Recent content by dja3617

Thank you for that I appreciate it everyt b in local fish store be told me that they said it could start to mess with the biological cycle

Well I never heard 50% a week in fact I've always been told to never do a 50% unless absolutely necessary. I usually do 25% every other week. But I guess I should do one because when I checked it yesterday it was about 100 ppm but like I said after I saw that I changed about 25 to 30% or the...

Everything has been going very well in my tank the fish look healthy everyone is swimming around and look like they are in good health when I checked the status of the tank everything looked great except my nitrates are out of control plz help me with ways to reduce the nitrate lvl. I just did a...

I noticed a couple of days ago my black ghost was developing little white spots on his skin so I took a pic and showed the dude at my fish store and he said it was ich so I bought thos medicine to remove it and when I got home from the store I noticed my tetras were covered with it so anyway its...

I came home today from work to find 2 of my fish dead :( a dwarf garami and platy they both looked deteriorated but the platy had an almost clear tubular thing hanging from its but please help me I haope I dont have an infestation of any kind what can I do?

I did a 20% water change and I noticed that my filter media was floating high in the filter so I pushed it down and now a bunch of brown particles are floating and covering everything in my tank what do I do???

I love the live plants there great havent noticed the benefits of them yet I have 4 but there pretty new so I should keep the nitrates alittle high for the plant or at 4oppm??

So my tank will not clear up and I think it has to do something with the high nitrate. ive been going through alot with this tank trying to get it right and now everything is good except nitrates which were at 100 ppm I did a 45-50% water change and added alittle prime and now its at about 50...

And the problem with blacking out the tank is I have some live plants

Its not really a green cloudy its more milky white I would say the green is the refelction from the gravel and fake plants

This is what my tank looks like

Could that be causing the cloudy water.. and what oercentage of water should I change

API master kit shows 6.8 PH no Ammonia no Nitrites and about 80 ppm of nitrate I believe my tank has finally cycled but why is my water still cloudy I feed my fish once a day very anal about how much. lately its been every other day because I was having ammonia problem so I just dont get the...

I have 5 platys 2 mollys 4 tetra 2 pectis cats 3 clown loaches 2 dwarf garamis and black ghost I use api stress coat and a aquaclear 110 filter

I have api liquid drops