Thanks guys!!
Its really cool for a change. Ive tried to do tropical fishtanks about 3 times before and always gave up due to deaths and brown algae after about 2 months.
What a difference reading up on the internet can help, understanding the cycle and water tests can do.
With the mollies babies, I thought that if any survive great, otherwise they will make a great live snack for the fish? Is this wrong?
I'm not into breeding fish, I chose those mollies because they look great with their bright yellow colour and are community fish.
I love it that the fish tank is in my study, I can look at them while I type this message
Thanks for all the help guys
Oh yes, I can no longer see any sign of brown Algae. Pleckie even cleans the plants for me
Oh and the tera now no longer school, they swim individually between all the plants now.
Its also fun watching the bonze catfish swimming and looking for food between the plants, they all seem extrememly hapy since having a heavily planted tank.
For fertilizer I am using JB Balls, Some Lili-Grow and 3-4 weekly plant fertilizer like flourish.
I also cut away the dead, dying or brown leaves and that makes sure there is always new green shoots opening. I have even had to trim some plants as they touch the top of the water.
My strategy has also been to overfeed a little so that the bottom dwellers get some flake food as well as the occasional sinking pellet or two, and this will also help fertilize the plants with sinking food and extra poop.
But to counter the overfeeding and such I do about 15% weekly water changes and monitor the water weekly. So far all tests are perfect, 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrite, and only about 20 Nitrate.
CHeers
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