Recent content by pamelarowley57

Congratulations!!

I brought in some rocks and am now soaking them....There should be plenty of nooks and crannies to get enough rocks into to hold it....... Hopefully

Pictures Here are a couple of pics that show a little detail

Oh Thanks Guys!!! That is encouraging at least! LOL! I will post some pics here in a minute. It really is a cool piece!

Wal-Mart usually has pfs Everyone has a walmart within reasonable distance....don't they? :) HTH

Aw, geez really? So it's gonna have to be like that huh? Guess its back to the drawing board...LOL! Thanks

How do I get my driftwood water logged and settled on the bottom? I soaked it in the bathtub in bleach water and then soaked it again in plain tap water. It is too big to boil and all that. I have it in my 125 gal and it is floating....will it ever sink? do I need to place something heavy on...

@Aaron - cool! Thanks for sharing your tip!

I don't know man.....sorry :( You don't want your nitrates to get over 20ppm no matter what if you have fish. What are your reduced light issues? It sounded to me like your lighting was probably sufficient.

It appears that I should put a little more effort in to learning how to care for baby shrimp. Is my old HIB filter gonna work? It's just the cheapie walmart aquatech 5-15.

Well, some of the plants came out of an established tank. I tried to seed it originally, but got a hold of wal-mart's ammonia the first time around. I took the filter out of an established tank, but when I used the wrong ammonia I had to rinse it all out and wash everything :(

Things are moving along! Tests show this morning a conversion to nitrites and some nitrates. Here's the results: Looks to me like PH 7.4 AMMONIA 2.0 NITRITE 2.0 NITRATE 20 PPM

P.S. I have the Nutrafin co2 system with the ladder.....I don't think a whole hell of a lot of it, but put it in my 5 gal. DIY systems can be made much much better. I don't think the ladder is very efficient.

for a 20 gal a diy system should be sufficient. You will need a check valve appropriate tubing a diffuser or better yet a reactor I wouldn't think that for a diy 20gal system that you would need a bubble counter and all that, unless you wanted to make it pretty sophisticated. I'm guessing...

can I see some pics? It sounds a lot like my situation with, of course, a different build. I started my 125 in december and don't have a co2 system in place. I don't use all the ferts but I did put in soil and eco complete substrate. I've got some white funk growing all over that seems to be...