Recent content by e30 gangsta

Hey guys, ive been trying to keep my white sand as clean as possible with no luck. Ive been vaccuming, and doing water changes as much as I can but the sand is no where as clean as id like it to be. Is there any species that helps keep the sand clean? Any product, or tool that you guys...

^ thanks. My electric blue ram doesn't want to eat any of the flakes or pellets I put into the tank. What else do you suggest I feed it? Blood worms?

Correct it is a creamsicle. Tanks doing good guys just have a question. Aquarium salt, should I put some in? I have a snail in the tank though. So I dont know if I should add some salt to the aquarium. Also what is optimal temperature for a community tank, filled with tropical fish. I am at...

Dont be sorry. Black ghost knife has been taken back to the fish store. As cool as he is I cannot deal with having a 100g+ fish tank. The gourami when I bought him was labeled as a community tropical red flame gourami. He only gets up to 3-3.5 inches. The eletric blue ram Ive read only grown...

^ thanks so much. And yes I have seen tons of non planted tanks. Its not a necessity. And yeah I read up a bit on them just now that they only get 4 inches long. I could be wrong, or read up on the wrong species but it was multiple sites. :/

O_O This is the only fish I didn't do research on. How big are we talking like a 75g? Thanks for the heads up. And yeah, e30 gangsta. Seeing as I am into e30's. But you may or may not know anything about that. Its been my screen name on forums since the late 90's. Why change it now? The tank...

A pinch In both sides of my 10 gallon tank. Like the size of a dime of tropical flakes. In 5 minutes everything is gone. The gourami eats the big chuncks, ghost eats whatever falls to the bottom. Everything else eats the normal sized flakes. I feed them once a day, I just want to make sure that...

Heres some pics of my new guys. Eletric blue ram, gorami, snail, ghost black knife, and my micky mouse platy. Ive been feeding them once a day a good sized pinch and they eat everything up! Even the flakes that fall and land on the sand. They are hungry little guys. Every 2 days though I had...

Heres some more pics! These guys are hard to catch on camera when they are eating breakfast lol. How often do you guys feed your fish? and how much food do you guys put into the tank? A small pinch, a good pinch, a couple of pinches of flakes?

So....... :D :) :D Im done and stocked! tequila sunrise guppy Gourami mickey mouse platy red tetra and a snail. Keeping the stock light for now to see how it goes. Couple of questions for you guys now that I have gotten this far. At what ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate level should I do...

Ok Ill just stick to 50% pwc's every Sunday. Thanks again guys!

Perfect. Thanks guys. So as a rule of thumb how often do you guys do a pwc's? And when you do how much do you change? 50%?

Thanks Jeff and jlk. You guys are great and now i fully understand. I'll keep you guys posted. I can't wait to stock my tank! If you add live plants it helps keep the nitrite and nitrate down? Does that allow you to wait longer in between pwc's ? Thanks again guys. Angels plus active filters...

So 35-40 hours ago I did a 50% pwc and I dosed the water with ammonia to 4.0ppm. I tested the water just now and this are my results. ph 7.6 Ammonia 0ppm Nitrite 5.0+ ppm ( its a bit darker than the chart ) Nitrate 160ppm + So the tank is totally converting ammonia, yet the nitrite is still...

what should I be looking for in Ph? drops or spikes? also should I keep dosing ammonia into my tank? and last but not least, should I do a 50% pwc to keep things fresh? and give the BB new nutrients to work with?