Recent content by Jill

Driftwood for my birthday. :D (I really need to charge my camera's batteries so I can get some decent pics).

I have a tank that has been running since October, and it has the original cartridge in it. When flow is restricted, I rinse the cartridge with tank water. The water in the tank is crystal clear. I do a 50% pwc every week. This seems to be working well for me. :)

Thanks! :) I will def give that a try if the water change doesn't help. The wood had been stored in an attic for god knows how long so I think it's just especially nasty. I should have soaked it first. Lesson learned. I'm so impatient when it comes to these things....and it always means...

It looks awesome!!! I envy your clear water. :nono: I'm going to do a major water change and try to clear mine up, and then I'll post a pic of the driftwood. It's massive.

We're going to work on building the co2 reactor today. I am so broke that the tank will probably sit as is for a while after that....lol. Where is your build thread again? I want to see how your sand turned out! :D

You mean Aston's? +1 :nono: :( Mlani....I'd love to see a pic of your tank too. :)

Coming along SLOWLY...lol. I got some beautiful driftwood for my birthday. It had been used in an aquarium so I didn't soak it, and now my water is nasty. :nono: At least the driftwood is cool! :lol:

My betta lived peacefully with a ghost shrimp for about 4 weeks until this morning when I found it dead, and the betta happily eating it. I suspect foul play. :rolleyes:

I remember you. :) I'm thinking of building your diy drop checker from an API tube as speak....lol. :D

Congrats! :)

That little tank would make a great red cherry shrimp tank. You could have several too! They are so much fun to watch and relatively inexpensive. :) I hope we didn't scare you away. We were all beginners at some point, and we have all overstocked a tank before we knew better (I certainly...

I've had terrible luck with rocks too. :( I bought 2 50 lb bags of blasting sand and used about 75 pounds. I think I probably could have gotten by with 50, but I knew I wanted to plant so I used a little extra. :)

I use clip on lamps like that all the time for my smaller aquariums. Get a 23 watt daylight cfl spiral, and you're good to go (without going near the 60 watt limit AND you're getting the brightness of a 100 watt incandescent). :thumb: ETA that I haven't noticed a change in my electric bill...

PMing you....lol. :)

OMG....did you meet Hannah??