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Temp at 76f after 1 gallon water change , poured the warm water in there very very slowly over 10 min. Links to the best of the best heaters you can come up with , can not be longer then say 8" , and 50w , for 5 gallon fluval chi I really don't care if i spend 50 bucks as long as i dont'...

5 gallon / 3 neon tetras (i know i know i know , wife made me buy them) 72f , currently I'm going to do the warm water thing , I can not move the heater under the filter its a fluva chi , that would be center and it would float and touch the plastic cool water and would prob shatter it . I...

So last night forgot to turn on heat in house , it got pretty cold 55f, 5gallon got to 70F, thought well just turn on the heat guess this thing can't handle a 23f temp difference no big deal (would not expect it to anyways) now at the end of the day tank is still at 70f it peaked at about 74...

"In trigger start fixtures that use one ballast to power two 20 watt tubes, sometimes both tubes will blink or intermittently dim. Replacing either tube with a known good tube may fail to fix this. The tubes may continue blinking or intermittently dimming until both are replaced with brand new...

sorry didn't' mean to hijack ;0

what would his response to increasing Nitrite levels be ? Change water ? Trying to learn i'd want to know the same thing !

Hey fish85 , I'm completely new myself but i've read alot so .. he is my shot at this take with a grain of ammonia ! You can't really poison a filter with ammonia , if you read the above links about the cycle , you will see some actually "poison a tank" without fish at about 8ppm to Start the...

Yeh well I can only talk down the wify so much when shes like Owwww look at those i want those !! . me .. you can't have those .. her "pouty face" ohh ohh right ....

Completely new to the hobby , but willing to learn , read and read some more ! any advise? here is a little of my setup and what i've learned/ done so far Tank was bought for my wife for christmas (i do all the work she gets to look at fishys ;0 ) win/win :dance: Setup so far 5 Gallon Fluval...