Lonkley

Come out at 3 in the morning and stay at least 8 feet away from the tank and just watch.

Also in your case, I would take your water to your lfs and have them test it.

They typically like softer water with lower ph. Also they are also not the best genetically and have their own disease that makes them harder to keep alive.

I have his, but I like the idea of the wipes since you can make more direct contact with the glass. But that's an interesting idea to try them outside of the tank first.

Has anyone used these to clean their tank? I dont think it has any detergents, I imagine it's the same melamine foam that the normal ones are/the co-op sells. But I'm paranoid. There was no material list on the box.

In the coming weeks I'm planting out my new 88 gallon. Before I committed to a large order going through this process I bought a couple plants from my LFS supplied by Dustin's plants. They started beautiful, and came out of the process just as beautiful. I didn't notice any small eggs on the leaves or snails in the lfs tank. But I'll be moving forward with this technique. Once I get to the end I will test my old plants that have plenty of snails and some BBA. The plants I did cycle: Bacopa carolina, Hydrophilia cordata after the first week I see nothing crawling around

Pretty sure you're comparing apples to oranges. Look up TDS but I'm pretty sure it's everything (total after all). Not just gh which I think is just calcium and magnesium. Could be wrong.

Cory says the more wattage, more failure. I just setup a new 88 gallon. It came with a cheap fluval m series 300. I decided to put my new in box 100 watt coop heater in. Ambient 70, filled at at 72. Within 5 hours I had it at setpoint 77 and I haven't seen the heater on in days. Granted my glass is 10mm and it has a tight lid. I'm of the school of more wattage only cooks fish faster school of thought. Also, I have an inkbird on it. Just in case.

Weird that it would be after 4 years. Could the aquaclear motor be aging out? Maybe deep clean the hob and impeller. If it's ok I would pack the aquaclear with polyfill or coop polishing pads and kick everything into the water column for it to pick up. If it is the hob I'd probably change to an aquaclear 50. But if you've been happy for 4 years I would concentrate on what has changed recently.

Taken with a video camera so not super clear. Plus this is a shrimp tank that's only 4 months old and I've been loathe to aggressively clean it until my colony is established but here are dozens of shrimplets of various sizes. It looks like different shrimp gave birth every week for a month judging by size ranges.

The bigger issue is shards of glass. Hopefully it disappears into the substrate and it doesn't bite you in years to come. You could try vacuuming to see if any small loose stuff comes up.

If recommend a metal valve as well

Some guppies just like hanging at the surface. Playing in currents. Chasing bubbles. Also it may just need to adjust

It's very easy to have too much light and grow algae. Cory only has 2 for filming. Pretty sure he has them off otherwise.

The box stores always have the most self righteous employees. Pretty ballsy for a store that pumps diseases to every tank with their filtration. They also have an archaic corporate policy of an inch of fish per gallon. That said they deal with inexperienced people every day. Some of the conversations I overhear just make me shudder.