Recent content by Calistmo

Will do!

Its been a couple months now with zero ammonia, nitrates and nitrites. I read somewhere that as a tank cycles you get some of each, but mine never changes. Tank is a few months old and the plants/shrimp/fish/snails seem to be going good. I test every few days but it's always the same. This...

I used panacur C from Amazon. Cost 8 bucks killed all my hydra (also kills nertite snails though) not a single dead shrimp. https://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f12/step-by-step-how-to-kill-planaria-and-hydra-231872.html

I finally found shrimp fry in my tank, and while hunting for more I spotted a hydra on a plant. Once I found one and removed it I noticed they are all over my tank. I read these are very harmful to shrimp fry, how do I rid myself of these?

Unfortunately we lost Power here in Texas in that cold storm. Had to move the tank to a friend's house that kept power. Haven't seen it since, so I don't think he made it

Here is another worm. It's really hard to focus!

One of various small worms in my substrate. The other ones I couldn't get video of and are also very small. Anyone know what this is? Here is a picture for scale

Thank you for the info! I have been using distilled water for my water which could be my issue? I have been using seachem flourish for the fertilizer. Is it possible to use to much? I also have seachem root tabs. I may remove the floating plants from my setup. I feel they might be taking to...

I have roughly 13 cherry shrimp, 9 exclamation point rasboras, 2 salt pepper catfish, 2 nirtite snails and 2 assasin. This is my first attempt at a planted Tank, I add liquid fertilizer once a week and have two root tabs near the roots of the bigger plants. The floating plants have completely...

Do I get rid of it? Are these it's eggs too?

Can someone tell me what this snail is? It appeared in my tank two weeks ago quite a bit smaller. Apparently there must be more because I think those are eggs under it?

Sad thing is, I bought this snail to help keep the other snails population in check. I've never actually seen it on another snail

Saw one of my shrimp acting funny, thought it was about to molt. Literally 2 minutes later I found this.

I went to the per store I bought the plants from and there were no fish in the tanks that I picked the plants from.

I bought some fry food at the pet store and he seems to eat it right up. Funny watching him stalk up to a small speck and dart at it.