johnnyxxl

Ammonia is in municipal water often as a part of chloramine (sp) I burned my plants and killed my fish back in the early 2000s after a hurricane when the boil warning was raised and I called the city about it. Treated for chlorine and not the ammonia. Huge water change because I was waiting for safe water. Learned the hard way.

Water lettuce if it's allowed in your area, I have a bunch of anachris clippings floating around also.

Lots of fish will eat the leeches not sure what else other than catch them with bait

My plants eat the root tabs every 6 weeks or less

I like what the shop does in video where they use the soda pop bottle for dosing the CO2.

As low as you are looking maybe the easy carbon or something similar? I would also make sure you have some faster growers besides the slowpokes.

Cory cats, I used to keep live-bearers like guppies but that was long ago. I would keep some tetra's the cardinal would be pretty

MD Aquatic just used some floral wire when he started with emerged plants. Easy peasy

Sand has silica in it. That's one contribution do you have wood in the tank?

Nice such beautiful pop of color bet the peas love it

My snails and Otto cat's are all over it

Stems will do a nice job hiding stuff quickly

Currently I have 6 each panda cories, oto cats, kulhi loaches. Planning on a school of tiger barbs. The stems are all doing fabulous I will send you a list and where each came from if known.

What we see is mostly the gunk that house's the bacteria kinda like the plaque on our teeth is housing the bacteria. My dentist used to call it germ poop

You are right I love watching my panda's digging around in my sand

Love the way it's filling in

Don't fry and small fish like endlers eat planaria?

I think you are right, and if I had noticed earlier I would have been able to do more. But my tank is so heavily planted and decorated with rock and big wood. I didn't see it

I searched the forum. One of my 7 Panda cories has not been eating anything from the looks of the poor thing. I didn't realize it as I see about 5 of them at any time. All of the rest of the tank inhabitants appear healthy. Water parameters are stable 6.8 pH no chlorine, no ammonia and nitrites, under 20ppm nitrate. I feed a combo of sera catfish wafers, and veggie flake, and vibra bites. As this is what they feed at C-MACS store. I would have thought sick if the poor thing had been showing signs sooner I wonder if it is the stress or maybe just not well to start with. The other 18 fish seem good and healthy eaters.

I have 6 of them see them everywhere cleaning glass, wood, plants going after the catfish wafers. Always out and about like the panda cories

Current growth

I agree with what you are saying but ideal how because if the fish don't behave or look stressed I suspect they are fine.

Exact isn't really a worry just pick the one closest to that color. Big thing to understand about numbers to watch are ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. The others are things that should stay the same so check them less often to just make sure that you're not having water charges from your source. My water I can't get any nitrate without fertilizer being added I have well water that's acidic and softer. I just watch the numbers to make sure they stay where they always are and does my fertilizer every few days. Once your tank gets mature you will be able to get like that.

If the silicone is still soft it's pretty likely that it is fine. I had a tank from the fifties or so that was good. It had a slate bottom that weeped a bit but the silicone which I have no clue how old it was was fine.

I would opt for the coral as any liquid can cause swing's to the parameters you are trying to fix