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I agree when it comes to most algae, but BBA just looks unnatural to me. Black fur balls everywhere in an otherwise lush green tank seems wrong. And it's not even working as natural food to my algae eaters, since even they despise the stuff :D I feed my fish twice a day so I can cut that down...

Thanks! I've tried spot dosing with both Excel and H2O2 on separate occasions, with limited success. As expected, it appears on slow growing epiphytes the most (Anubias/Buces), but I've seen a bunch on amazon swords. I've tried scraping it off and cutting affected leaves, but again to no real...

This is my tank now https://i.imgur.com/XwrMmmO.jpg If I get baby shrimps I'm hoping the very thick bush of cryptocoryne wendtii will help them out since it's so dense only shrimp can get in. Also I've got riccardia moss all over the place but don't think that would be of much help... The shrimp...

I think I accidentally introduced BBA in my tank with a bucephalandra I added recently, and now it is slowly spreading around. Tank volume is 120 liters (probably less considering high substrate etc), 70 days old. Medium lights, on 8 hours a day. I inject CO2 at 2bps, which turns the drop...

At least Caridina logemanni, Taiwan bees and tigers (caridina mariae)

Oh interesting - for some reason I assumed shrimp would like warmer water. I guess I could bring it down to 23 celsius without harming the ember tetra/CPDs who seem to prefer warmer waters. Aquasoil is 2 months old and kh has never been 0. Lucky for me, the other fish (with the exception of...

So EI causes GH to rise? And people keep telling me KH should go to 0 in an aquasoil tank but I used fresh AS and in 66 days the lowest my KH has been is the same that comes out of the tap, so 1.5-2. And is the reason for a bad match the rising GH? Or something else?

At least? Haven't seen anyone recommending over 50% water changes. I havent been doing 50% weekly since I added some sensitive livestock and did not want to stress them out for the first weeks (hence doing only 30% after the first week for example). Slowly doing bigger and bigger water changes...

Hello, From tap pH is 7.5, KH 1.5-2 and GH is 2.5-3. Tank pH sways between 6.4-6.8 depending if CO2 is on or not. Substrate is ADA aquasoil + I have driftwood. The odd part is that for some reason KH and GH in the tank have risen up. KH is 3 and GH 6. Temperature is at 24.5 celsius. CO2...

Hello, I've added 30 Caridina species during the last 3 weeks in my 120 liter planted community aquarium and I rarely see them. I've seen one shrimp corpse on the aquasoil and just found another near the canister filter intake (sponge). The shrimps that I do see seem active'ish (don't know if...

In 24 hours after netting him he became so lethargic he basically just laid on his side in the net. I tried introducing him back to the tank without the net, but he just sank to the bottom. Other danios immediately started picking at him for some reason. I then decided to euthanize him. I also...

Found one of my danios in my surface skimmer a few days ago. Modded the skimmer so that fish can't fall in anymore but noticed the same danio kept being sucked in. He was constantly swimming by the surface (I've measured o2 with a drip kit and levels are very high) and so slowly he was caught by...

I've had pH at around 6.8-7 in the tank since the start of the tank. It has dropped to 6.2 only after injecting co2. Kh has been around 2 for the whole time with the exception of buffering it for a short while at the start when I didn't know better. Here's a picture of water param progression...

Yeah, tap water. Its kh is around 1.5, just measured to be safe. Tank kh is at 2.25ish instead. pH kit results are quite consistent with the results I've heard from other local hobbyists and results from the water treatment plant. pH should be around 7.5 out of the tap, but in my tank it is...

I upped the rate to 3 bubbles per second. Now the tank water looks like soda. pH has dropped to 6.2 (from 6.8). Kh is at 3 like yesterday. Did the co2 test and it showed a value of 50 mg/l. According to a CO2/KH/pH chart this pH would mean CO2 is at 56 mg/l. My 20mg/l drop checker however is...

Lately 2 capfuls a day to fight the diatoms. Was hoping to stop with the excel after I got co2 but perhaps I have to wait for the livestock and increase the co2 rate as per your suggestion. Ammonia has been 0 for 2 weeks, and some of the melted buce was added after that. Good to know - getting...

Yeah, one made by tetra. Works kinda like kh/gh tests where reagent is added to a solution drop by drop until water changes color. My tap water pH is at around 7.5 but I've measured pHs of around 6.8-7.0 from the tank. I suspect the driftwood and aquasoil are dropping it. If co2 dropped it by...

I use a JBL brand water test kit. It has been kinda reliable based on my measurements before and after water changes. Kh hasn't been stripped away for some reason - it has settled around 2 which is what comes out of the tap. Gh is 3 out of the tap and rose to 4 during my absence. Kh also rose to...

Went on a work trip and instructed SO to dose EI daily. Before trip ammonia was 0, nitrites 0.1 and nitrates 5 mg/l. Dosed EI according to instructions on the bottle - e.g. 1.5mg/l NO3 daily. After 5 days nitrates should've been cumulatively 5 + 5x1.5 = 12.5 mg/l minus whatever the plants...

You're probably right - checked the roots and they were kinda short and stuffed with rock wool. What I don't understand is why the older buce next to it started to melt. It was doing well before. They do have their roots in the same hole, but didn't think it would matter? Do I need to up my...

Attached is an image of a buce I recently added to my tank in two parts on different sides of the tank. Both came from the same pot and were planted at the same time. The one that is doing better was super glued on a rock next to another buce that was on a different rock. The one that is doing...

Should I ideally keep on adding ferts to make sure no other deficiencys arise, while doing big water changes more often? Or should I stop adding ferts for now? What about the light period? Someone recommended to drop it at 6 hours at the beginning of the cycle. I have medium lights, and they...

Alright, thanks for the info. Question: I understood that in a fresh cycle Ammonia turns into Nitrite and only then Nitrite to Nitrate - how can ammonia fom AS turn directly to NO3? Or have I misunderstood? Cycle hasn't reached the point where NO2 is consumed yet, since NO2 is sky high. NO3...

Yeah, using fresh ADA Amazonia Aqua soil. Also using root tabs, and dosing according to EI regime. The charts in the attached images show the exact amounts of ferts I've added. They are ppm or mg/l so the volume of the tank shouldn't matter, but the tank is 120 litres. Filtration is mostly...

My nitrates have been steadily climbing since I established my tank. Tank is new with fresh ADA Aqua soil & root tabs. I dosed EI daily on week one (added around 1,5 mg/l of nitrates daily), did a 50% water change and tested a bigger dose (added ~4mg/l equivalent of NO3 after water change) and...