Recent content by Molly525

I love my discus, but the personality of the loaches put them in second place.

A ferret can be an african dwarf frog if it really, really wants to.

I'd want to be a discus, the most beautiful fish-fresh or salt water.

Thanks for all your help. I went to the pool supply store and got a bag of de. Within 2 hours the tank was clear again.

Also, the only additive I put in the tank is Prime to dechlorinate.

This is a 75 gal Jetstream discus tank which has only been cycled about a month. I do daily water changes of 30% cause I have 12 young discus who love messy food. Since my green water problem I have done 50-60% water changes daily. The two causes for the green water, I think, are that it had...

I've been struggling with green water for several days now. I have drastically reduced the light, do 60% water changes daily and ordered a HOT Magnum filter. Yesterday I got the HOT Magnum put in the micron filter and let it run without turning off the other filter. I have a 75 gal Jetstream...

Paul, Wanted you to know that I've taken your suggestions and everything is running "swimmingly". I did cut off my control rod (after checking with Marineland) and now, using the same procedure as you, it all works great. Thanks Again,

I read that Prime (which I add in my water changes) gives a false positive ammonia reading. Does it also give false positive nitrite and nitrate readings? How long before the Prime dissipates and I can get an accurate reading on ammonia, nitrite, nitrate?

Thanks for your help. I have emailed Marineland and hope to hear from them soon. I did my water change with your experience in mind. It seems to be getting better (meaning the control rod is not sticking up as high as it was). I am pretty much chicken about cutting off the control rod until...

I have a new Jetstream 75 gal freshwater tank that is cycled and my discus are really happy. I however can't seem to get the water level rebalanced. My control rod, to make it quit gurgling, is about 6 inches above the top of the aquarium and the water level in the sump is about 2 inches too...