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Oh no! Sadly not every species works out for everyone and there’s often no obvious reason.

Nice. Love otos

Sorry you lost her.

Be prepared for diatoms...the reason there are no pictures of Ghost’s kitchen tank is because of all the diatoms everywhere (using media, substrate and plants directly moved from the flex with him!!).
Looks good and worth the effort.

Glad you’ve managed to get to the bottom of it (only just caught up). I had similarly “inert” p @ h gravel with my first betta in 2018. My kH is similar to yours so same difficulties.

Wouldn’t be in the hobby if I didn’t! Looks good

Can’t get enough of my cory tank and actually seeing them all the time



And a sandy snail

I’m still quite a bit further north but I have a friend who lives in that vague area (outskirts of Sorn). And my ex hubby was from Galston area so I’ve been there a few times. Bit of a mix between extremely rural and then ex-industrial towns. Decent motorway links to Glasgow and then elsewhere. I wo...

how have I never seen that before

If it looks like nitrite is getting stupidly high, do a water change but keep dosing ammonia. It’s just a case of waiting for them to catch up and when they do it’s like overnight magic!