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Thanks, y'all. Gonna try adding some floaters and cutting back on food. Tank's a 5-gallon with just the betta, so maybe I'm overdoing the flakes.

My betta tank's nitrate levels are sitting around 20 ppm, which seems a bit high. I do weekly 25% water changes, but it's not dropping much. Anyone got tips on how to keep it lower without stressing my fish?

Isn't he though? I just couldn't leave him sitting there, that blue was too perfect. It'll be fun to see if he keeps that same color as he gets bigger, I'm curious to see how he'll change.

I'm in the same boat, dude. My Swords were struggling until I doubled up on root tabs and added a lil liquid fert. Now they're growing like crazy. Just don't go overboard or you'll be fighting algae for weeks.