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I've been doing the aquarium thing for about three years now and have never seen fry. I was feeding last night and noticed three of these little guys swimming around. I have no idea what which fish they belong to. As far as I could tell, none of my fish looked pregnant.

My tank says I'm obsessed with Avatar.

You might want to rethink those tiger barbs in the 5 gallon. I have 5 in a 25 gallon, and even that seems too small for them at times. But nice looking tanks.

My new 10 gallon, still cycling. My 25 gallon live tank. My 20 gallon Avatar tank. This pic was taken in a pitch black room.

I'd recommended turning your heater way up and leaving the lights off.

Some updated pics after 4 days of no power/heat... The tank seems to be recovering well. Planted one month ago : Current pics :

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I'd recommend keeping the lights off and turning your heater up as high as it will go. Are you adding ammonia?

I still think changing my filter was necessary though, it was restricting serious water flow, even after violent shaking in a water bucket. I didn't just get a new pad yesterday, I got a whole new filtration system (an aqua clear 30 gallon one). So I took filter media out of a tank that's been...

Now this is where get confused. Some people tell me not to change the pads, some tell the opposite :confused:

Aww, that discouraging. Just last night I pulled one of the plants out of the substrate, and to my surprise it had a root about 3 inches long that wasn't there 2 weeks ago. I was hoping that was a good sign.

Well right now my filter is churning water at full speed, you think I should back it off a bit?

So I'm still not having much luck. I purchased an aqua clear filter this morning and got that up and running. I did three 60% water changes throughout the day and my water still looks like this .... This is what it looked like 3 days ago...

.... and done (for now)

Just got home from school and the water is still cloudy :/ if it's like that tomorrow I guess I'll be changing some water.

****, I regret cutting up that filter now. Lots of debris came off but the brown was still darker than ever. Well now I know for next time. I'm still hoping it was the zucchini. When I said I put in 2 big chunks, I mean 2 pieces each roughly the size of a lighter

Thanks, that's pretty relieving, except for the fact I already cut the old filter up, lol. It would definitely make sense though. Being my first time feeding with veggies, i had no clue how much to use. I put in two pretty good sized chunks of zucchini in the tank. I left one by my pleco's...

I ended up putting in a new filter pad last night. I did however take off pieces of the old one and wedged them behind the new one. This morning the water was still slightly cloudy. But this time it wasn't a light brown cloudy like last night, it was kind of like a light fog in the morning...

I'll definitely pick up some of that blue stuff on Friday. The driftwood has been in there for 20 days now. It was soaking for an unknown amount of time at my LFS. The tannins came within 24 hours of putting the wood in there. I was back to crystal clarity within 3 water changes. I liked the...

It's whatever pad that comes with the 25 gallon live starter kit.

Tests checked out. I have several live plants.

I have had fish in my new tank for exactly a week now. I did a proper fishless cycle, and up until today I have had no issues. As of last night my water was perfectly clear. When i got home this evening, I noticed the water was slightly cloudy. I added zucchini pieces last night for the first...

Well folks, probably my last post in this thread seeing as I'd call my tank complete (for now). I'd like to thank everyone who contributed in this thread and helped me out. It's greatly appreciated. I added a backdrop this afternoon. I think it looks pretty good. Most of the brown alge you...

Thanks. I had a few other people tell me the same thing. I've dropped it 2 degrees since. I added a backdrop this afternoon. I think it looks pretty good. Most of the brown alge you see on the plants in the previous pics is gone now thanks to that plecco. I love that thing! A few updated pics.