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Wondering what a good gravel vacuum would be for my 55g goldfish tank? It's pretty heavily planted but I figure with goldies even that won't be enough... Thanks!

Good news this morning! Nitrites are down to 0.8mg/L so at last I feel like all the PWC's are making a difference! :dance: Planning to keep up with them till we get down to zero. Ammonia is still 0, Nitrates are at 20, pH and temp stable despite all the changes. Now for another question - once...

Hubs did his testing and water change under strict supervision! He is a good student, no worries for him to keep this up while I am out of the house. Frustratingly there is still no change in the parameters, I can't even imagine how high it must have been that the 6 50% PWC have made no impact...

Thanks for the quick response! I have been "training" hubby and I think he's up to the job. Luckily our tank is right by the front door and the hose is just outside so its actually fairly easy to do water changes. And the testing is simple enough. Tonight he gets to do one with me supervising so...

Hey all, I started a 55g planted FW tank about a month ago. I fully admit I was impatient so decided to do a fish-in planted cycle vs a fishless. I have four small (1") fancy goldfish and a small rubber lip pleco in there, along with a good amount of plants (2 java fern, 2 moneywort, 2...

I've been finding every time I google anything fish related it brings me to the right answers here so I decided it was time to get myself on this forum! I have a 1600 gallon koi pond in my backyard that I put in early 2010 which is going strong and have just recently started a 55G goldie tank...