Recent content by BrianK

Those look like Amano shrimp. The momma will carry the eggs until they hatch but the babies will not survive. They are hard to breed because the babies need brackish water to survive.

if all the fish get skinny and die, you might have TB in the tank.

I suggest a bristlenose pleco and platys for hard-ish water. Maybe some Amano shrimp as well.

When I do top offs (which I usually don't do except occasionally in the summer), I use distilled water.

I have Christmas moss. I keep it thinned and I blast it with a turkey baster before water changes. That keeps the mess to a minimum. It looks like a mess right after the water change but half a day later, all is good. Actually my shrimp keep it cleaned up too.

I had problems until I added extra potassium in addition to flourish (now thrive instead of flourish).

I do everything the same but I only do about 20-25% water changes weekly.

Here's mine. I like the bowfront myself. It magnifies the fish.

You don't have a sterile aquarium. Bacteria is everywhere, you are just waiting for them to multiply to sufficient numbers. Every time you touch anything, feed fish, put plants and decor in, add subtrate and water, have air circulating, you are adding bacteria.

I have shrimp with all kinds of fish. They do okay although the babies will sometimes disappear. Enough survive so the population keeps growing anyway if you have enough mosses and subwassertang to hide them

They don't seem to damage any leaves. I occasionally see some red root floaters missing parts of leaves but I don't really know what does it.

I stick with nerites and shrimp so I don't have to worry about having too many.

An Amano is an Amano even if a different color and males are smaller than females.

I actually just read something. We had to go through Congress because we were trying to do year-round DST. Our state legislature is now trying to go year-round standard time which we can apparently do without Congress.