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I did a search here and the only thread that might have helped no longer has the pics so I can't know for sure. My biggest, reddest RCS, "Big Mama," had berried up with gorgeous bright yellow eggs so I was happy. Then about a week later, I noticed she didn't have the eggs anymore, so I loo...

I've made a lot of changes to this tank since I started this thread. But I think I've narrowed the cause to under-feeding. I was talking with a friend and he asked what I was feeding them. It got the gears turning and I realized that the females stopped berrying once I stopped overfeeding the fish. ...

I've been mixing my 7.8 pH tap water with water I've run through a Brita filter to lower my pH. But I'm wondering if the filter is removing some necessary minerals. I would like to add CRS to my 13g tank with yellows and malawas but I'm not sure the Brita method is going to provide consistent result...

The wackiness has been an ongoing thing in my tanks. Get this: my pH doesn't drop overnight even though I have DIY CO2 in my 37g and no bubblers going. When I had even the slightest agitation, all the CO2 dissipated and my pH would rise back up to the 7.8 I get out of the tap. Makes no sense but I t...

Sweet! I guess I've found my main invert. How many could I have in a 75g?

-Lisa

I searched and found one post but it was pretty general. This is for my 75g, which will be heavily planted. Would loaches be ok with red claw macros? I've got dwarf chains (sidthmunki) and kuhlis right now but I will be adding a third school, probably yoyos but maybe dojos. Would vampire shrimp or b...

Is the point of the RO water to have a KH of 1 and a pH of 7? Or is there something else special about it? I just tested the water from my Brita filter and it's got a KH of 1 and a pH of 6.6. Is there a reason that I couldn't mix my tap water with water run through the Brita filter to get a pH of 7....

I just tested both the 13g and 20g with an in-date API master kit and the API liquid KH test. pH in both tanks is 7.8, and I held both tubes up together and they were the same color. The KH in the 13g is 2 and the KH in the 20g is 3. I can never match the colors on the nitrate test to the card, but ...

The pH and KH are the same in my 20g with the thriving RCS colony, but the nitrates are always higher. The only differences are that the 20g has artificial plants, bigger fish and a cuttle bone in the back to add some calcium to the water. Even the HOBs are the same brands, just smaller on the 13g. ...

In my 13g tank I have yellows, dark greens and malawas. I see saddles on all the yellow females, they're hard to spot on the malawas and greens, though, but I do see them on some malawas. I've seen only two berried malawas and two berried yellows during the several months I've had them. But no babie...

They're on my beloved flame moss. Java moss isn't nearly as neat looking, more of a mop.

-Lisa

Assuming that the tank has proper filtration (which *all* aquatic animals need), there should be enough surface agitation from the filter flow to get oxygen into the water. However, if there is no filter of any kind (not recommended), it would be best to have an air stone to keep the water from gett...

I've got a 75g that will be heavily planted and I'd like to have dwarf crays since they're an invert I don't have in my "collection." But I've already got dwarf chain loaches (aka sidthmunki) and kuhlis, and I'll be adding either yoyos or zebras. I've read here the corys are a bit of an ea...

What have you added to your tank recently? New plants? New critters? Have you used any live food? I've never seen anything like that and I hope I never do IRL. Where did you find it? On a plant, on the substrate? Does it move?

-Lisa

Nothing that happens in my tanks is logical. :D There very well may be little green ones running around and I just don't see them. The red ones stick out like sore thumbs against the green plants and salt & pepper sand substrate. I had no idea I had any berried malawas or babies until one day *p...