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  1. They all came in the same shipment, maybe 5 months together. And ty Yeah it must have been an internal thing. No signs of wasting and it had eaten yesterday. And TY
  2. I just found one of my fish belly up. It was a small Threadfin Acara maybe 2 to 2.5 inches. It lived with an Electric Blue Acara and a Krobia Xinguensis in a 29 gallon tank. I tested the water and I checked the fish for obvious signs of death. The water parameters are 0 ppm Ammonia, 0 ppm nitrite, and around 25 ppm nitrate. Soft water, 0 buffer, low ph (6.4-6.8) Temp around 78°. I have never seen any aggression, I have used the med trio, dewormed, have always fed fresh foods, and both of the other fish look good. No heavy breathing, both swimming around, and eating, even the nerite snail is moving across the glass. I'm going to do a water change and continue to check on the others. Is there anything else I should do? Any thoughts?
  3. See when I put it in the tank it had some converted leaves and some that I knew would melt. The whole plant melted away very fast and when I took the pot out of the easy planter there was the sulfur like smell and even the substate turned kinda grey that was underneath it.
  4. See all my other crypts melted a leaf at a time and have blown up with growth and I've never experienced the smell like i have with this one
  5. So I got a crypt wendtti and an easy planter awhile ago and the crypt completely disintegrated. All of the leaves down to the roots. I did some reading and most sources said the plant should come back so I let it be until today when I was feeding my fish. I opened up the aquarium lid and it smelled horrible so I took the pot out of the easy planter and the smell was coming from that. I took the roots out of the rock wool and half of the roots were rotting. I went to my sink and rinsed and removed all of the rotten roots but some roots still looked good. I planted them back in the substrate and I'll see what happens. Does anyone know what may have caused that?
  6. First off I'd like to say thanks to every awesome person in the fish and aquatic plant keeping hobby. Thanks to this forum I've managed to learn a great deal about the hobby in general. My most recent experience was with Green Spot Algae which has helped me with lighting and nutrients. I have found a cool hack if that's what you'd like to call it and thats how to remove algae from glass and plants, mainly anubias which is currently the only species I have. I found these bath gloves at walmart and thought they would be a easy way to clean off algae, and they work amazing. So I thought I'd share.
  7. Ok, keep red and green at 50 also? And I was looking at some swords. Thanks for your input.
  8. I should have probly included how tall the aquarium is, Its just under 2 feet tall. The biggest anubias is about 6 inches tall and the leaves spread out about 9 inches.
  9. Ok, Ty. I have been wanting to try crypts anways since the only plants I've kept so far are anubias.
  10. I have purchased a powerhead to help with flow, but what would be a good way to shade the anubias? I am gradually lowering light intensity and shortening the time the light is on. I could look into floating plants.
  11. I've had my 38 gallon bowfront running for years, after my previous "wet pet" passed away I decided to get some new fish and wanted to get into growing plants. I changed substrate from river pebbles to sand, added some mopani wood, and placed a pothos in the tank. The current stock in the tank are 1 blue acara and a bristlenose pleco . I have 5 plants, I started with anubias barteri then added anubias coffeefolia, nangi, gold coin, and nana petite. I have had tons of brown diatoms for months so I did research and seen that they need silicates to live and that a phosphate remover would help removing silicates. I wiped the diatoms off the leaves, did a water change and put PhosBond in the filter. Now that i havent seen much diatoms I have noticed green spot algae on almost every plant. I researched GSA and seen that low phosphates and high lighting is what it thrives in, so I removed the PhosBond. I have a 24" Fluval Aquasky led light that i have had running at white 100%, red 70%, green 70%, and blue 10% for 10 hours a day. Ive been lowering the light intensity slowy, and started dosing easy green, I have used easy green but not every week. Ive seen nerite snails will eat the algae but i have soft water. I dont want the algae to smother out my plants and If anyone has any recommendations on how to get rid of this algae I would appreciate it very much.
  12. My blue acara has these white/clear marks on the pectoral fins nowhere else. The fins have looked this was for over a month. I treated with salt and then with maracyn oxy. They dont seem to affect him, he eats and is very active. Any help identifying what this could be would be very helpful Water Parameters: ph : low 6.4 to 6.8 Nitrates : 25 ppm Hardness : soft Nitrite : 0 Ammonia : 0 KH/Buffer : low Water Temperature 78
  13. I am looking to get a pleco, a blue phantom pleco to be exact. Is the med trio safe to use while Quarantine?
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