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My local fish store has very hard water, not sure of the actual ppm or degrees, they have a couple of bronze cories that have been there for at least three years in the "Plants" tank. They are pretty massive for cories and they seem quite robust. Serious fish is usually a good source of info...

I am sure they would be delicious if cooked well.

I used to be quite against AI but now we are more or less required to use it at work, and I am finding I like it. It is never 100% right, but for some stuff it is pretty good. For general lookups I find the default MS CoPilot to work pretty good most of the time, I believe this to be based...

Just change water weekly, feed fish daily. No app needed. When establishing a new tank I do keep a log in Excel but that is on my desktop. I like to work with a real keyboard.

From your picture I would say you have a leak somewhere, have water coming up through the floor, or a lot of water has been spilled and there is a low spot accumulating it just under the boards. Another thought is that it is coming under the sill plate on an outside wall. My opinion is it is...

Had a Monstera ruin a section of laminate flooring in my previous home, found the name of the process it is called guttation. Just found out that it had a name today, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttation.

You have a lot of open tanks if I remember correctly, condensation from the warm tank water could be condensing on cooler surfaces outside the tank, or possibly on the cement itself but I believe that to be somewhat unlikely. I would check every contact to the cement floor for water, ie every...

When living in the East Kootenays, our water came from a well and was very hard, don't know the exact value but hard to keep lime stains off of any surface exposed to the water. We had good results with many cryptocorynes and Vallisneria spirallis <sp>. We used 2 48" growlux florescence tubes.

Nice to see you are going to get some shrimplets. Isn't that red algae a type of cyanobacteria?

No but I always wanted to have one. My office is 30km from my home but their water is well water and like liquid rock, the exact opposite of my home water so I could have different fish, and or shrimp.

I don't use RODI water but my tap water hardness varies between 0 and 2 degrees of hardness. I don't do anything with the pH but I have found that it is more sensitive in particular with wood in the tank. If I put in a lot of wood or try more for black water, ie alder cones etc. I can get my...

That's a bit of a pain. My tap water is very good.

Before I developed a sense of the Nitrate levels in my main tank I found any of the nitrate tests difficult to read so I made a reference solutions of 5, 10, 20 ppm using KNO3. Now I don't test unless my fish are looking a little poor. I find the only time I really need to test is when setting...

In my 10 and 20 gallon tanks I found that the smaller m series of fluval heaters have worked well for me, I mount them horizontally near the bottom of the tank, just above the substrate. I find the m series more reliable than the full on electronic ones.

I also find that test difficult as well, the distinction is not clear. As far as the tester goes there is one thing that I think is a bit of a flaw in the design and that is that you get the calibration card but there is no consistent light source. Some light sources might work well, natural...