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Hi So I'm very excited but have learned to take it slow this is the biggest tank i will have ever owned (140 us gal). Actually only the second one, My current tank is 40 us gal. It will be a while before it gets stocked since its new to me however is used so it needs to be sanitized...

hello all I'm curious what everyone thinks. I use an API tap water filter that claims to remove just about everything from the water and then says to add their electroright and ph right back to the water to make it suitable for fish. It does work well to clean the water however i...

Thanks again wilder I began treatment today and added some extra air. Hopefully i can give a good update in a few days. continuing to monitor all paramaters daily. Thanks maybe we can talk again on a happier note!

My location is sheboygan, Wi in the united states. Please for any med you recomend could you also include if it will be detrimental to my filter bacteria so i know what to expect. I will be moitering paramaters daily and continue to feed daily morning for fish and lights out for pleco unless...

Hello and again thanks for all the help! I took my water paramaters today and they are as follows am-0 nitrites-0 nitrates-5-10ppm Kh-1-2dg almost 0 which i dont like however at this point i am not going to go messing with it. Ph is between 6.6-7.0 hard to tell as the test result...

Ok i cannot isolate the big pleco as i have no other tank to put him in so the main tank will have to be treated as a whole. The water temp is 80-82 normally should i lower the main tank temp or not. Also will the furanol 2 wipe out my bio bactria? 24 hours o man not good is it a good sign...

Hello wilder The spot on his nose is about the size around of a pea but flat. It is grayish though not white like snow. His upper sucker is the same color it runs along the lip like a band. No red or pink at all. No flicking or rubbing. The only fish in the tank that dart around...

It dose not look like that on my pleco just a grayish film over his top lip or top part of his sucker mouth he eats well like a begging little puppy/piggy and on the platty it could be fuzzy fluffy looking very hard to tell as it just started to appear a couple days ago. Do u have any ideas of...

No on the pleco it is just a grayish white film looking with a dot on his nose on the red wag platty it is hard to tell but kind of looks fluffy. If u have any ideas as to what this could otherwise be on the pleco any info would be much apriciated. Also thank you for your reply so quickly...

Hello All, I think i may have early stages of a fungus in my tank. I have noticed over the last few weeks that my largest Red Wag Platty seems to have a White area on side and now seems to have a white area at the base of tail where Red body meets Black tail. No other fish seem to be...

Hello, First off forgive me this is my first forum so i dont know quite how it all works yet. I am not really new to fish keeping as i had a convict chiclid for about 5 yrs and a plecostomus longer and he is my pride and joy!!! however when the chiclid passed about 5 months ago we decided to...