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lol no they are not interested in shrimp at all...they LOVE snails and blackworms though!

Follow the Link :D YouTube - Freshwater Aquarium Fish Enjoy! Let me know what you think! Oh and thanks to everybody who helped me out with my questions on this board...especially concerning dwarf puffers! now that i have them i absolutely LOVE them lol

Yeah I have been adding ammonia in the tank daily since the tank finished cycling...its weird though because my nitrates are generally really low some days i have them, most days i dont...could that be because of my plants?

Theres no fish in the tank yet Yeah I've been fishless cylcing for the last 3 or 4 weeks, it's been cycled for about a week now...i ordered 6 dwarf puffers online and they will be here tomorow

just incase should i do a water change before i put the fish in the tank tommorow or does it really matter?

the only bubbles i have at the top are the ones being made by my filter

haha well i dont have bubbles everywhere so i guess thats a good sign...yeah i'll defiantly stop using soap next time...i just hope the fish dont die when i put them in the tank tommorow :-| i have a bunch of pond snails in the tank and they are all still alive...that's gotta be a good sign haha

How do you know if traces of soap are left in the aquarium? Is there any kind of signs to look for?

lol ok cool so it should be fine then right? I do use liquid soap and wash my hands in warm water...sorry im really paranoid right now i'm getting my dwarf puffers in tomorow and i wanna make sure the tank is perfect before they arrive :)

Hey I was just curious...when you all are about to put your hands into your aquarium do you wash your hands with soap before you do it? I ask this because that's what I've been doing since I set the tank up, ill use a little soap and wash them good enough to where there is no more soap left...im...

i think thats what happened...ive been dosing the tank with pure ammonia since i started cycling but after it was done, i minimized the dosages...how long is it going to take to get it to regrow back? theres gotta be some of it left right? and how many ppms of ammonia should i keep dosing until...

well the thing is i had my nitrite at 0ppm for the past week...just today it spiked up a little bit

Ok i recently just got done cycling my tank but when i tested my water today i had... Ammonia 0ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm Nitrate 5.0 ppm is it normal to have a little bit of nitrite after the tank is cycled? and i wasnt reading any nitrates all week but now it went up a little bit...

Yeah its defiantly cycled...i started out with ammonia, no nitrites, no nitrates...half way through my ammonia started dropping to 0ppm everyday and my nitrites went wayyyy up...eventually i had alot of nitrates near the end. Now, my ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates are all virtually at 0ppm, and...

Ok my tank finally is done cycling but i have a question, i tested for nitrates and i don't seem to have any...is that bad? lol also now that the tank is done cycling how much of a water change should i do? and do i keep adding ammonia because i dont have the fish yet and probably wont for a...

so something like this would be good? Current USA 24" Nova Extreme T-5 Fixture 2x24W 10K/Freshwater - AquaCave i really should of researched this better lol :(

I guess I could return it but I dunno I may just keep it...another problem i have with the fixture is it's to bulky, even with the legs propping it up i can still barely open the top lid which is really annoying because i have to take the light off if i wanna do any type of cleaning in the tank...

thanks! i appreciate all the helpful information, i feel kind of dumb now for purchasing this light if i only needed one of the bulbs lol i spent like 200 bucks on it! i should of just stuck with a single instead of the duels, oh well...live and learn i guess, so would i still need a CO2 system...

The 2 bulbs on my light setup are a 65 watt 6700K fluorescent bulb...I'm guessing thats good? lol so you would suggest just using one and keep the other one switched off?

I got a assortment of different plants, unfortunately i dont know specific names...heres a pic of the tank so far...i know theres some swords, crypt, java moss and java fern the light i have is a Coralife Aqualight with duel bulbs, maybe I could just leave one of the bulbs off? Would that help...

Would Eco-Complete be considered a fertilizer? I recently purchased Flourish Excel which is suppose to be CO2 in a bottle and you add it every other day so hopefully that helps

Hey guys I noticed recently I started getting some algae growth...heres a picture of it...its like green blotches growing on the glass of the tank Does anyone know how to get rid of it? I have a phosphate sponge in the tank right now so hopefully that will bring my phosphates down and prevent...

Hey is this normal when cycling...my ammonia isn't really dropping but my nitrites are starting to rise? I got my ammonia up to 4ppm a couple of days ago, then by accident, bumped it up to 8ppm, so yesterday i did a 50% percent water change and got it back down to 4ppm. Today I tested and its...

Hey I need URGENT help! I just put 2 bags of Eco-Complete into my aquarium and the water is very cloudy and dirty looking and i have plants that i need to get into the tank soon....what should i do???

Hey I have a question...I have a 3 Gallon Eclipse tank with 1 Male Betta and a couple of live plants. Recently a ton of algae has been growing and I want to get a Otto catfish because they eat algae and stay very small. My question is though, the betta has been by himself for probably 4 months...