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from what i have gathered from here and another forum, i have come to the conclusion that carbon is not as bad as the article makes it to be. i will continue using carbon in my tank then. thanks for all the good advice on this since i was so confused by this article! also i never took out my...
wow really so it is only active for about a week? what does it do for the tank after the week? it doesn't do anything that the manufacturers say it does?
is this true about activated carbon?
fishyou.com aquarium information
mainly the part where it says carbon removes all ammonia and therefore beneficial bacteria cannot develop and when the carbon loses its effectiveness ammonia will shoot up? basically creating an uncycled aquarium?
i am...
bought some more rummy nose tetra today and the guy gave me about 20 snails. he said its good for the tank. there were alot of snails in all the tanks im not sure what they are but i see them in alot of other LFS tanks as well so im assuming they are pretty common? also my puffer really likes...
thanks for the reply i will try out what out described. one question though. what do you mean by dipping the tank water in the bucket? do you mean pour some tank water in there once the temps are back up? wouldnt that cause a shock in the different temperatures for the fish
im new here and have been getting alot of help with my 40 gal fish tank setup. i have a newly finished cycled tank with fish in there (4 rummy nose tetra, 2 oct catfish, 1 spotted puffer) i was wondering if changing out my tacky pink gravel with aquarium sand would mess up my cycled tank since i...
the cleaning catfishes I'm talking about are the octoniclus catfish (the spelling is off). yes i am aware that 4 will eventually get too big and once paired can be very aggressive. i have plans to give 2 off to my cousin once they pair off or get too big. so i would be fine with about 20 tetras...