Recent content by Yeti

alrighty so its been a long while since an update, ive been keeping up with my PWCs and water tests, just havent been so much on the boards.. been a lil busy with my newborn and such.. No new fish yet, since my swordtail leapt out to his doom. Im going to get more fish after I get a lid for my...

yeah my tank has a little metal thing that wedges in the center it will help support the plexi.. all else fails i can flip it over and let it sag back into place (much like an old bookshelf)

except i dont have cutting tools, would be easier to have lowes/menards just cut it there.. I just drew up the specs so it shouldnt be hard..

yeah they dont have those in 48" though.. I might just make my own out of plexi.. shouldnt cost too much to have a 48"x13" piece cut and then cut in half and then one of those in half again, then jerry rig some handles and hinges.. maybe drill tiny holes in it to allow for evaporation etc?

I am almost angry with myself for this one.. almost every day I have my head in my tank lookin around at everything taking mental notes on my fish and inverts, etc.. I started straying from it assuming everything was fine, and I havent really payed a lot of attention to it in about a week.. well...

take either them or the plants out..*shrug*

reduce the amount I feed? I only put a tiny pinch of flakes in once in the morning, once at night and usually 1 algae wafer, the snails and pleco munch on that. the flakes are usually gone in a minute or two.. so how much reducing should I do? once a day? how often do fish need to eat to be...

Ive never thought anything of these before in my tank, they have been in there maybe a month or so, and I just always figured they were particles in the water from my PWC, since its tap water.. well after damn near pressing my face up to the glass and staring for a bit I noticed these little...

yeah when I first got my pleco I recieved him in a bucket, and when I got home I netted him out, well he decided to get tangled in my net (which was too small to begin with) so I had to reach in and grab him out, I made the face of the guy on Sidi's avatar LOL, i just stood there for a second...

Did a 50% PWC today, I figured Id let it go a little longer to let things settle, New test results: Temp: 79 pH: 7.8 NO2: 0 NO3: just barely darker than 0 but not enough to count NH4: 0 i dunno whats up with it but at least its zero and nothing harmful in the water like my NH4 problem...

lookin real nice man, love the snails too! =)

yeah ive been testing AFTER a pwc, perhaps thats why nothing is showing up.. Ill do another test today, if anything is there Ill let you know.. and yeah Im using the API ones.. I shake the crap out of it, then let it sit for 5 mins exactly.. I set timers for each test that requires a timer...

not that I know of.... can you buy individual test chemical bottles? I can try to get another Nitrate test chemical and see if something new happens.. *shrug*

The LFS's here are crap and dirty and dont care about the fish they sell, so I wouldnt even believe their results for a test.. the fish have been in Since April 20th this year.. so a little over a month now.. no clue, according to everybody else, Im in the middle of a cycle.. at least I managed...

all 0.. everything even ammonia and nitrates 0.. temp 79, pH 7.8