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*slaps forehead* I feel like an idiot. the filter im getting goes underneath the tank and has bio balls and a pump and so on.. im exhausted from work so dont mind my great use of technical words.

So, my mom broke down her 40 gal hex reef tank and is getting rid of the tank. so i swiped it.. I get the RO filter, the protein skimmer, the wet dry filter setup, this awesome light setup.. anywho.. Im not going saltwater (yet.) So im going to make this into a FW puffer tank. but my question...

Well I do have amquel and I used it. How do I see what kind of chemical based test I have? I have the aquarium pharmaceuticals master freshwater kit.

I have a freshwater test kit (drops not strips), and ive had it for maybe a year, little longer. When I do my nitrites, pH and so forth, it all comes out fine and gives what im assuming are somewhat accurate results. When I do the ammonia test however, everytime its been turning a dark brown...

my bad. double click. please delete.

it says theyre out of stock until late march. :(

well correction, i just found out hes a chinese algae eater. i dont know if its normal or not, but its fun to watch.

ok after careful research hes a chinese algae eater, not an otto.

my otto is digging a tunnel in the sand underneath a rock right now.

my tank is sitting next to my desk on top of my mini fridge. my fish get to keep me company and stare at me while im on the computer.

ok well heres what I did. I went to the LFS and asked them to give me 2 gallons of their cycled water which they gladly agreed to, and did a 50% water change and replaced the water with the cycled water. I stopped feeding the fish for the time being, and i cleaned all the poop out. and after...

No living plants at the moment. all uniform.. little and gray (i have no idea what the LFS fed my oto) I have concluded its his poop. It spiked my ammonia through the roof. Used ammo lock, and it only helped a little. My nitrites went through the roof too. did a 25% water change..cleaned all...

my danios are very small right now.. all theyve been doing is darting around and playing in the water stream from the filter. I have a 20 gallon, but i have to wait until i move into a new place and have more room to set it up. my otto and the danios play together.. its interesting.

ill probably assume its fish poop. Are planaria harmful?

I have a 5 gallon FW, with two zebra danios and one otto. My tank has black sand in it, and I added the fish yesterday, and now there are A LOT of little gray cylindrical things all over the bottom. about 1mm long. I would say it looks like fish poop, but its way way way too much for 3 little...

id be killing me a roommate. youre lucky none of your fish died.

Yes I did. Very useful information. I also like the movies with the puffers on www.puffers.org. I hope Puffy develops a cult following. lol.

sorry, bit of a newb here. What is the drip acclimation method, and what is RO/DI water? thankyou for your advice its helping a lot. I just ordered some tahitian black moon sand for the tank, im waiting for that to arrive, and then im going to get plants and let the tank run a while.. After...

my water is brackish at the moment.. and they are in freshwater at the fish store.. how should i acclimate them when i get them? you say they are very resilient.. but another place says to slowly acclimate from fresh to brackish over a long period of time.. should I have a mini freshwater set...

OK ive got two seperate questions here. 1) Ive got a brackish water tank, 8.2 pH, 1.010 sg, kH is in good range.. now my question is, i tested my tap water and the spring water I had been using. My tap water has a 7.2 pH, but its hard, which is good for what I need (puffers) The spring water...

yeah they were sick.. they both died.. stupid fish store. they were green spotted puffers.. but (yes im aware i should have read up on them first) the store told me they would be fine in freshwater and to feed them just plain freez dried brine shrimp not that it wouldve mattered. they were both...

cool thanks! thatll work perfectly! except it might not suck up as much debris.. but better than sucking up my puffers.

Ok. The first two puffers I had (theyre dead..sick from the store...) were so little that they kept getting stuck to my penguin mini's uptake... All the lfs' around here sell baby puffers, any one i get is going to get stuck to the filter.. any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks! yes 1.010 is what I am aiming for. As soon as I started adding greater quantities of salt my hydrometer actually started giving me a reading.

thanks. i read somewhere that it was a tablespoon per gallon. guess they were wrong :roll: . thanks!