Randall from Texas
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I got a baking soda and citric acid kit just dabble and see if it would put just enough into my high temp discus tank to help the plants. It gives off enough to help them grow but as mentioned above it's not consistent at all with each recharge.
I wish I had saved my money and just got a regular co2 setup first.
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What's your tank size and parameters? Fertilizer schedule? I run co2 on my 100 gallon at only 1 bubble per second. My water is crazy hard, high buffer, and 82 degrees. I only run co2 for 6 hours with a 5 hour photo period. 1 fluval 3 and 1 coop light at full power. I dose easy green 10 pumps once a week and feed daily.
I don't have a drop checker or co2 testers. I run enough co2 for the plants to pearl for about 3 -4 hours and keep the nitrates around 50 ppm on the coop test strips.
Post your data and some of the experts will weigh in.
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I had a single fluval 3 on my 100. I could grow anything. I added the coop light and the plant response is incredible. Everything grows better with the double lights. Bottom plants are much healthier.
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Ammonia is plant food. Plant them and let them soak it up.
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Just got mine. It's truly impressive stacked against the fluval 3 I have. Great job coop team!
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Filtration doesn't need to look clean. It just needs to not be full of gunk so it can keep taking more gunk out of your water. You should not need to replace sponge filters for years and years.
I've never used pot scrubbers but it sounds like you have a good system. Once they start falling apart they won't hold very much, makes sense. Might be time to replace them if you are using them for water polish pads.
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Get some bacopa in there. I have it in my discus tank.
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Are you using a powered solenoid to control co2 time? If so it could be heating up your valve and thermal expansion could be changing the needle. I set my rates when the co2 has been on for a while so the needle is at normal operating temp. Also gas will go the path of least resistance so when you change one it affects the other. A higher psi will help mitigate that.
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Yep I did a large water change on all my tanks yesterday. Tap was 88. Not an issue for my south American tank but all my others were gasping till it chilled. Just do more partials. I think rainbows would have the most issue. Have a good airstone and smaller more often changes like others said.
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What's your stock list?
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On 4/4/2022 at 7:03 PM, anewbie said:
But which camera has good night vision. I check gopro and couldn't find a model with good night vision. Can you suggest a specific camera that will stream to local network or sd card ? This will be extremely dark.
This with an SD card. You can put the camera flush against the glass and the ir light won't cause glare. Or put it at 45 degree angle and it won't glare. But they work.
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On 4/5/2022 at 11:14 AM, AndEEss said:
Pretty sure an IR camera is not going to be able to pick up fish that have the same body temperature as the water.
You're thinking of FLIR, which uses a whole different tech. You're are correct. Won't work well. It can't 'see' through glass.
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Wyze v3. Home Depot has them with microsd cards for 30ish. Full color starlight sensor, unbeatable night vision.
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I recently asked Cory during the early chat session of a live stream if he thinks you can get the salt up enough in a planted tank to treat anything before hurting the plants. His response:
"No"
That being said, I just put 2 cups of salt in my 100 gal high tech recently to see if it would help slow the ich outbreak I was suspecting and it knocked some of my plants back hard. My water wistyria really shed a few clumps. Amazon sword wasn't bothered. Anubias is fine. The crypts didn't care. Neither did the bba haha. My tds meter read over 1k ppm lol.
I won't say it didn't help but after a week I did end up using med.
2 ich x treatments later and it's gone.
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On 2/10/2022 at 8:14 AM, gardenman said:
I broke my femur in 2018 and my fish tank lights were on 24/7 for 15 days until I got back home. The fish were fine. Maybe a tick more stressed, and a whole lot hungrier (though they did consume nearly all of the snails while I was gone) but none of the fish died. (My tanks are now all on smart plugs to turn the lights on and off.) Is it ideal for fish to be exposed to light when it should be dark? Probably not. Now I have a pair of Wyze cams pointed at my tanks and sometimes at night I'll sit there with the Wyze app up on my phone to watch the tanks in darkness and the level of activity in the tanks stays the same as if the tanks were lit for much of the time after the lights go out. It's kind of neat to watch a tank in total darkness. You can see stuff happening that you had no idea was happening. At some point later on the fish settle down as they're pretty much nestled down when the lights come on in the morning, but I've watched them for an hour or so with no lights and they behave the same as they did with the lights on.
I knew I wasn't the only one! If anyone wants to see the next level of nerm get a wyze cam so you can check your qt and main tanks when you're on vacation lol. Or supposed to be working, at work.
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On 1/26/2022 at 8:36 PM, Bettakeeper86 said:
Thank you, I didn’t know that plecos got caught in the nets.
Catfish and spiny fish in general do not get along with nets. I've even had angelfish get stuck.
