Recent content by fltcrew21

Azule the Amazing Crowntail I finally got around to taking a picture of Azule. It is probably a little out of focus but not bad for a quick snap shot. You get the idea anyway!

Found a small Snail Thanks for the compliments on the tank. I tried to talk her out of the items at the store but I guess she knew what she was doing! I just noticed there is a tiny snail on the glass of his tank. No idea where it came from. No live plants. Anyway, I have no idea what kind...

My daughter got a 35g Bowfront for Christmas that we fish in cycled (already had some fish) and it is planted and they LOVE IT. Water is crystal clear and everything is stable. Instead of letting her Aqueon 4g go to pot sitting in the garage, I decided to try my hand at a fish less cycle and...

Nope A LOT of filter media water did not work nor adding some media itself. That helps but apparently does not work completely. I mean I got nitrites and nitrates fast but it has never cycled. i.e. converted 2-4 ppm ammonia to 0 and 0 in any amount of time, let alone 24 hours. No.... this...

Stalled Cycle Well from now on when I read online that you cannot stall a cycle because of super high nitrites, I'm gonna roll my eyes and stop reading. It 100% DOES STALL! I promise! As written earlier in this thread, I seeded this small tank with LOTS of stuff from my canister filter and...

Definitely Stalled Well from now on when I read online that you cannot stall a cycle because of super high nitrites, I'm gonna roll my eyes and stop reading. It 100% DOES STALL! I promise! :facepalm: As written earlier in this thread, I seeded this small tank with LOTS of stuff from my...

BB in a Bottle I think the reason there are so many different opinions on that BB in a bottle is that it does start giving you Nitrite readings FAST. So some kind of bacteria IS converting ammonia. BUT and this is a big but, the cycle stalls there for a length of time that you are no better...

I'm in the middle of a fish less cycle on my daughter's old Aqueon 4g Evolve. If you're not familiar with that product, it has about a 1 gallon reservoir in the back with a slot for an Aqueon medium filter then an overflow to the other side of a bulkhead with a small pump that returns water to...

Growing in a Pond versus an Aquarium She only had one other goldfish in there at the time. Apparently last fall she learned about Chlorine the hard way. Well, she learned THAT she had chlorine the hard way. She knew she was on a well but it is a community well that was treated and metered to...

Another lady contacted me through CL this week and I took "Spot" to her backyard goldfish pond. It was about 50 miles round trip but she was happy to have him and he seemed to like it.

El Nino Fern I got the El Nino Fern about a month ago. It was one of the first plants. It is green and doing as well as the JF's. I would just like to see them grow or fill out so I know that what I am doing is working. I am going to set the aquarium lights on a timer and follow your...

Lights and Plants I leave the lights on for about 12 hours per day. Sometimes I switched them off during the day for an hour or so but not usually. The newer lights have only been installed a little over a day so probably no progress gonna be visible yet from that. I dosed 20ml of Flourish...

I have what I believe is Black Beard Algae trying to grow on a couple of plant leaves. This is a new tank (one month old) with new plants (about a month). My observation is that this BBA (if that's what it is) only grows on 1 or 2 plants. It does not grow at all on my Amazon Swords but is...

Thanks for the reply. I've heard that too about the Nitrite BB but my Nitrates were like 80ppm. Pretty high, then after I did some water changes to get the nitrites down so I could read them, the nitrates read a very low 5 and didn't climb again. That seemed to me like a stalled situation. I...

Before and After These before and after pictures are not really fair although they do make my new lights look even better in comparison. The old lights picture was taken last week during the day and the new light picture was taken tonight with the area lights off. Still, in all honesty they...