Recent content by Abby256

Think I'll go ahead and order some more carbon for now and check into the other later. I've been using fertilizer so I wonder if maybe that's what is making the plants go so well. I had just heard the same as you had regarding not using carbon with plants and I had found the purigen while...

Thank you :)

Sorry filter fiber.

Thanks. Sorry didn't see your post. What is the fiber fill? Where do you get it? My plants are doing fine as everything is right now and they were fine with the carbon while it was in but I was afraid it might have a long term bad effect on them and I wasn't sure what would be best for the fish...

Hi hoping that someone can help me out with this. This is my first planted tank. It's a 29 gallon and I have two HOB filters. One is a Aquaclear 50 and the other a Aquaclear 20. I did have carbon in the filters along with sponges and the aquaclear biomax. I have since taken out the carbon and...

Sorry for the length. This has been a lengthy ordeal. It was almost like a disease in humans that attacks the immune system. You know someone with one of those diseases almost never dies directly from it but from a resulting complication. For pesticides contaminating the wood makes sense to me...

I'm sure I did but the alternative was far worse and remember this was after I had tried doing frequent water changes and adding salt. I was convinced certain initially it was poisoning but never imagined it to be from the driftwood. After all it came from the store as ready to go and had been...

Oh and I did wonder if it was from the rock we bought there maybe leaching out heavy metals or some sort of deposit in the rock. I took the rock out fairly early and then things kept getting worse even with a massive water change (to try to remove metal if it was present) and changing all filter...

That of course would also explain why the illness wasn't behaving as any type of fish illness that I could find and the symptoms kept showing up differently in individual fish. If they were poisoned that makes sense. And to start with I thought it must have been ammonia poisoning but none of the...

OMG you're a genius. That would make perfect sense. When we shopped there it was clean but disorganized. And since then we found out that the store is hit and miss. Some weeks might be clean tanks other weeks everything dying. When we visited they had several cardboard boxes sitting out on the...

I've seen some gel slow release food online that promises not to be messy. No idea if it actually does what says though. I think it only got rated by users something like 2.5 stars out of five. I almost bought some to test out but then ended up backing out and not ordering it.

Wow, that's awesome. I don't think I'd get any sympathy from my boss.LOL. Still haven't given up the idea/hope though. Hey seriously your tank is fabulous and I hope you'll post updates/photos on your work tank project -very interested. Love your tank. I have a 1 1/2 gallon that we bought just...

Sorry probably photo overload. These are so much better. You can see the light off of the aerator in the background.

Closer view of tank I took about 5 weeks or so ago with only 6 zebra danios in tank. One of them you can see up by the heater to the right. I'm using Flourish Excel fertilizer on the plants one a week. The Java ferns already have shoots and the bannana plant has shot up. They still have a long...

The water in first pic looks yellow in pic. I swear it's not. My living room walls are currently painted a neutral tan-ish color. I'm halfway through painting them.