Clovis

I have a heavily planted tank. See photo. Are there good choices for bottom feeding fish given there isn’t a lot of actual bottom open?

Looking to add some more eye catching fish to my 15g FluvalFlex. It’s heavily planted with medium flow. Right now there is one sparkling gourami, about 3 Pygmy Cory’s, a couple Amano shrimp and an assortment of snails including some pests. Thoughts?

Cool that’s what I have been doing.

My tank is very heavily planted where they is basically no open space. I find it really hard to clean the bottom while avoiding shrimp, Cory’s ect. any tips?

It’s a flex so don’t think auto feeder is the best idea. I’ll do the other suggestions. Thanks.

Hi everyone. I will be gone over Xmas for 12 days and having a friend with zero experience feeding my tank. Photo below. It is stocked with 2 sparking gourami, 3 Amanno shrimp and 5 pygmi Cory’s. also a few snails. I would like to make the feeding as infrequent and easy as possible. Could I put one of those block things in to cover the shrimp, Cory’s and snail and have just some food added for the gouramis? If they were fed every 3-4 days would that be ok? Thanks

I have never had these guys. I guess I assumed they would just hang out at the bottom all day filtering through the substrate. In fact, they spend lots of time jetting around up and down the water column. Is this normal? It’s not a sign of something like oxygen issues or anything?

Thanks. It’s possible I may be succumbing to “want to tinker” syndrome! 😁

I think I have my algae problem under control. I’ve added 4 Amano shrimp, 3 ottos, 5 Pygmy Cory’s and 2 sparking gourami to my tank. I would like to fill out the plants a bit more. Maybe carpet, maybe even mid or upper. any good idea for this low tech tank?

Thanks for all the help. I got some amano shrimp and a few ottos. I assume the trick now is not add any food given they are only inhabitants?

Sorry SAE? Also do you think I can deal with this by stocking? No need to tear it apart or chemical treat?

I have a 15 g Fluval flex which is heavily planted and had 4 pea puffers. I’ve gotten rid of the puffers and want to stock the tank to balance it and clean up the algae outbreak. I am thinking of some Amani shrimp, a few neurogenic snails and a pleco. good or bad idea? Better ideas?

My lights are on timer for 6 hours per day. I dose fertilizer once a week and put in substrate pellets once in a while.

15 g Fluval flex. Heavily planted. Just four pea puffers.

I feel like I am way over feeding because their food comes in these giant frozen blocks. I am using the standard frozen cubes of blood worms and brine shrimp. I have 4 pea puffers. do people cut off a small piece of a block to thaw? If so how much? or do you thaw a block and just give a little at a time? If so do the thawed ones last in the fridge? How much do you feed? thanks

I have a fluval 15 very heavily planted. I added 4 pea puffers and 5 ammano shrimp three weeks ago. My mom is now sick in the hospital and I am going to have to leave the tank unattended for a couple weeks. Anything I can do to help the fish and shrimp live? I assume I can’t get an auto feeder for blood worms?

@Brianindeed I did

I setup a a new 15 flex that is heavily planted. Moved most of the plants and rocks, wood from an old mature balanced tank. Moved the sponges and ceramic media from same tank. Only new thing in tank is substrate. This tank should be essentially cycled right away correct? I can add lifestock?

I put a plug in timer on my flex but it will only start in storm mode. Any idea? I tried putting it in white mode and unplugging and plugging back in but no luck

@Streetwiseaka pea puffer snacks. 😀

Do you think I can get away with 5 in this flex 15g with this level of planting? They would be the only fish. Thinking I will add a few Amano shrimp too.

I set up a new fluval flex 15g today as an aquascape. It’s pretty heavily planted. The plants are all easy low to medium light but I would still like to try co2. Mostly for fun. I read some bad things about the fluval co2 kits. Any suggestions on a starter setup for someone who wants to tinker?

@David W that is the rescue tank. It’s on two small tables. The main tank is on its own dedicated stand designed for it.

Acrylic tanks have no seems? would you say they are safer for leaks?

My tank started leaking!!! I ran to store and bought a 20 gallon to switch over fish and plants. That was not a fun task. I’ll just say this...Zebra Danios suck! two questions. 1) how long will my plants live floating like this? I hate to say it but I care more about the plants than the fish eek! 2) I’m super paranoid about flooding. Are there any good ideas for secondary containment if the next tank leaks? I live upstairs for a unit and don’t want to flood neighbours if I miss a leak. thanks