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Is there any way to soften the water?

That's interesting, thanks! And I'll look into the other types too! The dwarf rasboras (Boraras maculata) I was looking at seemed to be distinct from the chili rasboras. The dwarfs have spots instead of a stripe. Also, would it be possible to get two types of rasbora or do they tend to just...

Thanks! From my googling the hardness is about 120mg/L as CaCO3. But I do have a lot of driftwood and plants for the size of the tank, so I guess that would make it softer?

Hi everyone! I have a ~70L (20g) freshwater tank, heavily planted. Stocked with red cherry shrimp, kuhli loaches, pygmy cories, and male guppies. The guppies dont seem to be doing well in the tank. Everyone else seems happy enough, but the guppies only seem to live a few weeks to months. I'm...

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One of my guppies (previously well, have had him for a couple months) has stopped using his tail! He is managing reasonably well with his dorsal fins keeping him buoyant and moving, but he is not moving his tail at all. The rest of the fish seem fine, including a handful of other guppies. I did...

Okay thanks!

I'm new to this whole business and was just wondering how to know how much to feed my fish. I have a pile of shrimp (40ish by my rough count), 3 Pygmy cories and 5 kuhli loaches. Whenever I put food in the shrimp dive on it and devour everything, with the cories sometimes joining in. The loaches...

Thanks for your help Byron!

Thanks TekFish! I have sponge filters so I don't know how good they would be cleaning up that much poop! I might have to wait until I get a bigger tank then. At least then I'd know its got enough room to roam and poop.

Thanks for that Essjay!

From what I can find, the hardness of my tap water is 96mg/L (calculated as CaCO3). But I don't know what that means...

My pH is a little high, but is there a safe/reliable way to bring that down?

I bought an established tank and it turns out its smaller than the seller told me. I'm disappointed but otherwise it seems to be a great tank so I think it just means I'll end up with Multiple Tank Syndrome. I've had to rethink my previous stocking ideas. My question is- Is 70L too small for a...

pH should be around 7.8 (based on Council water). What is KH and Gh?