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......big words and tape measures.......? My question is this: Why do we have noisy filters? I have 5 filters going all the time. Sounds like a flowing creek when water levels get low, which is A-Ok with me. Not one make any impeller noises. If it did, I would see if it could be corrected...

Psht.....that's NOTHING for water wisteria......that stuff grows like a weed, and if you let it, will completely take over the tank. I got rid of mine. Stuff just becomes thick stalks in the tank as you trim away growth. Thick stems and.roots. Got tired of it. Now I am getting the same...

Once you put them in, they are like khuli loaches....you have "sightings".....?

Shrimp are very sensitive to stress like that. When I get shrimp, I am very careful to make sure they are as comfortable as possible during transport, and once they are home, they stay home. You can kill them off doing a water change wrong. You can kill them off with water with too high TDS...

Actually....you just keep the stuff wet, and you'll have a forest of it in no time. It's not as proliferating as water wisteria, but, it does become a nice bush rather quickly. I got it in all my tanks now, from a single plant I bought years ago....

That's it.

My krib is in with a peacock cichlid, jewel cichlid, convict cichlid and a rainbow shark amd.a.common pleco. It found a home and guards that, but isn't very aggressive at all. There are occasional scuffles in the tank between everyone, but they all have their own space so...it works.

Set it up so you can pour the bag into the net, then place them into the tank. They look fragile, and.are to some.extent, but they will be fine. That is nothing compared to the treatment they get during transport and handling. The shrimp.will come out with the water if you do it.right....if...

This initial post is all I needed to read to see that this fish suffered from high stress, not ammonia. That is a craaaaaazy method to use for changing water in a tank. Move the fish to a outside tank (with no mention.of water temp match at a minimum), then removal of 100% of the water...

From what I read, the fish almost dies FROM the water changes that were done. Perhaps I shall go review the thread, but when I came into the first post, I saw fish moved and weekly 100% water changes with ornaments being scrubbed clean, which was destroying any cycle that could have happened...

Seems the fish handled it just fine. Example being it is seemingly recovering in place. We seem to have differing opinions on how to handle this type of thing...? It's not meant to be malicious on my end, but more, thought provoking. Remove the boxes we put ourselves in. There is more than...

New Zealand makes me happy....haha. Someday, I am going to go there and check it out first hand. It's one of them places that a television screen doesn't do justice I imagine. Kinda like our Grand Canyon and such. I know a few chaps on a motorcycle forum, and they keep inviting me to come...

ADD/ADHD is a.blanket.diagnosis by "professionals" that do not understand what it is that you are going thru. Some have speculated, recently, that is was a gag that started in the 70's to push through the new SSRI/SNRI's that were being developed to treat things in mental asylums and such...

Move from one.uncycled tank to another just to cycle the first? Sometimes......I just don't understand the "logic" here. The fish ain't stressed enough as it is? You can.leave the fish in the tank. Get either the pouches or a sock and some Zeolite, and.add a.bit to the filter to soak up the...

Holy....yea. That's cold. Lets hope that with that kind of.cooling wrapped that you also don't run into frozen plumbing as well. If the air in the house got cold enough to do that....wow.

Biofilm.

The ugly kind.....

Ever seen Grumpy Old Men? He wasn't rooster pootin when the song says "Havin a heatwave/a tropical heatwave"...

However..... It is a 2 way street...much as any conversation-ing. Please understand that I have been in this hobby probably longer than your parents are old. It's not to say you have nothing to teach, but is also not to say I maybe don't either...?

Don'f be like that mang.....I'm an old buzzard. EVERYONE is "kid" to me.... Shoulda seen it when I called my own mother "woman" once.....it only took once. It's not a.derogatory statement. Sorry ya took it that way.

It has been.below zero here for over 2 weeks. Today, so far it has hit 8°F. Even snowed about a salt shakers worth. -20°f in the wee hours of the morning once sucks. For a week is, inconvenient. For longer than that is complete BS....haha. But, happens every year. Just glad the winter...

He has been in there for about 6 months now. Got him as a lil pup....bout an inch. He got savagely attacked and lost most of his fins. Was barely alive when I discovered what happened. Was buried in some water wisteria that had consumed the tank at the time. At the surface, panting. Moved...

