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Ok you have convinced me for now to go with no ferts. See how I go. I may just periodically add root tabs to the tank, but that'll be all I do for say 3-6 months and then just asses and see how much growth im getting. I have used the oliver knott aqua earth and his black iron sand. I'll see how the plants go. If I do need some, I know that seachem flourish and API leaf zone don't need 50% water changes, but just your regular maintenance, I will just keep an eye out though on higher end ferts to see if any dont need big water changes m, just in case it ends up where I need some. But for now, I'll just let it be. Not good to hear about the heatwave you and the the UK are experiencing Simon. I have seen those small fans you can direct down on the tank water or put frozen iceblocks in the water? We put in ducted A/C a couple years back. Summers where I live, used to be dry, hot but dry. We would still get to 45°C for a couple days on end, then longer days on end of 40°C+ but it was dry. Now it's humid and we get those severe arvo storms that usually QLD would get. However with global warming, our weather here, has changed dramatically. It was after the 2019/20 fires that dad and mum decided to put it in. That summer was extremely hot. Since, we haven't had nearly as hot summers, as we have been in la nina. We have apparently just shifted to el nino so that'll bring hotter, dryer weather and that means...drought! A couple tips to help you though...get a damp wash cloth and freeze it. Use that to cool you too. If you have fans, a wet towel over the front of the grill of it, turns it into a much cooler fan, run wrists and feet in cool water. Jump in a lukewarm shower or bath (what I love to do most!), cold drinks, wet or frozen washcloth on the back of your neck. These things can help. Yeah if these tanks aren't any good, I'll just turn them into quarantine tanks. I'm leaning towards doing this anyway, as I do have a look im wanting to accomplish in my fish room. They have big thick rounded silver uprights on the outside of the silicone joins and it's not what I'm wanting tbh. But it was such a generous offer from my friend, so I'll use them as quarantine and hospital tanks so they don't go to waste. I just want opticlear tanks in my fish room. I'll have to put up a post in the wipe ya chin section about our yowie and paranormal experiences we have had here...oh and ufo experience too! We have had some real hectic, crazy stuff happen. My friend Dan (Yowie Dan as he is known as in Aus) has a youtube channel you watch- Australian Yowie. He actually got one on film accidentally a few years back. He was putting his camera down and a huge creature was standing next to a rock wall. They measured it and I think it was over 9 foot by memory. Also Attila, who came to our place with Dan in Feb, he has 2 brilliant docos on yowies- track: search for Australia's bigfoot and the 2nd is tracking the lore. Tracking the lore is based around my area. When they go to a crater that a meteorite made, that is 5mins from my house. Anyway, I'm getting off track, but go check them out. Mineral balls- I have hidden them for now. I got a slight Ammonia spike (0.25ppm- Nitrites 0ppm) today I think because I added 6 fish. They are really small and the LFS had ordered them in for me and said they weren't going to be able to get anymore, and they had sold quite a number of them. So I quickly took the last 6 they had. Now I have 10. I just did a 15% water change and added prime, and stability. The GH is stable and I didn't need to add anymore of the seachem aquavitro gh+. TDS is just down slightly from 170 prior to water change to now 149. I'll give it a bit, and it'll raise back up. The fish and shrimp are showing no issues. Yesterday the Ammonia was 0ppm and only today did it increase slightly. I'll run it now for a few hours, then retest Ammonia. I'll keep testing all parameters each day. It'll be fine, I'll get them through this. Luckily the mineral balls also suck up Ammonia and Nitrites it says online. Hopefully those mineral balls are helping to absorb that extra Ammonia. My tank has been cycled now for a number of weeks im sure it's just cause I added these 6 fish. I'll def monitor though and do water changes as needed.