Recent content by Killerbro511

yup, keeping a good eye on the parameters and have nitrates down to 5 now. So far ive added snails and shrimp to their tank and the female seems to be happy trying to hunt them (and the occasional detritus worm although how successful she's been is another question) however the male doesnt seem...

so i bought a Pea puffer pair with their setup off marketplace and im a bit concerned about them. I redid their tank as it was just a bare bottom (whilst keeping the filter media alive) and when i checked the parameters of the water the nitrates were over 160ppm. Even after i fully redid the...

im planning to switch this tank to basically only slow growing plants so do you think its actually worth keeping any of the aqua soil or should i just replace it entirely with sand? also in terms of sand, can i just use any old sand i get from the hardware store (under the assumption that i...

Sorry to bring this thread back but ive been considering greatly reducing the substrate level and then adding a sand cap for the aesthetics because ive pretty much concluded that the yellow of the water is from either the wood or susbtrate leeching organics as I added some purigen and it...

I'm pretty sure they arent because its nothing like the ramshorn or bladder snails eggs that I get and its way bigger. Also when i removed it it was like a porous spongey thing

Found this growig on the heater and small bits on the glass of the tank. I have drift wood in the tank so im assuming its some kind of fungus? Should i be concerned?

Any ideas or potential improvements?

currently my PH is about 6.7 but I don't have gh/kh kit so ill go get that checked and if its low ill likeley have to add more of this stuff i got that ends up setting the PH to 7 unless theres a really cool, not expensive shrimp that prefers the lower ph and softer water. I am 90% sure my tap...

So i found this 30l tall tank on marketplace for a great deal so I had to grab it and have scaped it as such (don't judge the uneven sand it was my first time trying a layered substrate and i'm also planning on adding Christmas moss to the wood at a later date) and I plan to have it as a mainly...