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Her name is pepper, not sure how old she is but i think around 7-8 years (oldest photo I have of her is as a kitten in 2019) She has a near bald/short spot on her lower back I don't think it's red though I find it hard to tell It feels rough just from the short fur but the skin there doesn't...

Should I use seachem equilibrium? I'm planning to only raise it to 6 gh or so And how do I keep the GH stable after changing it, do I add to the water change water? I do 25% (5 gallon) water changes weekly Also can I ever keep shrimp or would the softener water kill them?

Hi, so I have a water softener that causes my gh to be very low (2-3) and was wondering if there was a way to add it for snails without harming my fish? They're all softwater but used to high ph and kh (14 kh, 7.8 ph) but I'm wondering if raising GH would stress them I was also planning to use...

I've been playing around with some hardscape I've bought and I have these ideas so far, what do you think of them? I'm trying to build around fitting in plants and some hiding for the leopard corydoras in the tank

Also for reference of the disease -seemingly non infectious (cases are months apart, makes unaffected) -only happens to most bullied tetra, I'm pretty sure during water quality dip but not sure -fish acts completely normal even when having the tail swells and the bases of other fins swell before...

They still eat but after they finish eating they go back to chasing again

What is everyone's dream aquarium? Like say you had infinite space, money, etc. what would you do? For me, i'd love to do one of those giant 1,000 gallon aquariums but instead of a monster fish do a giant planted tank with hundreds of nano fish like pygmy corydoras and celestial pearl danios...

Here's some more photos of it The first one is on a leafless anubias rhizome root system I have and the second is a bad photo of it on the tank wall

I have 7 black phantom tetras (5 male, 2 female) and the males constantly harass the females, to the point two of them died (used to have 4) though I'm pretty sure the first death was a mix of factors (had an ammonia spike along with the aggression) and the second one I didn't see any ammonia...

I'll probably do a heavy bit of research before I get either because I find them both appealing for different reasons I've heard there are some semi-arboreal vampire crabs (orchid vampire crabs, white mandarin vampire crabs, etc.) though so I'm still pretty interested in those

Should I do a crested gecko or a group of something like whites tree frogs?

It wasn't really an aquascape (just a cave behind the guppy grass in the left as the only piece of current hardscape) though I guess letting nature take over almost always looks good I was mostly planning to remove the cave, move the sword to that spot, and in the middle have a large piece of...

Had them since April when I first noticed them They seem to still be doing well (they always have the little fans out) though I did tend to have a lot of floating particles from overfeeding so maybe I might accidentally slow them down because I'm feeding a lot less to prevent water quality dips

I have some freshwater bryozoan in my tank (photo is relatively old, from April) and thought it would be interesting to show a picture of them They seem to grow relatively slow even with high amounts of particles in the water but stay alive fine with completely clear water and lower flow They...

Day geckos are cool but I've heard they have easily tearing skin and you can't handle them My main concern with green anoles is how small and fast they are, if they escape I have 3 cats and 4-5 moving reptilian cat treats I probably won't go with the newts since like you said most don't use...