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Plus you can do pedicures in your spare time. :p

There's a start right there. Try cutting back to 6-8 hours of light per day. Anubias are a low light plant.

Aquael makes the quietest canister filter I've never heard. Suitable for a bedroom.

Dechi How's it going with the CO²?

Imposter!!! He's really an AI Bot. :p:p:p

Ok so beneficial bacteria development is reduced at a low pH. However at pH of "barely 6" that ammonia should be in the form of ammonium NH⁴ which should be non toxic to fish. So while you may be able to detect it with your test kit, I'm doubting that's the cause of your fish gasping at the...

Best case scenario, products that "lock up" or "detoxify" ammonia are only effective for 24-48 hours, and there is plenty of debate whether they actually work at all. I would probably do a series of 50% water changes. Where is the ammonia coming from? Why can't your filter process it?

Didn't AC/DC do a song.about this?

He helps me every week.

Hello and welcome David. I could probably pick your brains for hours, but I have a couple of quick questions. First what changes or trends have you seen in your 30 years of selling fish? Also are domestically produced gouramis safer than imported Asian gouramis in terms of the iridovirus?

What could it hurt? We're problem solving right? It's worth checking out all the possibilities and eliminating potential issues one by one. There are some sharp minds here, we'll get this figured out.

If it were me, I would probably shut off the CO2 earlier. I don't have a citation for you, but I've seen other plant gurus shut off the CO2 a couple of hours before lights out. I've always done this as well. The reason is plants need less CO2 later in the day, during the "late afternoon" of...

Hmm.something is off. A majority of fish can handle 30 ppm of CO2. 45-50 ppm is where you start to see issues like going to the surface for oxygen.

I've never used a Milwaukee controller. Maybe it just needs to be recalibrated?