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One improvement I would add to this is a power head to keep the cool water flowing over the pipes to be more efficient. But it's worki g for now.

Here are some photos of what I rigged up. This is temporary seeing as I'll have my office with A.C. completed soon. To answer your question about leaving for a week. I'll still need to have someone feed my fish and my dogs while I'm out of town.

So I came up with a rig that seems to be working. I got a bunch of 1/2 inch T fittings and a couple 90s with about 20 feet of copper pipes. Connected them all together in a spare tank. I have a 770GPH pump passing the tank water through the spare tank with ice water chilled to 60 degrees. I was...

I have a new 45 Gallon trash can that I'm thinking of running garden hose through and filling it with ice and pumping the tank water through to cool it. The tank water would never come into contact with anything other than the pump and the inside of the garden hose. I guess if the hose is...

Hello, I have a 55G/110G tank and both are temporarily in my garage because my office is being built. My garage gets upwards to 95 on a day where it's only 80 outside. So I purchased some large industrial fans to keep the air moving and cooling. But we are expecting 110 degrees over the weekend...

I have a 110g tank sitting on the side lines. Once I get my office completed I'll transition everything over to the 110g. Thanks again for all your advice and contributions to this thread.

Hello, infant to thank everyone who contributes to this thread. My pleco fully recovered and has been transitioned back into the main display tank. It's been a little over a week now and what I have noticed is the other pleco I have seems a bit territorial and aggressive. Makes me believe that...

Thank you! I am not sure what type of escaping I want to do in my 110g

Hello folks, what are the best water parameters for Cichlids? I'm looking for them to show as much color as possible.

A few more photos...

Hey there folks, I'm very excited to share my most recent struggles. I first setup my Eheim 250 and my driftwood in a 5 gallon bucket and let that run for about 4 weeks, then I setup a 30g bow front. After 2 weeks I added 3 cichlids and 2 plecos. 4 weeks later I transitioned everything from my...

Well the water parameters are on point and my pleco seems to be on a great recovery process. Eating and swimming and well healing! Check out the photo from before and now.

I didn't think about that... Thanks for the heads up on the other fish over eating... greedy buggerz

Medication says to do a water change after 7 days and resume treatment if needed. Today is day 8 with meds. So I did a 50% water change and vacuumed all the poop up. Added water treatment for chlorine and meds with stress coat and filled it back up. Water temp went down to 77 from 83. I should...

Update: water parameters have been stable. Pleco is eating and swimming around. Looks like it's healing pretty well. It's got some of its colors back. Still a little spotty but the medications most definitely working.

I did see that minced garlic is good for the pleco's immune system but I was a bit worried to toss some in. Are you saying I should soak the zucchini in the garlic? I seen someone say a teaspoon of garlic is good for the tank and the fish immune system. But i have to admit, I am a little...

How often should I feed? Zuchinni was in tank for about 20 hours and started to rust my fork so I pulled it out. The zuchinni also looked like it has some fuzzy stuff on it.

Thanks! Water parameters pH 7.8, HRpH is 7.4, ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate between 5-10ppm. The color worries me but it's not in the best shape so... What do you think a good water temp should be? Currently set to 80.

I went in late last night and caught him chomping the zucchini so I got a bit excited! Only thing is the water keeps getting cloudy. But i do not want to keep changing the water. I think the filter that's in there hasn't been fully cycled yet. I'll check the water parameters tonight when I'm off...

So a little update. Water got cloudy so I drained it down to where the pleco was still under water and pulled 30 gallons out of my tank to fill the quarantine tank back up and treated the water with some meds for infection API PIMAFIX. It's the only thing the pet store had. Pleco doesn't seem...

The zuchinni floats so I hope it goes for it. I don't have any wafers. I will look for them. I'm just worried that it's in pain now. Looks so bad.

The zuchinni floats so I hope it goes for it. I don't have any wafers. I will look for them. I'm just worried that it's in pain now. Looks so bad.

Thanks for responding, what is "prime"? I'm guessing it's the same as API Stress Coat? As for the heater being a possibility, the old heater by Fluval has a plastic shroud around it which leads me to believe that it's unlikely. The new heater is an Eheim 300 which there is plenty of room for...

Ok so I was convinced to retest my water and geez. I didn't realize I was doing it wrong this whole time... ? Nitrate looks to be about 55 to 70ppm, nitrite is 0ppm for sure, ammonia is darn near 0ppm, high range pH is 7.8, and pH is 7.6. Photos attached for review. How do I treat ammonia burn...

I only cleaned it as Eheim recommended a carbon filter change at 4 weeks and a substrate cleaning at 8 weeks. The one I just did was more of a precaution. As for the ammonia burn. How is that possible if my ammonia levels have been no more than .50 which was at about the 5 week mark and since...