Recent content by darrin34

i did another water test at the pet store and my nitrates are way down now i used a deffrent decloraniser called amquil and i am doing all my gravel i. but recently i have discoverd my lobster has had little ones so i am not sure what to do because i have only the one tank for fresh water and i...

i use a cascade 300 and an aqua clear 70 with a aquaclear 30 power head and i get enough current and all my water levels are fine i have 13 fish in my 55

what water conditioner do you use i was looking at getting amquel+ FROM KAGEN have you ever heard of it and i right now am doing a 30% CHANGE

i do 30% now when i do a water change and i do the filtres every second week so as i have a good bio load in them .. and i do half the gravel so i do not disturb the bacteria like i said this is the first time it has ever spiked

my nitrites are zero and my amonia is zero it is just the nitrtes that are up ... my tank is a 55g with a cascade 300 and a aquaclear 70 ... and i use a power head for a little extra current to get things moving ... I do a water change everyweek .. and i vacum one side of my tank a week when i...

recently i did a water change and gravel vacuum my tank had gone cloudy . i got my water tested my nitrates were 30 and my nitrites were 3.0 i purchased a nitrate pillow and did a another water change after a week now my nitrites are 0 my ammonia is 0 but my nitrates are staying at around 15-20...

Last night as i did my water change i discovered i had three little baby lobsters running around in my tank . one is over an inch and the other 2 are about 3/4 what i am wondering is what do i do with them and how would i care for them right now they are following around the mother lobster just...

my tank is a 55 with a cascade 300 and a aqua clear 70 . and i have 12 african cichlids . 1 pleco and 2 baby zebra lobsters i found last night . i was vacuuming my gravel and soon after i did my tank went cloudy today i went to the local fish store and purchased a nitra-zorb rechargeable pillow...

Last night i did a water change and while i was vacuuming my water the tank went cloudy . now it is staying cloudy and my nitrates and nitrites are very high on the water test the viles were very pink . they told me the number but i forgot right now my tank looks like a cup of milk got pored...

i am not a salt water person but i just want say that fish tanks are great ways of relieving stress and i think help allot to take my mind off the pain i have in my shoulder i can just sit and watch my cichlids and eel swim around and do there things i also find that the trickle of the water...

furniture delivery guys were fooling around when the deliverd my dtuff and the one guy fell into the tank and broke it and also ruined a new leather couch so i am now fighting with the furniture store

well thank you all for your input i am verry sad to say that my 125g tank now is not a 125g tank it is a big heap of broken glass. and let me tell you it is not fun to clean up a 125g worth of water .so my reef tank is now a no go all i am left with now is my 55g cichlid tank so all say a little...

i am looking at doing a reef tank i like all the little critters you can get ...ex shrimp ,crabs,oysters ,worms and such

i live in northern b.c right around prince rupert ... cool thank you for the feedback is there some brand names of skimmers i should look at also and what lighting is good to get could i get away with using marine glow bulbs my tank came with a canopy with connections for 4 bulbs

Hello all i have a 125g tank i am going to do into a salt tank i was wondering since i live on the coast if i can use live rock from the ocean for my fish tank? And if i can do i have to cure it??? and how do you cure live rock ?? And would it be ok to get a few live rock and mix it in with some...