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My ten-gallon planted tank has a TDS of 700+ppm. It's always been high, well over 400 at all times, but it's recently been going off the charts. This is the same for my 5 gal, which is 500+ppm. Today I did a water change to bring up KH and GH, so I put way more product than usual and brought up...

I have had my 5.5 gallon heavily planted tank set up for about a month now, containing only 6 chili rasboras and a whole bunch of ramshorn and pond snails. I was planning on putting about 10-15 cherry shrimp in there as well, and when they bred I would put the extras in my larger 10 gallon. But...

I have cabomba in my other tank, and they do look similar, but really only the center/midgrowth resembles the cabomba.

Yes, it puts out roots if you put it in the substrate, but I'm pretty sure it will grow if you just leave it in the water column. I've never seen roots grow out of the stem like my other plants though, just in the substrate.

That's not it, but thank you! The leaves are darker in color and have more of a cone shape.

I have this plant that looks a lot like hornwort but is not. It's alot thicker and branches out similar to a pine tree sapling, and it's leaves are alot thicker. Unlike hornwort, it's so thick that it can hold its shape perfectly out of water. (What the leaves look like zoomed in.) (What the...

Yes, he was just fine when I left. I don't know which one jumped, but one of them was shedding when I left too (the sheds were fine, not chytrid sheds). I do have a lid on it, but there is about a cm gap in the back where it goes over the filter and heater plug. I will be putting a cover over...

So long story short, I am on a vacation and my frogs have not eaten in 4-6 days. It is the last day and I am going back home now, but my mother has just informed me that one of them jumped out of the tank. She managed to put it back in, but I have no idea how long he was out or why he did that...

Thank you! I don't know if he ate it but there are pieces of it still in the tank. There are also still some bloodworms in there that he didn't end up eating, so there's that along with the heavily planted tank.

So long story short, one of my African Dwarf frogs is going to have to go 6 days without eating. Will he survive? Usually I feed them each 1/3 of a cube of bloodworms every two days or every other day, but right on the day I was going to feed them again after a 2 days fast, I had to go on an...

Thank you! It's also very hard to see them because they blend into the substrate so well, and the light is usually dim and the water has lots of tannins.

I just got my Chili Rasboras about two weeks ago for my 5.5 gallon heavily planted tank. They unfortunately had to stay in my 10 gallon with ADFs and neon tetras for about 4 days, but they have been in their actual tank for over a week now. It's been really hard to feed them due to their small...

So I already have two other tanks all set up, but my mother wanted to put my empty cube 1.5 gallon in the living room for aesthetic purposes. I already have the substrate and plants, but I need help with a filter and stocking. Also, is there anything animal-wise I can put in there? I know I...

Thank you for the help! Here is a picture of my tank. I didn't think it was that many plants in there to suck out all the nitrates, but I think that may be the case here haha.

So I did not know I was supposed to shake the bottle, but I did that this time and shook the tube for one minute and let it sit there for five, but it is still bright yellow and reading 0ppm. However, I did do another ammonia test and shook that bottle as well, and ended up getting 0.25ppm.

I only do water changes every 1-2 weeks, and it's only 15%. For that entire ten months my nitrate tests read 0ppm, but many other people in this thread said it may already be cycled. I haven't put in the neutralizer for about 20 days now and I just tested for ammonia and NO3 and it said 0ppm.

It doesn't rise often, probably 0.5ppm a month at most.

I am using Aqueon Ammonia Neutralizer. Also, for the water, I would be adding drops of liquid ammonia as well as the beneficial gravel.

So for about ten months now I have had an uncycled heavily planted 10-gallon tank with 4 neon tetras and 10 cherry shrimp. When I first started, I was too hasty in putting the fish in the tank and when I did, it was too late to cycle it. This has happened with my newer tank as well. I have been...

Thank you! Many things happened, haha. I found out the heater I bought from Amazon was not what the good reviews made it out to be, and all of my parameters somehow jumped since yesterday by ALOT (I think I tested it wrong before, probably didn't clean the tubes right). I also made a mistake...