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I used to do one 25% change a week but wiht a newborn and my job its hard to take the time to clean the tank and do that big of a change in one night thats why I split it up over two days. I have all female mollies now, my last male died in Jan-Feb. While all this is helpful, still doesnt...

I rotate each week between each side of the tank and vacuum the gravel away from the plants. I have lots of water movement and have an additional blower if needed for more current. I clean out the filters once a month including scrubbing inside and outside of the intake tubes and removing the...

I started dosing with the potassium and iron because my plants were yellowing with a lot of holes in them, since I started dosing the plants have started recovering. Ive been dosing the potassium for about 3 months, the Iron for about 2 but this issue with this loach popped up in the last 2...

Ive been battling it for months because of the molly fry that are constantly in my tank from my female giving birth 7 times. Ive upped the water changes from 12.5 gallons a week to 20 gallons a week over 2 days.

I love them, they are amazing to watch just basically "float" around the tank like little ghosts.

Nope nothing and honestly the one with the cotton swab skin is acting no different from normal. he munches on an algae disk for awhile then back to skirting around the tank.

But the hillstreams are supposed to be between 100-200 ppm on GH, my KH is a little low for them but I can never get the KH past 6. I am also confused on why the one loach looks perfectly fine and the other has that "cotton swab" look to it.

It use to stay below 20ppm but my one molly has given birth 7 times since March so I constantly have between 20-30 fry in there and its killing me. I just tested the GH in my 10 gal shrimp/neon tetra/ snails for my clown loaches tank and it took 29 drops to change color.....thats not even on the...

Tank parameters are as follows: Ammonia-0-.25ppm-This is normal in my tank, the water in my town has high ammonia and we have 3 cats. Nitrite-0ppm Nitrate-40-80ppm KH-50ppm GH-200ppm- This is throwing me off i tested it 4 times, my GH was never over 100-120ppm since I set up the tank and the...

Good Evening Everyone, I was working on my tank tonight and noticed my one hillstream loach looks really bad for some reason. I have two in my tank and the other looks completely fine and this guy looks like he has cotton swabs or something all over him. He is in a 55 Gal Tank with 3...