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I bought the book in 2002 and thought - "huh, this could be fun. I have dirt, I have a 15gal long fish tank, let's see how this turns out." So I have had this tank set up since 2003. It was quite the science experiment getting it settled but it was a great tank for about 15 years - no algae, the...
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El NaturalSo I'm having a really tough time with staghorn algae in the past week or two. I had an outbreak of columnaris, ran a UV filter for a about 10 days. When I removed it I also did a big trim and removed 90% of my red root floaters since they were practically covering the entire surface. Since...
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El NaturalSoil consisting of 60% peat moss, 40% composed bark fines and iron sulfate (50g/m3) additive, would it be ok for a Walstad tank even if it has a pH of 4? Or would it be beneficial to have a soil exclusively consisting of either peat moss or compressed bark fines? Cheers,
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Hi everyone, My tank is around 75 litres (17 gallons, roughly), bowfront. It's been set up as a NPT for 4 years, with a substrate of potting soil capped with gravel. It has two small filters in there to add a bit of water flow. Water parameters are consistently: Ammonia, Nitrite...
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El NaturalI have a couple of questions about what to do when you have baby fish in a natural planted tank. Do you get them out and raise them separately? Or do they have enough chance to grow up in a natural planted tank? Is there automatically enough baby food in the tank or should you add some? And how...
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