Recent content by kevan07

If your nitrates were off the scale to begin with in order for you to beable to read them you sometimes either have to do a huge water change (90%) or you can do several smaller water changes to bring the levels down into a readable range. As for the ammonia did you add anymore after the...

Just to clarify, you have a pleco in the 100 liter tank and are also wanting to add one angelfish (please correct me if I am reading this wrong). I am no good with liters so I converted this to gallons, so your tank is around 26 gallons. That being said some of the following would go nicely...

What I don't understand is how the two readings are so far apart. When looking at other peoples results if they have high gH then they also have high kH what is causing the one to be low and the other high? Makes no sense to me.

I am not sure how to get that out of the tap water but if you put live plants in your aquarium they should eat the Nitrates then you won't have to worry so much about it in the tap water.

Retested the KH and it turned a yellowish orange color after 20 drops. Retested the GH and it is green after 2 drops. So Kh: 20 and Gh: 2 What does this mean? And what should I do?

Yes, API GH & KH test kit.

I will re-run the test later today. Everyone thinks the water is soft because when you turn on the faucit the water feels almost slimy. Then when you are trying to wash dishes when you put soap in the only way to get suds in the water is if you hand mix the soup with the water. Either it is...

I purchased a GH and KH test kit because I was curious what my water hardness was since my pH is 8.4 but everyone that visits my house complains about how soft my water is. So I tested the water and got the following results: GH: 1-3 (I am not sure I added the first drop and the water...

It sounded like a lot of fish at once to me too I was just repeating what I heard. All I can say though is that I was trying to cycle a 29 gallon tank with 1 platy and it didn't seem to do much, after the platy died I have been fishless cycling and it completed in one week. Of course maybe that...

I was reading somewhere that you want 3-4 small fish per 10 gallons... So using that logic 9 or so? Personally fishless cycling is a TON easier though. Just buy a bottle of ammonia from Ace Hardware (costs around $2.60+tax) and syringe, use this calculator: Calculator to determine how much...

That does sound like a good idea and I do agree I would much rather be safe then sorry. Especially since it is a 50minute to an hour drive to my lfs of choice. I don't mind spending the money getting them but I am not going to be happy if I end up killing them due to the bad stock from the...

I didn't empty and scrub down the tank before the fishless cycle... I figured most diseases needed a host so without fish and with that much ammonia they would just die on their own... What should I do now? Is there anyway to test and see if there are lingering diseases in the tank? I had a 10...

I ended up dosing the tank to 3ppms of ammonia yesterday because I was not sure what else to do. Today the test results were: Ammonia: 0.25ppm, Nitrites, 0ppm, Nitrates: 40-80ppm (quite red but hard to tell the exact color). Today I am going to dose back up to 4ppm and wait and see what...

I was wondering about that since they are so small. I will just get something else then and consider a species only tank for sometime in the future. :-)

Thank you so much for all the suggestions. I have been thinking a lot about it and I think I am going to skip the rummynose tetras and go for something a bit more hardy. I still like them but I think they are best left for someone with either a lower pH or the means to lower their pH. :-) That...