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Azule the Amazing Crowntail I finally got around to taking a picture of Azule. It is probably a little out of focus but not bad for a quick snap shot. You get the idea anyway!

Found a small Snail Thanks for the compliments on the tank. I tried to talk her out of the items at the store but I guess she knew what she was doing! I just noticed there is a tiny snail on the glass of his tank. No idea where it came from. No live plants. Anyway, I have no idea what kind...

My daughter got a 35g Bowfront for Christmas that we fish in cycled (already had some fish) and it is planted and they LOVE IT. Water is crystal clear and everything is stable. Instead of letting her Aqueon 4g go to pot sitting in the garage, I decided to try my hand at a fish less cycle and...

Nope A LOT of filter media water did not work nor adding some media itself. That helps but apparently does not work completely. I mean I got nitrites and nitrates fast but it has never cycled. i.e. converted 2-4 ppm ammonia to 0 and 0 in any amount of time, let alone 24 hours. No.... this...

Stalled Cycle Well from now on when I read online that you cannot stall a cycle because of super high nitrites, I'm gonna roll my eyes and stop reading. It 100% DOES STALL! I promise! As written earlier in this thread, I seeded this small tank with LOTS of stuff from my canister filter and...

Definitely Stalled Well from now on when I read online that you cannot stall a cycle because of super high nitrites, I'm gonna roll my eyes and stop reading. It 100% DOES STALL! I promise! :facepalm: As written earlier in this thread, I seeded this small tank with LOTS of stuff from my...

BB in a Bottle I think the reason there are so many different opinions on that BB in a bottle is that it does start giving you Nitrite readings FAST. So some kind of bacteria IS converting ammonia. BUT and this is a big but, the cycle stalls there for a length of time that you are no better...

I'm in the middle of a fish less cycle on my daughter's old Aqueon 4g Evolve. If you're not familiar with that product, it has about a 1 gallon reservoir in the back with a slot for an Aqueon medium filter then an overflow to the other side of a bulkhead with a small pump that returns water to...

Growing in a Pond versus an Aquarium She only had one other goldfish in there at the time. Apparently last fall she learned about Chlorine the hard way. Well, she learned THAT she had chlorine the hard way. She knew she was on a well but it is a community well that was treated and metered to...

Another lady contacted me through CL this week and I took "Spot" to her backyard goldfish pond. It was about 50 miles round trip but she was happy to have him and he seemed to like it.

El Nino Fern I got the El Nino Fern about a month ago. It was one of the first plants. It is green and doing as well as the JF's. I would just like to see them grow or fill out so I know that what I am doing is working. I am going to set the aquarium lights on a timer and follow your...

Lights and Plants I leave the lights on for about 12 hours per day. Sometimes I switched them off during the day for an hour or so but not usually. The newer lights have only been installed a little over a day so probably no progress gonna be visible yet from that. I dosed 20ml of Flourish...

I have what I believe is Black Beard Algae trying to grow on a couple of plant leaves. This is a new tank (one month old) with new plants (about a month). My observation is that this BBA (if that's what it is) only grows on 1 or 2 plants. It does not grow at all on my Amazon Swords but is...

Thanks for the reply. I've heard that too about the Nitrite BB but my Nitrates were like 80ppm. Pretty high, then after I did some water changes to get the nitrites down so I could read them, the nitrates read a very low 5 and didn't climb again. That seemed to me like a stalled situation. I...

Before and After These before and after pictures are not really fair although they do make my new lights look even better in comparison. The old lights picture was taken last week during the day and the new light picture was taken tonight with the area lights off. Still, in all honesty they...

Stalled Cycle Letting nitrites get too high and stalling the cycle is said to be a persistent rumor that many are passionate about dispelling. I didn't really have a strong opinion either way. I just wanted to keep the Nitrites on the chart... Hence the 50%wc's. But I had to do like three...

Now that my 36g BF is cycled, I have been trying a fish less cycle on an unused 4g Aqueon. Things started off FAST as I used Dr. Tim's and some gravel from my established tank. But the Nitrite to Nitrate BB seems to have gone backwards and I'm not sure why. Ammonia is converting to Nitrites and...

I have been looking for better lighting for my 36g bow front. It came with a single 17w T8 full spectrum fluorescent bulb. I did not want to rework my top so I went to look for a better bulb. I went to Home Depot just because I pass by there on my way to the pet store and came out with a T8...

Mixed reviews Thanks for the tip. Gets very mixed reviews on Amazon. Anyone else have experience with this or can they recommend something different? Either in a LFS or a hardware store even?

We bought my daughter the Aqueon 36g bow front for Christmas. It is cycled and the fish are good. We planted about 8 plants and they are not thriving. Aqueon describes the included bulb as, "24" 17-watt T8 full spectrum fluorescent lamp" I don't know what Full Spectrum means. I really don't...

Past 24 hours So yesterday at 10am I posted that my readings were: Ammonia 4 (this was down from 5 the day before as originally dosed) Nitrite 5+ (off the chart) Nitrate 40 This morning I had zero ammonia after only 5 days! Readings were: Ammonia 0 Nitrites off the chart Nitrates 80 I did...

Relax You guys are seriously hyper. I am not putting her GF in a lake.

Pond That is very tempting. We have several ponds and lakes in our neighborhood but I'm sure the local predatory fish would go crazy for him. Kind of hard to hide when you are gold and everybody else is green and black! Still, letting nature take it's course is reasonable too huh? I'm going...

LFS Pleco, There are only 2 LFS in out town. A PetSmart (where the fish came from back in October) and much smaller semi chain kind of place. Neither will take the fish back. I'm just going to email and tell her that my daughter threw a hissy fit when I said we were getting rid of Spot...

I placed an ad on Craigslist this week to re-home my daughter's goldfish. It was grown too big and being too piggy in our community tank. This morning I was pleased that a person nearby agreed to keep it in goldfish only tank and I thought GREAT! She is even coming to pick him up. Perfect...