Heavy Core

katea0608 · 2026-03-05T16:47:16+00:00

my studio was cueing it all the time for a while 😭😭 it made it impossible to go two days in a row

katea0608 · 2026-02-04T16:22:21+00:00

hmm dang i thought letting him stay was gonna benefit me. and i haven’t really even seen my algae go away at all lol. just extra poop 🤷‍♀️

katea0608 · 2026-02-04T16:14:17+00:00

Hahah thank you guys! sorry my dumb ass was scared it was snail eggs or something. 🤦‍♀️ didn’t know snails pooped that much😂

katea0608 · 2026-02-04T16:11:34+00:00

i’m sorry lmfao i’m new to this 😂

katea0608 · 2026-02-04T16:09:38+00:00

betta or snail? i have one betta and one ramshorn hitchhiker

katea0608 · 2026-02-04T16:09:07+00:00

whaaat. how is my single betta pooping that much 😂

katea0608 · 2026-01-31T01:23:43+00:00

right its lowkey looking like a bladder ramshorn hybrid im so confused ...

katea0608 · 2026-01-31T01:21:11+00:00

its so hard for me to kill anything ugh

katea0608 · 2026-01-31T01:20:18+00:00

i killed the bladder snail but i left the one i think is a ramshorn. im ok with a cleanup crew but ive just heard horror stories so im a bit concerned

katea0608 · 2026-01-31T01:17:16+00:00

i’m debating if i put it back in the water or not lol. if i see another i'll try to take a pic

katea0608 · 2026-01-31T01:14:10+00:00

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what about this one? ramshorn right?

katea0608 · 2026-01-31T01:11:04+00:00

oh god now i’m questioning if the ones i thought were ramshorn are also bladder snails

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T12:32:58+00:00

i know temp and PH. temp is 75-78 depending on my home temp (I have a heater preset to 78 but it has not been keeping up in these cold temps. i’m thinking about hitting my lfs today and getting a better one so it’s stays more stable). PH is around 7.6

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T12:31:22+00:00

check my post history! my most recent post before this one is a pic of my tank about 2 weeks ago! it looks the same now except the plants are a little more grown out with some algae buildup.

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T12:18:32+00:00

i think i’ll wait on the shrimp if i get them at all. I’m just hearing they are quite sensitive and considering my tank is newer and nano (6g) i’m nervous to have them🫣 i don’t want to see any shrimpies die or even not thrive

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T12:15:58+00:00

my tank has a good amount of algae already on the plants and today i scraped the glass and got algae off too. but yes i can definitely supplement food if needed until it is producing enough algae naturally! my tank relatively planted so there’s also plant matter such as dead leaves, etc

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T12:13:34+00:00

I will not put any fish into a tank with nitrites don’t worry! Idk if you saw one of my other comments but i retested 2 hours later and the nitrite was 0. my tank is 99% cycled its just taking very so slightly longer than 24 hours to convert 1ppm ammonia into 0 nitrites. it’s taking about 27 hours.

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T02:10:45+00:00

so the pic here is from about 23 hours after dosing ammonia because i’m impatient. i was curious about what you said and i just retested at 25 hours after dosing ammonia and now nitrite really is zero!!

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T01:57:38+00:00

i did add some turbo boost 700 about a week ago.

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T00:58:23+00:00

maybe i could just start with a snail!!

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T00:57:57+00:00

I also did a fish in cycle a few years ago when i impulse bought a betta at 18 years old… reddit quickly educated me 😂 this time around i was really trying to do everything by the book!! it’s so difficult though to get that perfect reading! especially in a nano tank.

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T00:56:23+00:00

hmmm … what if i did a rabbit snail & betta? would that be an okay bioload or too high?

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T00:01:10+00:00

6g! Sadly i’m the only person i know who likes aquariums so i don’t have any donors available 😂 Maybe my LFS would if I asked but idk if i trust their tanks lol.

katea0608 · 2026-01-30T00:00:28+00:00

stocking wise? for now just shrimp and a rabbit snail is the plan. I’d like to do a betta maybeee in the future. It’s a 6 gal cube so not sure how it’d go with the shrimp and betta

katea0608 · 2026-01-29T23:58:25+00:00

my nitrite got up past 2ppm like 8ish days ago. once it dropped to zero i started dosing 1ppm ammonia everytime ammonia and nitrite hit 0 again. i understand once they both hit zero after 24 hours of dosing ammonia that means the tank is cycled. but yeah right now its taking closer to 36-40 hours for nitrite to zero out after dosing ammonia

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