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Some fish definitely perfer flow. Careful though as a dog who likes to swim in a swimming pool can only do it a few hours per day. Make sure there are plenty of slow spots in the tank for the fish to rest.

Thank you for continuing to post your favorites 😉 I have booked a trip to China to film the markets and a farm tour. I also booked 3 weeks in Europe to go film as well. Also I'll work on releasing some more Lizzie aquascaping content 😉

You remembered correctly. I was supposed to go to one. I don't have anything planned for October yet, but I will be in Europe in August 😉

Yeah, as of like 2-3 weeks ago, they were cleared to come back into the country with the farms we buy from. Previous attempts had failed. So we can get back to using moss balls 😉

Should be a-ok to use em together.

Looks awesome. I think Bowls are underrepresented. A bowl done well always looks awesome.

I'd probably go with 100 watt heater myself. I like having smaller heaters as if they fail I have more time to catch it. I also think 100 watts with a glass top will probably do the job for ya. I wouldn't put anything under the tank, usually that hurts hardwood floors by trapping water, where wood to wood dries out better in my experience. As for the aquaclear, I'd say with the smaller HoB, as you're going with a sponge filter as well. I think you won't get much improvement out of the larger HoB unless you decide to go with fish that love very fast moving currents down the road.

I'm going to make this simple. There are multiple people in this thread that are fighting with each other. I can solve this by banning people if I need to. A correct response would be: I'd try maybe some Malaysian trumpet snails, or corydoras, maybe some loaches. You could try a red lizard catfish, and others will chime in with more suggestions. Just a btw I found it easier to keep my tiger barbs in a larger tank long term. (speak from your experience, not from what they should do.) Easy as that. They can come back with more questions or ask for more help. I know I can keep 11 tiger barbs in a 10 gallon tank with tankmates for probably their entire life, with auto water change, live foods. Heck I believe I could spawn them as well. We don't know if this is a 1 day setup,a 10 year setup, if they have 100 years of experience or they are just a troll. But it is our jobs to treat each as someone genuinely looking for help with their question asked. I don't see anywhere it was asked if 10 gallons was enough for 11 tiger barbs. I've locked this thread and will be on the lookout for anymore behavior like this.

The bulbs are nutrients storage, they get consumed while establishing roots, if not enough nutrients or buried too deep they rot. I think this is a case of planting them and letting the roots establish. Do you have tweezers? These should be easy to plant with a set of tweezers.

I'd bring the bulb up so it's 50% in the substrate and 50% below. A tank shot might provide a better overall look. Perhaps the plant is being shaded from the light a bit. Are you supplementing the plant with good tabs as it's a heavy root feeder to replenish the nutrients in the bulb.

Double checking that you have the solenoid still plugged in. I assume you do, but incase you don't, co2 only flows when the solenoid has power. Shoot us an email shipping@aquariumcoop.com and we can trouble shoot a bit more and send out another if we don't identify what the problem is.

Why do you want to use the trio? Are the fish brand new to you? are they in mass quantity? do you not have a quarantine tank etc? Many people do it cause they hadn't before, that's not a great reason to do it. In a scenario where you want to "clean up your fish" you'd want to do 1 med at a time, and probably only paracleanse , then repeat it 2 weeks later.

24/7 finnex lights are much less light output than our lights. Also less efficient energy wise. That would be 2 reasons, there are more as well, but it won't do sunrise/sunset as that is not a feature we wanted to include.

ph looks a bit low, might want to buffer it up a bit with some crushed coral.

You need balance. The question becomes, what fertilizer are you using? Is it only root tabs for that val? Is there some liquid for the anachris? Can you solve this issue easily with 1 bristlenose pleco?

The majority of the "algae" on the bottom is blue green algae, aka cyanobacteria. Some maracyn or slime out will take care of that, I recommend manual removal first. After beating the cyano bacteria. I'd recommend a florida flag fish or two to get the hair algae under control. I'd also up the easy green dosage a bit to keep 20ppm of nitrates in there at least, and relax the water changes to maybe once a month.

I recommend just buying more of the matching gravel.

For a clouded eye, I'd only be doing maracyn. The tendency to over engage with our fish tank is high. Like vitachem, if you have a broken arm, trying to make up for a poor diet the past 6 months won't do much. You've identified a cloudy eye, most often an antibiotic will cure that. Possibly the ich x would help also, the paracleanse was uneeded for this. This is assuming it's been diagnosed correctly which is usually true as a cloudy eye is relatively easy to identify. If I owned this fish and had the med trio in there, I'd probalby just do nothing except feed the tank like normal all week and look for signs of it getting better or worse. You could dose and water change every day the maracyn, in my experience I get the same result either way with fish in my care.

The most common cause would be an allergic reaction to the food going in. Blood worms are common, so are brine shrimp. If you're feeding those, you could try without for a few months, and many water changes and see if you get the same reaction. Then it'd just be narrowing down which of those two.

Not anymore, we're beyond my abilities. I do a bunch with the website, but I don't know how to work with API with youtube and such.

My favorite is still the one with all the brown. But it was limited in tech and a bit clunky. I LOVE left hand navigation on websites though.

That I'm not sure about as I haven't done it. Other plants like aponogetons also flower above the water and I have propagated those that way.

They flower above the water.

10lb which isn't much more than a 5lb. On 1 tank I find it lasts easily like 14+ months between refills. Depends on how much you're injecting. In general outside of my retail store and warehouse, co2 lasts forever it seems. Warehouse it's like 6x 20lb tanks swapped out like every 10 days.

We don't have any ammonia in our fertilizers. It's cheaper, but not better in my opinion. Ammonium is only that below 6.8ph. Above that it's ammonia. I don't believe this is worth the risk for the public, overdosing ammonia can lead to bad results. Can you get dennerle v20? I'd use that if I couldn't get Easy green.