Recent content by Aidanflower

okay let me know when you figure that out. if you can use different filters than that will be my system. otherwise i will be getting different one.

thanks for the info. i have been thinking about purchasing and ro unit for a little while. my tap water is already pushing it for shrimp so that will be needed but my real problem is the rocks increasing the gh and kh are increasing significantly. so i need to prevent that from rising. i have a...

after looking around for hours i have found that krylon clear polyurethane is aquarium safe after it has cured. my plan is to seal the rocks with this stuff to prevent it from effecting my water. I'm going to test it on a small piece of rock and after it is done curing i will soak it in water...

has anyone heard of ion exchange resin to soften aquarium water or have any experience. all i see is people being skeptical and no one giving parameters of there water when they used it. what is everyones thoughts on the resin?

my tap water is 6gh and 5kh, this is straight from the tap. what is the significance of waiting the 24-48 hours before doing these tests? i ATO with distilled water and I'm looking into an ro unit. so there isn't mineral build up due to toping of with tap water I use GLA PPS pro fertz EI...

so i have some bad news, all of the shrimp have died. i didn't know what the problem was until it was too late. the seiryu stones are raising the gh and kh extremely fast. in 24 hours the gh raised 1 degree and the kh raised 2 degrees. at this rate in order to keep shrimp i would have to do...

What type of fish is this? I've looked around on websites to try to find it but can't find what it is. I'm not very good with freshwater fish identification. saltwater is more my thing. thanks for the help.

Week 2 on plants: And my painted fire shrimp came today from Alpha Pro Breeders. I highly recommend ordering from them. Great packaging and no doa. They even gave me a free extra shrimp

Day 10 on plants. Growth is good although In the past few days I haven't gotten much pearling, I haven't figured out why.

Plants are doing great! Day 5 on plants I'm thinking about adding some dwarf hair grass behind the rocks on the left. But I feel like if I put some grass behind the rock on the right it will look odd because of the small size of the rocks. What are your thoughts and any other plants that may...

Pick this build up on my other thread: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f12/iwagumi-308835-3.html

4 days in the tank and a bunch of the plants are pearling!!!

just finished setting up my diy auto dosing system. it consists of a small peristaltic pump, a dc cord and a timer. each doser costs a total of about $35. all I had to do was solder the power cord to the contact points on the pump. in order to use the timer to time in seconds there is a simple...

Just planted the plants yesterday, I plan on getting painted fire shrimp in a few weeks, once i get the co2 and ferts stable. Sent from my iPod touch using Aquarium Advice