Recent content by breadlowry

dudes, we're takling about fish here. i'm sure a difference of 3 or 4 degrees wou'dn't do any harm. As for chemistry do like menagerie says. Just squirt a little treatment in. It'll all be good. if all else fails, think like a fish

sweetness, thanks everyone.

I know nitrogen cycles, in the whole denitrification deal. Nitrites, Nitrates, Ammonia. I don't member the order. But ammonia is most harmful, and i don't think nitrites are harmful at all? I'm not totally sure about this. I'm just trying to get some nitrogen knowlege out there. waht do...

activated carbon I didn't realize carbon needed changed that often. I've heard of people simply rinsing of the grunge from the cartriges when needed and using them of r half a year without problems.

Where i work, we use straight up water softening salt.

right on, Yeah it must be something about having a bunch of ions floatin around? thanks dude. Iyas just curious.

carbon is good, it'll lock up damn near anything. There are different forms of carbon worth researching too.

Mike's got the idea. Bacteria are all over. It's in the water, on the rocks and plants. In my opinion, washing the filter in the water during a water change would only creat dirtyness. I say rinse the thing out in the sink when it needs it. bacteria will always be around. (bio-wheels are a...

Big dude. really big. you knw what, why don't you just seal your room off and make it an aquarium, hell yeah.

I read a book once. lol just once. It was a book on aquaria. It said water cloudiness was normal in the first week of set up. I just set my tank up and let it run for a week before anything went into it. Everything sleared up and all is well. I don't know the science behind the cloudy...

silicone, and lots of it baby. silicone is my cure all. lol

I've heard of salting freshwater tanks as a stress reducing method, and a little bit about pH control. Are there any other reasons for adition of salt?

Yeah buddy, I totally agree. I do know that DI water means no ions of any sort. Just like if we drank DI water we would be dehydrated, fish in DI i would imagine be dehydrated too. ions flow from high concentration to low concentration(or out of the fish into the water). lol i know that...

Too much flow?? Thats like a girl too pretty and a car too fast. I wouldn't worry bout it.

That's cool stuff. Are convicts mouth brooders? I'm getting some cichlid fry from work. They're mouth brooders. I'm looking forward to breeding them. 8)