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begins plotting a scheme with @Naterjm to get @eatyourpeas to build an outdoor fish shed with solar/wind electricity.....

@mrsjoannh13 and @Essjay have given you wonderful advice, so I don't have much to add. The only thing I would say would be to look at your local classifieds / facebook marketplace / craigslist to see if there is anything of interest to you available used. Often, people get out of the hobby...

Don't use those vacation fish food blocks. It will all just rot in your tank and cause an ammonia spike and kill your fish. This style of auto feeder collects humidity and will eventually not dispense accurate portions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083SFKGRY/?tag=ff0d01-20 This style of auto...

hahah, i KNEW you would head in the 125 direction :D muahahahhahahaha, I will convert them all one by one.....

dont know if you saw the edit but found a similar one on amazon for less than 10% of the cost haha

so this is probably more than what you want to spend, but this would be the gucci bad boy of water change carts!! :D https://handtrucks2go.com/Outdoor-Motorized-Cart-with-Side-Rails-Removable.html edit: this is something along the lines of what I was thinking of, you'd have to figure out a...

I drain my 125 gallon out the window, I tested the process once so far and it emptied the entire tank in about 45min so that seemed to work nicely. For filling, I have a faucet adaptor that hooks up to a garden hose (I believe its 75ft?) for the 125. For the 20, I am still doing buckets because...

what I believe @Colin_T is saying is that he doesn't think there is a "happy medium" of hardness that the fish species can coexist in, thus it would be better for their long term health to be kept in an environment that most accurately matches their species' natural hardness. With regard to...

all done!!! Water change later today probably, nitrates are a little higher than I'd like, but not too bad. @AilyNC thought you would appreciate seeing this :)

Oh bummer! well, I guess that kind of takes it out of your hands then. On the plus side, your tank will be super done cycling by the time you get fish!! Thanks for the comment about the plants! As I said, I don't really know anything about plants either, this is the first tank I've ever done...

I have a water sprite in my tank, which is very similar to water wisteria (one is a fern plant, the other one is some other type of plant, but they look almost the same and behave very similarly). I added it to my tank on January 8th, when it looked like this: And I took a picture of it just...

on the DIY end of things, I do hear that it is possible to reseal a tank, but I decided against it myself for a used 125gal I bought (I resold it and kept the stand), since I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to sleep through the night after resealing it myself. That being said, if you do it...

$30+ for aquascape tools?!!?! each?!?!? lol I am way too cheap for that :D I have turned up my nose at the $8.99 fluval pair of tweezers for sale at petsmart lol. Then again, I totally hear you on the fact that all the amazon reviews for the really low end stuff say that it's all unfinished...

By the way, if you are in doubt, feel free to post pictures of your tests here and we can help decipher them. I'm not colorblind, but frankly I can't tell the difference between the shades of anything past 0.5ppm in the API test, it's maddening!! I'm really excited that the Fritz bacteria...

So, I'd say we're looking better on the nitrite front. Bonus cameo from the snail :D The worst part is, is that the way I got to this was by not doing anything any sane fishkeeper would do. So Monday night, I was toast, and went to bed like 830pm. water change did not happen. Had nightmares...

This thread is about so much more than fishless vs fish-in cycling. That's just one (critical) aspect of fishkeeping, but the other points that have been brought up on the thread paint a much more nuanced picture of the state of the hobby at the current point in time, and how one can...

Ohhh thank goodness!!! This is such good news! Nice work for staying the course and being methodical and pragmatic. I am happy for you :)

Just wanted to chime in on this topic with stuff that has come up for me in my research. I am quarantining for the first time as well myself right now (10 Black skirt tetras waiting to go into a 125 gallon ~500L tank). Like you,when I was doing my research I saw basically everything from "1...

I hear your frustrations. I think fishkeeping in a way is just another microcosm of life itself... We want things to be orderly and predictable, but there are too many variables and too many uncontrollables that prevent fishkeeping from being as clean cut as it "should" be based on our research...

This is starting to look really nice!!!

Just feeling like an update, even though nothing has really changed :D First thing: Duckweed. Really funny plant, if you have the right attitude about it lol. Because I have a HOB on this tank, with relatively high flow, the duckweed gets blown around a lot. I have a side edge where there is...

@Yohance1130 that's actually a really good point. I don't necessarily need as much suction as I currently have. otoh, it'll take longer that way! who likes water changes?!?! lol :D thank you for the tip though, I'll try it out next time.

I don't think that having an aquarium service would preclude you from being able to do whatever maintenance you want on your tank, it would just be a way that you could get someone to show up immediately if there was a problem that you weren't able to take care of yourself, and if you were...

So just an update on this. fish all appear to be doing fine, haven't seen any additional stringy poop. Still trying to get my hands on a dewormer that is not coupled with an antibiotic, looks like hikari has a brand called praziPro that contains praziquantel, and I also found the kusuri wormer...

Jan, I am sorry that you are having so many troubles. I think fishkeeping, especially with bigger tanks, tends to be a relatively physical hobby. Water is heavy, and often positions that are needed to do water changes are not ergonomic are require strength to maintain. I am a strong believer...

I got some good advice on this thread about flubebdazole, I'm not 100% it answers your question directly but at least worth taking a look while you wait for more answers. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/stringy-white-poop-from-black-skirt-tetra-fish-appears-ok.468055/

I recently read some nice explanations by @StevenF on this topic, hopefully he has a chance to respond here as well.

You probably mean this one https://www.fishforums.net/threads/rescuing-a-fish-in-cycle-gone-wild-part-i.433769/ It can be found in the "cycle your tank" forum at the top. For the OP, if you are able to, I recommend using Seachem prime as a water conditioner since it detoxifies ammonia and...

Of course :) hopefully we can get a handle on this cycle!!

Beautiful tanks and inhabitants!!!

Aww, I love people :):):) good people at least haha

I know literally nothing about plants outside what I just typed above. I approach it along the lines of "ok this is $5 and it might live and look cool or it might die/rot and I'll have to take it out of the tank, let's see what happens". When I said to google the plants, I meant like quickly in...