Recent content by Reannon's Servant

thanks guys! Out she came

Hi all, Ok, one of the LFS here sold me a "spider plant" as an aquatic plant. She even made mention that it wasn't the "same" as a real spider plant, even though she called it one? Anyways, I decided to look it up and so far all I'm seeing is the real spider plants don't last in tanks because...

Hi all, thought I would give a proper introduction to myself after getting some help here the other day and really liking this forum. My name is Nicole, and I live in Duncan, BC. I'm not really a newbie to fish keeping, I was a major enthusiast as a teenager about 12 years back and stopped...

I know my GH is between 150-300 and my KH is between 180-300 I haven't tested the sitting tap water, but my roommate who has an established aquarium has virtually identical stats

after changing the gravel and stuff in my tank my pH may be just fine. I'm hoping so! Here is a total chemical analysis on my tank.. it's still fairly new, I don't have alot of fish just yet nor do i really plan to, I think I will add a few rams and maybe some more cardinal tetras and that...

well the problem is my pH is about 7.8... so adding new fish is very hard because they are so shocked by the pH change. I've been FAIRLY successful so far only lost one fish, but I wanted to get some Blue Rams and the store I get them from has a 7 pH.. I don't want to kill the poor guys

Hey, I'm a newbie here, just needed to get some advice on a situation I got myself into today! I was having pH problems ( too high) and after trying a pH down and getting no results I thought it could have been the gravel I was using. Since I want a nicely planted aquarium I decided to get...