Recent content by Jsk8tes

Hi, great advice here for getting your parameters back in order. One other thing you might want to consider for your plants is an air stone or tube that goes on strictly at night. Your plants use that oxygen most at that time, and the C02 during the day. Hopefully, that will help get your...

I wonder how long they've had that puffer? Are their teeth supposed to look like that? I've only read a little about them, and decided against it due to tank size limits when I started a saltwater tank a while back. Had to break it down and rehome but Love these social fellas! Maybe one day...

Nitrates=0 Nitrites=0 Ammonia=0 pH=6.0 GH=180+ppm KH=0 Feel I'm fighting a losing battle. Most of what I read about pH is that it tends to be alkaline when water is hard. Strangely, mine is the opposite. Very hard, very acidic. Been working hard to bring down Nitrates, get water softer and...

Just arrived and doing a lot of research. Great info here. I'm not new to fishkeeping. Currently have a 55gallon freshwater tropical tank and had to re-home/breakdown three other tanks (two 20gallon and a 30gallon saltwater) last summer when my husband was diagnosed with cancer and was going...