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I've got a 35g tank with about 12 baby mollies and a pleco. My understanding was that NA dissipates naturally over time but for some reason mine keeps going up and a 50% PWC is the only way to reduce it. The problem is my tap water is 10ppm so even in a best case PWC, this is the lowest I can...

Anyone ever tried this? I don't want to leave my QT tank set up all the time so I'm thinking about soaking a piece of scotch brite pad in my main tank to use in the QT tank (UG filter) when I set it up.

I started thinking about something and I haven't seen it mentioned yet. Some of the water conditioners convert harmful ammonia. I understand most don't actually eliminate the ammonia but is the ammonia that's left still consumable by the ammoniabactors (or whatever the ammonia eating bacteria...

I started up a tank that I had run before. There was a lot of crud in it when I started it and (before I found these forums) I decided the crud from the old installment of the tank would benefit the bio-system of the new installment so I didn't clean anything. I ran it for a week before adding...

My substrate is large (.5"-1" stones) and one of the mollies I bought from the LPS just had babies. The babies hide (quite nicely, I might add) in the stones and I'm wondering how to vacuum the stones without sucking up the baby fish. I thought about pantyhose, but then I think I might not get...

Hi all, I'm on aquarium #4. Considering I had no real idea what I was doing, #'s 1-3 were realtively successful in spite of my ignorance. #4 is actually the same tank as #3, but we restarted it for my daughter. I used the same gravel (which is probably more properly classified as "pebbles" at...