Recent content by mikeb

10/4, I have live plants. The ammonia drops from 4 ppm in 24 hours for sure, most of the time faster than that. I will try to find some time to do a water change this evening. Then get some readings on everything. I do indeed have some live plants. That should help with the Nitrates?

What about the Nitrates? Don't we need to eliminate those as well?

Thank you for your in depth answer. I think we are close. I just do not want to kill any fish. I understand we might have some lose along the way, but just want to try and do it right on our first try.

I think we are getting close. I have been adding ammonia to the tank the past 20 days or so. I think one thing that has been killing me is that I have been traveling and not been able to add the ammonia regularly as it gets depleted. I have been on top of it the past few days now. My ammonia...

What is that piece to the left? Is that drift wood or a type of rock? I like that piece and would like to find something for my aquarium like that to cover up the sight of my filter and heater.

I know this might feel like a slow process, but just trying to work on this when we as a family have time. I have the play sand in the tank and we did some hard scaping this morning with some beach rocks from Home Depot. We also drained about 1/2 the water in the tank. So that said we have...

I setup the entire tank to do my leak test. While filling the tank I began to realize that using RO water probably was not the best call. The output that I can get out of my little RO facet just is not enough to fill a 29 Gallon tank. I did the leak test with my tap water, which is soft...

I got the tank, the background painted, the play sand filtered and my river rocks are clean. In regards to hardware, I have my HOB filter, heater, temp gauge, light and my mineral replacements (using RO water), root tabs, fertilizer and water conditioner. Still waiting on my Dr Tim’s Aquatics...

Yes sir, we got the whole tour of their new Galapagos' park and aquarium. We got to feed the tropical fish as well as the sharks/bull and black tips. It was crazy how much it takes to take care of a huge aquarium like that on a daily basis.

Not offended. I painted the outside of the glass. It really looks so much better. One of my daughters friends her dad runs the Houston Zoo Aquarium. They do the same thing to make the tank look infinite. Thank you for the videos

I guess I lucked out when I got my coverglass. It is the thicker one, but I was at a higher end fish store in town. They were so helpful I wanted to at least buy something from them at the time. I hope to be getting the plants and fish there. Removed most of the sand last night, and painted...

10/4, I am out on carpeting plants. Do not want high maintenance, this is enough maintenance for me starting off. Added the Dr. Timm's Dr. Tim's

I am going to do the fishless cycle. It seemed more humane, and I like the idea of trying to be patient with this project. So I was planning on getting my plants in there as soon as possible. After looking at some of the other member tanks I would like a grass that has the potential to carpet...

All right I have the following in my cart ready to pull the trigger: EHEIM Jager Aquarium Thermostat Heater 100W ( Pack of 1) Seachem Equilibrium 300gramSeachem Equilibrium 300gram AquaClear 50 Power Filter hygger 16W Full Spectrum Aquarium Light Marina Deluxe Floating Thermometer I am...

Looking for these ceramic beads. Do they come in existing bags? Like these: Beads