Recent content by subliminalanarchy

Bad readings are normal, but I think you're doing more harm than good by adding baking soda. I've always heard that it's best to just leave the PH completely alone unless you absolutely know what you're doing. Slow and steady changes should be okay though, like the crushed coral suggestion...

The most common reason I hear of when someone's tank isn't cycling is because of over cleaning. A lot of people get so caught up in trying to make everything perfect that they accidentally kill all the beneficial bacteria by going OCD on their maintenance. That would be my best guess. Do you...

Do you have africans or C/S americans? Just curious. If they are africans, what have you got? Probably something really mean I bet.

This is in a 75g right? If so then I doubt you have anything to worry about. If one of your fish starts to hide all the time, then you need to be concerned. I would consider this friendly rivalry at this point. It's fairly normal behavior. No need to fish em' out.

My mbunas do this all the time. It's just a fight for dominance thing. Absolutely nothing to worry about. The fact that they're fighting with each other is probably a good thing; it means neither of them is getting bullied too much.

I recently set up a 80 gallon goldfish tank at my work and I decided to just add some extra ammo chips we had laying around into the filter to help keep the ammonia from spiking ( I also seeded the filter with bacteria from an established tank). Strangely enough, it's been about 2 weeks with...

Agree with this. I have too much faith that people know what they're doing.

I would just use a really big bag, like 'shopping bag' sized. If you try to close it at the very top and then twist it down a little bit it will have plenty of natural air. Or you could just go get some 5 gallon buckets from home depot.

Well, there ya go. You got me trying to learn more fish names. I was going to say they all look the same at first but there is a distinctive difference between some of them, not quite sure what it is but it's there.

I saw a video on youtube of a guy who had a grouper living in freshwater for like 3 years... I guess whoever he bought it from had acclimated it to freshwater and he didn't even know it was supposed to be marine. Crazy stuff. I'm sure it's bad for the fish. When I first saw this I thought they...

I work at the petco like 5 minutes away from there lolz... I didn't know they had that deal on the tanks either

pretty sure that striped african is a johanni.. cool fish

My 55g looks pretty dark with the regular fluorecent lighting. The lights are at least a year old and they're only 18" not 24". Do you guys think changing out the bulbs for newer ones would brighten up the tank much? Thanks

What is a Sump and Do You Need One for a Saltwater Aquarium? the link explains it better than I would :)

Wow a bunch of good information there guys. I think I pretty much get it now. I suppose I'll actually have to set one up before everything will totally register but I've got a better picture of how it works now. Thanks