Recent content by Tl52505

I just thought of the idea of 3d printing things to put in my tank, like maybe little scuba divers or something, but I have no idea if it is safe and google said yes but also found other websites that said no. It would be out of PLA(Polylactic acid). Does anyone know if this would be safe for my...

My ph has been up to around 8.0 and I have done water changes bc my tap water has a ph of 7.4 and I have been dosing with ph down for a little over a week and the ph is still reading as 8.0, not sure what else I can do but my shrimp are dying and my fish are stressed

I have noticed that the same 2 ghost shrimp and glass surfing a lot. It seems every time I look at the tank they are just glass surfing, when they aren’t glass surfing they are on the bottom right up against the glass, they don’t go into the middle of the tank whatsoever, just stay right on the...

I did have some pretty thick build up of brown algae on the glass that he cleaned up immediately, guess that could have been why he pooped so much and I never really had a problem with other plecs. Every time I looked in yesterday there was poop coming out of him. He was an algae to poop...

it is an api 5 in one strip test. my local pet store did not have a liquid one.

I have it in a 40 gallon right now but when It gets bigger I am moving him to my pond, last time I got a small plec and put it in the pond he got picked on by the other fish.

Common pleco and I just got it yesterday, I used to have one a while ago and ended up giving it to my stepdad for his pond when it got big enough but never really saw the poop in the tank. I haven’t fed it anything yet but I plan to give it algae wafers once or maybe twice a week because I have...

I have heard from a lot of people that their ghost shrimp immediately eat their plecos poop but mine don’t go anywhere near it. I have heard from multiple friends and lots of different forums and nothing seems to do it and I’m left with long strands of poop

It is 0 ppm, I checked to see if there was a tap before the water softener tank and there wasn’t one, the hoses are all still shut off from winter so I can’t check them yet

That pic is from before my tank went downhill. I posted another thread about how my parents were supposed to be taking care of it while I was away. I’m not gonna go into too much detail here but only 2 of my plants survived and a singular fish, which died a couple of days ago. I could already...

I mainly plan to make it a community tank with some schooling fish like neon tetras and danios, but I’m not too sure about the rest. The test kit I bought said a good place for the gh to be for most tropical fish is 60, which was pretty worrisome since mine read 0. I’m assuming water softener...

The test I have for gh read 0 ppm and 240 ppm for kh, I agree that chemicals do get tiresome, especially when there is a problem with the tank every week. I don’t really have very many fish right now because I am just getting the tank going again. Right now I just have the cleanup crew going at...