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29 Gallon / 109 Liter Tank 3 Burmese border loach (Botia Kubotai) 3 Upsidown catfish (Synodontis Nigreventris) 2 Cherry barb (Puntius titteya) 2 Ottocinculus (ottocinclus affinis) 1 bristlenose pleco 1 algae eating shrimp Is this tank overstocked? Can I add a vampire shrimp?

I'm growing them in plain sand although im lightly dosing nutrient into the water column. My anacharis grows like crazy, up to an inch/day sometimes, is it draining all the nutrients from the water?

I know that as tank size increases the watts/gallon rule breaks down. I have a 75 gallon tank with 130 watts of light. Would you consider this medium light or is it still low as its below 2wpg? Without CO2 Im having trouble growing some "medium light" plants like amazon swords, green wendtii...

After moving my upside catfish to another tank I have the following fish in a mildly planted 75 gallon tank. 1x Synodontis eupterus 1x Siamese algae eater 1x bristlenose plecostomus 1x burmese border loach 3x zebra loach 3x chain loach 2x cherry barb 4x ottocinclus 6x harlequin rasbora Do I...

Well I cant see bubbles coming off the plants directly so I guess thats not it. There are no air operated ornaments, and no way I can see any bubbles of any type reaching the power head, its also not touching anything just suspended on the back wall. The bubbles are magically coming out of...

Its still burping. Is it possible that the movement inside the power head is causing excess oxygen from the plants to separate out into bubbles? I can't see any way gas is getting to the power head.

I have a maxijet 1200 powerhead about 10 inches below the water surface. The venturi tube is NOT attached. About once every 45 seconds or so the powerhead spews out a small burst of bubbles. My question is quite simply, where is the gas coming from? Is the water agitation inside the...

I set it down to 7 hours of light now, should I go even lower? Id really rather keep it low tech. Adding plant mass with more anacharis is an option I guess. Stocking level is extremely low, just a collection of rescue fish (1 small S. eupterus, 2 Zebra danios, 1 botia kubotai, 1 small...

So one of you is telling me to kill them with UV and one of you is telling me to remove UV to kill them.. Id prefer to do this for cheap (ie free), cant really afford a sterilizer atm.

I Have a bad case of green water. About the tank: Photoperiod was 12 hours, then after green water I reduced to 9 hours, now I've reduced it to 8. 164 watts over a 75 gallon tank. Plants are anacharis, amazon sword, giant vallis, wisteria. Lightly planted. 33% water change per week...

I'm 100% sure I have 1 true Siamese Algae Eater and 4 Otocinclus Affinis. The Siamese Algae eater is fed mostly flake food, with supplements of freeze dried bloodworm, algae wafer, and shrimp pellets. Once a week I give them zucchini. The Otocinclus eat mostly algae from around the tank...

Twice now I've seen my Siamese Algae Eater eat Otocinclus waste, even going so far as to stop eating the piece of zucchini in front of him to go after it. Do I need to be concerned? Does it mean hes deficient in some nutrient? This guy is overfed if anything so I know its not because hes hungry.

Anyone?

Its lightly planted with some slow growing Anubias / crypts but even those are struggling in such low light. Planning to move them to a much higher light tank soon. For all intents its not planted since the plants aren't using a meaningful amount of nutrients. The Otos are always busy they...

17 watt stock light over 29 gallon tank.