Recent content by Justinkramp

Hi there, I have a fully planted 40g tank. I use RO/DI water with a pH of 6.10 and I recently disconnected my co2 for CRS and obviously the pH went up. Way up. With CO2 it hovered around 6.6 tank pH and now its at 7.5. How can my pH be this high if I have a tank with 6.1 DI water thats only...

I forgot to mention I did a 50% water change past Saturday and another 50% yesterday and my values are all fine

Hey all, I recently bought a heater for my aquarium since it was at a max of 68 degrees and min of 65 and Variated between these temperatures during the day and I figured that was not warm enough for my fish. So I installed the heater and it heated the tank to 80 degrees. Once I realized where...

Water parameters should just be little nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, ph anywhere from 6.2-7.8 probably, try not to go much above that, water temperature mid 70's should be fine, and just the standard stuff that you would have your aquarium at under normal conditions too. For cleaning, just clean...

also, when you are getting all your new stuff for your 50G, I suggest you buy it online at places such as petmountain. they offer large varieties and much cheaper than in store, and once you get to a certain shopping value, even shipping is free: this value should be reachable with two heaters...

sorry for the novel :lol:

I really don't think so, i mean for the fact that if one filter goes out the other one still works, yes, but overall one filter should be fine and work best since it should cycle the water evenly. Remember that for cleaning you should do water changes with vacuuming the gravel at least once a...

if your water parameters are somewhat in the range and your temp in the tank is ok, then they should breed in the breeder. Be sure to match a pair though for obvious reasons. Its a great breeder btw, I haven't been able to find one online recently though i do want one, much better than the...

As jessipanda said, its a great idea to save the equipment for your 10 gal which makes for a great quarantine tank as well as a breeder tank if you ever have the desire to step to that aspect of the hobby. Now, a good thing to do, even if you buy all new equipment, is to get 2 heaters at half...

So I bought plants from petsmart two weeks ago out of their plant tank and these plants have been growing like wildfire. Great stuff. Now, these plants apparently had snails on them or snail eggs at the time of purchase. By now I have three snails that I noticed (after 2 weeks) and I would like...