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  1. HI all. Been a fish keeper for years and I finally setup my first planted tank about a month ago. I planted a sad looking Water Sprite as one of the initial plants and it has since rebounded and grown to take over a pretty decent chunk of my tank. I've got another tank coming Thursday that...
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  2. My tap water typically comes out of the tap with an 8.5 pH but a low kh (1.5 to 2),and gH of 5-6. Seems odd to me but it's consistent. What's stranger to me is that after being filtered with a sediment filter, GAC, and then a carbon block, the pH is neutral, the other parameters are unchanged...
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  3. I'm just starting to see teenie white wormlike alien beings on my tank glass. They're like so tiny I can't get a pic... but they slowly move .. kinda like a fraction of a sesame seed but they're a pale white color. Anything to worry about? Can anyone share pics of types to fear and not to fear?
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  4. Got a free 5 gal from my girlfriend's mom, and I'd been thinking about starting another shrimp tank for about a year now. I used to keep CRS around 8 years ago and after looking into neocaridinas I've decided I wanted a Blue Jelly tank. I tried making a moss wall once, I ended up getting...
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  5. OK... So.... I got my order in from Aquarium Co Op today and put the easy root tabs in a grid pattern when I got home from work and then sat down to eat dinner. A little while later I see my daughter's Blood Parrots doing something (I figured they were pulling out the dwarf baby tears). Turns...
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