MichaelT1989
I’ve had fish tanks since I was very young around 7 or 8 years old my grandmother got me my first tank and since then I’ve always had fish but just recently in the past 5 years or so I’ve really gotten into planted tanks and keeping everything as natural as possible. I try to keep fish that not every pet store has so all of my fish come from online which paying for shipping sucks but it’s worth it. Right now I can’t even remember the last time any of my fish have had ich or any disease like that and most of the fish I have now I’ve had for 1-3 years so I’m getting pretty good at keeping them healthy and happy but man oh man these dang plants are a pain in the butt for me I can get them to grow and be the color they’re suppose to be but there is always something growing on them. I see pictures and videos of people’s planted tanks and there plants are beautiful with nothing on the leaves and get jealous that’s all I want but it’s not as easy as I thought when I started lol. At first I’d clean leaves off with my fingers and try other things I saw online and maybe something would work for a week or so but then this algae or fungus would come back for months and months I battled it nothing worked so for the past year or so I’ve just let it go I got so frustrated. My plants are all still alive and green as can be but the algae or fungus is there. I’m not sure if it’s something in the water I use or what. Not sure why I rambled about that in the about me section lol. I’m just a simple single guy I go to work, I love my family, my dog hazel and yes even my fish. If anyone actually reads this and knows what might be on my plants or have any other suggestions or even questions that I might be able to help with I’m usually on here once a day but if not my notifications from fishlore are sent to my email. Thanks for reading
- Birthday
- Sep 13, 1989 (Age: 37)
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Walmart distribution
- List any water conditioners and test kits used:
- API Freshwater Master Kit, seachem prime.
- Experience
- 5 to 10 years
- Do you know of and understand the Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle?
- Yes
- Aquarium Size
- 40 gallon breeder
- Aquarium Type
- Freshwater Planted Tank
- Fish, Plants, Inverts, etc.
- 12 cardinal tetras, 5 Zoogoneticus tequila, 5 Fowleri Corydoras, zebra,yoyo, and kuhli loaches, 1 German Honeycomb Ancistrus, 1 Rio Paraguay ancistrus, and 5 two year old amano shrimp and 5 six month old amano shrimp and rare spike tail mts. 3 types of Anubias, Crypt Parva and Lucen,Jungle Val
- Aquarium Start Date
- June 2018
- Ammonia
- 0
- Nitrite
- 0
- Nitrate
- 10-20 ppm
- Temperature
- 76
- pH
- 7
- Lighting
- Fluval plant 3.0
- Aquarium Filter Type
- Eheim pro 4+ 250 with sponge on intake, co op sponge filter, sponge on circulation pump also
- Aquarium #2 Size
- 30 gallon
- Tank #2 Type
- Freshwater Planted Tank
- Tank #2 Fish, Plants, Inverts, etc.
- 5 silver hatchets, 7 C102 Corydoras, 2 salt n pepper Corydoras who spawn every month for over a year now lol, 2 panda garra, 1 adult male common bristlenose, 1 emperor pleco, 3 old nerite snails, MTS, 3 Assassin snails, A lot of neocaridinas!!!
- Tank #2 Start Date
- October 2017
- Tank #2 Ammonia
- 0
- Tank #2 Nitrite
- 0
- Tank #2 Nitrate
- 10-20 ppm
- Tank #2 Temperature
- 70-72
- Tank #2 pH
- 7
- Tank #2 Lighting
- Fluval plant 3.0
- Tank #2 Filter Type
- Fluval 207, co op sponge filter and on intake
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