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My phosphate level are at 1ppm and my tap water is at 0.5 ppm of phosphate would it be okay to do a water change. Also tap water has a ph of 7.5 and my fish tank water has a ph of 8 would still be okay if I was going to do a 50percent water change or should I just vacuum the gravel?

They may be but I never tried those particular rocks and obviously thats not working for you I had black lava rocks nothing happened but the red ones did the trick like I said not sure why but it seems to work for other people to

Try adding some red lava rocks they do help with Nitrates I heard some nitrates are actually good for your plants but red lava rocks help me they must have or allow denitrifying bacteria to thrive in the pores.

Just add shrimps my eat debris off the leaves. Cherry shrimps are pretty and multiply on their on amano shrimps work better but won't multiply may cost more on the long run but no other shrimp does a good job like the amano shrimps as far as algae.

At least the Nitrates are going down!

Add some red lava rocks you can find them on homedepot 4 pound bag for like 4 bucks! The denitrifying bacteria like living in these porous rocks!

You might want to look into the walstad method less water changes down the road. If you need some help in setting one or have questions let me know I currently have mine that way.

Have you dosed the 6 x as stated on the instruction for prime on nitrates. Yea I got mine from home depot huge bag for 4 bucks in the garden section. You might be surprised just how well they work give it a few days mine helped after 24 hours.

If your flow rate is high you can colonize Nitrogen bacteria easily by providing more oxygen. I would use Seachem Prime as in the instruction it can be used as a high nitrates or nitrites emergency to not only detoxify the nitrogen bacteria but detoxify ammonia. When the nitrogen bacteria as...

1. How deep is your substrate 2. What kind of filter do you have a hang back or canister filter. 3. Do you have live plants. 4. How many times do you feed your fish a day 5. How many fish do you have right now and what else is in there.

Yes

From what I heard crayfish will try to eat what it catches in those bulky pinchers.

I apologize for that here's the link .

Not sure but you could use red lava rocks for the garden from Homedepot they help colonize denitrifying bacteria, plants, not to much flow or air bubbles for a well oxygenated tank can produce more of this bacteria and over feeding.

Its always best to have your tank cycled 1st and 40 gallon tank for one betta? I heard you could dose Hydrogen peroxide on the fins with a syringe without the needle of course. Look it up in YouTube.

I have 9 Ember Tetras

How many times a day is normal to feed fishbor shrimps?

How many times should you feed your fish and shrimps a day using the Walstad Method and why?

It can be done maybe not significantly but within 2 to 3 weeks I'm sure that would do the trick. Rain water has a ph of around 5 thanks to co2 so co2 can lower your ph also.

It's true there's no need to change the ph for platys there natural environments are found in ponds around souther Mexico and Central America with a ph between 6.8 to 8. But if you want to lower the ph for what ever reason thats up to you both botanicals and almond leafs will work in lowering ph...