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Thanks for that. Now my fish and tank will be even better than it already

it says to replace these every 4-6 weeks but i heard conflicting suggestions where you dont want to replace them until their are falling apart because if you replace both at the same time you lose most of your bacteria colony.. so change these?

I have (2) 30 aqueon power filters for my 55g tank. I've been running them with no issues for almost a year now without changing the filters. The only things I change is the poly fill that I stuff in behind the canisters to aid in polishing the water. Should I be changing these filters...

can anyone help me out?

how about now?

appears the video is working now. let me know what you think appreciate it

thats what i told my wife and she thought i was crazy.. im the fish person not her :) video says its processing.. let me see if i can take a still picture from it

Good afternoon 55g tank with 6 albino cory cats, 5 female guppies, 3 male guppies, 2 male cobra guppies, and 6 glo tetras. sand substrate, non planted. 1 of the female guppies looked very pregnant and as i was going to get a floating breeder divider to place her in she died. and ironically at...

thanks for the reply.. i scrubbed it by hand last night at the water change.. which ive been doing 50% every two weeks.. The fish seem to be doing great with that. Will a 25% water change each week help with this? I had 2 mystery snails but they died somehow.. none of the fish did however...

Hey everyone. With all the help its almost been a year running this setup. 2 aqueon 30g filters, a uv light, fake plants and washed play sand substrate. Had some casualties over the year getting it established but I have 6 black kulil loaches, 6 glo tetras, 3 albino Cory cats, 3 guppies and...

Just want to chime back in and say that my 55g tank is doing very well.. Water quality is stable, water temp is a constant 79 and the fish are happy. In my tap water i have high phosphates.. This was confirmed by an associate at petsmart.. They dont normall test for it, but went and got a...

i will get some prime. ive been using API tap water conditioner and its been working, but ive heard lots of good things on prime so off to amazon i go shopping :)

Thank you for the quick reply.. i apologize i didnt explain that correctly.. when using the tap conditioner do you put a little bit in as your tank is filling? how quickly do i need to treat the metals/chlorine coming from the tap? Thats basically what im looking for :) Thanks again

Took a water sample from my 55g tank that is a little cloudy to my LFS, as well at water straight out of my tap. I have well water with some sulphur, so it runs through a chlorine injected system taking out the rotton egg smell (thats generally the easiest way to explain :) ) They tested the...

55g Ph 7.0 Amm 0.25 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 5-10 5g (transferred everything from 10g) Ph 7.0 Amm 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 5-10 10g Brand new. Setup and added tetra safe start and 2ppm ammonia from Dr tims

If its a bacterial bloom wouldn't that show on my test kit? just asking because im somewhat new to this

guess I shold preface that comment with the fact I have well water that has sulphur.. so It runs through a chlorine injected system.. then im dechlorinating it while doing water changes.. so it could be a higher level of phosphates... that's why im trying the poly

I had some fungus start on a piece of Mopani wood, so removed it, boiled it, and its soakng in water right now in my garage its definitely not mold, none of the plants in the tank show those spines

what have you people done to me! :blink: Here is a shot of the 55 gallon, a 5 gallon and a 10 gallon. I did a massive water change on the 5, and filled up the 10, treated both for dechlorination, and added some safe start. as far as the 55 gallon being cloudy, I went by a recommendation to...

the rest of the fish from now going forward will be quarantined in the 10g tank.. im also going to pick up a few smaller tanks to use as bare bottom quarantine tanks because im sure im going to have guppy fry here before long as well. water parameters are perfect (IMO) and all of the fish are...

when you say "chemicals" can you elaborate? Do you plan on doing Fish-in cycling or fish-less cycling? If that is a foreign language to you, id encourage you to read the sticky thread and ask about cycling :) im sure glad I did

I have to go on a little rant here for the good of this particular company. I will preface this message with the common misconception that the LFS are generally blind to proper ways, and usually worry about bottom line margins... Not Petsmart in Williamsport. I went there because it...

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm excited. Going to roll with this for a week before ordering the loaches Correct me if I'm wrong but loaches mean no shrimp or snails right?

Well I ended up transferring the 4 glo moon tetras into the 55g tank and they immediately were more active schooling around. I then figured it would be a good time to go check the stock at my LFS. I met an incredible worker there by the name of Dave. He helped me with all of the things...

thanks. just scrubbed it really good and im boiling it now... (had the pot ready) I just set the controller to 79.. going to boil for a while. Should be transferring the 4 glo tetras I have in a little while.. just drained the tank about 95% and filled it back up, using a...