Recent content by UntimelyLord

Yeah your tank is not fully cycled. It is coming along since you have some nitrate. You will not be fully cycled until you consistently always have zero ammonia and zero nitrites. You should wait to add more fish until you are sure you have a fully cycled tank. Here is a link...

Super glue cures white-ish underwater so I wouldn’t use that. If it is an aquarium safe plastic it seems like it would be okay, #2, #4, and #5 plastics I know are aquarium safe, if the colored bits were painted on and not made of plastic I’m not sure though? An idea might be to have someone 3-D...

I know this is late and you found your answer but sparkling gourami also make sounds. Just in case your aquarium makes any more strange noises. :) https://youtu.be/BWDsDkUMRMc

With my batch of ADA soil (edit: ADA Amazonia, the little spheres), after some of it had broken down I was able to rinse it in batches in a bowl (edit: gently, because if you crush it into loose soil you will need a cap of sand or gravel) by letting the loose dirt get kicked up in the running...

Thank you all for the replies! I stopped by my LFS to pick up sand and I found this: “Rhyzomat” It’s actually intended for similar purposes as what I’m looking for so I got it to use instead of the plastic mesh layer. It’s made of coconut husk, like the liners that can sometimes be found in the...

I’m probably going to do this unless someone tells me it isn’t an okay idea. It will make moving plants difficult once the roots grow through the mesh but with a dirted tank I wasn’t going to really move the plants much anyway.

I’ve read about some people putting a layer of mesh— like the plastic needle-point canvas, maybe— between their dirt and their sand cap. I even read of someone using a layer of leaves between the two, but the plastic seems like it would hold up better. Presumably this would help the with soil...

Following this to see if anyone has ideas, my dwarf gourami got tiny holes like the ones on your fish's fin a couple of days ago and the next day he was gasping at the surface. Wish I knew what to do.

Hi, haven't been on this forum in a while quite frankly because of depression. Anyway I know figuring out fish illness is often a shot in the dark but I'm lost on this one so here goes. My dwarf gourami suddenly got what looks like clean pin holes in his fins. It does not look like fin rot...

I have used cuprisorb with success but it was with only trace amounts of copper. To my knowledge activated carbon alone won't remove copper. You'd have to run a filter with cuprisorb in a bucket with your tap water before each water change, I'm not sure how long it would take to remove it all.

The acclimation time shouldn't have killed them. I have found that often live plants are "treated" for snails with copper; my thought is that maybe this was the case with some of your plants and the diluted copper was survivable for the indestructible pond snails but not for the new additions...

I've found that you can indeed connect a Beamswork with a timer to an outlet timer and it will keep the time correct on the clock when the power comes back on. Others online say it doesn't work for them though?

Looks like an aponogeton but I don't know what kind, possibly Aponogeton natans? Looks like the kind I got from "Betta bulbs".

If the tank was only set up two weeks ago it is very likely not cycled. What are your parameters: ammonia, nitrite, and nitrAte measurements?

Hello and welcome!