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Since ive had my 55 gallon FW set up for about a year now, I wanted to switch to a more premium filter (right now i have 2 whisper 30's) I have been eyeing the Magnum HOT Pro System on E-Bay... is it any good? I went out on the internet and it seems everybody has a different opinion that...

My 55 gallon freshwater, which has been in perfect parameters since it cycled in March, recently has had a nitrate spike way past 80ppm. One of my swordtails died for no apparent reason so I immediately had the water tested by my LFS, after my results were too shocking to be true.. but they...

Ok I see a lot of good publicity out there for feeding fish vegetables (cucumber, zucchini, whatever). What i dont understand, and Im no magic chef, what is parboiled mean? So you are telling me to buy a cucumber, or romaine lettuce, boil it, and then drop it in my tank and my fish will go...

I vacuumed my gravel and performed a 30% water change today, as preventative maintenance and noticed a good amount of brownish algae on my tank glass (inside the tank, of course! :wink: ) and on my plastic plants. My light are on maybe 6 hours a day, and the tank isnt in direct sunlight. I...

I have a 5 gallon f/w that I cycled without fish 2 months ago. 3 weeks ago I added 5 baby mollies (about 1 month old). The water got cloudy, so i tested for ammonia/nitrites - the results were absolute zero. The temp is about 76-78...I installed a whisper power filter (for 5-15 gallon tanks) a...

Ok dilemma... I need to move my 55 gallon aquarium, what do i do??? I dont want to flush all of the water, should i buy like 10 buckets and fill them up with the aquarium water and put some fish in it? What would I do with 10 buckets aftewards!!?? hehe I am only moving 4 doors down ( i...

I have set up another aquarium :roll: this time a 5 gallon hex, with underground filtration. I was going to cycle this one with out fish, but have some q's about it. I added this package that came with it, some kind of stress zyme stuff, and after about 5-7 days now, the water is quite...

Sorry about the topic heading, I couldnt think of anything else catchy :lol: Anyways, I went to my LFS the other day and was talking to the manager there, he recommended this "pillow" thing that you put in your filter and it removes the nitrites in 48 hours. Well tonite was the 48th hour, and...

First off I just want to say thanks to everybody on this board. Lots of good knowledge have kept me on the right track. Ok, Ive had my 55 gallon FW tank since Feb 26. I put 3 tiger barbs in it on March 2nd, and gradually added fish since, now I have 11. (3 t. barbs, 1 rafael, 1 pleco, 2...

Ok well today I did my tests and my nitrites are finally dropping!! thats the good news... heres the bad news, I have had a rams horn snail for about a month. About 2 weeks ago, i noticed it had layed eggs in the corner of my tank, near the bottom, on the silicone in the edge. The next day they...

It just occurred to me that maybe the reason my tank is taking so long to cycle (going on 1 1/2 months) - 55 gallon, freshwater with 2 whisper 30 power filters, is maybe because i should change the "bio-bags"?? As you know from my other posts on this site :D my nitrites are very high 5.0+...

OK like ive said before, I love this site, but nobody seems to be helping me :( My 55 gallon that ive had for a month and 1 week has some nitrites that are high. The ammonia has pretty much dropped off, but my nitrites are off the charts. The fish seem perfectly ok, and I even doubted my...

I just noticed last nite that my striped rafael has a *huge* stomach. I went on the internet and looked up his symptoms and of course dropsy came up. However, he (or she!) doesnt meet the criteria for dropsy, he is eating fine, swimming all over the place, breathing perfectly fine. So I...

I started my 55 gallon, with 2 whisper 30 bio filters about a month and 1 day ago. I have been verryyy gradually adding fish, about 2 at a time. I have 3 small tiger barbs, 1 orange and 1 blue gourami, a striped raphael, 1 med. pleco., and 1 ringed loach. Oh, and of course 1 rams horn snail and...

Hello folks, I just want to say that Ive been a member for about a week, but have enjoyed reading posts on here since the beginning!. Heres my question(s). I have a 55 gallon set up (freshwater) with: 1 medium sized pleco, 1 rams horn snail, 1 blue gourami, 1 orange gourami, 3 tiger barbs, 1...