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I hate hornwort for the above mentioned potential for needle dropping. Refuse to use it anymore after I have had a few fully shed on me.

Pictures like the below link are your competition with bettas, just a little perspective on it. You will need a lot of individual grow out containers once they start to hit maturity. Starting with a top notch breeding pair would be necessary and even then would probably only make a little...

I think the main issue and why I would say 'over stocked' are the two blue gourami. Are they fully grown at 5-6 inches? Males can be territorial and a 30 gallon is close to the bottom size for a single blue. I would say try to rehome him first before doing anything else and see how the...

Wow! what a monster!! I do have a few large Bloody Marys. hoping these guys get up there in size like yours! My blues are all pretty small compared to all my others.

I don't think any are over 1" yet. Hoping to see them color up a little more yet. Realized I took two pictures of the same shrimp... woops

Really happy with my starting wild neo type colony. Will be culling a bit to try and get more like the ones below but they might just be my favorite right now. Have some berried females as well, I like the variety they all show with markings and the slightly color gradient.

I have never had issues putting neocaridinas in a brand new tank set up... talking adding water and within 2-3 hours putting in shrimp. I think a well established tank is only needed if you want to put them in and completely forget about them... a little bacter AE, maybe snowflake food, and...

I have a 5 gallon bucket/lid where I drilled 2 little holes in it, one for an airline and one for a little heater. I set up a USB air pump and a little USB heater that I can plug right into the car - the lid is paramount to keep things from sloshing out... 45 minutes and the number of fish you...

Typically when this happens to my tanks, I either use a UV filter which will clear it up in a couple days to weeks depending on how strong it is and tank size. If you want a way to clear it up if you don't have a UV filter and don't want to buy anything, then reduce light time, preferably as...

TDS is an arbitrary reading for a planted tank, it doesn't mean anything without context. For example, just dosing your fertilizer will make your TDS reading shoot up. You would probably want to have an idea of what your pH, KH, and GH are though as plants usually tend to do better in...

If you are able to adjust the settings on your phone - I can with my S21, the biggest things to help out with taking pictures of fish are going to be adjusting your shutter speed. It is written in fractions, I think default is usually like 1/50 or 1/75. If you bump that up to around 1/125 to...

Assassin snails will not eliminate or do much to control any 'pest' snail population. If you want a couple assassins as pets, then for sure go for it, but they wont be able to control a bladder snail population. If you get too many assassins and have too many bladder snails, you will soon just...

I am sorry for your loss. Just last week I was carelessly trimming plants in my guppy tank... caught a guppy in the middle of a pearl weed clump and snipped the poor thing in half. Still feel unbelievably bad over that one.

They are really small bubbles, I wouldn't be too concerned about them expanding and ever causing leaks but there sure are a lot of them. The middle of the picture does look like the seal is very shallow and kind of lifted up all the way to the joint, that one does look a little concerning...

I would disagree and say the test is due to strong filtration and well seasoned tanks for nitrification, and your denitrification is due almost completely to your good water change schedule. Denitrification typically requires some very specific parameters to occur and the vast majority of...

Are you going to run a pre filter sponge on the intake? My only worry without that and the new design without the media holder is the sponge right by the intake getting clogged fairly quickly - though I can't tell how coarse the sponge is in that picture.

Looks good! I think you may want to silicone by that pump wire just incase. I haven't made a cannister filter myself but have made some CO2 reactors before - basically same idea as far as pumping water through another container like this. I did not silicone around one of my input hoses and I...

Based on your pictures, closest design of a canister filter would be the Sunsun HW-602B. You can google images of it and get a shot of what the inside looks like inside which may help. They keep the bottom as an open water chamber supported with a "roof" that then holds your grades of sponge -...

Looks like a Todd to me.

Out of curiosity, have you put Bacter AE in your tank at all? If I get a little heavy handed with Bacter AE on my shrimp tanks, I find a flourishing community of little micro organisms like you currently have. They are getting some sort of fine particulate food into the water column from some...