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So I've been using plastic plants and traditional gravel for years. Got inspired and was trying my hand at planted tank with rock hardscapes. Well, my hand fell off or something because it is pitiful. I don't think I have the creative ability to actually set it up. I have a 15 gallon AIO...

GORGEOUS. Absolutely stunning.

Thanks Rick! 15 gallon aio Aqua Japan tank. Tons and tons of space for biological filtration. Huge black sponge, huge bag of ceramic media. Pump that says it does about 100gph and temp at 78-80 Lost all but 3 dwarf neon rainbows to columnaris but received 2 small german blue rams that I...

The columnaris is not an issue any more. Treated the fish that I could save and lost the ones I couldn't. Columnaris is actually a bacteria that thrives in pristine water, unlike a lot of other infectious agents. The issue is the NH4, the bound ammonia. It won't go down.

Long story to get to the NH4. Tank up for 2 years and all well. Bought a fish that gave tank columnaris, learned lesson to quarantine. Treated tank. After meds I did a 100% water changed and switched to RO (with replenish and neutral regulator) ammonia on API test has been a steady .5ppm...

Lost my bioload after medicating for columnaris. 5 community fish in a 15 gallon left. yesterday i had .5ppm ammonia, zero nitrites and zero nitrates. ran out and bought Fluval biological booster and added last night. tonight my readings are .5ppm ammonia, zero nitrites and 5.00 nitrates...

Thanks. Panic has subsided, just frustrated at this point. I shook the snot out of that test and tested the water the rams came in to test that my tests are working. They are. Sure wish it had been user error. So I am trying Fluval Cycle and hoping it'll give me a jump start. Guess I'll...

UGH!!!! Having so much trouble with fish keeping. I've been keeping fish on and off for like 20 years and never had this trouble. Fish got sick and treated tank with Furan-2 and Kanaplex. (they had columnaris) saved a few fish and things looked good. Ordered some Rams and they arrived...

Thanks! Ordered the Furan-2 and Kanaplex Amazon same day, so they'll be here tonight. Running carbon now to pull out the API General Cure and will do a huge water change today. Lost a black skirt tetra today. DOwn to 2 black skirts, 2 panda cory cats and three neon rainbows. The tetras...

Been researching all night and think it is in fact columnaris. Only thing that accounts for the sudden deaths in perfect water. Lost three more tonight, i'll see what meds i can get local tomorrow.

Thanks for helping. (I'm super excited to hear you breed rams. Been looking for a trusted source) It'll be a few weeks before I'm ready, I want to get this 100% solved before adding anything. So last ram died. The API General Cure was either not the right medicine, or it was too late...

Two tanks involved as I started the second tank off of the first tanks filter media. First death was about 3 weeks ago. My German Ram. No noticed symptoms. Two days later my other german ram and two male guppies died with no noticed symptoms proceeding death. So. I had been cycling a...

thanks! I did what you said, put the ceramic in the middle chamber and a huge sponge in first. Makes sense about the lower intake, thanks for explaining! The media reactor was just a hair too big to fit, so I'm doing a bit of modifications on it before i can get it in. Off to test the water

Hello. I am just getting back into the hobby after many many years. I have had a betta for about 6 months now and recently decided to move him from his 5 gallon to a 10 gallon AIO (Aqua Japan AJ-45) and try out a few other fish with him. So I used the gravel from the tank he'd been in and...

Mine must be weird....they've never shown any aggression unless someone else starts it. The anglfish think they can beat up on them sometimes and the BP's put them in their place. The BP's never start it though :) I have heard that their temperments can vary a lot though.

I've been keeping them for years and adore them. Current tankmates are angelfish, rams, cory cats, clow pleco. I've kept blackskirts, gouramis and all kinds of tetras with them

I've had both and like them. I've never had any other canister filters, so I really don't have anything to compare them to. They are silent, that's my favorite part. Easy to take apart to clean. I really can't think of anything I don't like about them. I used HOT 250 for 5 years until I...

Thanks everyone! :) I got the rocks at a local garden center. Just scrubbed them and bleached them to clean. (Then dipped them in declorinated water) thanks again!!

wow, i never thought to look at Wal*Mart! DOH The tank is a 60 gallon. The ones on the left are their freshwater series which come in small, medium, large and xlarge. The xlarge is 24" and the small is about 6" The ones on the left are from their salt water series and are a bit shorter.

Thanks!! Yep, they are all Seagarden. I've had the same old plants for about 7 years, it's wonderful to revamp!! I got them all through www.thatpetplace.com they have GREAT prices.

I just got new silk plants today and thought I'd share a pic :)

Can you peel it off the sand and rocks in a sheet? or do you have to scrape it off the rocks? Can you take a bit out and smell it? If you can peel it up and it smells bad it's probably cyanobacteria. I just treated my tank for it with EM Tablets and it's gone!! You have to clean it out as...