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Do you have any idea what it could be? I usually do 50 percent water changes once a week

Hello all. I have a few concerns I would like some advice with. 1. My bristlenose pleco is swimming erratically. My bristlenose pleco, which I have had for a couple of months now, is swimming strangely. But even stranger is that she only seems to do this in the evening when my family is...

Hello all. I am setting up a new 170l tank (40 gallons or so) and was wondering what the tolerance of this species is. And I want them to thrive not just survive for a year then die. I have a pH around 8 but I have read on previous forums that high pH is not necessarily an issue but rather...

So should I rehome her or take her back to the shop or should I keep her?

Will she still live a long, happy life?

Also, I got a bristlenose pleco a week or so ago, do you think the pH is too high for her? On the Seriously Fish website it says that they tolerate 5.5-7.5?

I tested using the KH test (even though it is out of date) and it took 10 drops so 10dKH. How accurate do you think this could be? How to you determine how much of the TDS are calcium/magnesium ions and how much are calcium carbonate? Or is it just a predictable ratio?

And I looked but and I do have a KH test but it expired in 2023

I looked on my water company's website and it gives these results: From this I can see that the hardness has changed since I last checked to 16.37 dH but how would I determine the KH in degrees?