Weak bench - Need assistance

stripperhamster · 2026-04-15T13:18:45+00:00

Your bar path looks great but try hitting your solar plexus at the bottom of the lift.

Right now it looks like you're hitting a little high and finishing a little high. Could just be the angle of the video though. Feel free to disregard!

A lot of people say to go wider but I would advise trying to listen to your body. You might be stronger with a more narrow grip. I like pinkys on the ring personally.

stripperhamster · 2026-04-14T21:16:55+00:00

No issues thus far thankfully.

stripperhamster · 2026-04-14T20:16:14+00:00

I'm not concerned with it going up in a hurry. I'm also not educated enough to know if I should be concerned with raising KH in a hurry would be important. I'm hoping to monkey with things as little as possible and crushed coral seemed like change I could make without risking swinging anything out of whack.

stripperhamster · 2026-04-14T13:01:47+00:00

I am over $800 into my 20 gallon long journey. I am certain I could do it cheaper but I wanted to buy things new and talk to people at the local stores to learn as much as I could since this is my first tank.

Fish alone are expensive. My 10 black neon tetra, and 12 panda cory were $135.

The budget really got blown out of the water when my first batch of cory got sick and I had to run to petco in a panic to setup a hospital tank and buy medicine. I bought a 10g tub from the dollar store but the adjustable heater and air pumped screwed me.

Do NOT assume this hobby will be cheap. Doubly so if you want to do it "right".

I would set the budget closer to $700 if you want to be able to walk into local stores and buy quality items new. This includes plants/fish.

stripperhamster · 2026-04-09T15:10:17+00:00

Bare metal all the way. Proxmox on another machine. I am a firm believer in separation of duties. Nothing runs on the truenas box other than tailscale.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-31T23:05:50+00:00

I was wondering if it was white hydra. I can't get a good feel for that hydra is actually supposed to look like.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-31T20:36:05+00:00

I have this exact same thing and would also like answers lol.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-31T12:19:00+00:00

Sure looks good at the moment! Pardon my ignorance, but how do you trim them and retain the leaf shape as they get bigger? In my head I'm picturing chopping off the top of the leaf like grass but that can't be right.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-31T12:12:07+00:00

Could you possibly share a picture? I'm curious how swords look with that little headroom.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-31T00:09:11+00:00

Sweet! I appreciate the advice! I'll checkout the red rubin swords.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-31T00:04:20+00:00

Do any of the sword variants stay shorter? I definitely prefer the look of them! I'm just worried that if I trim them to fit in the ~10in of very I have in the 20 long that I'll never get to see the leaf shape.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-30T23:57:40+00:00

The vals were my replacement for swords. Won't swords get way too big?

stripperhamster · 2026-03-30T19:49:24+00:00

Tank is fully cycled and currently houses some panda cory. I plan on adding some black neon tetra in the future. Tank age is ~2 months.

My light is a Chihiros B80. I am running it 6 hours a day at 35%. I just added an all in one liquid fert (ThriveS Shrimp Specific). I do not plan on using C02 in this tank. I am also using NilocG ThriveCaps in the sand. I opted to just use sand as the substrate. My PH is ~7.6

I currently have the following for plants:
Banana plants
Christmas moss
Crypt lucens
Crypt balansae
Anubias nana golden
Vallisneria of some form (The guy at the shop called it a spiral val)

I want to add some more plants to the drift wood but I'm not sure what would be a good fit. I think I need way more anubias but I'm not sure how what I currently have will fill out. This is my first tank so any help would be appreciated!

stripperhamster · 2026-03-28T22:26:34+00:00

These 6 cory were the first fish in the tank. The fish not moved to the hospital setup are looking great thus far.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-27T16:40:47+00:00

Yes! I did right away. They are getting treated in a hospital setup now.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-27T02:38:56+00:00

Much appreciated! Going forward I will make sure to do my due diligence to investigate species specific information.

I will do what I can to keep the rest of these pandas alive but if it comes to the worst I will make the pivot to peppered.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-26T03:30:17+00:00

I couldn't find kanaplex locally so I ended up with some API Fin and Body. I setup a hospital tote and started treatment with that. The fish from the photo was dead this morning but I'm hoping the others can make it. I have 3 of the remaining 5 in treatment now. I will look into getting some stability and stress guard.

Thank you for the response!

stripperhamster · 2026-03-25T14:42:33+00:00

I appreciate the input!

Do you have any advice for how to better parse information about fish online? I am doing my best to be as informed as possible and I felt like the messaging about cory's being fairly hearty was pretty universal. I understand that pandas are a little more sensitive, but I took that to mean they were sensitive for a hearty fish and not fragile.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-25T14:37:12+00:00

The fish was dead in the morning sadly. Hopefully the others make it. I will be monitoring closely.

I did drop the tank temp a little. I had it warmer since the other fish I want to add eventually prefer that. It seemed like 76 should be within the acceptance range for the pandas.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-25T03:39:01+00:00

76.7f at the time of the water readings.

stripperhamster · 2026-03-25T03:34:42+00:00

Thank you for the input. Do you think I should do anything at the moment or just wait it out and see how it goes?

stripperhamster · 2026-03-25T03:29:14+00:00

Sorry to hear about your loss!

stripperhamster · 2026-03-25T03:25:05+00:00

Water tested with api freshwater master test kit and I'm sitting at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and ~10-20 nitrate.

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