Recent content by gravereaper0

There's no way you can fit a canister that's under 5" the hoses/connectors alone need about that much space

Not sure if this is the right spot for this thread, if not mods feel free to move it, but I am interested in buying the bio home Ultra media from Pond guru in the UK. Checking out some prices on eBay, 22 pounds of it runs for about $160 and cost $120 to ship. Ouch! Crazy shipping cost. Would...

So is the fem being chased around here?

Bummer I'm deff bummed I never lost a fish before. Could it have something to do with the fact that it was a schooling fish and he was by himself?

Yea definitely the fluval and power head are working double time, but I'm ordering the glass panes for the 30 gallon to turn it into a sump next week. Well that's s relief then. But what happened with my clown loach then?

So couple days ago my wife told me that the clown loach died. :( I'm not home during the week so I couldn't get a look at anything until today. I told her to test the water and parameters looked fine, ammo was a bit high @.5 so she did a 50% water change. As I'm looking @ the rest of the fish I...

That ammo is up there

40ppm is OK don't lose any sleep over it. Sometime I'll get lazy and do a WC every other week n @ that point my nitrates are almost @100ppm with no ill effects

You can lower it with driftwood. Or if you plan on doing co2 that will also lower it

I got a bristlenose pleco with my goldies. 99% of the time he sucked up against the acrylic or the driftwood and doesn't get bothered.

The old watt/per gallon rule is outdated. But for a 2 ft tall tank if you want high light and co suffering live carpeting you're gonna need something that can give u good lumens @24". And since you dont want to spend much, go with a metal halide light.

Ditto on the air stone. Theyll be fine. You will probably experience a micro bacteria bloom thatll cloud up the water for a bit but thats usually expected when changing things out.

Nobody?

Since I got a 2 foot tall tank im thinking an algae cleaner would make my life easier. I just can't decide which 1. The 2 I'm looking @ is the algaefree hammerhead cleaner or the mag float 360A. Other then the price difference, does any1 have any personal experiences with these 2?

Pretty much what every1 is saying. Do a water the day of or the day b4 u leave turn the lights off set up feeder and ull be alright. make sure the feeder is set up correctly. When I first got mine it took a week to fine tune how much food to drop.