Recent content by queenieee

Ya'll are great....thanks for all the advice. So here's where I stand...I have completed yet another water change and checked my ammonia levels again, it's down to 1.0 ppm which is a HUGE improvement over 8 ppm. Someone asked about my filter, I have a Whisper 55. While I was doing my water...

I sucked out quite a bit of that nastiness yesterday during the water change. My potted plants sure like it though! I haven't had a chance to do a water change today. I did recheck ammonia...still way high. I should have time to do the water change in about an hour or so, so I will retest...

Hi all I posted in another forum because my ammonia levels are spiked really high (it is an established tank, so I'm trying to figure out in the other forum what's going on...:() Anyway, with the ammonia spike, my Apple Snails are doing really really bad. I want to take them out of the...

Hi...thanks for the response. It's not a new tank, pretty well established actually (about 2 years old). I do use a testing kit, not strips and I use buckets to change water. Under normal circumstances, I would only treat the water being brought into the buckets, but since the ammonia was so...

Hi all...I'm new to the forum and have looked around and haven't seen my exact problem addressed, so here it goes. My Apple Snails were in a serious decline, but everyone else was going along okay. I did a water test and my pH was 6.0, nitrAtes and nitrites were both zero:) but my ammonia was...

[COLOR="red"]Hi all...first off, thank you Dragonfish71for the welcome and the link to the introductions, as well as letting me know what ya'll are interested in knowing in order to help me around the forum. So....I have an established 40 gallon tank. It's inhabitants include 14 Platys...