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Medium flow puffers are aggressive so they well bother other species especially 5 in a 20 gallon

If you want to grow most plants you need a light that can grow plants once that's out the way then you could use organic soil diy or aquascape soil or root tabs. If your not going to change your light I would just stick with java fern and anubias nana. Plants do better with a aged aquarium of at...

I would not clean your filter or sponge filter use your old sponge or filter in the tank and add the old water back to tank except for the last water in gravel you can use organic soil and filter out large chunks of wood of about a inch topped with gravel and sand of about half an inch each to a...

I would put it where there is flow like on a corner or close to it but not sure if I would not want my co2 to get sucked up on sponge filter then shoot out to the top surface where gas gets exchanged maybe it not a big deal but if it makes even a small difference to improve your co2 why not

Yea but in the same place all of them at the same time for 3 days without eating kind of wierd never seen this before but it is my 1st sand aquarium I use to move plants around with black lava rock gravel from eco complete never had a issue but I guess with sand the fertilizer has no where else...

Tuesday and used api tested again today 0 0 0

Added plants, organic top soil with no added nutrients about one inch and a inch and a half of pool sand

Amano shrimps won't move from one spot every since I added new plants I did miss with the substrate. I did a 30percent water change on Tuesday. 0everything no ammonia anything Ph stable. Neutral its been days that they stay in one spot not eating never seen this before in the whole year I had them

You don't want to over clean just water changes I would just stay with the fritz pure ammonia is cheap but maybe fritz is better.

Cut the amount of filter media that is needed for the new one, or carefully scoop up some gravel from an older tank with no shrimps. Buy fritz turbo booster. Cycle with pure ammonia with no scents you can get that at the cleaning section dose it according to your gallons of tank which I googled...

Micromeria brownei 8 hours a day Ph neutral 0 ammonia,nitrates and nitrites. 0.5 ppm of phosphates. Once a week light dosing with half the recommend amount. I just started dosing 75 percent the recommend amount twice a week to see if that will help they are small plants that survived the...

Hi guys I have several plants that are doing fine except for the creeping charlie it seems to be stunted and growing a little bit of green algae any suggestions why the creeping charlie seem to be not a hardy plant

Slow enough for the water and co2 to move around. Thick substrate is the way to go but what substrate your going to use matters, are you going to use plants, the size of tank and will it be a dirted tank.

I'm guessing you don't have any amano shrimps or nitrite snails. Control your phosphates and most algae will stop growing phosguard is great for that which will also reduce silica, high lights or longer then 8 hours of light will alow this to grow. Or new tank syndrome.

You can poke the substrate with a then stick once a week or Malaysian trumpet snails can help since they like to dig in through the substrate and they do much better in sand. I belive that deep substrate aquariums are the most natural way to go and the best to my opinion. If tank is cycled right...