Recent content by Jerky

This is what I use for CO2 now. http://www.amazon.com/API-579E-CO2-Booster-16-Ounce/dp/B004GY9ZYI

I have the Finnex Planted+ and I love it. Getting great growth with liquid CO2. Gonna get CO2 injection system for my next project. The Finnex Planted+ was easily the best purchase of my setup so far.

I am just rounding out my 20 tall with cherry barbs, harlequin rasboras, german blue ram, powder blue gourami, Oto, and ghost shrimp. There is a lot of activity!! My next project will be tiger barbs, they seem pretty cool.

Maybe I spoke too soon. I see a couple spots of ICH on the Gourami I just got. Ohh well it can happen with the stress of being moved. I didn't see any fish with ICH in the store. Gonna assume it was just the stress from moving. Started my heat treatment last night. I only see 2-3 spots on the...

Here is a pic of my gourami. Looks really good I think. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mg7bhGWa6UblR0Mt9GTiFUwqmnBirTU6Vw&authuser=0 Sorry for link, uploading the pics aren't working well for me.

Hmm that would have been a good question to ask, I will ask that the next time I am there. Thanks!

Ohh I got a powder blue gourami and 4 cherry barbs. All are well this morning. Gourami didn't seem to want to eat, i am sure it will tomorrow.

So I just discovered a GREAT LFS in my area. Just wanted to chime in here to explain my shopping experience. So I was asking them about their setup. They said their whole tropical system is all connected and running off a massive 400 gallon custom sump in the back. So I looked at every tank...

I would say you need to REALLY rinse it out before you put fish in it. Like a solid 10-15 minute rinsing with a hose or something.

You may be 100% correct. But the owner of the forum does not want to spend thousands of dollars proving you are correct (which you are). AA owns all the material on this website, regardless who "posts" it. It's best to just avoid that situation completely. As many lawyers tell me, it's never a...

I did this personally myself. I replaced my substrate with the fish in actually. I had neon tetra, peppered cory, and guppies. I had gravel and wanted eco complete so I could grow plants. It's all about filtration. What i did personally is i cut back on some filter media to make room for new...

Hey. I believe you made it a lot farther then most first timers. Don't be too hard on yourself.

I have had to do it also. Sucks but I am sure you made the right decision.

I personally have never done it with pure ammonia. Nobody gives a timeline because there are so many variables to cycling. Quantity of water, type of filtration, type of gravel, quality of water used. The list could go on and on. Took me 2.5 weeks to get to a comfortable level to add fish. I...

Also the fact that it took one day to process 1ppm of ammonia is good. I would now focus on measuring your nitrites now. The ammonia break down process seems to be working properly. I believe you are fully cycled when it can process 3 ppm of ammonia in 12 hours. But I could be mistaken on that...