Littlefish

Oh, I see you are still in your youth. Carry on 🤙🏽

Warm your body up (without activity). A cup of decaf tea, a hot shower or bath, a sauna. Our body cools as we sleep, and we can help it fool itself. Get a bluescreen blocker for your phone and computer. This affects sleep hormones and maybe some other brain wiring. No caffeine at all (depending on how much you really want to get to sleep), and no gym or moderate physical activity late. Lots of physical activity earlier in the day. Tire yourself out! I ,too, fondly remember the days of my youth drinking mountain dew and going to the gym late, then falling right asleep. 👍🏽

There was a local breeder, Bioaquatix, here in Fl who had hard water raised cardinals. Not sure if he still sells retail or is even still open.

Beautiful tank. It has to be shock. They are sensitive to hardness, is that a possibility?

A month ago due to a still existing bg algae (cyano) outbreak I removed my substrate, changed water every week, and put in all inert sts. I also added 2 sae from the lfs (1st new fish in at least a year) just prior to deal with some bba, which they have. This week one of the sae developed this fleshy bump, and the shyest of 4 angels ragged fins and scales are "scaly". I'm thinking of picking up the co-op trio of meds at the lfs tomorrow. It seems like 2 separate problems. What do you think? Ph: 7.1 N03: 40 P04: 8 Temp:78 Kh: 3 Gh: 16

Any crooked spines or pale bumps you can see internally?

That's a good question, I've wondered myself.

I wouldn't worry about the red algae. The staghorn or black beard growing on the leaf edges though... It's in the tank, whatever it brought in is in the water column, and your plants in the background look great!

Get the cheap Wallmart pillow stuffing used as polishing floss in reef tanks and siphon water over it into a 5g bucket.

Nano reef tank has been remodeled into a back rock wall. 75 g fw remodel is next! I wanted to have just a back rock wall with rock flower anamone, ricordea, etc, and only sand on the floor with smaller seagrass from the bay. There is invasive soft coral like xenia and gsp already in the wall rock however, so a FL biotope will not happen at this time. My wife picked out the green frogspawn, and it has tripled in size, so unfortunately it has to stay on a floor rock as the centerpiece. Everything is ticked off and retracted in the photos

Aaah, so it's like a cult in here! Got it 😎 Any initiation rites?

I did google it, that's what didn't make sense!

I have a question. What is "nerm"? Never heard of it on sw forums.

New here, almost decided to trade all my fw fish in since my 10 g reef tank is a fraction of the trouble of my fw tanks. Here is my 1 yr old 75 g about one year ago, just starting with red algae and bba: And here it is today, substrate removed and replaced with inert sts. Algae and cyano is about half as bad as it was 2 mo ago: I'm planning on pulling the co2, removing the (despised) fluval canister, and placing a sicce silent 1.5 behind the fake rockwall, running the return along the top of the wall like a very wide, trickling waterfall. Tank will be 2/3rds full of water. Nothing but the sicce wire coming into the tank. Matten filter foam on the edges of the rackwall closing the 3/4" gap. Right now my black marbled angels live behind the rockwall due to bullying from the panda angels. Flora will be java ferns, anubias, etc on the wall and in the water. Maybe a few ocelot sword. Also I have a 6 g fluval edge with the top removed Id like to turn into a pond tank. Also have a mostly softy reef tank that is being slightly remodeled 1st!