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  1. My LFS doesn't like to carry them anymore - too over bred. I was lucky enough to buy some from him a couple years ago and they are still doing fine.
  2. I wonder if the increased bioload led to increased nutrients from waste, and the staghorn gladly took up the extra load - just a theory, but for me I can get a bit of staghorn when I overdose ferts. I've had my battles with staghorn, fortunately in my experience it's a pretty weak algae. An idea would be to decrease lighting time and/or intensity - not sure what your light is, but if possible drop the blues down to 2-3%. Remove as much as you can by hand/toothbrush, and dose with something like Excel - which takes care of staghorn rather quickly, esp if spot dosed (when things are more under control). Once it's dead your cleanup crew will be able to help out. More quick growing plants would help too. Good luck u got this 👍
  3. Ramshorns are pretty prolific too and are good cleaners in my experience. In my tanks they out compete the bladders.
  4. Is this new java fern? I noticed with mine, some of it melted when I first got it, but then produced new shoots that did just fine.
  5. Such a sudden death makes me wonder if it could be an acclimation problem? Like are you drip acclimating? I think amano shrimp are the hardiest of shrimps, so I'm not sure moving to another kind would help at all.
  6. I just noticed mine were not as bright as they usually are in the morning. A quick phone sync sorted out the issue. Can confirm mine went off at night.
  7. Right here, on the good ol' AC site: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/pothos#:~:text=You often see pothos used,having problems with this plant. TL;DR - nope, pothos are fine, even the stems and leaves. Many of my new shoots are in the water for weeks before I either trim or pull them above the lid, never had any problems. And yes, with pothos I need to fertilize more often, and trim the roots here and there.
  8. Have to agree - I've only ever had lidded tanks and never had any issues or unpleasant odors, even on my small 9g tank with just a sponge.
  9. In my 100g I set the heaters to around 80F and the inkbird to 76.5F with a 1 degree variance, as this is what the heaters themselves seem to use. 80F is warm but won't kill the fish and I'll get an alert on my phone if things go outside that range, or if the heaters have been on for too long (you can set the amount of time in the app). And I always have an extra heater on hand. This way I get the full benefits of using an inkbird.
  10. Not sure what kind of light you have, but you can also try lowering the intensity, and cutting the blues down to 2-3% - if possible. As a quick fix, you can take something like Excel/Easy Carbon and use a pipette/syringe and spray it right on the algae (just be careful not to over dose the tank, start off with a minimal amount). Shrimp and snails more more likely to eat it when it's dead/dying. I get a little bit of this stuff in my tank every once in awhile, always on the same spot of driftwood (jagged end piece), and manual removal along with a quick blast of Excel once a day for a day or two works.
  11. Maybe put a test strip in the bottled water and see if there's any chlorine - that's mostly what the concern is.
  12. Are you sure the tank is cycled? How long before the fish die, and what does a test strip show then? Any live plants? What's the temp? Do the fish act or look any differently before they die? Eating and what not? What are you feeding and how much? Got any pictures? Sorry for the all the questions but these these are the kind of details we need to provide any help.
  13. I get eggs about every week, and keep hoping that a few will make it, but I haven't noticed any cory fry yet. If I didn't already have 9 cories in my tank I'd probably try taking the eggs out.
  14. For a (mostly) top dwelling schooling fish, have you had a look at Golden White Cloud Minnows? I wouldn't want to overstock your 20L though, which might lead to skittishness if there's not enough room.
  15. Yup, my spider wood just had an amazing amount that now gives the tank a more reasonable amount of biofilm to feed on, even months later.
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