terathan33
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2006
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- 11
Hi everyone, First off Id like to thank everyone here for all the useful info I have found on this site. I have been reading these forums for sometime but this is my first post. I am a complete newb to aquariums.
I recently purchased a tank off ebay. It is shaped like half an octagon, and holds about 36 gallons of water.
Onto my questions. I started to fishless cycle the tank today, the only ammonia I could find was PathMark brand clear ammonia. I googled a bit and found that people have had success with this brand. The only thing that makes me uneasy is thats it's ingingredient label includes(amoammoniumdroxide solution, clarifying agen, softwater). I have read on some sites that when water gets murky, or foggy people have used clarifying agent. The first question I have, do you think it is safe to use ammonia with clarifying agent?. I don't want to use too much of this ammonia so so I put in about 2 cap fulls into my filled tank, and added a few bits of chopped up shrimp from the local store. Second question I have is, does the fact that my tank was previously used help with the cycling process? It's been out of use i suspect a few months.
Umm now onto my water test results using red sea fresh lab testing equipment.
• Chlorine concentration: 5 ppm, currently being lowered using jungle start right.
• GH– General Hardness. It just said my water is soft, no numeric mmeasurements
• KH – Carbohydrate Hardness – It said my water is soft, no numeric mmeasurements
• PH – 7.4
• Iron – 0 ppm
• Will do the nitrite/ammonia testing in a day or so.
What type of fish/plants would be good for my water?
Anyway heres my tank. Measurements are 36'W, 12'L, 21'H
I am also interested in getting some live plants as well as fish I am about to order.
http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_sku=13151
I don't think its an overkill, plant geek said for medium light I should shoot for 2wpg. This light seems good but kinda expensive. My tank is 21 inches high so maybe I want a brighter light?. I would like low light to medium light plants depending on what my local store carries.
For substrate I've seen alot of people praise Carib Sea Eco-Complete. So i plan on 1 bag of that. I've never bought substrate so should I assume 1 bag will be enough?
http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_sku=17855
finally i know adding fish will probably come weeks from now but what live things can I start adding to the tank such as plants or snails.
I recently purchased a tank off ebay. It is shaped like half an octagon, and holds about 36 gallons of water.
Onto my questions. I started to fishless cycle the tank today, the only ammonia I could find was PathMark brand clear ammonia. I googled a bit and found that people have had success with this brand. The only thing that makes me uneasy is thats it's ingingredient label includes(amoammoniumdroxide solution, clarifying agen, softwater). I have read on some sites that when water gets murky, or foggy people have used clarifying agent. The first question I have, do you think it is safe to use ammonia with clarifying agent?. I don't want to use too much of this ammonia so so I put in about 2 cap fulls into my filled tank, and added a few bits of chopped up shrimp from the local store. Second question I have is, does the fact that my tank was previously used help with the cycling process? It's been out of use i suspect a few months.
Umm now onto my water test results using red sea fresh lab testing equipment.
• Chlorine concentration: 5 ppm, currently being lowered using jungle start right.
• GH– General Hardness. It just said my water is soft, no numeric mmeasurements
• KH – Carbohydrate Hardness – It said my water is soft, no numeric mmeasurements
• PH – 7.4
• Iron – 0 ppm
• Will do the nitrite/ammonia testing in a day or so.
What type of fish/plants would be good for my water?
Anyway heres my tank. Measurements are 36'W, 12'L, 21'H
I am also interested in getting some live plants as well as fish I am about to order.
http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_sku=13151
I don't think its an overkill, plant geek said for medium light I should shoot for 2wpg. This light seems good but kinda expensive. My tank is 21 inches high so maybe I want a brighter light?. I would like low light to medium light plants depending on what my local store carries.
For substrate I've seen alot of people praise Carib Sea Eco-Complete. So i plan on 1 bag of that. I've never bought substrate so should I assume 1 bag will be enough?
http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/product.xml?product_sku=17855
finally i know adding fish will probably come weeks from now but what live things can I start adding to the tank such as plants or snails.