Recent content by Gourami36

It could be muscular necrosis or a molting problem. Have you seen any molts? Can you test gh, kh and nitrate? I assume your tank is cycled?

Is ammonia changed to ammonium in ph under 7 or under 6? And nitrite is less toxic in ph above 7 or 8 (I forgot which)? Zero nitrate is usually very hard to achieve in fish tanks unless they are very large (probably thousand of gallons or more).

Ammonia and nitrite in my tank is always 0. I’m not sure how biological filtration harms plants, the bacteria will only grow to how much ammonia the fish produce? I do know about nitrate but I already keep it under 20 in all my tanks, most are heavily planted and nitrate is 0-5 ppm. I use...

I thought all nitrification was prohibited under ph 6? Would it be possible to keep them together if I added ~10 codydoras sterbai first then after a while add 6 yoyo loaches? If not can I keep kuhli loaches? On another forum one of the corydoras people said it’s ok if I have backup tanks.

The first paragraph is what I meant when I said “I thought I couldn’t overfilter”. The filter’s flow rate can be adjusted to 20% of the maximum (450 gph) if I remember correctly. The filter’s capacity is about 3.5 litres. It already came with a coarse sponge and some matrix for biological...

I also have 2 backup tanks and 1 food safe 20 gallon container if something goes wrong with loaches and cories.

Will the ph lower too much if I don’t raise the kh? I guess I don’t need to do it then. I plan on keeping the same species as I mentioned in the first post besides the rainbowfish and deciding if I can keep corydoras with the loaches with the method I mentioned above.

Which part is too much? I didn’t think I could overfilter and I thought 10x turnover rate was recommended. Are there any problems with too much filtration if the filter flow isn’t too strong for the fish? I already have the filter.

I asked SeaChem which products I could use to raise gh and kh. They recommended equilibrium for gh and acid and alkaline buffers for kh. Could I just use cuttlebone? I used it on other tank to raise gh and kh to gh 10 and kh 7 for livebearers. Most species will probably be the same besides yo-yo...

It is the same tank. I am not really sure which fish to have anymore. There will be these fish: 1 green phantom pleco 5-6 upside down catfish 6 or more corydoras sterbai 3 pearl gourami 6 or more of some type of schooling fish Maybe some others Plants include: Amazon sword Anacharis Dwarf...

Is a seachem tidal 110 (450 gph) and a sponge filter enough filtration for a 60 gallon tank?

Sorry about the misunderstanding. Could you give me some suggestions for schooling mid-top dwelling fish?

I do know about changing water chemistry... I definitely don't have as much experience as you (I'm not even as old as how many years you've been keeping fish) but my 6 years of experience keeping fish is not too bad but not that much either. I'll skip the rainbowfish and look for fish that do...

@Byron which species of loaches do you keep?

Also @Byron could you post a link to the article(s) about corydoras and loaches if you don’t mind? I’m interested in reading them.