Scapexghost

No. Mollies like high ph. Besides, the fish wouldn't breed if they didn't like the parameters.

I would get it. Worst case scenario you move it to your 20.

I've had this piece of petrified wood since before i started keeping fish, so its been underwater for about four years now. Not that impressive and you can barely see it behind the swordtail juvies and the hair algae and anacharis.

Im thinking marble goby, definetely some sort of goby. Here's a picture of a marble goby, very similar to your fish.

My betta really like vibra bites

This is a good size tank for most corydoras, so consider a school of whatever flavor you like. A school of 10-20 rummynose tetra would be good to. Id also add a bristlenose pleco for algae control. Platies breed pretty easily so you might want to understock the tank in order to maximize the chance of fry surviving.

Another precaution i was considering was not feeding the day I put in the root tabs. Thay way the bacteria that would be processing the fish waste will be processing the root tabs instead

So i've heard a few times that a budget method to get nutrients into the substrate is to freeze dirt in an ice-cube tray and sticking the cubes into the substrate. How risky is this method in terms of causing an ammonia spike? What is the safe ammount of dirt you can use before ammonia poisoning becomes a risk? All dirt is different, so lets say organic miracle gro, since thats what people usually suggest for dirted tanks.

Three weeks total. So dose the paraclense now, and then in one week move them into the display tank.

First pics from march 26, next pics from today. Are they growing ok? Also, what are they?

Hair algae. Both amanos are saes will eat it.

I would test the ph. Its likely pretty low, which can be bad depending on which type of fish you intend to add.

Seems like a swim bladder issue, rarely curable but not contagious or lethal.

Fish diseases are generally not transmissable to shrimp. Dropsy is a symptom, rather than a disease, but it is usually caused by organ failure, which is not contagious. You are most likely safe to add shrimp.

Perhaps some sort of contaminent got into the tank. Did you clean the tank or any of the decorations with soap? Perhaps something in the tank is leaching something into the tank. Are any of the decorations not designed for fish tanks? This you test the water in the 5 gallon? Even if the water parameters in the 20 are good, if they are wildly different from the parameters in their old tank, the shock may have killed them.

You could try injecting co2. If your doing a lot of water changes, tannins from wood or botanicals might not be able to keep up, but you can inject as much co2 as you need.

If its just for a 10g algae control id just get a nerite snail

Assuming no symptoms, three weeks. After week two, do a water change and redose paracleanse.

Looks fine to me. I wouldnt even call it heavily stocked. If the tank is healthy and you can handle the maintanace, then it is fine.

Ive never had success with amanos so i can't speak on those, but perhaps its worth trying blue dreams from a different source? Try a source? Also, 6.8-7 pH may be to low. Gh and ph are usually corellated, so shrimp that would do well in your low ph will struggle in your high hardness while shrimp that will do well in your high hardness will struggle in your low ph. Shrimp can be tricky. It could be some heavy metal in your water source thats difficult to test for thsts killing your shrimp. In which case an ro unit might be necessary.

Is the water directly from the tap? Some municapalities inject co2 into the tap water to lower pH. Once the co2 is gased off the pH will rise.

I would suggest not lowering your kH. Neocardinias are hardwater shrimp. They'll do fine at that hardness. I keep them in very hard water and have never had an issue.

I figured they always carried shrimp. Maybe that was petco?

The emergent plants add so much to the tank. Makes it seem more like an ecosystem and less like a glass box. Definetely something i want to play with more. And, of course, the fish aren't utilizing the area above the tank anyway so filling it with greenery won't take away any swim space.

I really enjoy nice looking aquascapes, but im a fish keeper first, and most aquascapes sacrifice a lot of swim space. Often the substrate will rise very high in the back, and the scape will be build arould large pieces of driftwood or rock that take up much of the tank. Aesthetically this gives the tank verticality and adds a lot of visual intrest, but it turns a 30 gallon tank to a 10 gallon tank. So, what are some ways to make a tank look nice w/o taking up to much space? Some ideas would be to iwagumi, which leaves a lot of open space usually. The issue being than iwagumis usually have nice carpets, which are difficult to achieve. Another would be a jungle tank. Not really an aquascape but makes the tank look full without taking away swim space, since the gish can just swim through the plants. I suspect that most master aquascapers don't care about swim space or even think about it much, since those tanks have very few fish, and if they did care they could make a great looking tank with plenty of room. Does anyone have some examples of their aquascapes or other's aquascapes with a lot of swim space? I'd love to see some to get some ideas.