1moretank Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 If one has a planted tank that is mostly balanced, will adding pothos or mangroves or other heavy feeders hurt the tank or will it just require heavier fertilizer dosing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flumpweesel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 An alternative fish to keep instead of the Betta, reading on here loads of people are really into them but they seem to have a high mortality rate especially with children and beginners. Is there a fish that while might not be as elegant has enough personality to compensate and can be kept in 5 to 10gal tanks and being a little better suited to the early days learning curve. I feel lots of fish have as much personality if not more than bettas and something has to fit this bill and really save some painful journeys. Kinda a best first wet pet - not snails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickS77 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 When is the coop brine shrimp salt coming?? I saw it in the store employee video 👀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flumpweesel Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 On 1/11/2022 at 2:06 PM, MickS77 said: When is the coop brine shrimp salt coming?? I saw it in the store employee video 👀 I believe this ended up as a in store only product due to it being a shipping nightmare 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDukeAnumber1 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Cost effective ways to retain heat in outdoor tubs and techniques to keep tubs from freezing solid in cold winter areas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I've seen information saying that the iron in Easy Green isn't readily available for plants to take up in high pH water. Is this correct, and if yes, would you consider developing a high pH version? (My water is 8.2.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwcarlson Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I have by no means watched all of your videos, but having binged a lot of them last last few months... I haven't seen anything to know how to "test" for Easy Green dosage. If I do a test strip and then dose my aquarium and wait an hour or something for it to get dispersed, when I do a test strip, what kind of changes should I see. I've got a pretty heavily planted 10 gallon that I never seem to see nitrates increase in. Just a very very pale pinkish on the strips, I've been calling it "10" ppm, might be something like 15. I've scaled the lights back yesterday and started dosing Easy Green a couple of weeks ago. Lots of hair algae has popped up. It's not a big deal as I'm simply learning. Stock is 8 cardinal tetras, 1 honey gourami, 1 hillstream loach (tiny thing 1" maybe a bit bigger), and five or six cherry shrimp. They're young fish so not to full bio load yet. And most all of them won't be in there here in a few days when I get my 75 completely ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwcarlson Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 If I order discus from a reputable "dealer", in this case from Discus Hans who sells Stendker discus. Should I do your "quarantine trio" on them immediately? Is there some initial time after shipment that you typically wait before dosing the meds to allow for some decrease in stress level? Also curious if discus are more sensitive to meds in your experience? If the eventual goal is to have a community tank with said discus, would you recommend putting the whole community together and then doing your quarantine treatment or perhaps holding the discus separate from other community members and dosing them independently from each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 How much flow in an aquarium is enough? Is there any way to quantify it? GPH seems hard to visualize. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac M Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Hi @jwcarlson, I do not want to change the focus of the thread so I will not say much but 1 pump of easy green will give you a little over 3ppm of nitrates in 10 gallons of water. That may be tough to see on a test strip though. If your tank is heavily planted, more easy green may be required to keep up with the demands of the plants. You can send me a personal message on here if you would like to continue discussing this. Hope that helps! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual aquatics Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 On 1/11/2022 at 9:15 AM, TheDukeAnumber1 said: Cost effective ways to retain heat in outdoor tubs and techniques to keep tubs from freezing solid in cold winter areas. Curious to corys answer but askong as there is 3ft of water and a pump or form of water agitation your pond should not freeze however without heavy duty heaters your limited on what fish you can keep in those Temps 🤷♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Pros and cons of UV sterilisers in planted tanks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwise Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Cory answered several questions from this thread! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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