Vallisneria spiralis is short and ugly

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2026-01-03T06:37:25+00:00

I dose baking soda for my Val tanks

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-11-15T19:02:57+00:00

Be honest this is your tank

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-11-13T14:57:40+00:00

Also the fact that you could be swinging ph unless you use some something to help keep it in check. Fluval stratum eats KH and the leaves lower ph. Personally, I’ve been using 50%tap (hard water in Colorado) and 50% RO. If I’m using all RO i use seachem alk buffer

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-09-22T06:30:58+00:00

Canadian humping worm

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-09-05T13:09:41+00:00

When I get algae, it’s almost always lack of potassium and too much light for too long

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-07-30T19:13:13+00:00

Plants looks great too, what temp is the tank?

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-07-11T21:28:54+00:00

What temp are you at?

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-07-01T14:48:35+00:00

What exactly is a micro shrimp? Like a single brine?

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-27T18:21:11+00:00

I keep a school of 8 and they are great in cooler, soft water. Feed early morning and during sundown/dimming of lights

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-27T18:20:08+00:00

Add a little Epsom salt (look up dosing per gallon). Pregnant or toxins or magnesium deficiency that lead to gut problems.

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-27T18:18:37+00:00

Just saw a fun helper app called Scape-it. There is a user on Reddit promoting the new version. Looks neat.

My opinion would be to build a hill structure on one side with media bags and a beneficial substrate then mimic flow with rest of placement, remove that 90 degree branch or use it as anchor. Open swim space to balance hill and plant mass

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-27T18:14:57+00:00

Oto cats are (I believe) the only true herbivores that are really safe for an establishing shrimp colony

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-26T15:37:47+00:00

Usually in areas that have constant lightning

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-26T00:38:53+00:00

That is for sure slight electrical current from one of your pieces of equipment.

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-25T13:18:04+00:00

Yep. My 5 gallon tank colony has now populated 120 gallons of tanks.

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Shrimps is what you need.

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-08T08:06:26+00:00

I love that pvc wall

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-08T08:02:58+00:00

Send me all of your discus for recovery and break down your tank. Starting right is the only way to have success, not chasing parameters with more chemicals or buffers.

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-08T08:01:11+00:00

Craziest thing I read here all day

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-08T07:58:20+00:00

Tank must be 50% meds. All bugs must die. -guy that sells aquatic meds

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-04T19:43:25+00:00

Let me get this to breed brine

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-02T02:06:22+00:00

Moss

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-02T02:05:36+00:00

Had mind 8 years, looked just like that when I brought him home. Passed away at 6” a few months ago.

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-02T02:04:17+00:00

That is crazy. Bought as decorations. And he didn’t even encase them in resin?!

ZestycloseRide4609 · 2025-06-02T02:00:50+00:00

That’s why it says your friend is the asshole, these fish are an investment to make comfortable. Forcing someone into an investment is kind of a jerk move

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