I feed my float-prone ryukin a combination of peas, lightly cooked zucchini and Wardley's shrimp pellets and it works for me. As long as she is on this diet,...
Ok, I lost my formatting when I sent that last email and there was some confusion. The tank we are having problems with is the 75 gallon. The other tank is...
To me it looks like the tank is not cycled???? Your idea of too clean might bear this out.....I have found it takes a certain amount of "gunk" built up for the...
Hi Larry, This tank was cycled before but grew a great deal of algae. So we bought the pleco. The pleco cleared almost all of the algae in less than 24...
Just to jump in here, I would rinse the filters more often than once a month. I find that I have to do mine every 10 days or so to remove the debris. Also,...
I've always used my siphon/vacuum to clean the debris from the bottom of the tank. (1) Will doing this remove the "good bacteria" also? and (2) How often...
From a bacteria's point of view, the gravel is full of welcoming nooks and crannies, cracks and pores. You'd have to really really scrub it to dislodge even a...
You must maintain a balance to keep everything going in the right direction.....I was rinsing off filters with chlorinated water that was killing the good...
We had a Whisper 60 and a Whisper 40 on the tank. We removed the 40 and added and Emporer with bio-wheel. The whisper 60 has two cartridge slots and sponges....
Thanks for the input. I always add salt to my water when doing water changes and I always rinse the filters in water siphoned from the top of the tank (no...
You could also try hornwort, water sprite and java moss. They are all fast growers. Your goldfish may not eat the hornwort, and mine never eat the java moss....
I don't want to cause an argument :-), but that would drop the capacity of your biofilter by 1/3 which will cause a bump in your nitrite and/or ammonia levels....
No arguments here. I'm the one looking for help because I don't know enough. LOL. So in other words what you saying is that the issues with the cloudy water...
Yes. It is a bacterial bloom (but not harmful) and it will dissipate when the new filter has been running for a while. One will often see cloudy water in the...
Yes it's still a bit cloudy. My big concern is the pH crashes. We have to keep changing out some water on a frequent basis because the pH keeps crashing to...
I would use crushed coral in a net bag in one of the filters rather than chemicals. This will increase the buffering capacity of your tank. Do you know the KH...
I don't have the test strip bottle in front of me, but it does measure total alkalinity. It is at the lowest color. I found some info online earlier and...
Hi Melissa, It is best if you can put it in your filter, so that water passes over it. So, I would put as much as I can in a net bag, or even a nylon...
Does anyone out there recall an aquarium sealer with a slight bluish tint to it? I recently acquired a big tank and it's got this clear slightly blueish sealer...
Your in luck I've had fish for about 32yrs and I remember the blue sealer. I don't remember the name but it was in the fish department in stores. NEVER use any...
... sealer. ... stores. H'RAAAAAAAAAYYY! I kissayouface!!! I thank you, and my fish thank you, and my plants and my snails, and my cats who watch the fishes......
Glad to help. If you have anymore ques. feel free to ask. I'll tell what I you know. I'm not a nit picky fish owner like some. And my fish live for years so I...
Hi Linda, I don't remember the bluish sealer, but good to know that there was one like that. As I mentioned, you can also stain your sealer. You can remove...
The sealer was probably clear when it was put on, but somebody has used a medication with dye in it (probably something like methylene blue or malachite...
... what I ... live for ... I was just saying this same thing on another list myself. It seems like the less I do to my fish and tanks, the better things go....
... used a ... Golly, I completely forgot about that stuff! I've only had recourse to Meth. blue once in nearly 30 years of fish keeping, so I guess that's why...
New people spend so much time worring about things that really don't matter that they can't enjoy the fish and that's whole reason of having them. I put in...
Have fun lol. That will be a hard job. Susie Touch of Sky <touchofsky@...> wrote: Hi Linda, I don't remember the bluish sealer, but good to know that...
