Recent content by Cypilk

Brown diatoms. Hmm. Maybe I should consider getting a few snails to eat them up!

There's brownish, copperish colored spots on the windows of my tank. What is it? They are kind of smeared, not fully round and in random places, kind of a rusted colored ink blot. Should I be worried?

I'm using the master test kit that everybody recommended to me. Hm.. as for seeding my tank , I didn't use anything at all. I started straight from scratch.

Well, i'm starting my fourth week in my new tank and I was wondering how far my cycle is. I just came home from my 2-day weekend and I checked all of my levels. Here they are : Ammonia = .5 ppm Nitrite = 0 Nitrate = 0 It seems like I am not progressing in my cycle at all. Hmm, there are still...

Nope, no live plants. I'm going to do a water change right now and try to get as much as it off, but i'm guessing that it will keep on coming

I do a water change almost everyday, keeping my ammonia level under .25 ppm. I guess i'll try skimming the top with something and wiping the sides of my tank with my hand, or something. But I still want to know what caused it. Was it because I mixed my de-chlorine solution with my water...

More about my tank.. It's about 2-3 weeks old, a 25 gallon tank with 7 zebra danio, 3 neon tetra, and 6 tiger barbs, it has a HOB power filter, and that's about it. As of now, there are no nitrites, or nitrates, just ammonia, which I have been monitoring everyday.

I think my tank is contaminated. I see small speckles and smears on the glass walls of my tank, and also, when I stick my hand in the tank, I notice that I break an oily film of some sort. The marks can be easy rubbed off by my fingers and the film keeps coming back when I change my water. I...

I think I have an unhealthy fish. In my 25 gallon tank, I have 7 Zebra Danios and 3 Neon Tetras. One of the 7 Danios are baby-sized compared to the other 6. I would say he is about 2.5 cm long. Just recently after I did another routine water change, I noticed the small Danio off to the corner to...

Well, my gravel is the standard ol' gravel you can find at any fish store and I have 30 pounds of it in my 25 gallon tank. I have a top fin power filter and a good heater along with it. The lighting definitely needs to change as well. Here is the link to the plant package...

I found a planting package that Joannde referred me to and it includes the following. • 3 Bacopa • 4 Rotala indica • 3 Cabomba • 4 Banana Plants • 5 Anubias Nana • 1 ounce Java Moss • 10 Sagittaria subulata • 2 Amazon swords • 6 Crypt Balansae • 4 Crypt Wendtii (2 red and 2 green) • 4 Java...

Thanks, I got some Stress Zyme, because I couldn't find any Bio-Spira =(. I only put 1 dosage in there and hope it works, all of my ammonia/ammonium, nitrite and nitrate levels are under control and I do about a 40% water change every day almost. Good thing I really did buy the python!, It works...

I'm using a stress zyme cycle booster, which contains the good bacteria involved in my cycle of ammonia to nitrite to nitrate. My question is that if I do a water change, wouldn't I be losing some of the good bacteria I just put into the tank?

Ahh, noted!.. Thanks for the suggestions!

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