Recent content by MontanaDolphin

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Had, not have. They all died, remember? It is odd that you would say so, since the 20i is for 10-20 gallon aquariums. Said so right on the box. That makes so much sense. Although the water was clear when Sam died, who knows what invisible monsters were swimming around in the water. The...

Thank you very much for the link to the article...it was a tremendous help! The tank I have is not a Walmart tank...it was given to me by a friend five or six years ago. Everything inside the tank, except for the water lol, is from walmart however.

Amanda, Thanks for the apology in your other post. It is accepted with gratitude. I guess this is what happens through written words with no tone of voice or facial expressions...things can be taken the wrong way. Please accept my apology as well for misunderstanding. No, I did not know I...

Wanted to do a quick update on the tank: I took the remaining two mystery snails out and put them in a 5 gallon aquarium with water from my tank (best thing i could think of to do). I have a "mini" filter i'm using for them. I scooped and poured in the sink enough water so I could carry the...

I just bought a 5-in-1 test kit and used one of the strips to test the water of my aquarium. Here is a picture of the key, and my results are below: NITRATE: 10 (Safe) NITRITE: .5 (Caution) HARDNESS: 75 (Soft) ALKALINITY: 80 (Moderate) pH: 6.8 (Neutral) Based on my results, can anyone advise...

Thank you all for your support. I'm glad to be told Mandy didn't mean to offend, but unfortunately that is what her post did. Sam was like a symbol to my husband and me...we had taken a walk while we were dating (we had only been seeing each other for a month) beside a lake when he found a baby...

This is why I let him swim around in his outside pool (it was one of those blue hard plastic kiddie pools you can buy at Walmart), set up with a rock he could climb out of the water and get on, plus some water lillies I got from a nearby lake. I'd put him in it when I woke up in the morning, and...

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my post. Please be patient, as this will be lengthy. Let me start off by telling you about my tank as it was up until 3 weeks ago. I had an eastern painted turtle, named Sam, that my husband found as a hatchling a month after we met 10 years ago...