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Glad to hear things have improved. 1) Ammonia and Nitrite should always stay at 0 in your tank. If you see any amounts of them a water change is required. You may see the Nitrate increase a little at times due to food and waste but this is mostly easily resolved with water changes. 2) No need...

Here's what you should do: 1. Perform a big water change asap of 75% adding your tap water conditioner as always (there should never be a case where you dont add two water conditioner) 2. Wait 24 hours before adding Tetra safe start as the tap water conditioner can kill the safe start bacteria...

I can see your nitrite seems lower than it was before so that's a positive sign. Your nitrate seems to be around 20 so that's not bad either. Have patience and the cycle will work. I would strongly encourage you to do another 50%+ water change and add Tetra Safe Start to give your cycle a...

What I did was calibrated my inkbird based on two other thermometers i have that both showed the same result. Now all my thermometers are consistent so am happy with the inkbird.

Golden ram...my favourite

Ok thanks. Seems like plants will be added as recommended by people cheers

My feiend feeds the fish every other day. Will ask her to switch to black gravel and get some plants as currently there are none. Thanks guys

Ok cheers buddy will give that a go. Only have light on for 6 hours a day so will cut it down to 2 hours and see. Doesn't that mean I will keep having a recurring problem though even after it fixes if light stays on longer? Perhaps some Otocinclus catfish will help?

So only have it on for 2 hours? Also, if so would that automatically reduce the algae or do I have to clean it out myself?

Hey Guys, My friend tropical tank seems to be getting loads of green algae growth on the white gravel as shown in photo. What is causing this and how do you best remove it? Don't want to have to take out all the gravel? Is it a bad idea to have white gravel? Would you recommend switch to...

@howard_hopkinson Hey mate, I bought the Inkbird ITC 307 as per recommendation and great device. I noted that after a while it always makes a little noise does that happen to you too? Maybe it's when it turns the heater on or something but not sure. I've set my temp at 26 with variance of...

Sometimes this can be caused by stress due to sudden water temperature change or just sudden change of water or its parameters . Did you remember to add dechlorinator?

My LFS is actually still open since people need to buy fish foods and medicine etc. So if you go grocery shopping could find one nearby or so.