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Maybe someone can help. My nitrates are at 5.0. Could this be affecting the diatoms and algae. Are the nitrates too low. I use excel, not co2. Black algae on larger leaves of anubius and sag. Brown algae or diatoms I guess on the sidez and bottom sand level, also on higher leaves of the water...

I have a 90 gal tank. My plants are coming along well. Especially it seems after I inserted flourish tabs into the substrate. I want to get glosso for my foreground carpet plant. Now I'm seeing some issues. From what I can tell diatoms are building up real quick at the bottom and around plants...

I just got 3 black and yellow assassin snails today to combat my snail problem. One just wrapped itself around the base of a bacopa plant and buried half its shell in the sand. Is this normal? Can anyone help me?

Ive seen algae before. But nothing like this. This is my first big planted tank. I have quite a bit of little hitchhiker snails inside. But this film actually looks like tiny clear feathers. That's what it looks like to me. I have 2 ottos. Should I leave it for them, or scrape it?

I have 90 gal. Planted tank. Its coming along fine,But I got six otto cats and three have died. I replaced 2 and now have 4 ottos and I also got 2 fork-tailed rainbows. The ottos just seem to be dying off slowly. Havent even had them for 3 weeks. Ph is fine and everything else seems normal...