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On 1/26/2022 at 11:38 AM, Dwayne Brown said:
@Randall from Texas Maybe It could be a rio grande and red texas hybrid? It shares the same basic coloration and shape of both species
Red texas chiclid.
Rio Grande
Had to Google that lol. So a Texas red is a cross between a Rio grande (or Texas) and a red parrot. So I think you're right. It's a hybrid, of a hybrid maybe lol. Cool looking fish! I've not seen any Texas reds in person. Now I want one.
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On 1/25/2022 at 1:03 PM, Dwayne Brown said:
@Randall from Texas Thanks.
Any Idea what the bottom fish from OP is? I have absolutely no idea, although I'm pretty sure they are separate species and not a male female pair.
I agree not a same species pair. I still think hybrid, could be a jack Dempsey.
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Dwayne Brown got scientific on us. I was basing my guess on color and the fact that Rio grande ciclids are not legal since they are super invasive. I looked into getting them since they're the only Texas native ciclids. and only hybrids are allowed on technicality.
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That's a hybrid rio grande cichlid.
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Looks great! Set the lights on a timer if they're not already. Start at about 8 hours and see what you get.
What fertilizers are you planning on using?
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This is my 100 that I call the 'blackhole'.
All black sand, small patch of brown gravel, 4 large obsidian rocks, all black tank and stand. Black background. Some wood.
Imo it makes every plant and fish stand out. I have black German blue rams now and it seems to make them brilliant.
Snails to control the detritus is a must with black sand.
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On 1/12/2022 at 9:37 PM, Isaac M said:
@Fish Folk I am just thinking out loud here but I suspect it has something to do with the decomposition of driftwood as I do not really have this issue in aquariums without driftwood.
However, in my 40 gallon the driftwood does not have that issue and it came from the same place as the driftwood in the 55 gallon. Two things that come to mind is that it has red cherry shrimp that spend their time eating biofilm and it also has better water flow.
So my thoughts are either:
-No driftwood
-Add plecos or red cherry or any organism that will clean/ eat the driftwood
-Increase water flow so mulm does not settle and accumulate on the driftwood
These thoughts however do not really explain the issue or attempt to truly understand the problem like what @OnlyGenusCaps proposed.
@Randall from Texas, I had some black beard algae but it was not a crazy amount. But mine was not as high energy as yours as I imagine you have co2 and I did not. I had a decently bright light and organic soil under the bdbs. Here are 3 pictures of it taken from January 5, 2020 to November 6, 2020, it was rescaped once in that time frame:
I have always had issues with bba though, I just let it be at this point, the only thing I would try now are siamese algae eaters hahaOn 1/12/2022 at 9:43 PM, Seattle_Aquarist said:Hi @Fish Folk
I have tanks where I use HTH Pool Filter Sand which is >99% silicon dioxide. I like the nice white color and the fact that it has no pieces of shell or coral which can effect my pH and hardness (both dKH and dGH). I have no problems with diatoms in those tanks. Why? Earlier in my experiences with planted tanks I did have diatom problems. I had diatoms with plain, inert grave. I had diatoms with calcined clay. Then I found how to control diatoms, Otocinclus catfish. I use Otocinclus affinis - one per every 10 -20 gallons and my diatoms disappear in a couple of weeks. Once the diatoms are gone I feed the Otos an algae wafer once a week if they start looking skinny. I drop the wafer in just before lights out because Otos are nocturnal. You typically won't see them working during the day, they do most of the clean-up at night. Below is by 75 gallon red spot green discus tank with HTH Pool Filter Sand.....no diatoms. -Roy
I'm up to 6 hrs full blast fluval plant 3 and about to add a 2nd (or the coop). I am managing the bba. It looks natural.
I also have a single Fat Oto cat, 1 blue eye lemon. Catfish are awesome.
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On 1/12/2022 at 8:12 PM, Isaac M said:
@Fish Folk I had a old 55 gallon set up for 2 years with black diamond blasting sand and I did not have much issue with diatoms, more with black beard algae. What is kind of ironic is that I have 2 aquariums with pool filter sand yet the aquarium that grows the most diatom/ brown algae is my 10 gallon with just normal gravel and dragon stone. From looking at the pictures, it looks more like mulm/ debris caught in some sort of biofilm like what I have in my current 55 gallon but I have no idea to be honest. Just throwing what I have experienced out there.
I will confirm the black beard algea in my high energy 100. I'm keeping discus and it's been a struggle from day one. 1.5 years in. About 80 lbs bdbs.
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Co2 into intake.
in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
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I am running 1 bps on my 100 gallon. My plants struggle and algae takes over without co2. Any co2 is better than none.