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Air stones have no adverse effects on plants.

In most aquarium the water is well oxygenated the bacteria consume most of the organic waiste. So it is reasonable that the organics (fish Waist) are also at very low levels. But since oxygen levels are high nitrate is not consumed. Only plants and algae can consume nitrate in high oxygen...

Carbon can absorb some of the nutrients in the fertilizer but how much depends on the ingreents in the fertilizer. Bfut for the most part carbon is irrelevan because PH and KH have a much bigger effect on fertilizer. KH in your water will react with most sulfide ingredient ion many fertilizer...

I have been using RO water for years in my 5 gallon container.. I store it is 2 liter soda bottles. Ro water doesn't go bad You can put it in a center and store it for a year and then just add it to the tank. But it is important to state that not all RO water is the same. Some RO filters are...

what fertilizer are you using andhwo do you dose itl? My experience with plants and fertilizer is that often the problem is the fertilizer is missing one nutrient plants. How often do you see a new leaf growing. Plants need 14 nutrients to grow (excluding light and CO2). If just one is...

My experience with blue dream ship is that they typically turn orange when they die. I have never seen one floating at the surface motionless.

The Juvenal shrimp are so small that you often don't see them At that size the feed of the biofilm that coats everything in the tank. When doing a water change push the water syphon deep into the substrate. The substrate would then act as a filter to keep the shrimp out of the discarded water.

aquatic plants do have seasons but it may not be related to temperature. in streams and lake the temperature varies less than it does in air. However the mineral content and associated water parameters such as GH, KH, PH, can change periodically due to rainfall and snow melt. So in some...

You cannot harm plants with too much light. All the plants in your tank are found in lakes and pond wthat are blasted with full sun. On a clear day at noon light levels are about 20,000 lumens. Most rooms in homes are at about 1000 lumens. Heat is the primary killler of terrestrial plants...

I used 5 minute epoxy to modify a filter. The filter was not in the tank and dry when I applied epoxy. I gave it a few days to dry and then cleaned it before putting it in the tank. Saw nothing with my fish and shrimp to indicate a problem.

These shrimp are filter feeders they feed on particles of food or algae floating in the water. If there isn't enough in the water they may pickup material on top of the sand.

The DNA that exists in all living things is made up of carbon hydrogen oxygen, nitrogen, and phosph=ous (phosphate) When a plant is growing it will consume ammonia, urea, nitrate and nitrite. because of the nitrogen in these moledcules. But the key is the plant needs to be growing...

in calfironia if you go to the source of our water (the snow in the mountains you will find lake with no plants or fish in them. The water ism too pure. If you decend out of the mountains you will start to see algae but still no plant.s Once you get to Sacramento you enter the delta most of...

What are the actual numbers for each parameter you test? POST THE NUMBERS! A 10% water change is very small 30 to 50% once a week is probably what you need to do. It may take fish several week to recover from bad water from insufficient water changes. So one 70% water change may not work.

Ghost shrimp will not eat fish fry. Ghost shrimp are typically harvested from lakes or ponds a nd sold. Sometimes a different species of shrimp that looks very similar and is carnivorous will get mixed in and sold to you accidentally. The carnivorous variety will eat fish fry and sometimes...