Recent content by crapotm

What is asking price? Because mine were originally 3.50 each. So I was thinking 2 a piece

I've got one local fish store that I'm trying to get interested. Craigslist and Facebook pages haven't helped yet, but I haven't tried eBay yet and may resort to that.

My tank has become overloaded with mystery snails. I'm talking about like 50+ in a 75 gallon tank. A couple clutches hatched without my knowledge and next thing I knew BAM!! Now I'm at the point where one of my black skirted tetras has had basically it's entire back end (tail and partially onto...

Okay so I did another water change today of about 33% (25gal). It's been a few hours since I've filled it back up and my numbers are ph 8.0, ammonia <.25ppm (not completely yellow but coming down from the light green for sure), nitrite 0 ppm, and nitrate 40ppm. Is there a better way to go about...

Nitrates? I always thought the nitrates weren't a problem unless they were unreasonably high? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Okay so I've had my tank running for at least 5 months now, my numbers have become pretty stable. I just did about a 30-40% water change. Initially I had trouble with my numbers but found out I needed to put in a conditioner when adding water. My levels now are ph 8-8.2, ammonia .25ppm, nitrite...

Okay so I waited a little too long to do my next exchange and I was at 8.4 ph, between 4-8 ppm ammonia, 1 ppm nitrite, and still 5 ppm nitrate. I did a 75% exchange and I'm at 8.2 ph which is my norm, between 2 -4 ppm ammonia, .25 ppm nitrite, and still right around 5 ppm nitrate (which confuses...

Okay yeah that was my plan once I got my second filter. I will work more now on the feeding though because I've been feeding them twice a day but apparently too much. Maybe I'll switch to 3 times and make it that much smaller to try and keep it as little wasted as possible. Then could I rinse...

Well it could be either the overfeeding based on the amount of excess that came out when I did the water exchange with the gravel vacuum, or an overwhelmed bed so far. It's only been about 6 weeks or so. I followed the directions of the petsmart people instead of digging deep enough on my own. I...

Okay so I'm still in the process of fish in cycling, and I'm at a point I need help. I just did a 60% exchange because the ammonia was around 4ppm, nitrite around 2ppm, and nitrate of 5ppm. The nitrate is a good sign because I haven't had nitrate readings yet so I'm making progress. But now...

At what point should I do a water change with the ammonia level? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Okay so a it's been 2 weeks since I've began my fish in cycle. I have a 75 gallon tank with a cascade 300 filter, via aqua quartz heater, and a dual t5 fluorescent bulb 48" light. It's my first fish tank but I'm trying to be very careful not to stress them with doing the cycle fish in. The first...