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The PH is at 6.8-7.0 I'm can't be 100% of the GH because I have never tested it with a liquid kit and I don't trust the strips but I know the with the lime build-up and water taste it's very high. If the strips are to be believed it was at about 350ppm.

I can't go any bigger as I am technically limited at 5 gallons by the University so I am already pushing it with my 6.5. What other options do you know of?

I'm looking for ideas preferably unique ones for stocking a 6.5 gallon, here are some of the ideas I currently have/have heard of let me know what you think or other ideas you have: -1 Betta fish and a nerite snail OR 3-6 dwarf cory cats OR 2 African dwarf frogs OR 1 dwarf orange crayfish -A...

I rescued two platys from Walmart last night. Seeing the two of them in the smallest most disgusting looking tank, I'd ever seen and knowing that my betta's 6.5-gallon tank was cycled, heated and filtered sitting empty. (Betta's in quarantine for a nasty case of fin rot) I had to do something...

I'm new to plants, (other than moss/moss balls) and I am adding a java fern and an Anubis (which comes pre rooted to a piece of driftwood,) and java moss and wanted some advice on how to make sure the plants thrive I a new environment, and how to get the java fern to root in my gravel substrate...

Okay, thank you!

The tears aren't big, they are sort of wedge or triangle shaped areas of missing fins. The part I was worried about is the long holes in his tail fin you can see in the picture. They're probably a 1 or 2 mm long. The tank is fairly new, so that may be part of the problem. I don't know how old he...

My betta fish, Clifford, is in a 3.5 gallon tank with a heater and filter (and two moss balls). Last week I noticed blackish fin edges vs. his normal white fin edges. I suspected fin rot so I put him on tetra lifeguard and have been doing 50% water changes every day, at the end of treatment he...