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I do use Bug Bites flake and a kind of cross between flake and pellets that Tetra makes. Also Hikari makes something that's kind of like a pellet but is shaped like a worm. I also feed them tubifex worms (freeze dried), and various frozen foods including a home-made food I make and baby brine...

Hereditary Creepy creepy creepy...

I have used the EI method, or some wacky variant of it, for a couple of years on my 75 gallon freshwater tank. I've kept it heavily planted, use CO2, and have had great success with plant growth, and for the most part, they look good. However, I have been constantly plagued with algae, either...

Thanks for hanging in with me on this discussion. I have never had problems getting my plants to grow. They grow fast and have good color, etc. The issue has always been that along with that, I have lots of algae on the leaves of the slower growing plants, the glass and hardscape. Anyway-...

I would much rather have hillstream loaches than plecos....just personal preference. Back to the EI discussion: Here are some somewhat random thoughts I've been having about it. You seem like someone who's pretty tuned in with it, so I'd love your input. I did a lot of reading prior to...

I recently read an article in Amazonas about how to simply keep a black worm culture using a breeder box. This is very interesting to me because I'd like to have another simple way to feed my fish live food- I currently use flightless fruit flies for one of my tanks, and baby brine shrimp for...

My focus was mostly on suspended algae. From what I've read, I think I'd need a somewhat stronger light for the volume of water I have, but the UV light will kill that stuff- the trick is flow over the light and time in front of the light. There's a good article on it (I think it's good- some...

don't stress too much- you're doing the right thing and your numbers are not bad. Your fishies will be fine and will be happy once you get them a new home.

cool- well at least I have some time left

I like the idea of taking your time with the aquascape. I have done that a couple of times. The problem for me is I don't think I'm all that creative, and ...I just put stuff in there and say, "ok that' looks good!" I'm usually not disapointed, but over time, I think all aquascapes wear out...

I'm way late to this, but I think what you have is fine. Honestly, as long as there's good flow over enough media to house sufficient bacteria to eat the ammonia and nitrite, you're good. For years I lived in ignorance, and during that time I always wondered how folks could just drop a sponge...

I bought a 24v Mean Green Killing Machine a year or 2 ago and have used it with great success on the few occasions where I needed to make sure I get all excess suspended algae and other bad crap floating around. I don't use it that much, but the little sponge that comes with it is VERY porous...