Recent content by Garbagegoat

Yes, I have heard about spiraling guppy populations, so I went with all males. Our family calls them "the guppy bros", or maybe that is just me. They are quite active fish trying to hit on each other. I will try with the fertilizer although doing a water change that deep with the fish in there...

Yes, the left picture is current state. I usually remove the HOB filter column weekly and squeeze out the sponge mechanical filter in the change water. Just the bio bag and the peat moss with the sponge filter. The cloudiness shouldn't be uneaten food. We feed sparsely twice a day and fast on...

The problem is that the big window is forward and to the left so the main place where light comes in is from the front glass. Also I did black the back with film. I think the floating light blockers is a good idea, I will check them out. Hopefully that will cut down on the green water as well...

This is now a five month old, 10 gal freshwater tank. It was setup with "watersprite" and a couple other plants after cycle and then four guppies were added. One guppy passed in the first week but the rest seem good all these months afterward. At first I was having some big algae issues with...