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I would recommend pencil fish with them. They are very slow and not quick to eat all the food. Great dither fish, I use them for my apistos. Nannostomus eques are my favorite but many different types. If money isnt a problem the red coral pencil fish are amazing.

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What livestock is in the tank ? The plant is dying off so could be something from that. Very likely snail eggs as well but more info would help.

No it is too small for a Bolivian ram and I imagine wouldn't get along with the stocking in that small of an aquarium

The problem was not that it was cleaned, it is that it was left too long without a cleaning. I clean my cannisters every month. I clean the sponges in it every week but that is not necessary

Agree with above post, if you have never cleaned the filter your nitrates couldn't be 5 ppm in that size tank with that stocking. Always test water before you do a water change and not after because you are testing clean water that you put in

God you should probably find a new job anyway if you are worried of getting fired for offering advice in a non confrontational manner and informative way about the health of an animal living in an office space. But yea if you are worried about that I would say nothing as well.

I would try to just start up a conversation about the fish in general, and then maybe just ask a few questions about the setup and ask what are you doing for heating it and so on. I'm sure she really likes the fish and would be willing to do what is best for it.

I believe they just lose their strength after time (would have to look up the exact technical reason lol), I use t5 myself and replace every year and the difference is huge. So plants aren't new so shouldnt really be melting back. You had all the plants growing under the led then switched them...

Hi, algaecide can make plants melt back a little as they kill the alagae, say if a leaf has a lot of algae on it it will probably just die off. DONT cut back on lighting and fertilizer this will just allow the algae to out compete the plants because you are starving them of nutrients. If you...

Lighting is definitely on the low end, also t5 and t8 need to be replaced at least every year. Your plants are not that demanding though. Are they new plants ? What is your substrate and how long is the light on for?

That all sounds good, what is the temp of the tank? The don't like it too hot, that is the only other thing I can think of. Possibly could of been stressed out by the males a 1:1 ratio isn't ideal 2:1 on the females would be ideal. They can definitely be hit or miss from a shop, sometimes you...

I agree with above post, cpds will do way better in a large group as well. They won't be as shy. I am actually going to pick up 20 of them myself this weekend :) great fish!

Tell us a bit about your setup, how new ? Size of tank and how many males and females you had. What are the water parameters of the tank? What is your maintenance routine? Also it looks like ich to me

Down at the bottom of the tank, also small bubbles would be preferable but any bubbles at all will certainly help. Why not just add a sponge filter to it as well for more bacteria and water clarity.

You can also add a thin small layer on top of the soil to get that effect, I do that because the soil and sand will mix regardless of what you do, you will always be cleaning the soil off the sand. You can see in my scape below the black dots of soil on the sand, that's a week without...

Hi, did you add root tabs to the substrate? If not the plants won't have a source of nutrients and would definitely help the growth if you added some. Great start

Gel gorilla glue is safe, I believe its nanacrylite glue sorry for the bad spelling lol. It should harden on contact of water and won't leach anything into the water. Thread works as well just will dissolve over time.

There is a great article in practical fishkeeping magazine on these fish, I am at work and can take pictures of it for you when I am at home. From memory I believe these fish can go an incredibly long time without eating, but I need to reread it again as it was a few years ago. Really cool fish...

Hi, I dose tropica ferts they have everything you need for plants and are alot more beginner friendly than seachem which you dose individually. Easylife carbo isn't a fertilizer it is a algaecide. They do offer a ferts as well but tropica is far better in my opinion. All are shrimp and snail...