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Photo atached. If I don’t dose nitrogen , my tank has no amonia, nitrite or nitrate, and start to grow staghorn algea. If I dose nitrate to stay at 5ppm nitrate, plants consume nitrate and no nitrite or ammonia. during night, my ph are around 7. And I have see a lot of discus tanks with ada...

Can you help me with my aquarium biological filtration? My main tank has 480L and two Oase biomaster 850 canister filters(filled with 1l foam, 2l k1 and 3l matrix). With 5 months old, co2 injection, planted with Ada soil and tropicar liquid fertiliser. Current ph 7,2 with co2 off and 6,6 co2...

Just one correction. My nitrates are around 3-10. If don't add fertiliser, 1-3 (because plants eat a lot), but after add weekly dose of fertiliser I get 10ppm.

Tank size: 170cm L x 50cm W x 60cm H tank age: 4 months pH: 6,6 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 0 kH: 4 gH: 5 tank temp: 26 C 5 or 6 weeks ago, I have my corydoras sick and apply treatment to my tank with salt and with no result, added waterlife myxazin and later waterlife octozin. My corydoras...

UPDATE: After the Myxazin and salt treatment, and without results, in order to fight possible external parasites, I started with waterlife octozin. The treatment is 3 doses in the first 3 days, but the meds are slowing absorption and takes 7 days to finish the treatment. In the same day, I...

One extra note regarding water. I never get a 100% Crystal water. Always have very small particles when looked very near the glass. But the problem usually intensify during the photoperiod. Seems little better when ligths on and worst when ligths off.

This one, are in the low tech and no fertilisers. Only have Ada Sand, Ada Soil, Water, Prime. Do you think, the problem is my water? In Portugal, the water are very controlled, and with strict parameters, and I add Prime in every WC. ------------------------ I don't think that can be injured, I...

Test ammonia, nitrite everyday and nitrate once a week. ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 5 And my ph is around 6,6, so if I’m rigth, if I have little ammonia should be more ammonium and less toxic.

Today, one more corydora dying. This time catch them before die, to be easier to spot external symptoms before start decomposition and also to try to quarentine him. Can you understand the issue with this photos? I also read about columnaris, and see some times symptoms are white zones, some...