Recent content by Bicyclemaster

I attached an image with the tank, they have a lot of hiding spots. I messed up a bit and got 5 cherry barb with the pygmys... I didn't realise that they should go in tanks over 20g and I cannot really return them... i think they might be scaring the corys, but they're not aggressive at all...

I got 6 pygmy cory for my 10G about 3 days ago and ever since I've barely seen them. From time to time I see 2, maybe 3 but never all of them. I think I've seen 5 of them yesterday at one point but they just keep hiding. Is it their normal behaviour at the beginning? Or maybe it's because I only...

Thank you for all of the insight! I know how challenging it's to maintain a co2 injected tank. I have another one that also has diy co2 and I have to trim it every week or else it get out of control. I have a few reasons as to why I want to add co2. Firstly, I got the plants from someone that...

Thank you for the info! Would DIY co2 be bad for them? I'm already using it in the tank, but I would love someones opinion. I know that they don't exactly like ph fluctuations and DIY co2 fluctuates sometimes. Gh 8 Kh 12 Ph 7.5-8

I already have one, thanks for the tip.

3 days ago I added about 20 RCS to my 10g tank and I was wondering of it's alright to continue adding liquid fertilizer to the tank. I was thinking that about 1/3 of the recommended amount ones every other day should be fine. I have some epiphytes and they need some ferts. It's my first time...

I was using a sponge filter, bit I noticed that because it creates no water circulation, the co2 I inject is not going everywhere in the tank. I wanted a filter that circulates the water, while not hurting or stressing the shrimp. I will probabil use a small HOB that I have, with a sponge on the...

Hey there, I have a 10g tank to which I will add some cherry shrimp. I tried to aquascape it as good as I could and I also added all kinds of plants, moss, floating plants etc. The thing is that I really need to inject co2 with these plants and the tank has a sponge filter at the moment. I...

Hey there! I've darkstarted a new tank about a month ago. I put some used filter media to help out the process a bit. The thing is, I've been doing an ammonia test every week, since it's the only test I have left, and each time the ammonia is at minimum, under 0.05 ppm. There shouldn't really be...

The back wood is just balanced there as I could, when I glue it it will be a bit different, I know what you're talking about. As for the background, I will either paint it black or put a matt finish on it, haven't decided yet. I have to get a matt sheet and see how it looks like.

Hey there! I'm making a new tank for some shrimp and I wanted to get some thoughts from some more people about the hardscape. Nothing is really glued in place yet, only some rocks are glued to one another.

Yep, I read the entire article yesterday. I think I'll change the light schedule and let it on for 8h straight and see what happens. See if the algae grow drastically. I actually have diy CO2 in the tank and I managed to make it quite stable so I don't think this will affect the plants too much.