Search results

I have a betta that’s 7 years old (bought as tiny baby) in a 1.5g glass tank with rooted pothos vine cuttings and she’s really fine. I tried to upgrade her once but she was seeming really stressed. She likes lots of plant roots to rest on -pothos is betta furniture- an oak leaf to add some...

Also check the tap! Mine has really high ammonia that messes with cycle

Salt is a good idea. I always do fish in cycling with nitrazorb In the filter-it will reduce all N and after a month your tank will likely be safely cycled. Sometimes adding plant fertilizer can speed up a stalled cycle. Pothos helps because it can reduce ammonia that turns to nitrites. Works...

I’m kind of obsessed with mine- they are so fun to watch.

Got some new ghost shrimp.. or are they whisker shrimp??? Ammano shrimp

Same line of snails in another tank are brown. Is it genetics then and not the minerals?

It’s the bacteria- I have non planted tanks also with 000. But hornwort helps when its in grow mode. It’s not always in grow mode. I think sometimes it thinks it’s winter and drops to the bottom and just sits there.

But snails- shouldn’t they be brown?

It’s a 2 year old tank that I grow denitrifying bacteria (nitrates to n gas) and hornwort (n sucker)- all fish super healthy.0/0/0 for age of tank. yes my nitrate test works! You can do it too!

Year and A half ago I had a single wild caught rams horn snail. He has since died but all the subsequent offspring look like this. Very little color almost blue. Is this natural genetic bottleneck? Am I missing something in the water or in their diets? Do they need a different light? My water...

Bn or clown Plecos work too but make so much poop and contribute a lot to bioload. And ammanos are so much fun to watch

I have angels with mine just buy the large amanos- not the tiny juveniles . My angel harassed them for a while so they became nocturnal- now they get along and shrimp are diurnal again. Heard the same happens with goldfish

Ammano shrimp are the best!!

Angel

My 8 yo daughter’s “skittles” tank. Glo tetras, angel, rasboras, Amano shrimp

I like the plant addition might have to try that

Here is my tank with 0 nitrates going on two years. Note slow growing plants do little to help. Hornwort helps but the denitrifying bacteria is the key to success here. Low flow filters and basalt lava do the trick.