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Hello all you fishy people! I haven't been on here in a while as I've been messing with other projects around the house. The few fish I have are doing well, but I haven't added anything new for a couple months. I've wrapped up a few things and it's now time to get going again with the fish...

I have had one RTS for the last 6 months and it's kind of shy. It likes to hang out in holes in a big driftwood log I have as well as some large holes in a rock that in the tank too. I have heard that it's better to have one RTS rather than 2 or 3. They are territorial and will fight with...

I don't know what to say about all the salt. I understand that adding MARINE salt would raise the pH, but maybe adding the freshwater salt is diffrent in some way? My pH definitely dropped when I added it. Anyhow, I did the normal cleaning and water changing. For quite some time I have had a...

Malkore - I'm not sure how it does it either, but it works! It's a chemistr things. The lfs didn't sell me the salt - I already had it. The lfs guy showed me a few of the freshwater tanks they have running that are using this salt method so it wasn't just some experiment from the lfs guy...

I have a sheet of plexiglass over my aquarium for now. With a Dremel tool I was able to cut out exact openings for the HOB to work through. If you go this route then you will also need to get some sort of metal bar running across the entire tank to support the plastic lid. Without any support...

Pufferpunk - I had quite a lot of unexplained fish loss when I have added new fish. All these fish were supposed to be hearty (barbs, catfish, ...), but after a week or two the fish would stop being active and then die. 7.6 is the highest reading that the pH test can show. I believe the pH...

I'm still trying to find a solution to reduce the high pH in my tank. I stopped by the lfs again spoke to the guy working there. Fish guy suggested adding salt. Fish guy showed me what they do - they take a small container and put a hole in the top (small so fish can't get in) and then they...

I have no idea what the real reason is for the death of the fish. Suggested reason is the pH is too alkaline. I have gotten suggestions that say the water is better suited for brackish so I'm trying to see if it's worth it to go brackish or just find different freshwater fish that can deal...

At this time I have a freshwater tank and the water available to me is on the alkaline side of the chart. After several fish deaths it's time to give in and start up with some brackish fish. I haven't seen too many brackish fish available so I'd like to know what you have! I DO NOT want...

I did some reading today in hope to solve my existing pH problem in my tank. I read on http://www.drhelm.com/aquarium/chemistry.html that aeration helps to raise kH and pH. I have a 72 gallon tank with a bubble screen that runs nearly completely all the way accross the 3 foot wide tank. I'm...

Last night I did some more testing. My tap water is 7.2. I read someplace that I should put tap water in a bucket overnight to allow the water to settle down since it was just poured out and picked up some changes with air contact. I didn't do that test so I guess the number I got isn't the...

Christmasfish - the coral crud is LONG gone. QT is in place. I have a 10 gallon tank that does the fish for 2 weeks before they go into the big tank. All chemical addition has stopped completely for over 3 months. After the stuff I read here I stopped it and just used decholirined water...

General consensus in these forums seems to be not to use any chemicals in the tanks other than the chlorine remover for new change water. Well, I am at a loss. I keep loosing fish for unknown reasons. Until yesterday I was testing for ammonia and nitrites only and everything was A-OK. I went...

Just checked again- log still floats. Check out my water too - BLAH! Here's before the driftwood I don't want to add any decoration until this yellow water stops. I don't think it's algae becuase I don't see it growing on anything. The water is just that color - YUCK!

Well, the driftwood is still floating if I take the rock off it. The water is still colored as well. It's got a yellow look to it. It's been over a month now. :(

Good info on the morphs - thanks! I do believe that the green ones I got were the real deal as I did get them from Petco. I do have what Petco calls a "red barb". I have no idea if those are real or not. Any idea? They aren't slim like a cherry barb, but they rather look like a tiger barb...

Well, I guess the problem solved itself. I'm not getting anymore small fish until I get a QT setup. Both green barbs died. I don't know why the obviously healthly looking one died, but it's gone. I looked at them REALLY close when I fished them out and found nothing wrong. Geez... I'm a...

SHUCKS! I wish I would have known about this before the tank got set up! There is only about 3 inches between the wall and the tank and the tank is about 3 feet wide so really I can't get back there now. :( Thanks WarOrks15 - I'll try Petco and ask somebody. I've snooped about in there...

It seems as though mine is SLOWLY taking on water. I changed out some tank water 3 days ago and lifted the rock off the wood while I was in there. It floated up to the surface, but it was much easier to push back to the bottom compared to last time. I think it's going to take about a month...