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A couple comments that may help: - You mention above that after some time your PSI reading had already dropped to 800 PSI. Maybe I'm misreading, but it sounds like maybe you are interpreting that as a gauge of how much CO2 is left. If so, that is not how it works. Your PSI will stabilize at...

You either lost more than you think when you had the leak or you still have a leak or the tank wasn't filled properly. I run my CO2 around 2-3 BPS for 8 hours a day and a 5 LB tank lasts 4-5 months.

Cherry barbs are nice. Mine only bother each other, nothing else. And even that is just normal behavior. The males are incredibly red but the females have nice color as well. I don't have any but always thought ember tetras looked cool in large numbers. But they might be too small if you...

I use the PRO-SE and have had zero problems with it once I got past the user-error stage of learning how everything works. I would think if someone only needs to feed one tank it would work just fine and be worth the cost savings. As I understand, the primary advantage of the elite model is...

Yes, that is the product I use. Correct. With this method you raise TDS because you replace CA and MG with NA, then add CA and MG back as well. The amount of NA you add depends on how hard the water is to begin with. I think it's questionable whether NA really has that big of an impact...

You want to add magnesium and calcium to raise GH without changing KH. I have the same situation. I have a whole house water softener that removes all of these elements, leaving the gh at 0 (KH around 7). I add these elements back after each water change to keep the GH around 5. I use "GH...

You have misunderstood. That is not true. GH and KH measure different types of hardness.

I'm not sure they are 100% interchangeable. My cardinals are relatively huge compared to most neons I've seen. I wouldn't want the same size school in the types of smaller tanks that may be fine for neons. So if I had a smaller tank, I'd likely prefer neons. In general, I agree though from...

My cherry barbs don't bother anything else except each other. I don't have honey gouramis, but do have pearl gouramis. I would recommend at least a 2:1 F:M ratio. The males like to chase the females sometimes and having more females spreads it out.

I see it with my java fern from time to time. Not regularly but it definitely happens. I occasionally have even had a double fork that looks kind of like a maple leaf.

50 gallons would be plenty. I'm pretty sure that's just a color morph of a common scalare angelfish. It will get big (up to 6 inch body size). That's not to say it won't work, but anytime you have fish that fit into the mouth of larger fish, it's a risk. Good luck with your decision. I...

What size is the tank? Angelfish require a much larger tank than those tetras/danios, so just curious. Also, each angelfish can have an individual personality. It's definitely not a given that it won't be a problem just because you have only one. Obviously it won't be a problem attacking...

Also, if someone comes here asking for help on something, it's not a good look being dismissive when someone tries to help. The poster was trying to help. He didn't deserve a flippant response. Nearly everyone would agree 10 otos in a 10 gallon tank is too many. If they've adjusted to eating...

Angelfish are extremely difficult to sex as juveniles. I think it would be near impossible to end up with all females outside of pure luck. Also, I don't think I would agree that females are less aggressive as a general rule. As an example, I had multiple people tell me that both my angelfish...

1. As some others have suggested, there are ways to reduce the nitrates if it bothers you. 2. 10-20 nitrates is almost surely not a problem at all. I personally wouldn't overthink it.