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I too have done research with excel and shrimp. From what I've read, as long as I don't OD they should be fine. I put the initial dose in today and going to see how it turns out. I don't plan on dosing every day but every 2-4 days when I can. I'm hoping everything has a positive reaction to it.

No I don't have an overrun of MTS.. yet. I have been warned of overfeeding can lead to a lot of snails so I try to scoop out any left over food the fish don't eat. The root tabs contain 5% iron per the package info. We'll see how everything goes!

For the plants I have put in some API root tabs in the sand a I put in some aqueon liquid plant food. I have not tried any liquid carbon so that might be my next step. That wont harm any fish/shrimp/snails will it? I have some MTS to get the gas pockets out of the sand but am fixing to get a...

I've got a 20 gallon long with 2 guppys, 5 neon tetras and some ghost shrimp. This tank has been set up for 4 months now. There are 2 amazon swords, 2 Aponogeton (Grew from bulb), 2 onion(grew from bulb) and 1 anubius plant. I put some root tabs under the plants when I switched from gravel...

Yuck is right! The only pieces that come out is the cartridge, the bio grid that holds the cartridge and the other blue piece that makes the "waterfall" effect. From talking with others, I've decided to get another hob filter and also some media to put in the back of my current filter. I feel...

Well howdy yall, I started my tank about 4 months ago. It took about a month for it to cycle and then I added fish in. I've been doing ~20% water changes every week and I try to do a 50 or more once a month to clean the diatoms(which are still a problem!!) and algae off of everything. I recently...