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I need to do like an 80% water change to get ride of the tannins. I put the wood on left in a few weeks ago. The tanks been running since 2020.

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Looks fantastic! What fish do you have in there? And what do you like to feed them? :)

My tank was pretty heavily tannined. I did a few 25%s and one 90% and that cleared it up remarkably. There’s still some tannins, but my tank is clearing up a lot.

That header pic is when it was bad. This pic is after the 90% change (without fish in it, I cleaned it before introducing them)

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Thanks! I have guppies and zebra danios. I feed them frozen blood worms and bug bites but some times I change things up.

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Gorgeous! What does the mesh do? Block some light to prevent algae?

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Thanks! That’s like a honeycomb print, fluval does that on a lot of their tanks. Claims it hides the water level and any calcium buildup

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That’s a beautiful aquarium, how large is it? Fresh out salt water?

You’re making me miss the 100 gallon aquarium we had when I was a kid!

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It’s tiny! 4.3gal, fresh water. Has four little pigmy corydoras and one Otto catfish to keep things clean! I want bigger, but I have a small apartment right now and I think it would be unwise to move with a large, heavy aquarium. But I love this little one. It’s like a 1x1ft river bottom in a far away creek in South America. I like to watch the microfauna play in the red root floaters and the fish go after the algae and such. So far, they haven’t even touched man-made food. They just want the algae I’ve been growing for a few weeks :)

This is the first aquarium I’ve also had since I was a kid, and I love it :)

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I see you have also done the floating ring technique! I just did it to mine, and it’s helped a lot :3

I like your plants too!

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Very nice one! What is in there? Looks amazing for shrimps.

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This is my betta tank. He is called Baard, but he is asleep because I took the picture at night.

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Just a handful of pygmy corydoras and one Otto catfish. My aquarium is a nano 4.3gal, so I don’t want to overburden it. I love it, though :)

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