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The Empire did nothing wrong! Love the tank. Next one maybe a sunken X-Wing Dagobah scape. That'd be awesome.

I'm in this camp. I don't know if I can ever have enough shrimp. I love watching them scoot around the tank. Plus if you ever think you have too many cherry shrimp they are very popular. It shouldn't be too hard to sell some to your LFS or on aquabid or something.

You said it's been set up for about a week, did you cycle it? If so, how and for how long? What are your ammonia and nitrite levels? Did you add a dechlorinator to your water? Also what is the water temperature in the tank?

Alright thanks! I will keep you in mind though I probably won't have the room to setup a tank for them for a year or two unfortunately unless something changes. I'm over here dying of MTS without the ability to act on it and buy a ton of tanks

Those are so cool! I almost bought a pair from my LFS a couple months ago but I don't have the room for another tank. These are going to be at the top of my list when I can get another tank. What size tank do you have them in right now?

I've always just thought that that was more of a suggestion but you're welcome to wait 24 hours and see if it helps. I mean you're going to have beneficial bacteria in the tank eventually and you'll add dechlorinator for water changes so idk how much it really affects it. But really it can't...

Those bacteria bottles have been of great debate on here. I've used some of the dr tims stuff myself. Really don't know if it makes a difference. That seems to be the general consensus. Nobody knows. If you got it try it. With that said whenever I've started my cycle I add my dechlorinator, add...

Yup that should be fine! And I do the same thing with my heater in my 5g. It hides in the back compartment out of sight. It's just restricted flow and not radiating heat out into the entire rest of the tank. Not sure what temp pea puffers prefer. I turn my heater up a few degrees to compensate.

I assume you'll be fine with the siphone. Sand is easier to clean than gravel. Also I don't know what the setup is like but do you have an intake sponge on your filter? It'll prevent sand from being stirred up and getting into your filter where it can really wreak some havoc. I'm not sure about...

Haha we've all been there. I had planted my anubias and java fern when I first got them and an attentive member of this forum pointed it out and told me. So flourish excel is basically liquid co2 (I think?) and isn't quite the full deal. If you get some regular seachem flourish that'll be the...

I think it looks quite nice. Very tidy. All sand bottom might look a bit more natural if you value that. Though changing substrate sucks from my experience. I did it once not a fun time. Could get rid of the pebbles on half of the tank and gradually build into it? My main suggestion would be...

Assassin would probably get your nerites at some point. You could catch them out manually or with a trap. It was suggested to me by a member on here before to use a piece of airline tubing and suck them out with that. Or you could just squish them. If it ends up being a bladder/pond snail I've...

Dwarf hairgrass just tends to grow quite slow. Though there is a strain that grows a bit taller and faster. But I've tried to get it to carpet in a low tech tank twice and couldn't get it. I separated it out into very small bunches, trimmed it back, trimmed the roots, everything to try and get...

Are you planning on doing CO2 injection? That's the only way you're going to be able to get a good carpet really, especially from dwarf hairgrass. Also I am going to suggest sand. As someone who has two tanks both with eco complete I can't stand it. It's very hard to actually plant your plants...

If you get test strips DO NOT get API test strips. They're trash and the reason so many people think test strips suck. Get the tetra 6 in 1 test strips instead. I use these when I want a quick reading. BUT they don't do ammonia for whatever reason so you have to buy the tetra ammonia test strips...

I think there's some differences with that though. Different fish have different sized stomachs and can eat more or less than others. Also depending on what they eat and how much they eat. I fish a ton. The amount of fish I catch that are severely bloated is few and far between. Also have you...

I used to have one of these! Pretty sure it's a black moor.

And just to add on one last thing. Ammonia builds up VERY quickly in an uncycled tank. You can't always see how high ammonia levels are affecting your fish. The fact that you have RODI water from your LFS really doesn't mean anything here, and quite honestly waste of money. Your standard tap...

More or less yes. Remove 50% of the water and then refill the rest of the tank with fresh tap water. And add your water conditioner so you don't kill your fish from chlorine. Prime is great and also helps detoxify ammonia for a short period of time as well. This doesn't replace water changes but...

As suggested earlier it's going to be way easier to test yourself with a good test kit like the API freshwater master liquid kit. Let's not forget the state of the world right now you'll want to be able to test your water yourself in case your LFS has to close temporarily. The idea of him just...