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DanDavid87
David Ribi
@DanDavid87 · 4 months ago

Hey guys, im a month in with my first nano (80l) and hitting a bit of trouble which id love some advice on.

Currently no fish, but added 4 trochus snails 10 days ago to start getting some life in there once cycle was complete.

My LFS recommended adding 2 bags of copepods and 2ml of phytoplankton once a week whilst we don't have fish to (i think) speed up algae growth.

For the last 5/6 days the water has looked a bit cloudy and nitrates have dropped from 18 to around 2 or 3. Chat GPT is saying it could be a bacterial bloom.

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Soldier_of_GOD
Alex
@Soldier_of_GOD · 7 months ago

Update on my 5 gallon tank! It’s running a still cycling and I added a mangrove and 2 balls of chaeto. Looking to add a lot more more macro algae. Also I added a damsel to help cycle and he is happy and eating so thank God!

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jensdemoor
Jens
@jensdemoor · 10 months ago

Hallo guys! This is my new tank. Had a nano reef before but wanted something bigger! 😋 i am already looking to upgrade this one too or just put a second reef next to it 😂 do you guys have any recomandations or tips? Feel free to share them!

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Dwayne
Dwayne
@Dwayne · 1 year ago

My 20 gallon salt water tank that I just set up about a week ago has a salinity of 1.010 right now, how much water would you recommend to change out to get a reading of 1.020 salinity? I only have a fire shrimp in the tank and two bleu legged hermits.

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elgib
Ella
@elgib · 1 year ago

OK, I had this freshwater shrimp tank and I went out of town and my brother forgot to take care of it so the fusion I had left in there died which is super sad☹️☹️ it’s about five or 6 gallons. I was planning on using it for something else anyways so hear me out guys.

I have a 30 gallon tank which has two betas (female, and devided) (I had plans to make a sorority, but I don’t think ima do that,)

should I start a saltwater tank in the 6 gallon? Or the 30 gallon? Cause I can move my small beta to the 6 gallon and give my other one to another aquarium friend.

I’m going to sleep with camp and my aquarium friend is gonna take care of my tanks . But I think I should go ahead and start cycling one.

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Bertsgirl35
Bertina
@Bertsgirl35 · 1 year ago

So I got this 5 gallon tank Saturday I did fish in cycle I do on all my tanks but I have a question this is the smallest tank I have when should I start water changes and how often and how much percentage?

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Braylen314
Braylen
@Braylen314 · 1 year ago

I’m in the middle of setting up my first saltwater reef tank, I don’t have water or anything and I’m not done scaping so that’s why there’s so Little Rock, but for a 15g, what snails should I get as a cleanup crew? What type of snails should I get, and how many should I get to keep the tank looking nice?

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