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So I had a very successful 20gal tank and decided to upgrade to a 29g planted freshwater tank with soil at the bottom with sand covering it. My water turned brown I got brown algae the entire tank looks aweful, i have a snail infestation. I need to tear this down and start over. I still have my...
Okay basically I had a 20g tank with a bunch of plants and fish and it just looked great. I decided to get a 29g off craigslist for only 45 sweet deal with lighting included.
I get it and put soil on the bottom then put like 3 inches of sand over the soil. Fast forward two weeks to now, my tank...
Normally its around 7.8, the taps ph is around 7.2 in my old 20g but in this new 29g i added new soil covered by my old sand substrate plus new sand. Took out some of my old rocks. Its basically my old stuff plus a little bit of new things
I upgraded from a 20g to a 29gal and all of a sudden my pH is OVER 8.8 my api test kit is DARK Purple so it has to be over 8.8. What can I do to bring this down
Okay, I'll be setting up a 29 gal planted tank this weekend using some materials from my 20gallon which I'll be retiring for the moment. My whole thing is that I wanna do it right. I want to use a soil/fertilizer on the bottom then layered on top with some sand. My question is that when laying...
and I've had it probably for 3 weeks and haven't really done much to it. I like it and its cool BUT do I feed the **** thing or will it just filter feed throughout the day from left over flakes and pellets my fish don't eat?
And when do I know that its dead?
My community tank mostly composed of guppies tetras and cories is INFESTED with pond snails. These %#$%W$^# are driving me crazy no matter what I do I keep getting more this is a bigger nuissance then when the tank had ich when I first started out and wasnt even cycled.
how can I eliminate...
just checked it and it looks like around .5ppm ammonia level.I changed the water like 2 days ago though and now im kinda afraid to change the water cuz i have a lot of frys in there and i dont want to suck em up. any tips? or can i just gie the tanmk a bath of Prime?
I've noticed that my fish
4 Guppies
5 Neon tetras
3 Cories
and a ton of frys that keep showing up, mainly the neon tetras and the guppies have red gills all of a sudden, no idea what it is,. My tank is a 20G and properly cycled any clues/ideaS?
Originally from Santa Cruz, then to Aromas, then over to San Jose THEN to Los Banos (yes its a real town in CA lol ) and now in Santa Rosa for college to get edjumacated
I just got over ich I raised my tank's temperature to 88 degrees SLOWLY!!! 1-2 degrees every day. And added 2tbsp of aquarium salt for evry 10 gallons of water you have and after a water change you gotta add new salt but only for how much water you removed. So if you have a 10gal tank and have...
Idk im gonna call them, i'm just bummed I just got over ich in my tank and now another fishy dies and no its not ich related (trust me) that **** is looong dead