Recent content by foreman711

Thank you all very much, I never realized how much work this is, I'm going to take my time read all of that and follow it word for word. Maybe by that time it's done it will be late enough in the season to turn on the AC

I'm not quite sure exactly what that is, is it the testing the water, then taking out some adding more and re conditioning the water? Testing again?

Its an upstairs apartment and is kind of in the center, the room has one window that is cover by a blanket. But the only way to get anything going is to have the air conditioning on? This room kind of doesn't get well air circulation, I just want the easy solution so I can get this started! Lol

Is there anything I can do? Is it bad to put some fish in there? Or should I wait till we put the air conditioning on to put fish in?

Well I'm worried about buying fish, the tank has no first, 2 thermometers one stick on and one inside, the inside one is reading between 83-86 degrees all day I've been checking all day about every hour. I stopped looking at the stick on because I feel it's reading the temp of the room. I'm just...

But also the water feels kind of nice to the touch

I live in Michigan and this weekend its been about 80+ degrees out and the air conditioning has not been on. The heater is for a 5-15 gallon tank next to the filter for circulation and one thermometer is on the outside of the tank and one is inside opposite of the heater. The inside is reading...

I bought my first tank on Friday, a 10 gallon starter kit from petsmart. Set it all up step by step with the directions. My problem is the water temperature, I set the heater to what it said and the directions said it shoud be 78+- degrees but was sitting at about 86 degrees. So I turned off the...