Search results

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
  1. S

    Want to add a couple fish to my 38 gallon tank

    A sun sun HW302 "rated at 264 gph and up to a 75 gallon tank" and a aqueon 30 hob
  2. S

    Want to add a couple fish to my 38 gallon tank

    Based on aqadvisor, my filtration capacity is over 250%, so i don't think that will be a problem. I was always interested in rainbows because they are beautiful, but i know nothing about them
  3. S

    Want to add a couple fish to my 38 gallon tank

    I think I am leaning toward the rams, but also contemplating a school of larger tetras. My angelfish never bothers my platies, so I think i'd be ok with a tetra school even though the angel is about 7 inches tall. Also, what about a red tail shark? They seem pretty cool but idk if they would get...
  4. S

    Want to add a couple fish to my 38 gallon tank

    I have an established 38 gallon tank. Been set up for about 2-3 years now. Right now, I have 1 angelfish, 8 platies, and 2 bristlenose plecos in it. I have had all these fish for the entire 2 or 3 years it has been set up. I have a friend who wants all my platies, so this will free up some space...
  5. S

    Too much light?

    How many watts is your T8? chances are, if its a single T8 bulb, it has no more power than the 13 watt cfl
  6. S

    Too much light?

    aqua_chem is right. When people say watts per gallon, usually they mean fluorescent light be it T8, T5, T5HO, or most likely in your case, a lamp with a 13 watt bulb. You are technically at about .65 watts per gallon, which is very low, but if you place the java fern directly under your light...
  7. S

    Is my guppy fry setup ok?

    I ordered a golf ball clump of guppy grass and ill let it fill half my tank before I get the guppies. Haven't started the tank cycling yet because my sponge filter shipping is taking forever:(
  8. S

    Is my guppy fry setup ok?

    For the last few weeks, I have been wanting to breed guppies. I know a pet store that will give me store credit for them so I will not be keeping any of them. I set up a 10 gallon bare bottom tank with a heater, 13 watt fluorescent light for guppy grass, and a sponge filter. Is there anything...
  9. S

    Light requirements for guppy grass?

    Yea, I did word it badly. I was wondering if 1.3 wpg is enough for guppy grass. Or would java moss be a better option?
  10. S

    Light requirements for guppy grass?

    I know that color spectrum has nothing to do with light intensity, but a 6500k bulb is much better for plants than the 2700k I have as it simulates daylight much better
  11. S

    Light requirements for guppy grass?

    I fertilize my 38 gallon with 96 watts of lighting with seachem comprehensive, so I could use a little of that. Mainly, I want it to be a low tech guppy fry only tank. No co2, bare bottom tank without gravel, just filter, heater, light, and some guppy grass
  12. S

    Light requirements for guppy grass?

    Ok, so if I were to get a 13 watt bulb at 6500k, would it be enough lighting for guppy grass in a 10 gallon tank?
  13. S

    Light requirements for guppy grass?

    I have been wanting to breed guppies for a while now so I decided to set up a 10 gallon tank as an addition to my 14 gallon and 38 gallon tanks to breed guppies. Right now in my 10 gallon tank, I have a house lamp with a 13 watt fluorescent bulb. It is rated at 2600k which is low by aquarium...
  14. S

    How much do 20 gallon longs cost?

    Had a 10 gallon and a 14 gallon I was going to use for guppy breeding. Filled the 10 gallon up and side gave out. Just need to know how much a 20 gallon tank only is at petco?
  15. S

    Ridiculously high ph

    Right now im just running a planted 38 gallon with some bn plecos and an angelfish. I also want to start a 3 gallon planted tank with shrimp. Could they handle this ph?
  16. S

    Ridiculously high ph

    This would explain why my tank is all the way down to 7.4
  17. S

    Ridiculously high ph

    I have never tested my tap before and only my tank. My tank has always had ph a little on the high side at 7.4-7.5. I decided to test tap and wow, 8.6 ph. I tested it just how i test my tank and even did it twice because i didn't believe it. Anyone else get that high ph in their tap?
  18. S

    Where do I buy water for a sw tank?

    I have had planted freshwater tanks for years and now I want a real challenge. In freshwater, all you need to do is dechlorinate tap and put it in the tank. My understanding is that you need to use an r/o system for sw tanks. I decided to go for a 3g picotope tank for a big challenge and do not...
  19. S

    Where to buy a nano aquarium?

    I've owned fish and live plants now for 4 years and want to try a high tech 2-3 gallon planted nano aquarium. Where do you recommend I get a high quality nano tank from? Also can't find a weak enough filter.
  20. S

    Can too much filter media have a negative effect?

    The wierd thing is, its the top filter floss that is getting dirty, while the floss and sponges lower down are clean. It seems backwards to me.
  21. S

    Can too much filter media have a negative effect?

    As a few of you know, I just got a sunsun hw-302 canister filter yesterday. I also got some filter pads and sponges to go with it. Now that it ran all yesterday, i opened it up to see what it looked like. It seems that the first layer of filter pad caught all the debris because the second filter...
  22. S

    Switching filters in same tank?

    I have been running an aqueon 50 hob filter on my tank since i got it. It had some fluval sponges that i put in it and some aquaclear biomax. Today, i just got the sunsun hw-302 canister. What i did was put the biomax and sponges from my hob into the canister. Will that be enough to seed it so i...
  23. S

    Frogbit propagation

    If i leave them be will they ever separate from the mother plant?
  24. S

    Frogbit propagation

    I have some frogbit in my tank that I got a few days ago. When I got them, none of them had runners, they were just little baby frogbit. Now, after less than a week, each one has multiple runners with multiple leaves on each runner. My question it, do you cut the runners or will they do that on...
Back
Top Bottom