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Lifeguard Aquatics 9.9 gallon Crystal aquarium Driftwood and seiryu stone hardscape Plants: -Indian water sprite -rotala indicate -alternanthera reinickii -alternanthera reinickiI mini -staurogyne repens -ambulia -kleiner prince sword -dwarf water lily -dwarf hair grass -anubias coffeefolia...

I've still got the sticks set up so I'll put the other driftwood piece in and see if I like it. With the sticks and rocks one I was going for something like you see if you google "spider wood aquascape" (Mods, can I provide a link to those photos? If not, please edit it out) I was thinking...

I'd like opinions.

I'm setting up a 10 gallon and am undecided about my hardscape options. I have some driftwood, some spider wood and some seiryu rock. First option was my initial thought, to create a little hardscape with a little canyon between the pieces Then I determined that this was the more interesting...

I have salvinia floating in my two tanks. In one it's green and healthy-looking and flourishing. In the other it's turning a reddish-brown. It does look like it's still growing though. Is this "sun burn" because it's much closer to the tank light? Or is it dying? Has anyone else had this...

The red plant is Alternanthera ReckiI 'Mini' I got as a Tropica 1-2 Grow cup. One of my favorite plants, it's doing really well in my tank. Seeing as how my nerite committed suicide by climbing out of the tank and then falling to the floor, no my betta doesn't pick on him. Before this sad...

Yes, it has never occurred to me to change the light; it works great for me.

I scrub out the hair algae from the wood (the only place it grows) and off the glass and then vac and do a water change every week. Tank is cycled and parameters, as previously noted, are 6.6/0/0/0 and are very stable. I will start treating him when I get home from work today. Thanks for your...

My Dumbo's fins haven't looked entirely healthy for a long time. His water parameters are stable (6.6pH,0/0/0) and the tank is healthy and we'll planted. I have Indian almond leaf in the tank to treat the water to help him along but there wasn't been improvement or worsening. Is this fun rot...

I sloped my substrate back-to-front (~2" to ~1") and my hardscape has a definite dimensionality to it that lends to a feeling of depth in that it has a back edge and a front edge with an archway that connects them and plants that separate the "back" and "front." It's much more heavily planted...

UPDATE: Well, as of this weekend my 5G is still doing well and not showing any signs of whatever happened to my 20G. The 20G is currently is plant-growth mode, I'm just letting the plants... you know... grow. Not doing anything with it since I don't know what happened and I don't have money...

Aww dang. Thanks for the advice, I'll leave the tank alone for now because I really like the plants, and just not restock fish. My 5G is small enough that I have only been trimming and replanting cuts into the 20G, not the other way, and all airlines, filters, etc, are totally separated...

I just did a water change last night and cleaned by 5G with the same hose as the 20G. T_T Thanks for the thoughts on what happened, I'll keep an extra close eye on my 5G. If your speculation is the case, is this something that the tank can't recover from eventually? I'm not going to restock...

I'm looking for it now, can you share a link? Right now my water sprite is going gangbusters in my tanks, and I just bought a super bright green plant that's like a wider, flatter version of hornwort (green cabomba??) that's also growing amazingly. Other ones that I love that grow well for me...

Both of my tanks have been up for a year and neither ever showed much above like 10ppm nitrates, and even that was only in like two tests in about January (???) pH has been very very stable over the life of the tank and has always run 6.6-6.8 I bought that very bright green hornworty-looking...