Fed up, fed up, fed up. With a heavy heart, I decided to convert my tank to a shrimp only tank. Recently added 12 CRS, all kena eaten by the Green Neons. So I'm going to remove almost all the fishes and keep only shrimp friendly fishes. I'm gonna concentrate on shrimps now.

Giving away Greens Neon Tetras and one SAE.

Any takers, please PM. Self collect at PJ.

Will be happy to also swap/trade with Rasboras, or even shrimps. I have about 80 Green Neons to rid of.

No, can't say its the ADA way - probably get sued for that. But I asked how would ADA do it if they were setting up a new tank? But they do publish a booklet "The Making of Nature Aquarium".
Anyway, we all have to start some where, and the trial and error you're doing was also how I started
We all learn along the way.

Yeah, I wished I had your setup. I used to feed the tetras pellet food and they co-existed peacefully.
But I made a mistake in their diet. I started feeding them Brine shrimp (meat), coconut flesh, and dried spinach. The spinach floats on the water like bread, and the fishes nip on them - and it creates a feeding frenzy like piranhas biting a bigger prey.

I think this got them used to eating foods that are bigger than them by nipping. So when I added the CRS, and they saw this bright red and white thing swimming among the school. One fish will nip on it curiously, and then the whole bunch pounces on it like food. Saw this a few times and all my CRS are gone. Geez...

So far I've not seen them attacking the Cherries. Or Tigers and CBS which I just added - but I don't want to push my luck.

Anyone wants Green Neon Tetras, please PM. You can have them FOC. I want to convert my tank to shrimp only. Please do me (and the fishes, and shrimps) a favor

Yes, I want to convert my 3 footer to a shrimp only - for the foreseeable future.
No idea about bloodworms. You may have a different experience. Btw, the tetras are not attacking the Cherries - only the CRS which is so colorful and tempting

Btw, I'm also looking forward to participating in the 2017 IAPLC. You joining too? Just for the fun of it - not for prizes.

Green Neons. If you want, you can take
There's no charge for IAPLC. Application is online. For 2016, its already closed, so we can target for 2017
This gives us a lot of time to get the plants all fattened up for the photo shoot. haha.

http://en.iaplc.com/about/application.html

Hi bro, my bazooka also leak.. You said you think yours is leaking. How can you not know for sure if its leaking? You can see the bubbles if its leaking. I can see a small bubble leak on the tube joint connecting to the bazooka - but too lazy to fix it, so I'm living with it

You can consider "co2 inline atomizer". Try to google that. I used it last time, and had good results in terms of maintenance (almost never cleaned) and its performance and trouble free.

After a month of experienced in planted aquarium. Recently I found few issues that annoying me, not sure is it common for all, just wanna share or get some opinion from bros here:

My planted aquarium come with livestock such as guppies, caldina, Molly, SAE & Oto

1. Fish get sick easily (ich(all fishes), fin rot(guppy), Popeyes(caldina &molly) or fungus (caldina)), i tried very hard to save them but in the end dead, sad. I did almost 2 or 3 times of 30-50% water change per week , but still deceases still love them

2. Algae on glass, I guess the scientific name called Green Dust Algae.

3. Due to the sick fishes, then I put in some salt, now seen like causing the plants (MC, hair glass ) melted but the Java miss and Christmass moss are doing good. Now I had almost 100 % water change in my aquarium, not sure can save my plants or not, just worry there is still some salt content in the soil.

I realized its kind of hard to get everything balance, worst my aquarium has yet to achieve full cycle at the moment.

hi bro, i might not be right but i dont think overstocking is the cause of his fish getting ill. in my 2ft i have 4 discus (size of an adult's palm),  2 fully grown SAE, 4 yamato,  2 albino corydora, 2 bumblebee goby, 2 Red Zebra Danio, 12 rummynose, 20 neon tetra, 6 guppies, 1 ram chichilid, and a dozen of wild colour shrimps, 5 nerite snails and they are all doing fine with no sign of sickness.

but i have a c3 and a top aqua hang on filter running, temp is around 27-30'c

i change my tank water once a week

my tank has been running almost 2 years

also i have java fern, tiger lotus, amazon sword and some large rocks

Seriously? Everyday need to boil & soak, alamak. I thought once I get back home then I wanna start to pu everything in the tank. I don't mind abit tanning, I believe after few times of wc, tanning will be reduced, but what I m worry is whether is it harmful to fish n plant.

Tried that, not effective for me too. Only thing that works for me is zero algae

i'm kinda afraid to use h2o2. first time i used, i lost like 50% of my shrimps.

Hello,

Do you have the name card or any contact of this seller? Or did you notice what name was the seller? I am actually interested in getting the Anubias Pinto haha. Too bad I didnt have the chance to attend the Aquafest