I'm all about aesthetics so I'm getting some fancy bottles to put my ferts and stuff in. Everywhere I look online, I see liquid carbon products (flourish excel, easy carbo) are in opaque bottles. Does liquid carbon break down in sunlight? Should I get an opaque bottle for it? Sorry if this is...

Let me start by saying I am pretty new to this hobby. I currently have one 55 gallon aquarium stocked with 2 amazon swords, 1 rosette sword, 2 dwarf rotala and a wisteria as well as a Raphael catfish, 2 very small bristle nose plecos, 1 angel fish, 1 black ghost knife, 1 paradise gourami, 2 cory...

I have a 90 gallon freshwater community tank, and haave some general questions about the tank, algae, and my fertilization. Picture of my tank attached. Since early this year (2016) I've been running a tank with the following equipment: 90 Long (24" tall) Eheim Professional 3 (450 gph) Aqueon...

So its been almost a week since I planted my tank, my amazons and moneywort are doing great (despite some melting). The only plant that seems to be struggling is my java moss. It arrived green, but when i attached it to my driftwood and put it in my tank, it became brown. Really brown. I've had...

I got a batch of Crystal Black Shrimp for my heavily planted nano tank after it had been cycled and the water parameters were perfect. The shrimp did great for over a week as I was slowly introducing fertelizers. Seachem Iron, Potassium and Flourish didn't seem to bother them at all. This...

Hello Everyone, I am new to this forum and fish-keeping in general. I set up my 2nd tank this week in hopes of keeping a colony of Crystal Reds. The tank is a 20 gal tall. I want it to be a decently planted tank and have put in some small amazon swords, java moss attached to driftwood...

Hi, I bought some hair grass online and co2 equipment but to my surprise the co2 stuff has been delayed by 10 days how long can hair grass survive without it Oh and I have flourish excel can I use it instead of the co2 (forever) and never have to use co2 again...

As the title says, I am looking into trying some Sechem Flourish products and want to hear from users about it as I try to figure out what I should/should not use. My tank parameters: size: 10 gallon temp:77F pH:7.5 gh/kh: 70+ and 120+ (pH not likely to drop) ammonia:0 nitrite:0 nitrate:10-20...

I just got a 2 gallon bottle of Metricide 14 (1.5% glut) and I calculated if I normally doses 5 ml Excel in my 55 gal I would dose about 2.9ml Metricide (2.6% glut). I just want to make sure my calculation is correct and I'm not under or overdosing. Thanks