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Hello all! I’m switching from 2 AC 70s to the fluval fx4 on my 75 gallon African cichlid tank... the question I have is can I take all my established media and put it in my canister filter without having a mini cycle?! Thanks for the help guys!

Hello all! Currently I have an all male peacock tank. I did have 6 peacocks in my tank but my OB decided to jump out of the tank at night. :( I have cut some plexiglass to cover the 2” open spot behind my glass lid. Currently I have 5 peacocks now 1- lemon Jake 3”, 1- eureka red 4”, 1- red top...

I’m very very frustrated! My OB peacock jumped out of my tank and died. Has anyone else had this happen to them? I have a glass lid on at all times. Any ideas to keep this from happening?

My tank can officially convert 2 ppm ammonia into nitrate in 24 hours. Can I add 6- 3” male peacocks?? I ordered them off of imperial Tropicals and won’t be here till Thursday for Friday

So I thought my tank was pretty much cycled. I’m able to convert 2pp ammonia to nitrate in 24 hours according to my api master test kit. However I decided to double check in and bought some tetra test strips just to compare the 2 and the strips are showing 10+ ppm nitrite??? That’s a big...

I’m getting a reading of 40-80 ppm nitrate from my tap water! Any ideas? Yes I did the test right I know the tests are tricky for the nitrates. Btw it’s a api master teal kit

My tank is finally cycled after 2 weeks. I used DR Tim’s ammonia and tetra safe start plus and it worked! BUT I’m ordering peacocks cichlids off of imperial Tropicals the only problem is I can’t order until next week!! It will be a $300 dollar order so I can’t do it this week it has to be next...

So I’ve been cycling my tank for a little over a week now. I added Dr Tim’s ammonia to help speed up the process. I also seeded in with established media from my 20 gallon and didn’t see any nitrates or nitrites. I’ve used stability (didn’t work) but one thing that is working is tetra safe start...

After my new tank cycles... how many can I add once it’s cycled?

I have a 60 gallon fish tank it’s the Marineland heartland 60 set from petsmart came with stand and my tank it’s sitting a hair off level? Thoughts? I have shims but Idk if I should use them because this stand isn’t solid wood and I don’t want it to sag or even worse have the tank twist. Should...

Hi all, I’m new here, I just got a new 60 gallon tank 48 x13 x 24. It’s the set up from petsmart, the Marineland heartland set. I wanted the 125 gallon but the wife pulled the plug on that pretty quick ?. Anyway my goal is to get her to fall in love with this tank so I can upgrade down the...