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Ive found that my German blue ram is quite hardy actually. I was like you though and thought that they were gonna be impossible to keep with my ph only being slightly lower then yours. Both my lfs and one of my close friends both sayed they had a hard time keeping them but I've been lucky and my...

Hey, so I'm almost completely satisfied (minus the ugly substrate) with my tank now after many changes and hard work. I have around 12 different plants in the tank now and all are showing some good growth. Running 2 WPG on this tank with no C02 and adding exel every second day :D Had some...

Yea I do 40% a week and can't seem to get those nitrates lower I'll test my tap water later and see if there's any in my local tap water thank you!

How would you suggest removing those nitrates? More pwc?

My usual nitrate reading are usually between 20 and 40 ppm. What should the nitrate levels be in a planted tank? And no I don't have a phosphate test right now but I'll try to go pick one up. Yah I figured there's always gonna be algae of some kind, just getting a little worried because some of...

Heres a pic of the worst leaf in my tank at the moment all the others have varying degrees of algae but this ones the worst.

Its only been about a week since I stopped dosing the leaf zone so its hard to tell if there's been any more or less growth as of yet

Yah I do use fertilizers, I have root tabs under the root feeding plants, I was also dosing API leaf zone but read online that it may have in balance in some of the nutrients that could cause algae so I've switched to dosing excel every two days.

I got about 2 watts per gallon running now over the tank with 8 plants in the tank. I leave the lights on a timer set for 9 hours a day is that to much?

No im not dosing co2, I wish lol, and I'm using API leaf zone and occasionally exel for the plants.

Hey, so my tanks been set up for almost a year now and been doing great. I'm now noticing quiet a bit of brown algae (diatoms) on the leafs of my plants over the last couple of weeks. And just a few days ago saw some hair algae. Ive cut down on feedings and put in a phosphate pad in my canister...

ive kept a dojo loach in my tropical tank for over a year now and he's been thriving. When i bought him from the lfs he was in a tropical tank though. Ive also had them in coldwater tank and they've acted the same (always crazy lol) and as long as you keep a hood on the tank he wont be able to...

Wouldnt all the good bacteria have died since there were no fish in the tank for a while there for having nothing to feed the good bacteria? And when he introduced the new fish the water had nothing to break down that ammonia and potentially had a ammonia spike? Just wondering cause without any...

Hey, so two of my angelfish just bread? (don't know if thats the term lol) for the first time! They female has placed the eggs on a large leafed plant near the front of my tank. There are currently probably 150 eggs on the plant at the moment. There in a 50 gallon tank at the moment with 2 other...

I've had a rapheal catfish for probably 6 months now and my little guy (4 inches now) has only come out when the lights only a handful of times that I've seen anyway. He spends his day in a cave that's all his :). As soon as the lights go out though I can see his shadows going throughout the...

Does anyone have the name of the last photo posted what kind of fern is it?

Hey guys just got my self an Eheim 2215 canister filter and so far am loving it :) just wondering which media is advisable to use? I asked my LFS and they told me to simply use the white filter pad, the carbon pad and the bio balls does that sound about right or is there something I'm missing...

Hey, just wondering how an Eheim 2217 would work for a 50G tank? I know it's always best to have more filtration then not enough but was a tad worried for my angels that the current may be too strong, there getting bigger and have noticed that there swimming has gotten a lot stronger recently...

Do bristlenose or any of the smaller pleco's eat plants?

Hey so I was reading on another thread that you shouldn't plant the rhizome under the gravel of the plants is this true and why?

Hey guys, I have a veiled angelfish thats roughly 3.5 inches (top to bottom) that has been in my 50 gallon tank for 4 months. Everything was ok unil recently when i removed 2 koi angelfish that had grown up to be quite aggressive to all the other tank mates. It now simply stays near the bottom...

Just wondering how long you guys would recommend leaving my lights on. If kept fish for quite awhile but just recently got into live plants. I currently have two flouresent bulbs (each 30 watts) and two t-5 bulbs (18 watts each) in a medium planted 50 gallon tank. Any suggestions for times? Thanks!

No it shouldn't be necessary to get a heater in there unless you find that the water gets extremely cold during the night. If not then the betta will be just fine without one :)

Oh for sure, if you have one already id hook up the filter. The betta won't have any problems with it and it'll save you tons of time cleaning out the tank. ps. nice to see you don't have the betta in a little bowl, much better in a small tank like you currently have. Good Luck!