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Do you know what a blood parrot is? It descended from an Amphilophus citrinellum, but it has been destroyed by inbreeding. The spine is curved, the gills don't close. That is, the fish can't breath well, cvan't swim well - but being an A citrinellus it should want to be one of the swiftest swimming ...

Plant material. The very thing which make the water black. One among them is humic acid - this is partly decayed plants, large molecules with acid funtion an quite a few places. Now you might think acid = conductive, but atthe pH of black water, 5 or less, the humnic acid is - as we chemist call it ...

That's right. What a softener does, is exchange calcium and mangesium for sodium. Waterhardness has it's origiens in the laundry - calcium and mangesium hinder the effects of soap. Therefore hard water needed the use of more soap, and later the softening industry began. For us, hardness was basicall...

An old topic, with a nonsense comment. Beware for what may follow

Fish, generally, don't need much, but clowns need more then other fish. I would assume twice wat a similar sized barb would need.

A Rio 180 is 180 liters - actutally less, as the 180 liters is measured on the outside. I once measured the actual measurements - inside, without sandfloor and empty few cm in the top, anmd found that the real amount of water is ~70 % of the "official" one. That is, a Rio 180 normally contains some ...

Bas, let me say this. Tank PH is 8.0. I add baking soda with each water change to keep a consistent KH between 3-5. My tap water is 8.2. KH out of tap is 0. Is it possible PH will not drastically fall over a few days without adding baking soda to the newly added water? Last water change was 3/8, 40...

Don’t I need the KH to be existent? If I don’t add baking soda the KH will be nil. That can’t be safe. KH comes from the German for Carbonate hardness. Carbonates are normally in your water, unless the pH is too low. CO2 is in the air everywhere, and dissolves into the water. It can react with a wa...

Very sharp of you - this is a mummy threat indeed. From 2006

It sounds to me as if their new water is a bit itchy - like wearing a pair of wool trousers.

Using an RO unit normally implies having a large container to prepare the water. An RO unit exits water with a hardness of 0, containing no dissolved gasses. It also exits a lot of waste water, harder than what went in, with the gasses and everything else. In many cases the unit provides for the opt...

Black beard algae are another matter indeed. It´s been a long time since I had them, but I don´t know anymore how I got rid if them

Is this serious or is it another spam attempt? I don´t know but I do know I will not attempt the link.

Can´t answer the question, as I dson´t have any experience with feeding cannabis

I've had the same, but I can't say I dislike this kind of algae

If you do, you might change something in the tank, favouring another kind of algae - but this might take some time to change

I found out that constant 21 C is too cold. White cloud minnows can stand temps as high as 22, perhaps 24 C - but better not al year long.

There are much better combinations, for instance Trichmopomus heteromorpha, Boraras and so on