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Good Morning Robotic, Let me begging by saying that I can totally relate to your frustration. I also use DYI co2 diffusion for my tank and I have noticed that light is the key factor in all this process. So my first question is what mixture are you using? Because there is a couple of different...

Good Morning Nate, I have a 75 gallon dirted tank with three silver lace angels and one gold lace. I keep them with one bristle nose placo (female), 13 neon tetras, and 5 pepper corydoras. They all get along the only time where there is any competition for anything is at feeding time; then it’s...

NA NilocG makes an all in one liquid fertilizer which has both macro and micro nutrients for low tech tanks. I believe they call it ThriveC.

No the drop checker come with a specific liquid that is design to react to the pH change in your water column. The one I have gives me three distinct color displays. Blue for the co2 being low, bright green for when is correct, and bright yellow when it’s to high. You fill the bulb to either 2/3...

A planted aquarium can be a tricky environment to deal with and so I sympathize with you in this matter. However, if you want to keep and maintain a planted aquarium you have to make sure all your parameters are on par; otherwise, you will consistently have issues which may be a little hard to...

By the way I forgot to mention that you have to dose daily the correct amount. So everyday for seven days and on the seventh day is when you do your 50% water change. I have no algae and my plants are growing healthy and lush all the way around.

Well I have a 75 gallon dirted tank and I use NilocG all in one fertilizer called Thrive. It has all the nutrients your plants will ever need; I follow the E.I. Method of fertilizing. So for my tank I use 2mL per every 13 gallons of water. So for my tank it comes out to 11.5 mL or 5.5 pumps of...

Maybe one of the last items you introduced into your tank had some eggs that survived and hatched. Snails are pretty surprising little animals.

Sometimes simple is better in the long run. You should have great success with the Stratum from Fluval. I use it in my 2 gallon Nano tank and my plants are living it. here is a picture of my 75 gallon dirted. I layered my substrate. Eco complete, organic soil and medium coarse sand for the cap...

Stratum is an excellent form of aquatic soil but it tends to be a little on the pricy side; a 17 lbs bag will run you close to $50.00 dollars so if you have a small tank no problem, but if you have a bigger tank it can be a little painful. Thus, why I chose to go with organic dirt for my 75. I...

That’s why I used Miracle Grow Natures Care. It only has 10% ammoniacal nitrogen which the soil will leach within the first week after setting your tank. The rest is pure slow release nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, and calcium. It also has a little bit of peat moss; which would have a softening...

I dirted my 75 gallon tank three weeks ago and the tank and plants are doing well. I hear you on the cost of the aqua soil it’s highway robbery. What I did is layered my substrate. For the first layer I used 40 lbs of Carib Sea Eco Complete, it’s volcanic rock that comes in water pack full of...

The back part of the canopies comes with a plastic sleeve that you can cut should you need to. But if you don’t need to, you don’t need to cut them. I cut mine because of my filter, but you can cut only the part needed for your filter and skirt the rest. I chose not to do that on mine, but that...

I would recommend to check out Amazon. There is a company called H2pro, do a search for the glass canopies on a 55 gallon tank and the ones your looking for will come up.

Hello BigB, I have used Marineland's Emperor 400 for many years and its always been a work horse in my tanks. I ran one in my 55 planted and I never had an issue. Now this said, if you don't want to run a second emperor, you could look into a Aquaclear 110 they are rated from tanks of 60-110...

Thank you. It’s nice to be around like minded people who have a passion and love for this awesome hobby.

Hello everyone, My name is Carlos A. González and I’m from sunny San Diego. Retired from the military Waugh’s years ago this month. Have been an avid aquarist since 1996 and I just absolutely love the hobby. I am working currently on my fifth tank which is a standard 75 gallon dirted. Which has...