Julien86

@TaylorI think you are right. That pic was taken right before the first water change in 2 weeks. I don't change a lot of water either since I have shrimp and I try to avoid the white ring of death. So nitrates would be the usual suspect here? The other plants are fine, by the way and I never used fertilizers in this tank.

Hi everyone! What would be the common reasons for the yellowing of my Salvinia? It's worrying me since they're supposed to be really resilient. I've added them about a month ago.

Hi everyone! I have a 5 gallon tank for about half a year and I'm battling algae for some weeks now. I reduced the lighting from 12 hours 10 and it's an ongoing battle. Is this green spot algae or black beard? I had black beard in another tank but it wasn't as flat as this. Also, is the stuff on the glass the same type? Lastly, is there any hope of fighting this without a filter? This was a little project of mine that started with no filter, no lighting, no ferts, no heater and no air stone. In the meantime I got a heater and some lighting for it.

Looks like Malaysian Trumpet snail. They're considered pests by some, but I love them. They will burrow in sand and finer gravel, not gonna do that in your tank of course. They like eating anything that decomposes, but don't eat live plants (or rather the live part of a plant). They give birth to live snails (so no eggs laying around). And if it's a female and it doesn't have any males around, it will produce clones. I hope you won't kill the little guy.

Hey all. I'm relatively new to keeping shrimp and I need some advice. I just threw a red cherry shrimp that was laying on it's side. It didn't responded to me netting it out (I also gently moved it from one side to another to see if it had a white circle of death - I assume that when a shrimp dies with a white ring of death, the ring itself is still visible after death- and it only had a crack if slightly pressed), so I assumed it was dead. After I threw it out, I google it and saw that some shrimp may stay like that during a problematic molt. My question is if the shrimp does not move, is it dead or it may be alive and during molting they can't even move their legs? Also I saw no decoloration or any other shrimp or snails trying to eat it (I just assumed it was newly dead and didn't started to decompose yet). This shrimp was in my tank for about a month or so and I did a water change last Saturday (about 15% water change).