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It’s really cute! I’d only say that some buce might be cute in the rocks and are pretty tough plants

Most look like granite, I’d personally not worry about them, they look like average rock to me. If you want to be safe I think there’s an acid test you can do, I can’t recall right now though…

Well that sounds like a sucky experience. Do you have a local aquarium or fishkeeping club? You could join or make a Facebook post asking for plants; there’s a good chance the responses you’ll receive will be from people who have too many of that plant and it has been long established in their...

Bigger is better, more stocking options, more room for error, etc. I think whatever you think is the better option is a good option. I will say that water weighs a lot. A standard 60 gallon completely filled weighs almost 800 pounds. I’d highly recommend putting this tank over a basement...

Update I guess? Everyone is doing totally fine, and one of them successfully molted which is what I was worried about them having trouble with. One of them has been carrying eggs too! They came out and had some zucchini a couple nights ago. Eventually I’ll get more, but for now I’m letting them...

Remineralizing should not be difficult, people wouldn’t do it so often if it was. I don’t know how to remineralize but hopefully someone else will chime in, I know there’s people on here who use RO. How many tanks do you have? It shouldn’t take 3 hours unless you have a ton of tanks. It sounds...

Unfortunately either leave him to his own tank or get rid of him. I see nothing wrong with letting him have his own tank, but I can understand if you want to keep communal tanks that wouldn’t be ideal.

I’m very happy with my 5.5 Radius. Not cheap but very sturdy, and the light is dim but powerful enough for plants. Also looks nice partway filled because it’s rimless.

Fish keeping can really, really suck. You can spin yourself in circles trying to figure out what’s wrong and often you never will. There is NO shame in taking a break, I just returned after a 1 1/2 year break just working with aquatic plants. (Also, there’s no correct way as long as animals are...

It was originally supposed to be a shrimp tank so I suppose I’ll keep it at that. No betta though, I was interested in the chilis specifically because they were too small to do much damage.

Debating adding some chili rasboras to my “new” tank. 5.5 gallon, 14” x 9” (11.5” full) x 8.5”. low filter flow, mid tannins and hoping to go heavier, floaters that I’ll let grow out some. These are with the viewing light on, it can be much darker.

Chili rasboras perhaps? They’re teeny and shy enough I don’t think they’d bother them much but pretty in large schools.

It’s a tiger nerite! Edit: I decided to go for it and got a couple of low-grade yellow neos and a chunk of used media. If there’s any time to monitor a cycle it’s when I’m on break I suppose. Also! I’m trying to figure out if the tank is cycled or not which is… difficult. Everything is...

If you want to be super careful with the canvas, you could sand the edges down a bit with a nail file.

Going absolutely HAM here it is! The staff said it’s been running since November and it should get more tannins eventually. I think I might get some chili rasboras to go with the shrimps too. It also came with an undeclared nerite snail.

I definitely know some shrimp people in Seattle who I can buy off of. In all honesty I don’t quite remember but definitely kind of middle-aged looking to me? Not massive but not baby either. If I do get shrimps again I will get a TDS meter, I just wasn’t feeling it at the time.

Syntrichia ruralis, also known as star moss or twisted moss. Terrestrial moss and I’ve found it to be rather hardy.

No TDS meter, that tank was the last go after a triple tank failure and I wasn’t spending any more money on tests that didn’t seem to help. Temp was 72-76F, no heater but I have the warmest room in the house. WC schedule was 10% once a week with prime. Acclimation was 5 hours in the water change...

Shipped, drip acclimated for five hours. One DOA. I don’t try to get snails either, they’re just pest snails and if they live, cool. If they die, less cool, but also cool. I was also aware my parameters were not ideal for shrimp, that is why I used the crushed coral.

I do have a small heavily planted bowl I’ve been running for a good few months, I could see about dropping some in there. I’m sure I could figure out some way to raise minerals.