Recent content by NYFishGuy

The first step is making sure ammonia and nitrite are 0, some people say " they are fine" but numbers are >0 which means not fine. Other than this and other possible disease I had issues with guppies that were either due to weak genes or my soft water was dropping in PH because of low KH so I...

Yes your friend is telling the truth

Water changes, pull out by hand / siphon / long tweezers. Snails would help a lot, I like ramshorn snails.

Sounds about 50% of what I have in mine, but I have more plants and weekly wc keeps nitrates around 20ppm. I would add 3 more cory and more plants is always good

Should work fine, ideally the proportions and resolution should match the dimensions of your tank or it will get stretched/ distorted during printing but its going behind water anyway.

Snail antenna looks like worms I think, occasionally they get pecked at. I don't think its a big deal

Once I got past the 3 tank mark I bought test strips, so much quicker. I have soft water so I can keep an eye on things a lot easier. If something looks a little off I'll use the API kit to double check.

The coarse grain sand is easier to deal with but the really fine stuff is a pain. I just hover slightly above and move the tube around to get the stuff on the top.

Thanks,yes that's it. I need to take another pic its much bigger now. The mother is right around 1 inch, all the others seem much larger.

Yes, she even goes by the other males if food is there. I think they try to win her over but no luck. The baby is double+ the size now a month after this pic I have the frogbit on top and ive seen them moving it by grabbing the roots and swimming

Maybe they are all male/female? I have 1 female 3 males in a 10G. The female can freely move around the tank, only the males chase each other a bit. One male and female paired up and have their own group of shells at the front of the tank. I got 1 baby after the first 2 months and now about 2...

Just upload to the forum, guessing only you can see them because your logged into the google account you uploaded them to.

1 gallon milk containers, when cut as pictured its very sturdy when using the handle. Top use: Cleaning sponges! I found myself cleaning sponges in the water drained into a 5 gallon bucket couldn't get all the gunk out because the whole volume of water was instantly contaminated. Now I use the...

It came with 2 tubes, I found 1 to be long enough for 13" tank depth on my 20L's. I use the same aquaclear foam to cut intake sponges, cut the size you want and cut a "X" in the top for the tube. I have these on 6 different intakes, never fall off, easy to take off and put back on

Contrary to the other responses, 'surfactant' doesn't necessarily mean 'soap' There's many people using similar ammonia and cycle their tank without issue. I even watched a local hobby breeder dump it in one of his tanks as he told me he'd been using it for years without issue. I would...