Recent content by pairustwo

I'll be gone ten days. The fish sitter will be fine with the fish at home. It is the fish in the classroom That I'm concerned about. The last time I got a dissolve type feeder I came back and it was all slimy and the fish were eating on each other. I will look into a timed feeder. Thanks.

I've got a 20 gallon FW at home that has pretty heavy filtration on it A Fluval 204 and a HOB filter. It it also pretty heavily stocked - 4 neon tetras 1 inch 2 albino corys 1 inch 2 SAE 2 inches 2 Gourami 1 inch 1 Blue Ram 1 inch 1 Guppy 2 inches 1 Red Tailed Shark 2.5 inches 1 Zebra Pleco...

So I've recently done away with my glass tank top as it was interfering with the quality of light getting to the plants. Now I have more rapid evaporation to deal with. I usually fill my tank with a python during water changes. How do I go about topping off the tank with just a little water...

I think some of the "gunk" might be algae. It is sort of blows around when I use the vacuum but seems to be to heavy to get sucked up. It also sort of clumps together. I have several small patches the largest maybe the width of a dime. It doesn't appear to be strings of poo at all. I'll give...

I've got a small 15 gallon tank lightly stocked with white sand as a substrate. There is a good deal of "gunk" collecting on the surface of the sand. I was sold a fish - the name of which I cannot recall - that would nibble at the sand surface. This keep things pretty clean. I don't know if...

My favorite fish - a sailfin pleco who was a goofy as a puppy - ended up on the floor in the middle of the night. I found him the next morning. What would cause a fish to do that? I've never noticed him even near the top of the tank. I have a moon light but do fish get disoriented in terms of...

Cool, Thanks. Pairustwo

Ammonia that is. It is a new school year and I am setting up my classroom tank as usual, preforming a fishless cycle. I was being careless and I put too much ammonia in the water. My tank was only about half full so I immediately put more water in - diluting it to about 8ppm NH3. (I don't...

I found a nice stand with doors and everything that I would like use to repace my cheapo iron stand - with the fluval and yeast hanging out all over the place. What are the chances of moving an established tank. How much water can I take out without having to re-cycle? How much weight can the...

I have flourite substrate. But I did add some crushed coral some time ago hoping to stabilize my pH. At the time my Ph was sinking really low for some unknown reason (this was before I added CO2) and my kh was 1 so I was trying to make the water harder. It rose to 2 degrees kh. I also took out...

I have been trying to tweak my DIY CO2 system because I can't get consistent and or good levels of CO2 out of it. Last night I ditched Champagne yeast and tried regular bread yeast. I was getting 30 bubbles per minute within a couple of hours and today I came home and am getting more bubbles...

Thanks. GlitcH thanks for letting tap that photo. Pairustwo

I was reading a thread by Giltch about his or her red cherry shrimp breading tank. and I was wondering what that small plant that is carpeting his substrate is. The following picture was hi-jacked from his thread thanks.

Gotcha. I didn't realize and I didn't find this issue in the DIY CO2 instructions I had read. Now I know. Thx pairustwo

Did that. In fact the little beaker that i used to mix the yeast, warm water, and sugar (30ml) overflowed as the yeast foamed up. At that point I added to the 2liter bottle of sugar water. OK so why is my production going down to zero when I turn the heating pad off but goes back up to like 30...