Recent content by Semperfi2091

Can you guys help me sex my new JD? LFS said Male but I'm second guessing. LFS has been wrong about stuff before. For example, the lady didn't know that Yellow Labs are Mbuna and once recommended a Spotted Green Puffer as a good community fish to go with my daughter's Platys and Mollies...

Also, I'm 100% with you on the baffles and having room in the pump chamber of the sump. Couldn't agree more. My mechanical chamber (only taking up 4" of the length of my 30G sump) will have filter socks draining into floss, then will flow under a baffle, through a 2" gap, then over a baffle...

Cool, thanks Bandit! The other valve upstream would just be there to block in before I break the union at the pump in case I needed to pull it out for maintenance. Call it the Plant Operator in me, I like places to block in when the need arises, lol.

So I'm setting up a 120G cichlid tank and instead of running a couple expensive canister filters I'm building a 30G sump to turn my water over as close to 10x an hour as possible. Because I work at a chemical plant and I'm so accustomed to not throttling back on the discharge of pumps to help...

Typo, meant NitrAte is there, not nitrIte.

New to the hobby. Had my 60 gallon up for almost a month now. Started with Seachem Stability for fish in cycling with 6 small livebearers. (4 mollies and 2 platys). Added 4 more platys for more bioload on the tank, following LFS advice. Water testing every day. 25-50% PWC every time ammonia...

I set up my Marineland 60 gallon tank about 9 days ago. I let the the filled tank sit for a couple of days to gas off the chlorine after adding the dechlorinator (Aqueon water conditioner). A week ago, I added API Quickstart, 2 Black Mollies, 2 Dalmatian Mollies, and 2 Mickey Mouse Platys...

Hello, Just starting my first aquarium. Its a 60 gallon freshwater setup with a Marineland Emperor 400 filter/pump, and an Aqueon 300W submersible heater. I've been lurking for a while and reading. Just decided to join. Semp