Aqua junky

Is the water out of a spring or is it an RODI distilled? If its distilled than all the nutrients have been removed and isnt good for most fish in my experience

Not a cichlid guy but I absolutely love the bottom pic. She's beautiful

I personally would run two of the large one at each end. But it really depends on your stocking. Say for instance you only have half a dozen guppys and a dwarf pleco and for that chances are you could get away with a smaller sponge. The more fish the more filtration. If its a 55 gallon just for a single betta well I'd say I would run nothing but an airstone and fill it full of plants aquaclear seems to get alot of attention, If it was me I always go a tad bigger. So if your tank is 30 Gallon I'd get a hob that will handle 50 to 60G

Easy fix just add a Dwarf puffer he will eat or ill all of them lol.

Anyone else find it faily hard to read the GH on the coop test strips? Mine always show up as a dark purple

Do you plan on using any plants? The natural plants help with hiding places and adds much more to the looks of the tank.

I let my children put ours on the fridge. It drives my wife insane lol.

I spray painted the back of mine, I've also used a paint roller as well. To me there's nothing better that a black back ground and white substrate

There are certain fish thats not a good idea but theres also lots that can cohabitate

Have you ever seen Cherry Shrimp? They are pretty hardy in my opinion and with a planted tank they graze all day and is stunningly captivating to watch?.

I'd have to say my absolute favorite is my Black Galaxy fishbone shrimp and for a Fish I'd have to say my Fahaka Puffer Mr. Pete

They don't get big 2" to 2.5" So if you only have three in a planted 10G I dont see any issues. Corys like to root in the substrate and eat off the bottom. I'd say in my experience your fine

Have you tested your water straight out of the tap? Its not uncommon to have ammonia or Nitrates straight from the tap especially if your on a well. How are the fish acting? Stressed, do they appear to be gasping for air at the surface?

That was supposed to say stratum

Any advice on which one's would be best for my setup? High light, Statum and C02/ Are they all low light plants. I've got a few tanks and not all have high light and co2.

Can some ease explain why the buce species are so hard to grow? I keep reading on how hard they are and love gow they look but im a bit intimidated from what ive seen. Anyone have any luck with them? I use Remineralized RODI with co2 so Id think I have a good shot at keeping them?

@H.K.Luterman No Marimo balls. It just showed up over the past year. It started with just little green spots and my amano and bee's love to graze on it tho

Ive had this what I think is an Algae develop over time on my sponge filter in my Taiwan Bee tank. Im not really looking to get rid of just wanting to identify it. Curious if anyone has seen this before and if I should be removing it? One thing I do know is its extremely slow growing. All my critters seem to enjoy it.

Lucas Bretts AKA the mad scientist has bunches of video's on in on Youtube. I currently have a 20 Gallon bucket I put about 2"of pebbles in the bottom and an airstone filled it with water lettuce and let that churn for about 3 months with a light on a timer and than started pulling guppies out in trios of one of my tanks and I personally waited about a month inbetween adding more but as of now I"ve got probably 30 guppies with nothing but an airstone, and a heater (its in my basement which in the winter months stays around 55 to 60*) other than that its all natural. I have had some die off but i'm convinced they are from natural causes seeing how it was very spiritic. Hope this helps

@Mydonkeyfish Ya this was my girst tank setup this second pic is my Taiwan Bees tank its full of my most prized possessions

@Mmiller2001 I'd have to look what's in the All in one thrive I use. I wasn't having the results I wanted from Easy green so I switched too thrive even then I found out it wasn't the ferts that was causing me issues it was my dosing routine and lighting schedule. I had this issue once before and once I changed my lighting routine and co2 it died off on its own pretty much, I"m really very novice when it comes to a planted tank. I've only been keeping plants in a tank for the last year or so and for the most part have been fairly successful besides the occasional outbreak like so. Its very challenging for sure atleast to me.

@Mmiller2001 not sure what K or FE is? I use FLuval stratum for a substrate I use strive at one squirt daily and probably 3bps on my co2 with 30 to 50% water changes. I dont add anything else.I use RODI water for all my tanks and remineralize with a gh kh booster too a tds of close to 200. I live in the country and our well water is ran into the house and directly into the water softener so i'm not sure whats in it and just decided to use RODI for all my tanks.

@DaveO Ill add a pic of lighting sched and I use Thrive all in one. heres my Water parameters below. Temp is 73*f GH-18* KH-5* Nitrate is 5ppm Nitrite and ammonia 0ppm Calcium 4* Phosphate 3* to 4* which seems high due to its almost maxed out on the scale which I will also add a pic off

Its funny you brought this video up cause he did this series on my tank about 6 months ago and what we did worked but this time its different. I wasnt seeing the whole leaf get covered last time and Ive already done everything we did before and its not working it seems to actually be getting worse. I already reached out to Bentley but hes a busy fella so I thought Id get some insight on the forums

Ive been fighting what I believe to be Staghorn algae. I've been spot treating with the ACC Easy Carb everyday to every other day and I don't feel as if I'm winning. Is it stag horn or is it something else. Ill give a short description of my setup. Fluval 3.0, I use RODI remineralized using A GH/KH booster Strict water change routine at 30 to 50% every week Pressurized co2 probably 3bps 75g I've I've got an FX6 running on it along with a Ziss filter. The fx6 is only on here to seed the filter it eill end up on the 120g Im setting up once room is made