Wren.shi

Hi everyone! I'm trying to help set up a little aquarium for my mum in her living room. Does anyone have suggestions for stocking an unheated 2.5 gallon tank? I've already discussed shrimp with her and she is open to the idea, she just wanted to know if there are any fish that would work and I can't think of any. Thanks for your help!

Started the process of transitioning my guppies from their quarantine tank to my main tank! One week until they land in their new home!

The same thing is happening with me! I've also got a well planted tank that consumes 10ppm nitrates (from fertilizer) every day but I have been testing consistent 0.25ppm ammonia for several days, feeding 6 pellets and one algae wafer per day. Have you tested your tap water for ammonia? (I'm assuming you replaced the water used to clean the sponge filter with tap water). Also, from what I've heard and in case you didn't know, Prime can detoxify 1ppm ammonia and 2ppm nitrate per dose for 24 hours, so dose accordingly. Good luck with your tank!

I'll look into nerite snails, thanks 😄 I love snails so a chance to add another species to my tank is great. So far I've got mystery, bladder, ramshorn, and Malaysian turmpet.

Hi everyone! I'm starting to see green spot algae growing on some of my hardscape and slower growing plants. I've looked online for information but the general consensus seems to be "all algae is bad so we need to kill it with fire". What are your guys' opinions? Can I leave it alone to do its thing or should I be proactive about getting rid of it? I don't care about how it looks, I just don't want it to kill my plants. The tank is a 20gallon medium planted tank with 6 corys and 4 mystery snails btw. It's cycled but only been operational for 3 months.