Recent content by Emmet

Hello. A friend who has had a tank for the last 8 years without any deaths in the last 7. No spikes and completely stable. Suddenly the tank crashed and all of the fish died. He has had tanks the last 30 years and this has never happened before. We have tried to reestablish the tank with...

After the water change, I've stabilised my tank in regards to the ammonia, I believe the spike was caused by the power cutting out and the filter being off for a few hours while I was working. My nitrate returned to 80ppm. I only added the root tabs as I believed they would fill the gap on...

How can I check the Kelvin rating? The tank is running light for 12 hours. I have the settings on the app set to pro with settings adjusted for plant growth. I only got this light last week. Before that, I was running the light that came with the tank.

I'm also after doing a 75% water change. As well as adding Tropica nutrition capsules. I planted three of them.

I thank you both kindly for taking the time to give such helpful, long and detailed answers to my problem. I was busy with work so did not make it out to get the GH and KH tests yesterday. I got them today though :) My results are KH: 4dH. GH: 14dH. pH: 6.4. Ammonia: Very small spike. ( I...

A picture of my tank, I removed a few plants that I believed were too far gone yesterday. I added new plants; Alternantheras reineckii mini, Nymphoides hydrophylla, Utricularia graminifolia, Rotala indica. Don't mind the Co2 indicator, I changed the liquid last night :)

Hello everyone and thank you for taking your time to even read this. I'm having an issue with my plants in my tank. I do a weekly water change of 10-20L out of a 75L tank. I am using a CO2 diffuser connected to my canister filter. I am using a daily fertilizer( PRO JBL Flora Ferropol 24) as...