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I switched my tank from gravel to potting soil with a sand cap about 4 weeks ago. I added a few new plants and some dwarf hair grass. Thanks to my Corys and other fish rooting through the hair grass, keeps getting uprooted. I've been able to replant most of it and have moved some of it around...

Yeaaa that's probably pretty accurate. My mom always had a plecostomus in her fish tanks and that thing got pretty big. I think they're probably meant for a much larger tank like 125 or 150. There's one and one of the very large fish tanks at Cheddar's and that thing is massive. For sure this...

Okay thank you, I appreciate your advice ^_^ Do you think that root tabs would be beneficial? Also how often should I vacuum the gravel? I've literally never done that in almost 4 months of having my tank and I think that might be a contributing factor as to why my water is just a tad bit...

Yeah that definitely makes sense.. adding soil would probably change the biochemistry. I tried to make a video but there's like these little root looking things growing off of some of the leaf tips on a couple of my plants that have been in there longer. Does that mean that the plants are...

Hello all! I met a few of you through my introduction post, this seems like a very good group full of friendly and helpful people. Water is slightly cloudy but the paint behind the wall is brown and that makes it look more cloudy than it really is in the pictures. Currently I'm running a top fin...

Thank you! I was thinking of adding some plant pallets over the gravel and then a couple inches of sand. Would that help the plants to root better?

That's a good point! These ones have reactive sensors, so they aren't running constantly.

Because it was cheaper to add a second heater than it was to buy a bigger one.

I don't currently have a way to test GH and KH.. I guess that's the next thing I need to add to my list. One of the videos I watched from Father Fish aquatics recommended adding the sand on top of the gravel, plant pellets is definitely something I'll have to look into if I go that route. Thank you

Yes all of the fish and frogs I listed are in a 75 gallon tank. I plan on taking out at least the two big plastic plants in the back and making a rock pile of some kind. I bought an API master kit and according to their color chart, ammonia and nitrate are zero. Nitrate is around 20 ppm. My pH...

Thank you! The purple and the pink and the two large plants in the back are plastic but the rest of the plants are real plants. I'm thinking of taking out the two big plastic ones in the back and making a limestone pile or some other rock pile. I plan on having my aquarium pretty heavily planted...