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Hi all! I seem to have gotten my brown algae problem under control (I haven't scrapped it all off the back yet, but it doesn't grow like mad on the front any more!), but now I'm getting splotches of green algae growing on my substrated. Normally I would just stir up the substrate and suck out...
Hi all, I'm still struggling along with my 75gal tang tank with just over 1W/G of lighting. Although they're certainly not strutting, my Val seems to be surviving... each plant seems to have one or maybe two leaves that are getting quite long, so i started pruning the deadish looking leaves...
Hi all, I'm trying to maintain a planted tanganyikan tank with little success. Even before every surface of my tank was covered with nasty brown algae, my plants were dying off. I only have ~1W/g of lighting, but this is eventually subject to change. For the meanwhile I'm going to try to...
Unfortunately i seem to be better at growing algae than plants :(. I have a 75gal "show" tank (5'long, 2'tall, 1'wide) with two 40W T-12 bulbs in a shoplight fixture in the hood. It has a fine gravel substrate, and is planted with several Jungle Val and one anubius that I tied to the top of a...
Is there any disadvantage to mixing cichlids from different rift lakes? I have my heart set on shell dwellers, while my wife loves the look of the electric yellows. Most of the information I've found on the net indicates that electric yellows are rather peaceful fish, but a compatibility chart...
Hi all, I'm starting to decorate my new tank while it cycles, and I'd like some advice on plants... I haven't gotten kH/gH tests yet, but the website for the local water comission says that our water is extremely hard, with gobs of calcium carbonate (high kH?). I've heard that some plants...
Hello all, I'm a very recent convert to dwarf cichlids, yet I'm experiencing a slight problem : My LFS doesn't have any.
While I was originally going to try to set up an amazonian type tank, I have since discovered that the water here is as hard as a rock, and now I'm intrigued by the...