Recent content by AtomicXombie

I definitely agree with rehoming the ones that will outgrow the tank and I’ll be setting up arrangements for that very soon. I wish we could do a pond, but this is Mississippi and we rent the house we’re in, so that’s probably not an option. I’ve been digging around price checking 75 gallons...

He’s currently 7 inches long.

Update After going through and reading a good bit here in the forum I’ve definitely decided I’m going to be getting a more accurate testing kit. I’m also aware now that I should be testing for ammonia and I’m going to be testing for copper in my smaller 10 gallon tank that I’m having problems...

I bought him from petsmart nearly two years ago, but there is a really nice family owned fish store in the next town over that would probably take him. They have a few in some of the huge tanks they have there.

I have the 5 in 1 test strips I use to test water parameters. I just tested to double check and these are the results according to the test strips I have. Nitrate: 20 mg/l Nitrite: 0 mg/l pH: 7.5 KH: 80 mg/l GH: 30 mg/l Temp is currently 80°F which now that I’m looking at that seems extremely...

Okay. So I’m the first to admit here that I believe I’ve made some awful mistakes stocking my very first aquarium. I was taught about aquariums from a co worker of mine and really wanted to get into the hobby. Little did I know that most of the information I was given was wrong. So. With that...