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  1. Tanked
    Watching the Tropica and other videos is what convinced me to a make another attempt at a planted tank, and eventually led me here.
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    I have 4 nerites and legions of trumpet snails that might be contributing. But the SAEs are doing most of the work and the pleco is helping.
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    20 fish, 2 snails, 3 pumps of fertilizer weekly, and some plants. This sounds like my low tech setup. The advice that I got here that worked for me, was to stop the liquid ferts for a few weeks, and in my case increase the light to 8 hours and add faster growing plants. Later on I began adding one pump per week. It is a slow process. As some of the others have said, make one change at a time or you may not be able to identify the problem.
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    Clean and inspect the impeller inside the powerhead. Make sure that the blades and rubber cup bearings are intact.
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    I can almost understand why @Brandy's 17 yr. old buys hardscape: Marketing. It's hard to find what I consider safe interesting stuff near me, but it isn't impossible. The crazy part for me is why someone: pays big money for the perfect rock or branch, calculates the perfect placement in the tank, and covers them with so many plants that you can barely see them!
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    FishCam A small, Cheap submersible WiFi camera that can be viewed on any computer without special apps, subscriptions, the cloud, sd cards... essentially a CCTV I currently use an old FOSCAM. It does the job, but it is low resolution, the dedicated viewer is terrible, and being on the outside of the tank it picks up the IR light and every other reflection from the room.
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    If your goal is to settle out debris, than you might try powerheads on the UGF if you aren't using them already.
  8. Tanked
    Welcome. Your time here will be well spent.
  9. Tanked
    Tinfoil Barb. In my case it is Red Tail Tinfoil Barbs TFB is how they show up in my notes.
  10. Tanked
    What makes me happy: Seeing another sunrise makes me happy! Everything except water changes and algae. The planted tank makes me happiest because there is a lot going on, and things are always changing. The TFBs because they are the largest, and partly because they react favorably to my presence in the room.
  11. Tanked
    Let common sense be your guide. If you can maintain the water quality with more fish, go for it. You probably don't like living in cramped conditions, neither do the fish. They need space to swim, chase, school, be alone, hide...
  12. Tanked
    The second dumbest thing I've done is not realizing that I am trying to grow plants in tanks stocked with omnivores. The dumbest thing so far, was last summer when I threw a towel over one end of the aquarium to block reflections on the fishcam. When I noticed water dripping into the basement workroom, I ran upstairs to find a corner of the towel had fallen into the tank, and was now siphoning water out of the tank onto the floor.
  13. Tanked
    My pin-holed Anubias seemed to want something that the easy green wasn't providing. A root tab with a slightly higher potassium content seems to have eliminated the problem.
  14. Tanked
    Spot treating with 3% Hydrogen Peroxide can also be effective. Turning off the pumps and filters and treating just before the lights go out will get better results.
  15. Tanked
    That many water changes will hurt your back before they hurt the fish. Don't chase the numbers. As long as your readings remain in the safe range, the fish will adapt. I would suggest a 10-20% water change once or twice a week and see where the numbers settle. If you haven't done it yet, some plants like Hornwort, guppy grass or other fast growing floaters will help use up some of the excess nitrates.
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    I would think that a heater on both ends would be a better idea. "efficient" involves a lot of variables It is more efficient to heat the water closest to it's final destination. There is the added benefit of two heaters backing each other up, and the security of seeing those little glowing eyes from anywhere in the room telling you that the heaters are working.
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    Floating plants in two thirds of the tank make it hard to count the fish . When I really want to do a census, I wait until nightfall. My lights are set turn on/off 5 minutes apart. The fish will usually migrate to the lit part of the tank. A few specks of food almost guaranties anything that swims will show up. Taking a cellphone picture allows me to catch the fast ones.
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    Just realized that I repeated almost everything @RockMongler said. Sorry
  19. Tanked
    Like so many people have said here, it is a matter of balance. It is also about control and $$$ The fish and plants look better in natural sunlight, but sunlight duration and intensity is unpredictable where many of us live. Artificial light allows us to control duration, intensity, spectrum etc. It also allows us to put an aquarium anywhere. I have a tank on the east and west walls that get direct sun in the morning and evening. The only noticeable difference between the sunlit tanks and the tanks in the other rooms is a slight rise in temperature at these times.
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    My blue light only function was marketed as "moonlight". It is interesting to a point, but seemed to project individual beams of light that highlighted the smallest particulates not seen in daylight.
  21. Tanked
    Thinking along those lines, They do make "wet pickup tools" (squegees) for the shop vac. It should not be too hard to epoxy a plug into the large end and drill the proper size holes. Alternatively pool vac tools might be an option.
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    Sounds like a plan. My four missing Danios will live forever!
  23. Tanked
    I count new arrivals a couple of times a day for the first week or so. After that maybe once a week. The Amano shrimp disappeared on day one, I've seen them twice. The Nerite snails get counted more often because there always seems to be one missing.
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    My Tinfoil Barbs always look best when the natural sunlight hits them. Their colour and "tinfoil" effect never seems to come out under artificial light. Of course that is also the worst time for pictures due to all of the glare and reflections.
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    In the foreground is #3 of 9. 3 is still the senior fish; which is surprising after jumping out of the tank, surviving the 6 ft. free fall, flopping across the room and rescuing little Timmy from the well last year. (I'm kidding about Timmy but you can look it up if you're too young)
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