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Tank should be fine, but the airstones are unnecessary unless you like the wall of bubbles. The hob should be enough circulation and maybe you can add one once the fish gets bigger to keep his water clean.

Yep, sounds like you're well on your way. If you can find a bottle of bioculture, that would speed things along. Id give another week or so and start adding some hardy fish after a water change.

I always used gambusia as feeders, and I don't recall any unusual smell. What kind of feeders do you use?

Buy some excel and apply the dose directly to the algae with a syringe or eye dropper. It'll turn red, white and then die and get filtered out. Alternatively, mollies and guppies will eat it, as long as they aren't getting other food. True Siamese algae eaters and farowella cats will also...

When those cons pair up, there will be blood. I'd probably get the corys out asap. Breeding cons tend to be terrible roommates to anyone in the tank.

Buy a Marineland Stealth. They come with a life time warranty, so if something goes wrong, they replace for free.

Why did you shut it off? Don't worry about the snails, if they're really a problem, get an assassin snail and they'll "magically" disappear

Only big issue I had was when I filled it back up. The flourite was disturbed and I had some cloudiness, but I'd blame carelessness more than anything else. Plant-wise, everything went well.

You could also use one of the many 27 watt "full spectrum" desk lamps available. Then you can grow just about any of them.

Riccia definitely will not attach by itself. A good way to attach it is to get a shower scrunchy and some plastic zip ties. Put some riccia on a rock, wrap it with a square of scrunchy (cut some squares) and pull it all together underneath. Secure that with the zip tie and you're good to go...

It might also be dying. Thats the color of dead moss for sure.

If you're keeping your water column packed with ferts, you should definitely do big water changes each week to reset the amounts. Look up the "estimative index." That should give you some guidelines. You might also need to increase your CO2, which might help with the algae. The shot gun...

The above recommendations will work, I'd add that New Life Spectrum makes a really good "Grow" food with .5mm pellets for fry. Its a really high quality pellet too. I would say that once they are a decent size, expect to cull some of them. You'll have to do nature's job since you are their...

Don't pull everything. Drain the tank down as low as possible. Put wet newspaper or papertowels in the tank to keep everything damp and you're good to go. I've moved three times, once was about a four hour drive and then overnight before I added water and everything made it fine. Rotala, some...

The parrots might push the angels around a bit. The angels definitely don't belong in a tank with buffalo cichlids. One comes from slow moving wooded pools of acidic water in South America, the other from fast moving, rocky streams in Africa. I guess they won't die in the same tank together...

On the males, the vent tube tends to be smaller and pointier, the dorsal and anal fins are pointed. The females' vent tube is rounder and the fins are more rounded on the ends. The vent is easier to see than the fins, as some males have more rounded fins than others.

+1 for getting rid of the knife, shark and I would say also the eel. Not only are you overstocked, but you are under-equipped to responsibly keep fish of that size unless you have a big tank for them to move to. Once they're gone, you could keep a pair of rams, apistorammas, and kribs. Also...

Most stores take fish as trade ins, depending on the fish. At the store I work at, we give 1/4 the price we can sell it for. The bigger the fish, the better the trade in value. Best case is call and ask.

Good looking fish and tank

They're red zebras. The first one is a different color morph, I forget the proper term for it, but not albino. Maybe just stressed out, but not albino.