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Ahh okay just what I thought, and yes I already actually use a glass dish to keep my gravel and other things from sifting around too much

Ahh yes I've checked out your build, very nice! :) So by its name I assume the pillow case trick would be, put sand in a pillow case, then spray with water? Or am I wrong? Or is it keeping the sand in the pillowcase until you are at the bottom of the tank?

I'll take your suggestion :) and wow that's terrible. I hope I'm all good now for setting up my tank. Thank you to EVERYBODY who gave me input on this forum. If I have any problems I'll be sure to come back to aquariumadvice and start up a new thread :)

Okay I'll do some research then. And hmmm....maybe I can just soak a towel with it, then hang it from the side of the tank? Because the deposits are right in the middle of the walls, I guess because when the turtles where in there the water was never higher than halfway and never lower than...

Awesome, I gave it a good rinse off with just water, then I made my 10% bleach mixture and wiped it all over the insides, ten I ended up just pouring the mixture in and moving it up and down the sides, I cleaned with bleach for about 15 minutes. Then I got a nice plastic scraper tool and removed...

Okay, seems tedious. Today I am planning on cleaning out the 75G tank. It used to have turtles in it about a year ago, but has been sitting in my basement ever since. I know putting fish in a tank that used to house turtles could be dangerous so I need to clean it. I found that using a 5%-10%...

So also as I'm doing research I'm getting slightly overwhelmed I guess, so many articles I read about switching to sand say you must wash the sand, especially if it's play sand, is this true? and if it is true what's the best way to clean it? And also I realized if my tank is settled with it's...

I was getting some advice for setting up my new tank and was suggested to go from gravel to sand. I was told that sand is easier on the bottom feeders because it's more fine. And ideally I need 125 lbs. for my 75G so probably about 250 lbs. for your 150G tank. So I would go with the black sand...

Haha that's entertaining :) So now that you mention angelfish....I absolutely love angelfish, I used to have some, then I missed some tank maintenance and ran out of supplies, I had no money to get what I needed and then my two Angelfish died :( but I was looking to buy in major bulk this time...

I realized I forgot to ask the most important question, how should I go about actually moving the fish? I assume I would net them all and then just transfer them over...but there has to be a more effective way, but also a handful of my fish are pregnant(well because they are guppies and I've...

I only snail I've ever had in the tank is the Zebra snail, just what they had in the per store, I've had 5 and then after a couple years they died off for some reason, never bred.

So according to this article Malaysian Trumpet Snails in a Planted Tank : Yamato Green MTS's seem to be beneficial, they won't eat my fish(unless dead and on the ground), and they won't plauge my tank as long as I don't overfeed. Does the information in this article cover everything or is there...

Maybe I will invest in some of those

Awesome :) thank you so much for your help in this :)

When I move the filter for two weeks though should I have my fish in the new tank or keep them in the old one for the two weeks? Also thanks for the stirring sand tips. That makes it seem like a pain though to have to stir the sand, especially if I have a lot of decoration in my tank