DannyBWell
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I have 2 Honey Gourami's quarantining with my red wag platy fry currently I have treated them with the med trio in a 10g tank. So far they haven't been eating very much food I've tried Xtreme krill flake, bug bites spirulina and tropical flakes, rapashy Soilent green, frozen and freeze dried blood worms and frozen brine shrimp they may take bites but will usually spit the food out they seem to like the ez fry food but that's about it. Any foods I should try? Any go to bulletproof no way they won't eat this foods?
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I bet that is it then! I've never heard that before I would ask my landlord but I don't think he would know. I've been here for 15 years and guess I've never noticed. -
Oh wow, it is very strange I'm not too bothered about it my plan for the tank was to have it filled with driftwood and have have java ferns, anubias, and val for a cichlid tank so the hardness will be perfect for them.
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So I figured it out. My 29g is right next to my 75g and when I started my 29g I used water from my bathroom with a 5 gallon bucket but when I set up my 75g I bought a 25ft faucet adapter because that's awesome for a 75g tank and I don't like killing my knees and back hauling the buckets. So I used that kit to fill my 75g and I tested it with my API kit it actually was at 200ppm not 300(was hard to tell the test strips go from 150 straight to 300 ppm). Then I tested water hot and cold from all my faucets and it turns out the kitchen sink faucet the one I used to fill the 75g has hard water and the rest have soft water. I live in a duplex and just got a new water softener so i can conclude one of two things either the pipes going to the kitchen sink are laced with minerals or my kitchen faucet is tied in with next doors kitchen faucet and they don't fill their water softener with salt. So there is my answer I was happy I was able to figure it out. It's incredibly awesome by the way in the fact if I need soft water I have that available and if I need hard water I also have that readily available the best of both worlds haha.
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No I just scrubbed with a magic eraser once it was filled with water and used that to get rid of the algae that was still stuck on to the glass. I tested multiple times over a couple days because I thought I had a bad test strip but it's the ones I've been using for months now and they've always been pretty accurate but everytime I retest it shows the same results. I am going to test with my API GH test kit tonight to triple check. I'm assuming it will resolve itself with water changes hopefully I'm not so much worried as I am curious as to why this happened.
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I've tested my water out of my tap and it only measures between 0 to 25ppm I usually use wonder shells and equilibrium to harden the water. I have recently "restarted" my 75g aquarium after a couple years of it sitting empty I power washed and cleaned it and filled it with water from my tap and treated with fritz complete. The only things in the tank when I measured it was 2 medium sponge filters and 2 aqueon heaters otherwise it was an empty tank and it measured over 300 ppm. Very confused as to what could cause this I have 2 10g tanks and a 29g and none of them have this issue any ideas what this could be?
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I am having issues in my 29g with staghorn algae I have the brown algae under control and have been spot treating the staghorn with excel and it's kind of working I also got 2 nerite snails my next step is taking my co2 setup from my other tank and setting it up in my 29g will this help with the staghorn and do I have to "ween" my tank off of co2 to make the switch? The tank with co2 right now only has a snail in it I plan on stocking both tanks with fish this weekend.
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This was the 29g but as you can see in someone's amazon review yes it is possible.
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Thank you for your input I will try cutting back to 8 hours tomorrow I was at 10 hours then went to 9 and it's helped I also cut intensity but maybe I can do a little more since all these plants are low light.
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I was kind of where you were 2 months ago now but I took the dive and got a 10lb tank and co2 art kit and have been doing absolutely amazing as long as you've done your research and have a timer you should be fine. Good luck
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I got some plants about a month ago from the coop my dwarf sag is producing some new growth but has alot of what looks to be hair algae growing. The Amazon and red flame sword are kind of stagnant they will grow new leaves and then have some die. And my scarlet temple is producing some roots above the gravel line but not doing very well. On top of all that I have a ton of brown algae I thought too much light may have been the culprite so I turned the lights down from where they were at first and they are on for 9 hrs I also found my temp was near 80 F so I turned it down to 74 F. I tested my water today and came back GH 25 ppm KH 40 PPM NO2 0 NO3 10 PPM PH 7.6 there are only plants in this tank but I have my java fern from my other tank in this on it developed what I thought was blackbeard algae and I treated it now it has black spots on it but otherwise doing great and producing baby plants and my red dwarf lily bulb is absolutely thriving so It makes me scratch my head why the other plants haven't really come back after melting back. I have easy root tabs and dose easy green 2x a week.
