Recent content by sharkweek178

It's not all bad news. The ramshorn snails that I got for 20 cents each are doing just fine.

What about cup acclimation? As in floating the bag in the tank. Take out 1/4 cup of the bag water and replace it with 1/4 of tank water. Do this every 15-20 minutes for 2-3 hours.

I did that with my amano shrimp and they were fine. Granted that amanos are hardier than cherries. Still though, it couldn't really have gone any worse so why not try something different?

This went badly. Out of the 11 shrimp I got (they threw in an extra); one died in the bucket, one died while transfering to the tank and 4 more died later. That's just confirmed deaths. I've only seen two of them active at any time since then. Now I have to figure out if it was the tank, a...

I get mine on Amazon...

Drip acclimation.

This looks great. If you're open to suggestion, a good floating plant would help a lot. A surface floater like salvinia minima (my personal mvp), Amazon frogbit or red root floaters. For one thing, they grow fast. So they suck a lot of the nutrients directly out of the water, making them...

One of those plants on the right is a java fern windelov variety. The other looks like it could be Anubias frazieri. But it could well be another Anubias variety.

Maybe it's like that Warner Brothers cartoon frog that only sings and dances when no one else is around.

That's so much better than my first tank looked.

Aquasoil absorbs nutrients from the water. That's how it sort of recharges itself. Putting a sand cap on it can inhibit or block that process. None of the plants you listed are particularly high tech. I'm a low tech guy too. Which means that aqua soil isn't really necessary for them. Sand...

The Manual of Fish Health and the Baensch Aquarium Atlases are good resources.

You're better off using some aquarium grade ammonia like Dr Tims. That way you have complete control. You can add precisely as much ammonia as you want, when you want.