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now what about sea salt, very small amounts added to tub to my desiered hardness, lower the ph with sodium bicarbnate, retest 20 some minutes later if alls good ,then slowly pump tub water into tank?

90G=6 silver dollars, 2 are 6 yrs old &4 are 4yrs!,2 4 yrs pictus catfish &4yrsWhodini, american freshwater Eel (natural river pebble 4 substrate) 60gal=4yrswhodini's twin eel Zippy, gimpy GF(white Quatz gravel) 45 octagon =Kaily a 18 yrs old calico goldfish(3mm gavel) 20gal planted w/ 1yrs...

speaking of fish getting better....... my 4 yr old 6 inche pictus catfish got really bad cloady/red eyes. put her in my quarentine tank, and melafix 'er, and month later she's back in the 90g, and her husband(ones bigger and ones smaller, so i assume they are a pair) It was soo cute as...

i got the lee's one also. and also thought i was wasting water, soooo well my toilet is about 10 feet from my tanks , and is also lower then all of them, so for now i use a cut wire coat hanger, and have it bent so that it'll hold the hose firmly to the toilet seat . :idea: works for...

lol i just got one for x-mas, and when i started it up for the first time ...... I giggled with glee as loud as i could!!!!! then i thought after, that my neighboors must think i'm weird????? lol :mrgreen:

ooh sorry!!! yah in a smaller planted fish tank (15 gal) low-med light

are Hagen fizz factory pellets for CO2 any good for smaller tanks??

i have a 90gal w/ heavy bio-load so have battling high nitrates. with silver dollars will eat all the plants if it were to be planted. So got an idea from my lfs ; heavely plant my 30 gal tank and use my fluval 304, leave output in the 90 and install the input in the 30 , and connect the two...

my silver dollars love all types of lettuses and spinach too, just tryed cucumber but they wheren't to happywith it, waiting fo rthe lettuses. they love zuccnnii i'm trying carrot but maybe i have to blanch it a bit, as they are not touching it.

what is cayno?

i love serpae tetras....... but my silver dollars are my very favorites i know they're big but they are my favorite. i have 6 of them in my 90 and they school perfectly all the time. i've even netted them all together !! i wish could take a pic of them when they are about 1/2 an...

i got a friends 8 yr old daughter (ofcourse suprvised by mom) used "post-it's"on each tank with all instructions, had pre measured foods post-it's on everything lol when i came home i laughed at myself! i think i went too crazy on the post-its !!! but everyone/tests was all good 15 days i was...

i find i go through too much dechlor when i treat the hole tank so i treat the bucket before i add it to the tank

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theres a debate in another forem about the use of salt in freshwater aquariums one guy is saying that keeping 1 tbsp of salt per 5gal in a freshwater all the time prevents decease . what's your opinion????

thank you :( :( :( i seem to always learn the hard way :cry: well at least i know now.

can you spread dropsy to your other tanks via a gravel vac???

Kudos to YOU also 3 years ago i had to do that for whodini(my american freshwater eel) and &my two silver dollars that were teeny tiny also i got them in a 20 gal (but are in a 90gal now) and as you do i had ammonia problems also , so what i did is filled...

i've had to put one betta down for dropsy, and now it looks like my other betta(in diferent tank)looks he has it also did i infect him by useing the same gravel cleaner ?

i have two silver dollars that are 6 years old!! and a 18year old calico goldfish

ph, ammonia , nitrite are essencial tests you MUST always have!! i've used one raw shrimp, and let it decay . the rotting shrimp will cause ammonia and bactria(cloading is bacterial bloom) speed the cycling up a bit 2 weeks or so . watch for the ammonia and nitrite...

my "male" ex desided to stick his head over my 20 gal (at the time my eel was small) the 20 is on a shelfving unit so theres a shelf above the tank, sticks his head in over the top of the tank and say "hi whodini " waving his nose back and forth, till whodini had enough and came out of the...

i quit smoke 5 years ago , and when people say wholey **** to my 8 fishtanks , 1 snake triarium and two big dogs, i remind them that alllllllllllll that money could have been spent on cigs!!!

i have had aqua clears for years, one 8 years and i've had to replace the pin and magnet once. need i say more? buuut if you have a power outage and you water level is more then an inche under the filter it loses it's prime but it recovers with no damage tho after you prime it...

i was told by a lfs to test with vineger? no reaction and i still have the gravel(not the test gravel tho)