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Theres three cherry shrimp( one was lost to the old ‘i wonder if i can fit inside the filter intake’ problem) in here from another tank with breeders and they seem to hanging on but theyve only been in for about two days as theyre a bit of a litmus test for livestock safety.

I was using a little bottle of fertiliser which i used up (planning to get more and probably root tabs) before i realised there was carbon in the filter which i have now removed. The ammonia from the API kit looks to be about .5- 1.0 ppm and the nitrite is about .25-.5 ppm so there not hugely...

Hello Ive been cycling a tank for quite a while now and i decided to do a planted tank. Ive used fairly standard plants: bucephalandra, amazon sword, anubias barteri, dwarf sag, water sprite and water spangles. However they dont seem at all interested in taking any nitrogen compounds out of the...

They spike randomly then go back down and then come back up and stay up until i do a water change. I have plenty of plants (buce, water sprite, dwarf sag, amazon sword and salvinia) but they dont seem interested in taking any of this nastiness out.

Thankyou Colin. The filter was full of it when i did a thorough clean so hopefully it goes down a bit. Now i just need to figure out why the water parameters are so all over the place.

Ive posted about this before but am no closer to solving the issue unfortunately. I started cycling a seven gallon tank around 3 weeks ago to put a betta fish in. Some driftwood, ohko stone, live plants, fairly standard set up. However throughout this period of cycling, the tests have been...

Im cycling a tank at the moment too and i think i may have the same issue. I have no idea what it is and it seems to come back no matter how many times i take it out or do water changes. Would love someone to explain what it is.

Thankyou so much.

Thankyou. I had tried to remove a lot of it a few days after i added it but a lot of it got lost under the sand and gravel. I definitely want to get some floaters the betta i used to have loved them. Should i just keep doing water changes or is there anything i can do that will help to solve the...