WhiteShadow

I know that aquarium coop recommends and sells the Ziss brine shrimp hatchery. I would totally but one if I had room for it. I am wondering if anyone can recommend a smaller hatchery setup. I have a 30gal and a 10gal aquarium and very little room for a hatchery setup. I would probably never need to hatch more than a quarter teaspoon at a time. It seems that when I see someone using the ziss hatcher it is mounted on a wall or something. If I used the base that it comes with it is still taking up a lot of real estate. Is there one that only uses like a couple cups of water and has a way smaller footprint?

Ok can i do like a 10hr full bright then darkness? My light is not fancy to do the ramp up and down outside of its 24/7 mode. I will also do a 50% water change to reduce my nitrates.

This is my current light hygger 26W 24/7 Lighting Aquarium LED Light. I have it set to the 24/7 mode so it goes all the way through the day increasing light till brightest then decreasing it till totally off.

Tank has been setup for years. Plants have been is for a few months.

No actually my tap water is hard.

How do I increase micro nutrients? More easy green?

I purchased some scarlet temple a while back. I sunk into the substrate with a little lead. It was doing fine but now the leaves are curled up and there is green algae on the leaves. I do not have algae anywhere else in the tank that I can see with my naked eyes. I have been using easy green since the beginning and recently added easy iron to the mix. I read that the curled leaves could be due to iron deficiency. Would adding easy carbon get rid of the green algae on the leaves? Also it appears that something is munching on them or they are developing holes. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. My parameters are ammonia: 0 Nitrites:0 Nitrates: 50 PH: 7.4

hmm good to know.

So is easy carbon just a algae control product? What does it do for planted tanks besides control algae? Does it supply CO2 in any form that might help plants?

Thanks!

Can I treat scarlet temple like Java fern and glue its roots to driftwood? Do I have to plant the roots into substrate? It seems to be a water column feeding plant primarily like Java fern.

Well I am saddened to report that I lost the battle against ich/velvet. It took all three of my EBA. I tried everything I could think of nothing seemed to help, ichx and cupramine had no effect. They fought a brave fight and tried as hard as I did to beat it, but in the end it was just too much. RIP EBAs

Hey all so I am pretty sure I have velvet in my tank. Bright light revealed patches of copper colored areas on all fishes( tiger barbs and BNPlecos) in tank and they are flashing all the time. I know that covering the tank and blocking all light is helpful to eradicate velvet but how long can the plants be in total darkness. I have some plants in the tank Anubis and Java Ferns.. I am using cupramine and raising the temp to 85 to treat the tank and fish. I have added air stones to the tank to keep the O2 levels boosted. Do i need to keep the tank covered in order to beat the velvet or will the meds and raised temps be enough?? All other tank parameters are in excellent range no ammonia, nitrates and minimal nitrites. Is there anything I am not doing that I should be doing? This is my first battle with velvet.

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I will move it closer to the sponge, thanks