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do you have a drop checker? or a pH controller for your co2? this the diffuser that i have: Glass diffuser i also have their bubble counter and their oracle drop checker

do 30% water changes and don't add and fertz or co2 for a week and cut back on the lighting, your plants will settle in better. then after the week is done you can go back to your normal cycle and your plants should out compete the algae for nutrients hope this works for you. its what i do...

are you planning on keeping only plants? even if you don't have co2 injected into your water, if you have a lot of plants and you don't add any fertilizers your plants are going to die. plants also die pretty fast if they have to compete with algae while they are trying to adjust to new...

if you have a canister filter you can plug your co2 airline straight into it and it will become a reactor for you as well. other wise you can also put the diffuser under the intake of the filter and it will help circulate your co2 a lot better and i mean a lot better

since surfactant just increases permeability or solubility so to say, it can be harmful in that it would make the other polutants in the water more easily absorbed into the fish, but as long as you use a dechlorinator you should be fine. i used ammonia with the surfactant in it as well - it will...

if i have a planted tank, which i will by summer time, i will have a pressurized co2 system thats going to be set on a timer that will inject co2 during the day... if i turn it off its going to affect my plants, but if i leave it on then the fish may have a problem with rising water temps, and...

that is one really big tank to put upstairs. im afraid to put anything above a 55 gallon tank upstairs lol i dont know much about the strength of concrete and how much force it can hold, but if can put it upstairs you should put a board of wood on the floor and put the tank stand on top of it -...

i was at that stage last week and now it takes a bit longer for the drops to turn purple, but i still havnt seen a rise in nitrate at all using the API test kit, i had a couple of those really bad test strips and i put the drops on it and it instantly turned the nitrate reading off the charts -...

when i have the heating on i dont have much of a problem, im just worried about the summer. especially if we have a heat wave it gets really hot indoors

that is going to come in handy when the cali heat starts.... living in an apartment with crappy air conditioning is not good.

its been said that when your tank is cycling you can get a pH crash. so i would presume that is what it was, unless you had recently added any decorative materials in there - i think wood is acidic as well. if you're tank is fully cycled and your tap water has some ammonia in it it shouldn't...

would adding spirulina to mix just be a bonus?

you should post the readings you got for the GH and KH and are you using a dip stick/strip or a liquid test kit? and about your cycle being done, once it drops both ammonia and nitrite to 0 in less than 12 hrs, continue to dose at the same ammonia dosing for about 1 week, this will ensure that...

id have to agree with Eggy there. i read somewhere (im pretty sure on this forum) that if you feed your fish meat it should only be beefs heart cause it has no fat or very very low fat, but then it said that this should only be once in a while....

would this one be better? i wanted to get the moon lights/LED's as well Includes: one 65 watt 10,000K Daylight and one 65 watt True Actinic 03 Blue compact lamps as well as two 3/4 watt Lunar Blue-Moon-Glow LED lamps. Lamps are straight pin arrangement. Also features 3 on/off switches with 3 8...