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Just wanted to give an update on this. The main problem I was running into on my co2 delivery was my PH controller. Ran around in circles with Milwaukee and found that I bought a PH controller designed to used for calcium reactor on a SW tank. It's not designed for a co2 system. So I am...

You are learning one of the biggest drawbacks of working with live subjects. They are almost always unpredictable. Sent from my ADR6350 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

I think every one has made the mistake of trying to use chemicals as a shortcut. It rarely works out well and is always a painful lesson. Sent from my ADR6350 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

Cycling will be easy. I've got three other tanks that are cycled. I'll just steal a filter from there.

It's almost certainly a gourami of some kind. It's hard to tell until it settles in and his colors come in. Sad about the LFS. The best one here in town got shut down a few years ago for tax evasion. Fortunately, they were able to ship their livestock off to various other stores in town...

I will look for all of those plants when I go on my plant hunt on Friday. For this week I'll probably cut the photoperiod down and skip the ferts. Just try to hang in a holding pattern. On Saturday when I do my maintenance I'll pull out all the algae I can and work from there.

Since this is my 3rd attempt at a planted tank and I've got more resources than I had before I'm willing to try just about anything that seems reasonable. I had never considered that I had low plant mass. I guess because I never considered my plant mass to be low in the first place. Here's...

Ok. Had a chance to do more testing. After doing a 50% water change this morning I tested my tap water vs my tank water. Tank now measures 10-20 ppm and my tap water measures 5 ppm.It would certainly appear that this tank has cycled itself after a month with just a handful of snails. I can't...

I didn't cycle the tank at all TBH as it had no fish in it at all. My plan was to grow out the plants and then add fish. So I didn't bother even trying to cycle the tank. The plants don't care. The bioload of the snails in there is minimal. I'll test my tap water and see what I find.

Ok. Did some water tests this morning. As expected, PH, Ammonia and nitrite were all where I expected them to be. 7.6 and 0 and 0 respectively. Not surprising on a 75g tank with only one betta that's been in there for 2-3 days. Nitrate looks like it is sitting at about 40 which seems high...

Should I cut back on the co2 as well?

Yes. That's right. I'll cut it back to 8 hours and hook up a timer to the lights this weekend. I've got anachris, some sort of either crypt or sword plant. I honestly have no clue what it is, but it has survived all my previous planted tank experiments and spawned numerous other plants...

Monitor it for what? I can tell you the ph is around 7.5. I haven't tested it for the usual ammonia, nitrite, nitrate though as I haven't had any fish living in it before yesterday. Photoperiod has been from about 0530 - 2000 or so. Co2 is a bit sketchy. I am still working the kinks out of...

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This is the tank as of 4 days ago. I had already cleaned the algae off the glass at this point and was in the middle of my water change. You can kind of see the scum hanging off the hairgrass in the front. The algae on the skull on the right is what was growing on the glass and everything...

So I completely redid my 75g tank and made my 3rd attempt at a planted tank. Pressurized co2. 3.2 wpg. EI ferts. I tried to do everything right this time. Week 1 and 2 went great. Plants really looked good and were growing like crazy. Then week three rolled around. I had a bloom of brown...

My first thought would be that a fluorescent fish wouldn't survive in the wild very long at all. But then I saw they were convicts................

If you like, you can certainly move the one to a hospital/qt tank and watch it. You're not going to put "human scent" on a fish that way. Fish just don't work that way. Most tropical fish (with the exception of catfish) aren't really all that scent oriented and those who are use scent to look...

I have a tank that needs some cories, but it's not quite ready yet or I'd buy a dozen of them. ****.

I'm curious what everyone thinks is the best way of acclimating new fish. The local Petco says you let the bag float for 15-60 mins. Then you dump the fish into the tank. The LFS that I used to go to suggested you fold down the sides of the bag to form a collar. Float the bag for 15-20 mins...