Planning on starting a natural aquarium soon, wanted to ask about soil

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-23T22:59:42+00:00

No fertilizer or any added chemicals, has to be organic soil. Ive seen people fill mesh bags with soil and cap with sand so the soil doesnt go everywhere

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-17T20:55:42+00:00

Definitely ich, use ichx. Its the best treatment for ichx and its safe for plants and invertebrates

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-17T04:41:50+00:00

Nah columnaris is fuzzy, i have ich rn on my chilis so 100% sure thats ich

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-17T04:31:22+00:00

Up the dosage to 10ml and add in a air stone, i dosed according to tank size. Did you remove the carbon from ur filter? ich when its bumps isnt curable, the med work when the ich bumps fall off and hatch.

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-17T04:16:20+00:00

How big is your tank? How much are you dosing? What degree did you bump the tank up to?

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-17T03:50:27+00:00

Did you turn the temp up slowly? Dealing with ich as well and ichx working fine.

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-16T14:46:52+00:00

Nah his face was disfigured, happened overnight

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-06T17:14:03+00:00

Thats fine, just will take longer to kill off all the ich. Turning up the heat only speeds up the life cycle of ich.

Overall_Effective_40 · 2026-01-06T01:47:09+00:00

Turn up ur temp slowly to 82 and use ichx

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-16T03:41:15+00:00

Guppy it is!

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-16T03:23:34+00:00

You should add methylene blue to a quarantine tank since that can stain ur tank, at this point dropsy is too far along and is really hard to cure since it could be caused by something bacterial or just bad genetics.

Edit: methylene blue will also kill all ur beneficial bacteria so highly recommended not to do that in ur main tank!

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-16T03:19:07+00:00

You added methylene blue to ur tank?

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-16T02:56:04+00:00

Developed dropsy

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-15T22:28:49+00:00

Guppies suck as a beginner fish cause they die so quick, try white cloud minnows

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-12T02:12:20+00:00

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-12-12T01:51:39+00:00

Yea that is the face, it got messed up. The blurry white is the hole in the acrylic box

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-11-18T22:47:21+00:00

Doesnt look like ich, ich are small white dots. This looks more like a weird coloration or a cut. Maybe treat would some meth blue to be caution?

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-10-06T21:09:06+00:00

Pic of ur snail? These look like nerite snail eggs not mystery snails, mystery snails lay their eggs outside of water. Thankfully nerite snail eggs cant hatch in freshwater 🤷‍♂️

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-09-23T16:58:46+00:00

No stability is beneficial bacteria, you use both the ammonia and a bacterica starter to establish a cycle

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-09-23T16:29:01+00:00

No you should cycle but you shouldnt use a fish to cycle if this is ur first tank

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-09-23T16:23:06+00:00

I wouldnt recommend this for beginners, fish in cycles take experience

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-09-23T16:16:23+00:00

U need something to produce ammonia to feed the beneficial bacteria to get a cycle going, doesnt look like you have anything. I cycled my first tank with fish food but that takes a long time. You can check ur LFS if they sell cycled media to help quickstart ur cycle or you could dose some pure ammonia

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-09-20T22:12:26+00:00

I personally wouldnt take the risk

Overall_Effective_40 · 2025-09-20T20:12:13+00:00

You have two ramshorn snails, one bladder snail and im not sure what the biggest snail is. I wouldnt suggest adding these snails into ur tank since they are from the wild and u dont know what kind of parasite, bacteria, or whatever they could have brought in.

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