Recent content by NotNowChief

This is mazing, good for you. Any pics of your rescue fish!? I'll never understand some people. Those nitrates really must have been surreal.

Thank you for the comments and feedback everyone. Believe it or not, the driftwood pieces and the plants are from my local PetSmart. Yes, really. They are a set, and have quite a convincing paint job. Only when you look really close can you see that they are resin and not real wood. The only...

Oh I appreciate the input, I never thought much of the very low Nitrates because of the 1/5th water changes per week with gravel vacuuming, and I have alot of small fish. Just last night I tested again because you guys had me doubting myself, 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, and negligible amount of...

Here are a few pictures of my 55 Gallon Community Aquarium in our home office I thought I would share. I currently have a common Pleco (about 8-10 inches long), 5 Red Eye Tetras, 3 Candy Cane Tetras, 5 Cory Catfish, 2 Dalmatian Mollies, and 2 Butterfly Lyretail Mollies. It has been set up in...

I tested nitrates again last night and it was barely orange on the API chart, right around 5PPM. However, I am not sure what the correlation is about low nitrate levels after a water change and fish getting eaten. But to appease the gods, so be it. I reintroduced the 4 mollies yesterday...

The Neons were added about 2 weeks ago.

Yep, I use the API Master Test Kit, no test solutions are expired, it always reads clean. 1/5 water change every week, a small-moderate bioload, and 3 bags of BioMax in each of 2 AQ70s. I understand the life span of common Plecos, when he needs a bigger tank, he'll get one. By then I'm sure...

Hi all, I've been reading these forums for quite some time, and finally decided to join in and ask some questions, and maybe answer a few from my experience. I've had various tanks in various configurations over my 35 years of age, mostly keeping larger fish, and recently decided to venture...