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Thanks so much, everyone, for your input... my 10-gal., 20-gal. and 29-gal. tanks have been wearing me out lugging out the old in cat litter buckets and lugging back the new in gallon bottled water jugs, so I am really looking forward to using the python... I just wanted to make sure I was doing...

So, I got tired of lugging buckets to change out my three tanks, and invested in a python. But I have to treat my tap water before putting in the tanks... my question is... knowing how many gallons I am taking out, do I pour the required treatment into the tank before I add the new water, and...

Yep, definitely a seep.. I don't get any wetness on a paper towel, but the salt flowers are coming back. That tank has been set up for 16 months and the salt bloom is only on the long sides, the two short sides are clean. I have never moved the tank since it was placed there... any...

LOL... I am so paranoid that it might be leaking that I am checking it several times a day with paper toweling. Is there anyway to "stop" a leak/seep without draining the entire tank? The ends seem to be okay.. I just craned around to see the back of the tank and the same thing is happening...

Tonight when I was doing a water change in my 15 gal tall tank (10 gal footprint but half again taller) I noticed a line of what looks like salt flowers along the seam between the glass and the front bottom plastic. I hadn't noticed it before because I had a stack of papers on the table in front...

Thank you... my fancy goldfish likes him too... they seem to "hang out" together... the fancy is white and gold and black and I got him first to help condition the tank. I made sure he had the same fantail fin pattern since I had been told that different kinds of goldfish sometimes don't get...

It was worth my life to get this shot... not sure it shows all that well... the little hambone already likes having his pix taken apparently... and since I feed him by hand underwater all I kept getting was his face... lol... I can't tell if this is just a reflection (circled) from his scales...

My new (first) oranda is eating like a pig, but I noticed a tiny ultra shiny spot between his tail and his dorsal fin... I'm not sure if it is just the light or some issue getting ready to rear its ugly head... or am I being a worrywort?? He is a white/silver color with a lovely orange wen...

Thank you Dale for your input... the choice was "taken away" from me.. lol... my daughter showed up on my doorstep with two gold fish in a bag and said she wanted to be part of the process... lol... she also brought some ghost shrimp so now I am going with the cycling WITH fish... I may have to...

oooooooo.. my head is gonna explode.... and to think I got fish because it is so peaceful to watch them swimming... got more stress over my tanks than I do from my job... lol... I'll do my best to follow suggestions.. thank you!!!

Those links were great... I don't have any questions... yet... lol... thank you!!!

lol... yeah.. .don't like dead fish..... thanks!

tyvm!!

oops... cross-posting here... lol... sowwy

Then WHY do they say to get the ammonia to 0-ppm and why all the "fixes" for high ammonia in the store.... is there more than one kind of ammonia, like there is nitrites/nitrates? I'm so confused....

Just the bacteria in a bottle... I thought ammonia was a BAD thing!!

ok.. thank you!!

Currently I am fishless cycling, but I was wanting to start to add livestock to the tank without risking a fancy goldfish....

K... good thought... just didn't want only shrimp and snails in there with nothing to "eat," that is why I was thinking about a small regular goldfish or two... I don't want to rush it, that's for sure.... Thank you....

I have a brand new 29 gal glass tank with penguin biowheel, etc. etc.... So far I just have large gravel, silk plants and a fake "cave". I am using a tank stabilizer to seed the bio-wheel and have tested for all the good (and bad) chemicals. I want to introduce some wildlife after a week to...

Yes, I lost Chavo... he was floating tail up this morning... He must have been compromised.. He has survived a bout of popeye several months ago, so maybe he was just not strong enough for all the nonsense. But I can't bring myself to sterilize the tank, as the snail, algae eater and ghost...

I did.. but it may be too late for Chavo... he really looks bad.... I am just sick about it.....

ugh... I just tested the tap water and it is registering 1.0. I had used tap water because everyone was saying that the R/O water had no minerals in it... another good reason not to drink the tap water.... and I think I have killed my betta cuz he is floating around the top of the water and...

Ok... the green carpet is dead!!! I vacuumed out much of the dead and floating stuff today and did a 25% water change.... tested the water and it was 1.0 for ammonia!!!!! So I ran a check on other chemistries and got GH-120; KH-40; ph-7.5; no2-0; no3-20.. It had not been so screwed up before...

Furshure.. I was willing to try any reasonable treatment since I was thinking about nuking the tank as a last resort... now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel... or the gravel under the green.... lol...