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new stuff: - hornwort overgrowth - trimmed, replanted Hygrophila Polysperma - Pothos growing well - Swiss cheese and Monstera growing slowly but have produced new shoots - Fern not doing so well - Jackfruit, Soursop leaves, and the driftwood too I guess - finally released enough tannins to be...

Requesting help from someone who's familiar with keeping Sparkling Gouramis, or knows alot about Gouramis in general. I was watching the video series from Foo the Flowerhorn where they set up a 5 gal planted tank for a small group of sparkling gouramis. I never really got into these fishes, but...

welp, glad to see the other fauna keeping them in place in the meantime

that's the thing that confuses me the most, I tried to look up if you can just wait for them to starve to death or get eaten. But after reading that they're somewhat immortal? it makes me even more confused as to what happens to them, when other people share their experiences with hydras...

Recently found hydras hanging out in my 5 gal and since the tank is only 6 days old, I'm assuming it's normal to have small infestations like this? My concern is, should I just let them do their thing? I know they're a threat to baby shrimp, and baby fish, but I don't have any of those and I'm...

That's also one of the problems I probably caused on purpose 😅, other than adding too many plants that grow huge. I'm keeping an eye on them currently, got macro, micro, and other fertz just incase deficiencies start showing up. I've already dosed a small bit just to give them a helping hand...

5 gallons 10w, full spectrum light, 900lumen, 20 PAR just finished setting up yesterday Plants: -Pothos x6 -Syngonium x1 smol -Swiss Cheese plant x1 -Small monstera x1 -Fern x1 (attatched to a hollow driftwood, held by dead java moss I pulled from an old tub, and aquasoil at the bottom, has a...