Recent content by Jbeals

Thank you everyone for you help. I'll keep updating as we progress in the rebuild

Today's update. Brown algae basically gone, and water is clear again. Only algae is the normal green stuff in small patches. Water numbers look stabile as well. I'm going to clean the decorations and rocks I took out really well before putting them back so we don't have another wave. Then I feel...

This is why I stopped taking advice from the "fish experts" at per stores. This guy was bragging about his set up at his house before giving me all the bad advice that killed my tank

Now that makes sense. When my tank previously went bad and my plants started dying with it, a petsmart fish department employee told me the plants need co2 to be healthy and sold me C02 booster. So that's one more thing for me to get rid of in my tank maintenance

Today's water reading. Things seem to have settled down a little, and algae isn't growing as fast as it was. Did lose the frog after the water change when Alkalinity and PH spiked again. But the 2 resident fish and plants seem to be doing OK. Will do another 75% water change this week and see...

Yeah this started after the move and disturbance of the tank. This last go around I completely emptied it, bleach cleaned it and everything in the tank. As well as new gravel and substrate. I don't know how it survived and came back. Even got a new filter system to be sure it didn't come back...

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Here's the brown algae that's grown so far

This is all great information. Thank you all for taking the time. I'll do a larger water change tomorrow. To hit on a couple points: -when it happens it does kill the newer fish first and the established fish survive. -the TA and PH spiked at the same time previously, and the KH was low. I...

The water system should be the same, I just moved across town. I used my strips on the tap water earlier today and took the first picture, second picture was tank water as of now. I did clean the tank and do a 1/3 water change prior to joining the group today so unfortunately no good pictures...

This was the tank a couple weeks prior to the mass casualty incident and ploom. I just did another partial water change today and it's been a week without feeding from advice of another fish guy.

When we moved before I drained the tank all the way to the gravel and gave it a good scrub and rinse before refilling. This time I did the same but did a more thorough rinse of the rocks. Only learned about good microbes after the tank turned bad. So I did a few water changes and added some...

I've had my 30 Gallon freshwater tank for a decade and it's always done well with plants and multiple fish with almost zero maintenance throughout multiple moves. It was a thriving self-sustaining ecosystem. But when I moved to my new house and set up my tank, it didn't take long to get PH...