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  1. I ordered some cherry shrimp recently for my 20 gallon and I drop in repashy soilent green in the tank to feed them, but the neon tetras find it and graze on it and the shrimp are too afraid to eat it. How can I feed them without this happening? In my other tanks I have to feed my corydoras at night to deal with this same sort of problem, but I’m not sure if shrimp will eat at night time
  2. I have a very unhealthy Anubias plant that either got too much light or was chewed on by the plecos. It’s also covered in algae and looks terrible, but I don’t want to just throw it away. If I cut off every leaf and preserve the rhizome, will the plant die or will it grow new leaves eventually and become healthy again? Obviously it’s going to be moved into one of my other tanks
  3. What does the salt do and will it be ok by itself for that long? I also have a neon tetra with what I think is swim bladder disease, so should I place him in quarantine with the skirt tetra and do the same treatment method?
  4. I got some black skirt tetras about a year ago and one of them was either bloated when I bought them or became bloated shortly after. I can’t remember. Is there anyway I can help the fish? It’s been like this for over a year and acts normal for the most part, so I have no clue what could be wrong. The photo with the amazon sword plant was taken in January of this year and the other 2 are from right now
  5. My tap water KH is 0 and sometimes it manages to climb to 40 PPM, which is still very low. Do I really need to buffer it? I wouldn’t have a problem with adding crushed coral, but I already dose equilibrium up to 150 PPM hardness and my ph is 7.5. The only time I’ve ever had a ph problem was with my 29 gallon after adding a huge driftwood piece that would drop my water to a 6.0 ph within a day after changing water. I don’t have that problem anymore and my ph is almost always an exact 7.5 when I test my tanks, so is there really any need to buffer my KH unless I add more wood or something? I do weekly 25% water changes on all my tanks and biweekly 25% changes on my betta tank.
  6. I’ve heard Cory say that plants can’t see blue light and only algae can in a live stream or video. Is this true and if it is then why do companies even put blue leds in lights? I’m battling this hairy green algae growing on my val and some other plants. I have no idea what type of algae it is but I can only describe it as a dwarf green hair algae and it’s not regular green hair algae.
  7. Honestly I don’t know because I haven’t tested for calcium specifically, but I know there’s very little since all my snails shells are white and flaky and I can also see it in the plants. My water is also pretty soft
  8. Oops I’m sorry I meant Prime Time Aquatics, not KGtropicals. The vid is titled “fish tank water hardness fully explained: don’t kill your fish”
  9. I believe the video where I heard this was KGtropical’s video on GH and KH. Also I have checked my fish food ingredients and they all contain very little calcium other than the repashy. The food that the corys eat has calcium listed as the last ingredient so I doubt it is a sufficient amount
  10. I recently discovered that my tap water has very little calcium. I recall information from a YouTube video or something stating that calcium in the water is vital for fish. Is this true? I always assumed that the fish food contained calcium and all the minerals they needed. If this is true then it would explain the slow growth of my Cory cats and other problems that I could never figure out the cause. Same thing for plants. I just started dosing equilibrium to fix this
  11. I know this method is disappointing, but in my experience, I simply pluck it off of rocks and leaves manually or completely remove a leaf if it’s bad enough. It seems to have mostly gone away for me. If you’re not comfortable with using hydrogen peroxide like I was then this is a pretty good method of removing it even though it sounds tedious. If it’s growing on plants that could be a sign of not enough nutrients. It stopped appearing on my plants after I started dosing liquid fertz
  12. I have no personal experience indicating that this is a true thing, but I personally wouldn’t run carbon in a planted tank because I don’t think it’s that important or worth the risk
  13. Could just be a problem with your water parameters. Maybe way too high or low of a ph. Could also be too low or high water hardness. I’ve run into plant issues since my water is low in calcium. Easy green has no calcium, so I have to dose other things to add it in. I’m not sure if you meant to say that your nitrates are always at zero, but if you’re dosing easy green using the instructions then 0 nitrates doesn’t make much sense. Like justin Campbell said, you could just be doing the nitrate test wrong if you’re using a liquid kit. I’ve also made that mistake
  14. Equilibrium contains a lot of potassium and easy green contains extra potassium. I would use equilibrium since it sounds the easiest, but is it gonna overdose my tank with potassium?
  15. My water has a ph of about 7.5, a GH of about 75-150ppm, and a KH that ranges from 0 sometimes all the way to between 40 and 80 ppm. I have come up with the conclusion that my water lacks calcium and the hardness I do have is magnesium because the snails In my tanks have flaky white shells and my java fern seems to stay small and some leaves look oddly white. I am dosing easy green, but it doesn’t have calcium. I am mainly concerned with my stem plants because I rely on liquid dosing only for them and I don’t want to lose them. I also like snails so I would like them to be healthy and I’m sure the fish need calcium too. What would be the safest way for me to add calcium to my aquariums so that the amount is steady and not drastically shifting my water parameters, stressing out fish? I’m not entirely sure crushed coral is good for me because my ph is already a bit high, but I still don’t know how it works completely. I would also try egg shells, but I don’t know how to do it or how safe/effective it is. I’m completely stumped and some help would be greatly appreciated 🙂
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