Recent content by awakebyjava

Full tank pics here

I just took and uploaded some pictures of my tank. You can kind of see that the peacock fern's leaves, or whatever ferns have, are starting to curl from being under water. But the fish are darting around them so much I am loathe to take them out. Assuming that the LFS will not refund my money...

Yes I saw those. I was thinking I might try to make sure I wont kill anything before trying that though. My light is much better now that I have an okay bulb, but I would really like to see new growth before I get serious about plants.

Yes, I am pretty sure some of my plants are non aquatic. The peacock fern I just got is not, and I will be returning that sans packaging. That really cheeses me! I cannot seem to find a good store that sells plants though, and as I said in a previous post, I am reluctant to buy online. The true...

Okay, here are my notes. Hope you can make sense of them! Notes1 Notes2 Notes3 Notes4 Edit: Some of them show up upside down, I will fix that later. Right now I am out of battery. Edit: I think those are all good. I changed the contrast to make them easier to read.

Yah, when I say my nitrItes are zero, it means that they are small enough levels that they are not a problem. The shades on these test kits are kind of hard to read, so most of the time I am guesstamating on exact levels.

Thanks! Sorry, I am an English teacher, so open ended questions are kind of my thing! :) Right now I have 3 Leopard Danios in the tank, which get to be about 1.5 inches, I guess. I like how active they are, though they are a bit piggish in their feeding. Is the inch/gallon rule a good measure...

I understand where you guys are coming from, really! I was big into herpetology in college, and got really fired up about the way that people I knew cared for their reptiles. One of the things I think is easy to forget is that people new to fish are sometimes not yet at the point where they see...

Sure thing. They are in a notebook, but when I get back to my school on Tuesday I can scan them. Don't have a scanner here at home.

I understand. I didn't do total changes at the beginning. I did partial changes, based on ammonia levels, every day. The cycle didn't start. That went on for 2 months. My fish were living in ammonia at around 5ppm for 2 months during which I was doing PWCs every day. After going through that...