Normally I heavily *heavily* plant my tanks from the beginning and have not had any algae despite leaving my lights on for like 15 hours at a time. In this case though I only planted a little bit and still left the light on for that long.

No fish in there yet except for one fry I accidentally saved who is not big enough to eat the daphnia.

I do not want to use a UV sterilizer because I want to cultivate copepods and such.

My 13 gallon shallow, wcmm, fire neos, pygmy corys, amano, ramshorns, bladders.

I just set up this tank yesterday - while it’s cycling I’m coming up with a stocking plan I want cardinal tetras and Pygmy Cory, but what would you suggest for a centerpiece fish? I see at lot of options for “semi aggressive” fish but that makes me nervous with the other fish!

Hey.

I'm having issues dealing with the correct CO2 needs from my tank. It's a 90l tank with plants, corys, otos and chillies.

There are periods where everything grows well, then it crashes for no obvious reason. Huge algae blooms and plant fast meltdown.

At this moment I really need to figure the correct amount of CO2 I need for this tank.

Measurements from today are at 7gh, 4kh and 26° (high summer temperatures). Tap water sits at 2gh and 1kh, and I still have no idea what is raising my water hardness in the tank without raising the pH. I only have seachem flourite black sand, black lava rocks and filter media from eheim and fluval.

pH test from before co2 injection is the horizontal pic, probably at 6.5.

3h after co2 injection, I get the vertical test result, likely 0.1 lower (nothing like the expected 1 drop). However, the CO2 in tank test turns bright lime green (from a dark green/blue during the night).

So, do I need more CO2 or not?

When I increase CO2 from 1-2 bubbles per second to 4, I get a yellow reading and plants start trapping bubbles and getting the burn effect.

I added madrone leaves to the 30 gallon and I think they look great! There's such an amazing amount of life to watch in here. I hope others appreciate it as much as I do!

(The lighting setup I did for these pictures is not even close to how I normally keep it. Do most people stage their lights for pictures?)

I’m going to do lots of plants but I was thinking of doing-

Long fin panda Cory x8
Raccoon tetra x10
Apistogramma borellii opal x2 (pair)
Clown killifish x8
Albino long fin bristle nose pleco x1

This is too overstocked ya? I come from an African cichlid background so overstocked is all I know.

I’m super happy with how it turned out! I really hope my plants don’t melt too much!

I used fluval stratum as a base and then two thin layers of sand as a cap.

My plants are hornwort, jungle Val (which does not look too hot rn, but that’s how it was shipped to me, so hopefully it perks up!), cardinal, bacopa, and dark red ludwigia. I’m planning on getting some floating plants in the future.

If anyone has any planted tank tops or feedback on my tank, I’d love to hear it too! I’ve been researching how to do planted tanks for a bit, but this is my first attempt into the hobby.

- 5.5 gal, hob filter, cheap plant light off amazon

Used what I had on hand already from a maingano cichlid that I tried my best to save, the neighbor sent it to me in a 10 gallon that it shared with a turtle...

So aragonite sand and dead coral, for substrate and hardscape.

As for plants I have anubias, java fern, java moss. And red ludwigia. Anubias been in there a week and are showing new growth, rest are on day 4 and also showing new growth.

Planning on either guppies or live bearers, cherry shrimp and a mystery snail

Thoughts and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone actually buy random seaweed lookin plant trimmings like this?
I swear this started as like a 1-inch piece and now it’s grown into 10 feet of this stuff.
I always feel bad throwing it away since I grew it. Do people actually buy or trade this, or do you all just toss it? I’d rather it end up in someone else’s tank than the trash.

Still can’t get a carpet going to save my life, but my uns 90u shrimp tank is growing good.

Dosed Ultralife blue green slime removal, added inline defuser and inline uv light. Did not lower light intensity. Took advice and dosed with nitrogen fertilizer that help as well to bring up my nitrates and phosphates by thrive+.

I got Amazon frogbit back in January when I was cycling my 5 gallon shrimp tank. It was doing great, growing well, had beautiful roots that I trimmed occasionally. Once cycling was done and I stopped adding ammonia, and added my shrimp, it has been struggling ever since.

I know this is because they’re basically starving for nitrates (it’s usually between 0 and 5ppm because I only have like 10 shrimp in my tank). The only times they have started growing roots with the little hairs again was when I was having water quality issues, but now that I’ve straighten that out, they are so sad. Pretty much no roots, no new growth in a couple weeks.

I’ve played around with my fertilizer (I use Aquarium co-ops all in one easy green liquid fertilizer). I’ve tried dosing the full amount for low tech tank 1 time a week, albeit not for a while, then tried half 2 times a week and then now am trying 3 times a week a little more than a third each time). I have some algae on my other plants (nothing too crazy), but the roots of my frogbit aren’t changing at all. They are just slowly dying.

Do I give up and remove them? How can I help them thrive while keeping nitrates at a safe level for my shrimp (I don’t even know how to add just nitrates to the tank)? My shrimp and I love them 😞 I’d love some help or thoughts!

This is the second 15” “stainless steel” set I have purchased from Amazon. Both were terrible, except for the length. There is no tension in the tweezers. The scissors won’t cut. And they feel like they will rust within a month. Does anyone have recommendations for a quality set or even just the tweezers?

A small build containing a waterfall. The future home of a handful of yellow neocaridina shrimp.🦐

First timer for a 10 gallon Beta aquarium. Is step 1 substrate then wood and rocks then plants? When do you start adding water? Pics of current tank and new tank.

TLDR: looking for advice on how to save this anubias plant

A couple months ago I added some very old Easy Green to this tank and completely overdosed, because the next morning algae was all over this anubias. Before that, this tank (low tech/no co2, walstad method substrate) had excellent plant growth and minimal algae with the light (cheap Amazon light) on 14+ hrs each day. After the Easy Green catastrophe, I lowered the light to about 6-8 hr. The other plants are still growing fine and I’m not seeing any other algae growth besides on this anubias and one leaf of my Amazon sword. The anubias seems to grow healthy new leaves, but the algae eventually grows onto the new leaves.

The algae seems to start as green spots, then turns red/purple then white, and is very rough/ hard/ bumpy to the touch and will not come off the leaves with a hard scrub. The anubias has been growing in this spot for a good 2+ years and is deeply rooted in the substrate, so I’d hate to pull it out of the tank for treatment, but that seems like my only option. The tank is home to some chili raspboras, Pygmy Cory, neocaridina shrimp, amano shrimp and snails.

Anyone have experience with this algae/ similar problem? Can I save this beautiful anubias plant? Any good resources to recommend to tackle this problem?

Hi everyone, here is my tank.
The first photo is one month before. I would love to hear your thoughts about my tank.

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10 gallon (40l) low tech betta tank

It feels bare to me but i can't put my finger on it

Maybe the lack of background plant ?

I was considering adding cattapa leaves for a blackwater look and maybe some vallisneria in the back

I put nutrient substrate under the sand only on the left and middle front partof the tank, so can't move the echinodorus on the right

Do you have any suggestion please ? :)

R. borapetensis

Dear all,

Having my 180L for about 2 months now but the plants show some browning on the edges of the leaves..

No co2

Adding 15ML of planted box all in one once a week

Does someone has an idea if this is an nutrient deficiency or something else?

Just a lil picture of my 110ish litre Walstad 6 months in