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Actually if you change the water every day then the fry will have the best growth potential. Betas can become adults in 3 months with daily WC. You're removing growth inhibitors from the water each WC, so if possible keep doing WC's!! The dechlorinator probably did nothing, if there was chlorine...

Depends, as always, on the size of the tank, the inhabitants, and the water that comes out of the tap.   If you have a specialty shrimp for example, you don't want your NO3 levels to go above 30ppm. Though you have 0ppm in your water now, other people can have 30ppm or higher. If you have soft...

  kolenik.com/ocean-kitchen/   Other than the probable obscene cost, would you get one? One good thing is that you can lift the counter top for maintenance and close proximity to a water pipe for a sump, but on the other the lack of space for the sump or storing supplies and possibly heat coming...

They're probably eating algea or microscopic food that grows around plants.

The yellow one from the OP sounds like the beta male who doesn't get to pass on his genes. But these honey gourami are not typically ones that fight to the death like larger gourami, they'll just display at each other and maybe have at a chase to show dominance.

Females wont make them fight - females will distract them.

That's definitely a male....He's pretty though.   A lot of times a fish's gender will be suppressed because of all of the fish hormones in LFS tanks. I was in the same situation with two gourami where I thought one was a female but then all the sudden ended up a male. Just depends on the size of...

Pics?   If they're fully grown, then they likely have a peace treaty. If not, they may become more aggressive as they age. If you have the space, you can put a few females in, but hopefully they dont turn out to be males again!

  Pictures when you get it going please!

The amount of riccia you'd need to cover all of the mesh could be costly. Definitely not an amount you'd find at a LFS. But it depends on how much you want to cover as well.

It will look terrible at first, when you've just strung the riccia onto the mesh. But once it grows in it will look beautiful! You may need quite a bit of mesh and riccia to cover the background on the tank in your signature though, it could be costly but it will take time until you can fully...

  It's a beautiful tank, I'd even say TotM material....I hope your discus feel better. Have you tried feeding some peas?

I feed mine micro pellets and crushed flake. I have tiny cories and these get sucked up pretty quickly and they seem to like them. I also put in algea wafers for my shrimps which they pick at. I used to feed them worms that they loved, but my supplier went out of buisness and now there's only...

I guess in the end it was neither the environment nor his size that killed him.   Genetics cause shorter lifespans - betta's on average live for 2 years and have horribly inbred genes. Size only in that a "runt" is less equipped to survive in the environment, though very tall humans have died...

Tank size, parameters, tank mates please. Has your wife/mother/husband/child been spraying any cleaners around the tank or using your WC bucket for mopping?   Those fish are known to live 12 years.