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Nothing to worry about then. No chlorine or other tap nasties to kill your bacteria, happy days :)

hello solar system, not every day you meet an entire celestial body on an internet forum! I’m a bit rusty with livebearer gestational stuff but it’s usually safe to assume any female you have is pregnant, particularly with recent exposure to male counterparts. Includes swordtails and a few...

Hey mikeymikerson, I’m guessing the fresh water wasn’t conditioned yet? If it was, no need for any worry about the nitrifying bacteria in the media. :) If not you’ll probably have to brace for a setback in your cycle, but with substrate and all it shouldn’t be too big of a deal particularly...

Generally goldfish are best kept in a species only tank, but you could consider a bristlenose pleco. They are okay to be kept in the upper ranges of goldfish temp around 73F or so.

Your paramters seem ok for nerites, safe bet to go with a couple of them. If it’s a concern you could add crushed coral or something else to raise the GH. As usual for shrimp and snails, provide a calcium carbonate source for them and you’ll be good :)

Generally I’ve always added some sort of calcium rich food for my snails, but if you’ve had this snail for some time and he’s not showing deficiency I say keep doing what you’re doing. Not sure about the stratum I’ve personally never used it, but it’s always safe to add a KH buffer in this...

The snail looks quite healthy, are you adding calcium-rich food for it? If not I would suggest doing so (check out Snello recipes or adding calcium carbonate). this is particularly important in potentially softer water not typical of its environment. Either way if you’ve had the snail for a...

or cardinal tetras^

Personally I would steer clear of mixing the two. Both can be quite aggressive fish, and with a well stocked mid-tank area it'll be hard, especially for the male betta, to be stress-free. Better off picking one or the other, plus some bottom-dwelling fish like corydoras for the lower parts of...

8 is fine for most fish especially those which have been bred in captivity for a while. that includes honey gouramis and ember tetras. if your local fish store uses the same water as your house, then it would probably do more harm than good to change the pH since the fish are already adjusted to...

this is a sunrise photo, you just can’t tell :)

Definitely not java moss, looks like hair algae to me. Great snack for some fish and inverts :)

Methylene blue is good for cory eggs in my experience. You should remove it soon before they hatch though, the fry might not tolerate it well once hatched. Egg tumblers are great too, but I'd use both. Also just to clarify, if you want good chances at raising at least a couple of corys to...

Welcome :) Good advice from the others. Emphasis on changing water as often as possible, plus testing for ammonia and nitrite when you can and getting familiar with the nitrogen cycle if you aren't already. If you can, some tannin input would also be helpful for your guy. You can either buy...

Considering you plan to have two whole middle-dwelling schools I'd say the tank is a bit overcrowded already. But if you could remove either the cardinals/neons or the rasboras you could add up to about 10 IMO. Also, go with cardinals over neons, they're more tolerant of betta temperatures, plus...

Welcome! Been in Sydney about a year now as well. Hope you enjoy the forum :)

I wouldn’t recommend it you’re pretty heavily stocked as it is. Instead of adding another fish to the equation you could consider fixing the root of the algae issue. It’s probably due to excess light, the wrong coolness/warmness of light or outcompeting plants. Depends on the type of algae. If...

Assuming the guppy tank is cycled I don't think there's anything to be concerned about. The low nitrates is likely from lots of plants and water changes, and the API ammonia test often reads 0.25 when there's zero.

That’s true. my guess would be that the betta died and the amano shrimp was having a snack afterwards. Amano shrimp can’t and don’t need to take down a betta. Still, it’s strange that the betta died within three hours.

yeah so your setup will be safer than mine. :)