade "plastic" storage container for water would a heater melt the plastic?

I emptied my tank and am in the process of filling it back up. Os Prime supposed to have a stinky odor?