Recent content by royta

I added a 2.5ml dose of Flourish already. How does the Wysteria respond to liquid ferts? Thanks for the help everyone. Roy

What brand of root fertilizer tabs? The Seachem stuff?

I'm hoping to get all water parameters tonight...ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and pH. I'll report back. Until then, here's a picture of the Amazon Sword.

Low light. A single T8 the width of the tank. The fact the plants used to rapidly grow for the first 7 months or so until a couple months ago on the current light setup leads me to believe it is not the light. I'll admit I've let nitrate get too high in the past, but I've been good at keeping...

I have a 28 gallon bowfront planted with Amazon Sword and Wysteria and am using pool filter sand for substrate. Both plant types used to thrive, but now the Wysteria has stopped growing and the Amazon Sword leaves are becoming transparent, paper thin, and a very light brown. Is Seachem Flourish...

Sorry. I missed the "Profiles" in the forum title.

I'm sure the pooping will slow down once there is less food to eat.

I picked up a couple oto fish (one didn't survive so I only have one) for my 28g Euro bowfront tank last week. It's doing a great job cleaning up the algae that has thickly accumulated on the side of the tank. However, there is poop all over the bottom of my tank now. What's the deal with these...

Thanks pigeonfood. I've got fish in the tank now. Ammo and nitrites have remained at 0 and nitrates have been slowly climbing. Even had to do a 35% PWC last night. All is well. Thanks for the help everybody. I'll have to post a picture one of these evenings.

What do you think this is?

Awesome!! My nitrates are at 80-160ppm and obviously way too high for fish. I'll do a 50% PWC right now, do a bunch of yard work, and then a second PWC in a few hours (if nitrates are still too high) before going to town to buy fish.

6/11 10:00AM I tested last night 21 hours after dosing ammonia up to 4ppm. Ammo dropped to 0, but nitrites only dropped to 0.25-0.50 (closer to 0.25 than 0.50). I did not dose ammonia back up. I checked this morning at 10:00AM (35 hours after dosing ammonia to 4ppm), and nitrites were at 0. I...

6/9 9:00PM I actually have a positive outlook after this evening's tests. pH is at 7.6. Ammo is at 0. Nitrites are at 0.25-0.50. Nitrates are at 80-160. I dosed ammo back up to 4.0ppm. Yesterday's PWC turned me back around I think. Tomorrow's check will only be after 20 hours, so it would be a...

I don't think I'll need to run crushed coral all the time. The first time my tank cycled, I was still able to completely go through 4ppm ammonia in 24 hours without the crushed coral. We'll see I guess.

Wow, what a finicky bacteria colony. After 22.5 hours from the activities above, pH had lowered from 7.6 to 7.0-7.2. Ammo only lowered to 0-0.25 and nitrites only lowered to 2.0-5.0. So I did an 80% PWC. Nitrates are still at 40-80...they were 80-160 yesterday...closer to 160. Nitrites are at 0...