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Thanks Thanks for the replies. I was watching the tank on Sunday, and the big one shot out of a hiding place and tried to get one of my neon's. I decided to take them all back to the fish store. I expected to just give them to the store, but they graciously gave me 7 cherries in exchange. I...

Are these really Ghost Shrimp? We got four of them along with 4 Cherry shrimp. These are pictures of two different shrimp that are about 1.5 inches long. We have a smaller one about 1 inch long. The fourth one, which is hiding from me right now, has grown to about 2.5 to 3 inches long. And...

Thanks for all the info

Well it looks like my tank cycle finished on Saturday, but I want to test things a bit before I consider it ready. I'm not off again until next weekend, so I'm gonna use that as an excuse to verify my cycle completion through out the week. My wife and I have been looking at some fish. We are...

I'm sure these questions have been asked before. But as usual, forum search engines are fair at best for finding info. I have a 15gallon tall tank. How many shrimp should I add to help clean up. Also, what else could I put in there to help. My wife does not want snails if we can avoid them...

Between you all and the fish store, my worries of destroying the tank eqipment and killing the fish with my tap water has been squashed. On another note. My water tests from last night show that my cycle may have finished. Ammonia and Nitrites have dropped to 0 in a 24 hour period. So I'm...

Great information, thanks.

OK, I got my water tested. GH 146ppm and KH 161ppm. The fish store guy says it should be fine to use in my tank. Unless anyone else has a different opinion, I'm gonna stop using the RO water. Also, my cycle has not completely stalled, thanks to the baking soda trick. The ammonia bacteria...

I'm headed up to Reno today. Ill take a sample of water to the fish store i prefer to shop at. For cleaning, vinegar does absolutely nothing to the deposits the water leaves in this area, and wouldn't CLR be very toxic to the fish if it got onto the tank water?

Hu.... the picture didn't show up. Lets try that again. It shows up in the post preview. maybe its getting filtered out because I'm a new member.

Thanks for the replies everyone. As for why I use the RO water. Chemically my tap water looks OK. PH 7.4 - ammonia 0ppm - nitrites 0ppm - nitrates 10ppm. The problem is the dissolved solids. Check out the picture attached. That is my kitchen faucet that we just replaced a little over a...

Ok, I can only assume that Threnjen is a member. If so and s/he can help, I will be grateful.

Hi all I have decided to put together a fish tank, last time I had one was over 20 years ago. Because of the large gap and the advancement of technology, I have to consider myself a noob. So here is my problem. I have been doing a fish-less cycle in accordance to the guide I found on this...