Recent content by Enzo954

Well I've spent the last 3 hours attempting to get the top cover off and still no luck. Whoever put this tank together must have siliconed every little nook and cranny. What a nightmare. I'm using razor blades, paint scrapers, knives and brute force. Unfortunately I've crossed the point of...

Did you have difficulty getting the trim off? That's my biggest concern. What type of Silicone did you use? I bought the GE 1 Silicone. It seems like everywhere I search people say that this is the one to use.

I saw his thread and I noticed via his pictures that he left the top trim on. It just seems to me that the proper way to do it would be to remove the top to ensure that all of the silicone is new and adheres. I'm worried that if I leave the top trim on and then try to apply new silicone to...

I plan on removing the silicone on an older tank I just bought because the silicone isn't looking too good. I understand the process and what I need to do, but I'm not sure about whether or not I need to remove the top plastic trim before I lay down the new silicone. Should I leave the...

Well I just think that the huge black overflow box is an eyesore in the tank.

I recently purchased a used 110 gallon Aquarium that has an overflow box built in. It was used for saltwater. I want to convert it to a Cichlid tank and am starting to think that the huge built in overflow box is a bit of an eyesore. Is it possible to remove the overflow box and then somehow...

I'm in the US, South Florida to be exact. It's public water and no I'm not using my tap water for drinking water. I ended up going to my local well respected fish store and was told that south Florida has issues with nitrites and nitrates in the tap water. She recommended that I try Tetra Safe...

So i've been fishless cycling my first tank for about a month (Fluval Edge 6 gallon). I've been dosing it with Ammonia and it's been dropping to zero within 12 hours which is great, but my nitrites have been through the roof for weeks. I've also seen the niTrates steadily increase which is...

So I did a big 80% water change yesterday and the NItrites are still through the roof. The Nitrates came down a bit but they are quickly rising again. The Ammonia dropped due to the water change so I added a few drops yesterday to boost it up a bit to see if it would drop at all. It doesn't seem...

Do you think that the Nutrafin Cycle product that I used caused the Nitrites to spike which in turn ended up creating the Nitrates? Also, most likely the good bacteria that converts the ammonia to Nitrites didn't build up yet and that's why the Ammonia really isn't dropping at this point?

So I bought my first tank a few weeks ago and I'm having some major issues. It's a Fluval Edge 6 gallon FYI. It came with a bottle of Nutrafin Cycle and I added it gradually over the course of 3 days per the instructions but didn't add any fish because I wanted to cycle the tank without any...