Kid...my neons are.maybe an inch....inch and a half. You could put 20 of them in a 10 gallon and they would get along fine....? Get a bunch of them cute little guppies. Whatever. Man....tough crowd.today....?

Now we're getting.too analytical..... Every life form.on this planet starts out as a single cell. Mold, and algae, included. Now, algae is a single celled organism. When you see a mat of them, they have formed a colony of single celled organisms. When they proliferate enough, you see them...

Edit....? You could put a school of.neons.in there. Or maybe, like ima do with my 10 gallon here when I put my jack dempsy back into the 75, a shrimp tank. Or do a Glo-Fish tank with a few danios and tetras. Or a.few Glo-Fish barbs. Put some snails in there for algae control. You be...

But we're not talking about a 10 inch fish in a 10 gallon tank. Don't.take everything so literal folks. Nobody is tossing a.common pleco in a 10 gallon (altho...mine started it's life with me in a 10 gallon).... It's a good guide to follow when stocking any tank, for the average person with...

Think of Jack Sparrow.... "If everyone is killed....who is left to tell the story"....or something like that. Same thing for these single celled organisms. The cells (spores if you refer to a fungus like mold) can survive a lot. You'll never eliminate it from most water supplies. Also, a...

It was to point out the absurdity of placing 14 fish into a 10 gallon tank, then wondering why there are issues. 4 of these fish are of good size. The inch per gallon "rule" is to give most people an idea of what bio-load a particular volume of water a tank can handle. Not everyone has...

My point was this....algae is present everywhere. I also stated that when the correct conditions are present, it will proliferate. You cannot eliminate it from anywhere there is water. It is one of the simplest forms of life on the planet. One of the highest energy as well. Perhaps your...

All else fails, you can get a marineland emperor 400 for like $40 just about anywhere. That would be more than enough for a 55 gallon, and be very quite. Only noise mine makes is when the water gets low, then it sounds like a.small waterfall in a.creek. They make a 350 for a little cheaper...

Algae will.grown in a tank.with no light. Just won't be the kind you're used to seeing. As long as it is wet with some nutes, the stuff will form. It is present in the water you drink. The cells are everywhere it is wet. Imagine the treatment holding tanks.for most city water supplies, and...

I have 4. They actually never stop eating it. One in my 38...Lamont....never stops.cleaning. This was the one that turned me on to Temmenekii plecos. These guys are actually ferocious when it comes to algae. My glass and plants are mostly clear all the time. Got another in my 10 gallon...

Scoop out the dead fish amd dispose of them. I probably wouldn't do 100% water change. Leave some of that water in there, but do not add fish right away. Maybe 75% change. Check levels. You want to leave some food in there for the bacteria that more than likely is still in there, either...

So....you have 16 inches worth of fish in a 10 inch tank already, then you go buy 30 more inches of fish to put in a 10 inch tank? 10 fish of any size is a rather large addition to a 10 gallon. Especially one that is already overstocked.

You can get bristlenose plecos. They grow to about 4 inches. You could put a.few in there, no need tho. You can get a common pleco in a 140 gallon no problem. They grow up to 15-18 inches.

Get a bristlenose. If your current fish are of the aggressive type, you'll want a fish that can defend itself. Enter the "armored pleco". They are armored catfish essentially. They also have sharp dorsal fins. When they get sucked into another fishes mouth, they stand their "sail" up...

Ok. Check it. First post. 100% water.change. Moved fish to second, 3 gallon tank. Down a few, another water change. That's all I needed to read. You're not.going to have ammonia OR nitrite in that water at all at 100% water change. It's new.water. If you have these in your supply, you'd...

What kind of fish? A single.fish or multiple? This will determine what you need to do, but for the immediate, do a.series of smaller water changes and get that ammonia lowered, but balance that goal with maintaining some water quality. The bacteria will be in the water, but for now your...

....I'll take 4 days of snow easily vs what tonight is going to provide. My morning commute will be -20°F with wind chills easily well lower. Forecast high is -8°F. Yep. 4 days of snow....no problem.

The filter cartridge right now is your best bet for bacteria proliferation. Don't.change that for at least a month. With only one fish, that should be a monthly change at a minimum. You can dose that quick start daily. This will help provide bacteria to kick it off. I'm not sure what...