Recent content by NorthPoleFish

I have no idea if I can get magnesium nitrate hexahydrate in my town. I'll have to do some looking and research. Thanks for the idea for giving my plants nitrates.

Thank you for all your input. I did a 50% water change on Sunday and cleaned the glass really well. The tank looks a lot better now. Since I can't dim the light bar I have, I have decreased how long the light is on and I'm hoping that will help. And I may have been overfeeding my fish, so I'll...

I have a couple questions to ask about cleaning my fish tank and if this green stuff is some kind of algae. Attached you will see some photos of the green stuff that I think is a type of algae along with what I know is brown algae on my glass. Sorry for the fuzzy pictures. I have a 20 gallon...

I don't know what the fish's poop looks like since I haven't seen her poop. That isn't saying she doesn't, she just poops when I'm not watching or observing her. It is a little difficult for me to say if she is breathing heavily or not, I think she might be, but not in great distress breathing...

Thank you for the suggestion of adding a veggie component to their diet. I will try that. I do have some algae wafers that I toss in every now and then, but I understand that is different than veggies. The tumor on Mom started showing up about 6 or 7 months ago, I really can't remember. She...

I'm familiar with pregnant platys, and she doesn't have an extended pregnant belly. So, I'm not sure either.

My tank Info: 20 gal tank ~50% water changes every 2 weeks (try to do more, but not always successful due to schedule) Nitrate: 20 ppm Nitrites: 0 ppm Ammonium: 0 ppm pH: 7.8 A planted tank, but plants are starting to die and thin out since hornwort is taking over Tank has been set up for over...