Recent content by Jtomas24

Okay so I have an established tank set up in my apartment in a city with tap water. I'm moving back to my parents house in the coming weeks and they have well water. I just want to make sure I am going to do the transition right. I'm upgrading tank size, which I already have. I have the ability...

Got a 37g tall tank and nice custom wood stand for 25$ on Friday. Saw it as soon as it was posted on craigslist and emailed the person right away. It came with the tank, which is in great condition, the homemade stand and the tank top and light fixture. It's amazing what you can find on...

Well sad news. Woke up yesterday morning to find all of the fry dead. I been keeping a close eye on ammonia, nitrite and nitrate as well as temperature and about twice weekly PWC but still had some sort of tragedy. Checked the parameters once again after I cleaned the fish out and everything...

Well I can't get a good picture of them but they are definitely growing quick. They already are much easier to spot in the tank. I'm going to try the brine Shrimp today I think. I've just been feeding them crushed up flakes. The first couple times it took them a while to realize food was there...

I'll try to get a picture later today. It's gonna be hard, they are so small. They're in a 10 gallon tank with a pfs bed, two thick fake plants, and a hob filter I picked up with a 20 gallon setup a while back. The temp stays around 80 with the heater that's in it. They hide in the plants most...

Are you trying to get the bottom out or trying to cut them right in half? I stared at mine for a while trying to figure out how to cut them in half too but then I decided the easiest thing to do was just bury half of it in the substrate. I have sand so it was really easy just to stick it in

Went into petco yesterday cause I was bored and that's what I do. Haha. But I saw a tank full of bamboo and driftwood pieces and was checking out the wood and realized there was little Molly and platy fry swimming all around in the tank. They had a little tag that said adoption babies 25 cents...

I was looking through some threads but didn't find anything really. I was wondering if there are any fish stores in the Carbondale, Scranton, Wilkes barre area. I know of the normal places like petco, petsmart and pet supplies plus, but what about stores more fish oriented that aren't chain stores

Well I've been observing my tank and doing water changes accordingly for two weeks now. Everything is good to go and back to normal. Thank you guys so much for the help :)

I got a piece of glass made at the local glass shop (mesko glass) and they cut it and finished the edges for a fish tank for $16 that's including tax and delivery. It was 36" by 16" at quarter inch thick. I couldn't believe how cheap it was considering home depot wanted close to $80 for...

I used API root tabs from petsmart. I'll do another water test when I get home and do a 50% change and see what happens. How long would be good to wait to test the water after that and how long after that should I wait to perform another water change if needed? Thank you for all the help. I'm...

Thanks for the replies. I kinda figured the root tabs caused the tinting. I noticed a brown leaf on my amazon sword also. Maybe that's the cause of the ammonia? I plan on doing a water change as soon as I get home from work which is in about 2 hours, hopefully by then there's no damage done. How...

I added root tabs to my tank last night and when I woke up this morning my water was very cloudy. Almost like a brownish tint and I tested the water and it was high for ammonia. Didn't get a chance to do a partial water change but would root tabs cause a problem like this?

Did you get that formation to the right from petco or petsmart. I feel like I saw it there and wasn't sure how I felt about it but it looks good. Nice tank

What would be considered expensive LEDs? I have LEDs of all different kinds. We deal with them quite often in r&d in my industry. I have a decent amount of 5mm LEDs from digi-key lying around and was going to use those. Probably two rows of ten white ones and two rows of ten blue ones