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Fighting algae can get pretty frustrating but don't give up. If the algae is completely out of control you can do a blackout method. I've heard it is really successful to kill the algae you already have. . The light may be a bit much without carbon supplemented. I'd definitely try...

Sorry for your loss. Ich is pretty stressful on fish. Keep an eye on all the other inhabitants. Ich is very contagious.

Good afternoon. Looking through this thread and noticed you're using manufactured cartridges in your hob, was wondering if youve changed them at all. The cartridge holds alot of beneficial bacteria and by changing them you take it out. What hob are you running at the moment. You could try...

In my experience the bigger the tank the more stable the parameters. Small setups are fun but things can go south quick if not monitored. I used to see a nitrite spike in all my smaller tanks when adding new fish, my 75 hasn't had a spike yet after any new fish.

Corydoras are really fun to watch in a school, if you lay down some thick carpeting plants like S. Repens you'll eventually see your school growing. The fry will survive quite well in the plants without much help in my experience. Just be careful when doing water changes. Seeing new babies in...

Totally agree with water changes, haven't heard about uv sterilizer for bba, does wonders for green water though. Could the uv help with green hair algae as well? Not wanting to high jack the thread but I'm currently trying to find the "balance" in my 75 gallon tank as well. Not a problem I...

Ah yes the amano shrimp and nerites may change the treatment, I don't have any nerites but heard they can be sensitive to alot of stuff. I could be mistaken I've read that inverts don't get infected with ich so if you can move them to their own setup for awhile to treat the infected tank/s...

If your not currently using co2 I would suggest using excel daily. I'd Start with half dose and slowly build up to full dose. If you turn off your filter and powerheads before dosing you can spot treat, let sit for a few minutes, then turn everything back on to allow the rest of the tank to get...

I normally do weekly on my blasting media substrate and only about half the substrate at a time I've heard you can disturb beneficial bacteria in the substrate. If you over filter your tank then it's probably not gonna disturb you cycle doing all the substrate though. In my other tank is play...

Could possibly be ich. Can't tell 100 percent from the pics but ich is a nasty parasite and can spread quickly. There's numerous treatments available. I'm no expert by no means but I've heard alot of people have success treating it with higher Temps ( like 86 degrees Fahrenheit) and aquarium...

I'll double check but they said flake food and algae wafers. It's shown no interest in either. But I do see him cruise the quarantine and pick at the substrate and sponge filter. I've only seen him poop once but it looked normal so I assume he's eating copepods. Still gonna treat for parasites...

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I purchased a ram from a big box store that was a little skinny and felt bad for him. Had him since Saturday and have only witnessed him eat 1 or 2 frozen bloodworms since. I should receive prazi pro today to treat for parasites. I believe he's pretty much wiped out the copepod colony in the qt...

Thanks for the input everyone. Actually have prazi pro on order at the moment. Very well put pagoda, where I work it's getting harder to find some parts we commonly use, a little frustrating to say the least.

Decided I wanted to get some api general cure for quarantined fish, (got a bolivian ram that looks a little skinny and not showing interest in food) but seems like its sold out everywhere, even bigger online retailers. I thought it was strange as I'm used to seeing it in every lfs. Anyone else...

I recently picked up a flex as well. I'm using as a quarantine tank at the moment but thinking of transferring my shrimp to it after a little scaping. It's a nice looking tank.

So here's a pic with lights at full power. Anybody have any thoughts on the brightness. Should I add another light. Hair algae grew quite a bit today after adding micros. Wondering if I should cut back on the micros for now? Increase macros? Here's floaters in my 20 compared to floaters in...

Lol I knew something had to be up since my red root floaters never started darkening up in that tank. My 20 tall floaters are a dark red under an aquasky led

Update. Over the weekend I did my usual 50 percent water change and cleaned out a good portion of the algae. While playing with my lights I noticed a big increase in brightness on each light when the other was turned off. I have them connected to a dual channel timer/controller from nicrew. I...

Awesome. I'll double check to make sure all the leds are on. I'll probably get a fluval planted 3.0 for the 75 gallon in the future because I really enjoy the aquasky I have now on the 20 gallon.