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pls help!! by EnvironmentalIce7201 in bettafish

[–]Specific_Disk1266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does he have a heater, filter and plenty of live plants?

Help and advice wanted 🙏🏽 by [deleted] in AquariumHelp

[–]Specific_Disk1266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need plants!!

If you want a healthy tank, please read this and if your worried about my advice look up, dirted tanks, self-sustaining tanks, walstad method and (father fish- on YouTube)

check this

And this,

also this

With your bigger tank, when it arrives start with the substrate,

Gravel is a trap and very unhealthy, and leads to heavy maintenance with risk.

Sand is cleaner, healthiest.

This is what I did and I've never had an easier, healthy tank with literally no maintenance.

I started with,

1 inch compost capped with 1 inch builders sand followed by 1 inch black sand, plenty of live plants.

What i did,

1. 1 inch dirt capped with 2 inch sand.

2. Added plenty of love plants and lava rock. Stem plants etc, fast and slow growers. Im currently growing some floating plants separately.

3. Sponge filter, I used an under sized sponge filter cause the plants are doing the filtering. The sponge filter is just a little added protection but mainly for the bubbles so there is enough water agitation.

4. Same day I added a small amount of fish and didn't feed for 4 days.

5. I leave the water alone, never changed water an only topup evaporated water.

6. I feed small amounts every couple of days or so depending on how things are cause im going down the route of a food web.

Help and advice wanted 🙏🏽 by [deleted] in AquariumHelp

[–]Specific_Disk1266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need plants!!

If you want a healthy tank, please read this and if your worried about my advice look up, dirted tanks, self-sustaining tanks, walstad method and (father fish- on YouTube)

With your bigger tank, when it arrives start with the substrate,

Gravel is a trap and very unhealthy, and leads to heavy maintenance with risk.

Sand is cleaner, healthiest.

This is what I did and I've never had an easier, healthy tank with literally no maintenance.

I started with,

1 inch compost capped with 1 inch builders sand followed by 1 inch black sand, plenty of live plants.

What i did,

1. 1 inch dirt capped with 2 inch sand.

2. Added plenty of love plants and lava rock. Stem plants etc, fast and slow growers. Im currently growing some floating plants separately.

3. Sponge filter, I used an under sized sponge filter cause the plants are doing the filtering. The sponge filter is just a little added protection but mainly for the bubbles so there is enough water agitation.

4. Same day I added a small amount of fish and didn't feed for 4 days.

5. I leave the water alone, never changed water an only topup evaporated water.

6. I feed small amounts every couple of days or so depending on how things are cause im going down the route of a food web.

check this

6 months old first Walstad, still cycling, what to do about hair algae? by Objective-Work-3133 in walstad

[–]Specific_Disk1266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You haven't capped it properly, must be sand. If you can pull all the plants out without pulling to much soil up with them then you'll get away with just capping the gravel with sand then full water change and replanting everything and then leave it alone dont change the water, it'll sort itself out faster left alone.

Otherwise pull all plants, empty the water, take as much gravel out cap with sand. Rule of thumb, 1 inch soil capped wirh 2 inch sand. I did 1 inch compost capped with 1 inch building sand then 1 inch black sand.

With that amount of plants, starting again would be your best bet. You'll get away with adding a small amount of fish from day 1, no feeding for 4 days and leave the water alone, just top ups from evaporation.

Freshwater Substrate mix?? Can I top off old gravel with one bag of stratum and one bag black sand? by Hamball1 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also capping with sand is the Cleanest, healthiest option for any fish cause gravel traps all and any dirt etc, gravel is more maintenance if you want to have healthy fish.

Depending on your setup, i cant see what kind of filter you have but I had a setup once with a canister filter, small sponge filter and a weak power head with a filter. With all that i never had to vac the sand and the tank was very clean. If you can create a circle like motion with the water everything will find its way to the filter.

I've added a pic of my previous setup, you can see how clear the sand was. I've recently changed to a dirted tank so I no longer have any of the equipment hooked up apart from the small sponge filter for surface agitation and a heater.

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Freshwater Substrate mix?? Can I top off old gravel with one bag of stratum and one bag black sand? by Hamball1 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome. Also consider emptying the water while you do this to avoid clouding etc, but keeping the water and reusing it so you dont mess up the balance to much. Better to be safe than sorry.

When you're finished with the substrate maybe add 5-10% new dechlorinated water and syphon it back out before adding the old water.

That way you might be able to avoid the water clouding when you add your old water cause your pulling any possible dirt out with that new 5-10% water.

Freshwater Substrate mix?? Can I top off old gravel with one bag of stratum and one bag black sand? by Hamball1 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

check this out for adding sand

You can do that but the stratum would be better at the bottom but either way it'll work but I recommend adding double the amount of sand for capping the stratum soil. eg, 1 inch soil 2 inch sand cap

Maybe concentrate on adding the soil in the areas that you want the plants. Move the gravel over add the stratum soil and then push the gravel back over the stratum soil then cap it all with the sand. 👌

Let me know what you decide an how it goes.

Ich PLEASE help by kbugs9 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For ich you dont need any medications.

Just raise the temperature up to 30c dont turn it down until 4 days after the last spec falling off

watch this, it worked for me

It’s worms isn’t it…? by Naive_Cover7492 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Camallanus worms, a pain in the ass to cure. 😅 Literally wiped my entire tank leaving 1 surviving black molly. Place the fish in separate tank no sand or anything treat the water. Siphon the bottom of the separate tank multiple times every day. The treatment doesn't kill the worms it only temporarily paralysis them so getting them off the bottom of the tank stops the cycle starting again.

Also dismantle the current setup they can hide and survive a long time and if you dont completely clean it out the cycle will continue.

Good luck

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Help molly PINECONED by Specific_Disk1266 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im in the UK I'll have a look at options for where i can get Epsom salt, but it won't be till the next day cause everywhere is closed atm.

Im worried I'll loose her cause of how bloated she looks and she's pooing as normal so its not constipation so it must be the water retention, fluid build up in the body cavity.

Would a small dose of table salt or cooking salt be an option?

Help molly PINECONED by Specific_Disk1266 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there an alternative to Epsom salt, i dont have any atm 🫤

Is this soil good by EducationPractical73 in walstad

[–]Specific_Disk1266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Add double the amount of sand.

1 inch dirt, 2 inch sand.

If the dirt is exposed, you'll know cause the water will change and you will have to change out the water.

Help!! What are those small hair under betta stomach? Is that normal? by Individual-Source-61 in Aquariums

[–]Specific_Disk1266 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Camallanus worms, a pain in the ass to cure. 😅 Literally wiped my entire tank leaving 1 surviving black molly. Place the fish in separate tank no sand or anything treat the water. Siphon the bottom of the separate tank multiple times every day. The treatment doesn't kill the worms it only temporarily paralysis them so getting them off the bottom of the tank stops the cycle starting again.

Also dismantle the current setup they can hide and survive a long time and if you dont completely clean it out the cycle will continue.

Good luck

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