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    Ph can be different from tank to tank. Many factors can cause this to happen. Different substrates, plants, no plants, water changes, and etc. I try testing at least 2 hours of lights being on every time. (I am about consistency) I have seen my ph fluctuate while using the med trio. However, I cannot contribute that specifically to the med trio.
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    I have ordered several times from Aquahuna. My Shrimp and CPDs are doing great!! I highly recommend them.
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    I have CPD's and had them shipped to me. They were small and stressed out. I did similar acclimation that you did. The issue I found out right away and with other fish I have shipped in and even from the LFS is that sometimes they are under feed for shipping to reduce their stress and ammonia level spikes during shipping. I let fed my on 2nd day with high quality food (brine shrimp). Then waited a day feed again 4th day. Then I started the med trio treatment to make sure they were cleaned out of any disease. You never know when the LFS got them in and they could have been stressed out from shipping to the store then you got picked them up and that added more stress. This movement is somewhat normal in the hobby and sometimes some fish just don't handle it well. They can also could have something eternally going on as well. Tank parameters seem fine to me. Also, nice looking tank. Sorry for your loss. Sometimes LFS will give a couple day guarantee on the fish. I know mine does it as long as the water parameters are within range. I hope this helps a little. I am sure someone else will also chime in on what their experiences have been.
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    The petrified wood looks good. I have that in one of my tanks and love the look. Never had Guppies but have had live bearers with just 1 female and 1 male. They mated like crazy then those babies had babies. You will find great joy in raising your own babies.
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    @Hobbit I would agree it takes some time to get the best yields. I started a culture about 3 days ago and I have a little concentration. But have had to use it at the low concentration right now just to get some to a hitch hiker fry. I would recommend putting a light directly on it 24hrs. It seems to help speed the process up. I started one culture and another 2 days later then put a light on them and the 2nd culture is caught up already to the first. I am just using a daylight led bulb with a desk lamp. Would have used a window but it has been cloudy here for a few days.
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    @Streetwisewould you be able to give me the measurement of the area that hangs on the rim. Would like to know if these would fit on my rimmed tanks. Thanks
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    The plants will have a hard time up taking nitrates if you don't have proper lighting and other building blocks for them to uptake the nitrates plus grow. I find if any of these building blocks are out of balance my plants struggle and my nitrates go up. I am sure others will chime in as well to help you out. Recommend reading this article if you have not done so already. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/which-aquatic-fertilizer-is-right-for-you What light are you currently running? This may help out it determining if it proper lighting.
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    I have double stacked filters before and just put the air stone no further than a inch down.
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    Thank you for posting these pictures. These tanks look amazing! What filtration system are using on the last tank you posted?
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    What plants do you currently have in the tank? In my experience floating plants really help with keeping your nitrates in control. In my option you will still struggle even more with fake plants.
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    Welcome to a family community. Please post some pictures of your current tank, would like to see. Would be cool to see a journal from you on your new setup once you start working on it.
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    Drained down my 10gal tank and scaped. It was a bare bottom now it is a dirted bottom with a cap. Cloudness starting to settle down.
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    Tank is coming along good so far. Today I put in a few cherry shrimp that I needed to re-home. I have been dosing with seed bacteria starter and put in some filter floss behind the rock from a established tank. Parameters have been good. I have about .50 nitrite right now and between 0-20 ppm nitrate. The ammonia level is below .25 hardly detectable. Hoping this week the nitrite will drop off. I did find out two days ago that a egg or two was in the filter floss. I saw this little swimmer in the tank. He is still going strong. Been feeding it infusoria and now some Sera fry food. Way to small for baby brine at this time. Can be only be a CPD or neon tetra baby. Be interesting to what it is. 🤔
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    Looks good to me. I turned mine every 7 days until I saw the plant start to sprout. That way I knew which way was up. Eventually it will grow roots and stay in one spot.
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    Black background would make it pop for sure.
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    I am sure they are working out some issues with the new layout but is anyone else having issues when you go to the bottom of a topic it does not show the button or arrow to move to the next page.
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    @cory What happen to the videos on the home page?
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    Welcome to the community. Your tank looks great. That Java fern is amazing.
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    Steve welcome to forum and the fish hobby community.
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    Welcome back to the Hobby and this amazing forum. Would love to see a picture of the tank.
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    Welcome to the forum. Everyone here is very helpful and there is a lot of information to read. Also, many aqaurium co-op videos and blogs to learn from as well.
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    Here is my thoughts and experience as kinda a science nerd. In soft/acid water fish tanks, the ammonia load not to high. The nitrifying bacteria can do an adequate job even at pH below 6 more so when the tank has stayed in that range for a long time. Bacteria are adaptable and have many genetic strains. If you maintain low pH long term you will be selecting and growing a mix of strains that are adapted to the low pH. So to answer your question I personally think on a scale 1 to 10 it is 1 not that crucial as the bacteria will adapt.
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    Welcome. Really like those blue shrimp.
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    Thanks for the comment and cannot wait to see it fill in. No more mollies for me. I have them in other tanks but the Apistogramma is definitely a idea. I still deciding on stocking but right now the plan is slow grow. My first thoughts are nano fish so I am able to stock more and have some cherry shrimp as well.
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