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dudes, we're takling about fish here. i'm sure a difference of 3 or 4 degrees wou'dn't do any harm. As for chemistry do like menagerie says. Just squirt a little treatment in. It'll all be good. if all else fails, think like a fish

sweetness, thanks everyone.

I know nitrogen cycles, in the whole denitrification deal. Nitrites, Nitrates, Ammonia. I don't member the order. But ammonia is most harmful, and i don't think nitrites are harmful at all? I'm not totally sure about this. I'm just trying to get some nitrogen knowlege out there. waht do...

activated carbon I didn't realize carbon needed changed that often. I've heard of people simply rinsing of the grunge from the cartriges when needed and using them of r half a year without problems.

Where i work, we use straight up water softening salt.

right on, Yeah it must be something about having a bunch of ions floatin around? thanks dude. Iyas just curious.

carbon is good, it'll lock up damn near anything. There are different forms of carbon worth researching too.

Mike's got the idea. Bacteria are all over. It's in the water, on the rocks and plants. In my opinion, washing the filter in the water during a water change would only creat dirtyness. I say rinse the thing out in the sink when it needs it. bacteria will always be around. (bio-wheels are a...

Big dude. really big. you knw what, why don't you just seal your room off and make it an aquarium, hell yeah.

I read a book once. lol just once. It was a book on aquaria. It said water cloudiness was normal in the first week of set up. I just set my tank up and let it run for a week before anything went into it. Everything sleared up and all is well. I don't know the science behind the cloudy...

silicone, and lots of it baby. silicone is my cure all. lol

I've heard of salting freshwater tanks as a stress reducing method, and a little bit about pH control. Are there any other reasons for adition of salt?

Yeah buddy, I totally agree. I do know that DI water means no ions of any sort. Just like if we drank DI water we would be dehydrated, fish in DI i would imagine be dehydrated too. ions flow from high concentration to low concentration(or out of the fish into the water). lol i know that...

Too much flow?? Thats like a girl too pretty and a car too fast. I wouldn't worry bout it.

That's cool stuff. Are convicts mouth brooders? I'm getting some cichlid fry from work. They're mouth brooders. I'm looking forward to breeding them. 8)

You might wrap a peice of screen around your filter tube so the little guys don't get sucked up? I don't now, they might stay towards the bottom out of the way. good luck anyhow

I don't know much about this RO water. how does the process work? Is RO water anything like deionized water?

Protein for shizzel. I work in a fish research center, and we feed 550 gallon tanks. They are flow through tanks so the film disapears withing an hour or two of feeding. I'd just keep up on water changes every 2 or 3 days and you should be good. Did you just change to a different kind of feed?

i'm not sure on the name? sorry

I'd get a herd of corys goin dude. They are such cool fish. There are some many variations too. Other wise you might could get a plecostomus for algae, or maybe another catfish of some sort to pick up on spare food?

hot dog. yall have been very helpful. I'm sure my lighting is insuficent, but the tank is right next tio a window that is left open 24/7. sustrate is probally 3 or 4mm gravel. I don't know about temp though?? Indiana waters can reach 75 degrees in the summer sun? But yeah, the tank is at...

Hey all. I've got a 15 and 10 gallon tanks. I'd like to get a few live plants in there. I introduced a native plant and it doesn't seem to be doing well. The tank in fairly oxygen rich. I've got really good airation. Do i need to reduce my airflow to provide my plants with CO2? Any input...