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  1. CT_
    If it is bacteria I'd throw in an air stone in case its consuming a lot of oxygen. I think at night algae can also consume oxygen. Either way seems like a prudent thing.
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    I love seeing what people get please share soon! The CARE packages are such a fun thing for the forum. It couldn't go to better people too🙂. Congrats guys!
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    My light is in theory (I can't directly measure) about 50 par. I do plan on shortening and splitting my photo-period but I've been too lazy to adjust it since its a bit involved for my setup. I've been to busy to dip yet but yeah its a good point. I'll be strategic when I do dip.
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    So should I take out my razor blade sculpture? Seriously though I used to think fish were "smart enough" to not get hurt but then I realized not all species evolved with the same kind of dangers so they'd have no reason to know. I actually feel a bit worried about using dragon stone but I feel its a calculated risk and so far everyone's been fine. fingers crossed!
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    Okay thanks for the ID guys! I may just bleach it then since it's easy to take the wo. Whole piece out.
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    To answer your question directly, one pump per 10g should increase nitrate readings by 3ppm. So 0 to 3ppm may not be detectable by your kit. Also just incase remember to shake the heck out of bottle 2 in the api nitrate test and to follow all the directions. The nitrate test is easy to get false negative readings.
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    I've had this nana petite for about 2 months now. It recently got covered in diatoms and then I introduced otos who ate the diatoms off but the edges of some leaves still look brown and some leaves have dark spots now. Is that a new algae? a deficiency? Maybe those were gaps in the diatoms and the plant made more chlorophyll there? I tried rubbing the leaves an nothing came off. I googled a bit and I saw a few people with similar problems do a quick bleach dip to remove the algae, but I don't want to do that if this isn't algae.
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    Whats the marshmallow trick?!
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    ohh. I kinda assumed all their organs and stuff ended with their "legs". I didn't think it extended into the tail area. I found this neat drawing though: EDIT: woah their head is like all stomach! crazy!
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    It's funny I've got 3 males and the two with long fins spend all their time doing what I assume macho fish stuff. There's never any biting but they chase each other back and fourth and do this weird sideways shaky display at each other. The irony is when I introduced otocinclus into the tank one of them chased the guppies away so I think they're actually big softies.
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    I've noticed this lady shrimp has been turning kinda green in the last week. Is it a disease or is her color just changing in her advanced age? I thought maybe it was a saddle but its too far back for that, I think.
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    Same guppy looses its yellow if something is wrong. His "default" is no black but the black comes and goes seemingly randomly. Those photos were 4pm and 430pm. pretty centered in their photo period. It's the blackness thats so "alarming". I've heard of loosing color but gaining black is weird 😉
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    My guppy likes to change color some times. it usually has a light colored body but sometimes it gets almost black in a patch. Anyone know what this is about? I know fish can loose color pretty fast if they're freaked out but this guy can turn it on and off in really short order. These two photos were taking 30 min apart. 30 min later:
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    sounds way easier to pull a tums out of the back of your medicine cabinet
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    It's not just you. I've had trouble with the search feature too.
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    You can also use whatever on the outside. Another option is static cling film. Both my tanks have it. To me it's easier than paint but costs more.
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    Oh good point. They probably only regulate municipal water
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    I seem to recall that java fern uses a lot of potassium and deficiency can cause holes . You could try adding just potassium supplement on top of easy green.
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    I'm shocked by how many people have high nitrate in their tap. Supposedly the epa sets the limit to 10ppm. Is there some kind of exception?
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    Lets address the real issue. colored gravel is like 20$. fruity pebbles cereal is 3$ and a tube of epoxy is 5$ so you're wasting 12$ buying the gravel.
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    Thanks for the advice. I'll try a pump/4 days. I have a strong urge to "do stuff" so I have to fight my self to prevent over feeding (fish or plants).
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    don't tell my shrimp and tetras at ph7.8+ You'll hear a lot that you shouldn't chase a pH because doing so can be really unstable. I think its actually pretty rare to come across a pH sensitive fish. I'd just go for it and just make sure to acclimate before introduction (or don't some have good results just plopping into their water).
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    To put some numbers to it, those tabs are 10ppm copper. google says caridina's start to die around 0.1ppm (rounding conservatively) , but that 10ppm is in a maybe 1gram tablet is going into 10's of liters of water. so back of the envelope, you'd have to dissolve 40 tabs per 10g (sorry to jump around in units but "per 10g" seems to be a common measurement) to be dangerous, and they're getting dissolved over time in your substrate and Cu is getting absorbed too, so that's a pretty good safety margin.
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    I have this dream of running an extra tiny tank like that with no filter. nice chunk of wood in the middle or maybe a stone. Lots of plants and a light. handful of shrimp and maybe some snails.
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