DrwHem

I need to move this aquarium to the other side of the room. It's 60 gallons and as you can see is using some hardscape rocks. If I took out 80% of the water do you think that it would be safe to life the tank separately from the stand? I'm not sure if the tank is stable enough and am hesitant to remove the rocks because I don't know that I can put them in the same way.

So i ordered some hygrophila pinnatifida to glue to some rocks. I pretty much got scammed as i paid $20 for 3 STEMS with no roots at all. Now im stuck with these things with no roots or way to connect them to the rocks and if i plant them down in my substrate im afraid they wont get enough light to thrive. The rocks i intend them for are about 3 to 4 inches above the substrate level. Can these plants be floated for a few weeks to get them some roots so i can glue them down later?

So my epic battle continues and its not going well. A lot of the internet info im seeing tells me that the fluval fresh and plant provides high PAR readings at 19 inches, my tank is 22, but i cant image that 3 inches makes a huge difference. Plants seem to do fine for a month or 2 and then slowly get covered in black algae and die off. The 4 otto cats in my tank never attach to leaves only the glass. I did a fairly large (for me ) plant purchase in spring. I usually do about a 20% water change and glass scraping once a week. API root tabs 1 per cluster every 3 months New Plants Late March: Red tiger Lotus Bulb, still alive and appears fine Limnophila Aromatica, all of this appeared to be growing quite well and then rapidly died off in the last month Mermaid Weed, all but one died out in the last month Rotala Macranda, all died except for 1 or 2 almost bare stems Amazon Swords, are somewhat fine but not thriving Early May: Glossostigma, all of this died Chain Sword Narrow Leaf, most of this has died I continue to dose with the 1 cap of Seachem flourish once a week because its all i have at the moment. Fluval light settings: 10:00 to 4:30 full daylight Pink 80% Blue 5% Cold White 80% Pure White 100% Warm White 80% Filter: Marineland Magniflow Canister Tray 1 Activated Carbon Tray 2 Crushed coral Tray 3 Seachem Matrix Tray 4 Seachem Matrix Tap Water Reading General Hardness 150ppm chlorine 1.5 ppm Carbonate Harness 80 ppm PH 7.2 Aquarium Water Reading General Hardness 150 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 50 Carbonate Hardness 80 pH 7.2 Also, i currently use Aqua Care pro freshwater test strips but i have problems viewing the exact readings so i may just be reading my settings incorrectly the colors tend to blur together for me. I wish there was a strip that would just give me digital readouts lol. In the fall i was planning on redesigning the tank and adding a lot of stacked rocks and adding in some hygrophilia pinitiffida on top of the rock to help get some plants a few inches closer to my light but i just find it hard to believe my light is considered low light at 22 inches.

Based on some Internet searches these are my ideas. Cryptocoryne wendtii Hygrophila pinnatifida Anubias barteri Java moss Hygrophila polysperma Rotala indica Parrots feather/ myriophyllum Moneywort Guppy grass. Any of these not low maintenance?

I have a 60 gallon 25 inch tall tank with a fluval fresh and plant 3.0 on top. The issue with my tank is the height so while the light level in the top 60% of the tank is probably high, down by the sand it's low. I have tried numerous low to mid light plants and they do well for a month or two and then they get black algae and slowly die. The only thing currently more green than black is a few java ferns, a dwarf tiger Lily, and some Amazon swords. I need something that is considered low light that will thrive and out compete this algae. I have 4 Otto's, 4 nerite snails, and a corydora for my cleaning crew and I dose seachem flourish once a week.

Well I have a tall tank, so won't be much color with my current light other than green lol

I like the step by step guides for things I haven't done before. I do like the stacked rock look but it's amazing how expensive rocks can be and I don't need the 44 pounds they sell on Lowes website

If I glued an anubias and Java moss to the same rock, would that work? Or would the Java moss smother the rizime? Never really planted with moss before

Other than Java fern and anubis, what other plants can survive being glued to rocks? I'm thinking about removing those pots in the right and putting a stack of flat rocks instead.

I'm not very good at laying out an aqua scape, everything I have just seems kind of flat. It would be nice to have a way to plant some of my Amazon swords in a pot that looks like a rock, for example. Anyone have any tips on how to redesign this tank? My tank seems too tall for a carpet to ever grow so I'll be adding in mostly Java fern, swords, and some wisteria once these things die off. But i want to try something more interesting than just planting all on the same level.

I just did a 20% water change a few hours ago and added some aquarium salt and stress coat. Heres the latest test: general hardness 150 ppm nitrites .5 ppm nitrates 50 ppm carbonate hardness 80 ppm ph 7.6 Current Fish: 1 Rainbow Shark 8 tiger barbs 25 assorted neon tetras 1 corydorra 2 otto cats 4 nerite snails I generally do a 15% to 20% water change once a month. feed the fish about 4 times per week. Also, the substrate is black sand with API iron root tabs underneath every cluster of plants which i add in about every 4 months.

So i continue to have issues with the black algae and now some string algae all over my plants. I have changed my light settings to: sunrise 8:30 to 10:30 Daylight 10:30 to 1700 Red: 70 Blue 5 Cold White 45 Pure White 70 Warm White 60 I bought 2 otto cats but they mainly stick to the intake tube as opposed to the plants...which is what i got them to clean lol. I also added 4 spread out large bundles of Glosso Elatinoides and 2 bunches of Narrow Chain Sword Im hesitant to turn the light down lower because thats why i got a new light in the first place, the old light was not strong enough for my plants. How low can i safely turn down my light and keep my plants alive and starve out the algae? Current Stock: 1 Red Tiger Lotus 6 stems Limnophila Aromatica 3 Mermaid Weed: high light recommended 3 Rotala Macranda: high light recommended 6 amazon swords (large and small variety) A fairly large bush of Rotala rotundifolia 2 Java Fern 8 Bacopa stems 6 or so Cryptocoryne

So i am pretty sure any shrimp i add to the tank will be eaten by the tiger barbs. I have also tried 2 times to add 4 otto cats to the tank but they tend to die for some reason. im guessing the rainbow shark probably chases them around too much.

Not sure how to keep the nitrates down besides reduced feeding. im guessing a lot of it is the melted off plant parts hidden somewhere. ill try removing the blue from 20 to 5% and pushing back sunrise by an hour and bringing up sunset by an hour.

anyone have any recommendations for a quick growing no CO2 required carpeting plant? thats what my tank is lacking atm. my dwarf hairgrass died out and it was a nightmare to plant so ill not be doing that again.