Recent content by Jawboxen

It is a 55 gallon tank. I add water weekly about 10 gallons because of evaporation. I vacuum and change 25% percent of the water monthly when i change my filter pads. I do a 40% to 50% water change every 6 months normally. Over the last 1 and 1/2 half years the tank has gone through alot of...

Yesterday at the pet store he gave it a level of 5.0 My test strips i bought are showing it barely even yellow. So i would venture to guess it would still be at the 5.0 level since my scale that came with the test strips starts at 6.0 on a full yellow and the color i get isn't even close to as...

Help me please. I am at my wits end here. I have been losing fish one or 2 at a time for the 7 months. Every 3 months i am going through some sort of bacterial/fungal spell and i treat it and everything if fine for 3 months then it comes back. I brought some water from my tank to my local...

Hi all, I am Julie and as you can tell i am new here. Happy to have found this place. I have a 55 gallon tank that has been set up for 4 yrs. I am here because i have been having problems recently. I will make a new thread for that. Just wanted to introduce myself and my fishies.