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I've used ugf for years with just air

If you can't turn up the heat or add salt I've had very good results with only one dose of jungle ich clear. It does turn stuff blue though...

My water comes out of the tap with around 40ppm of nitrates. I do my weekly wc and have quit letting it stress me out. Have even quit testing for nitrates. Heck it's got to get to 800 to be lethal. This is supposed to be a relaxing Hobby. My ottos and shrimp are doing just fine.

Is your input hose nice and stright without any dips, it should be as short as possible. Might try putting the discharge hose in a bucket. My primmer broke on my sunsun, I used a power head to get it started.

I can see why so many people quit this forum, it isn't really all that friendly, l have been insulted many times myself. I have yet to call anyone names.......

I've been in the hobby 43 years, I've had a lot of tanks I've made my own observations, everything in books isn't gospel. Just because we don't keep our fish exactly as in nature doesn't it make us cruel or stupid. My fish are very well taken care of. Ps, there's only a few fish in my...

Setting up a filter properly. ... yeah I can do that, cut the pickup tube off 5" above the substrate. It's growling like all get out. The shaft is all scared up....

Again... where do we draw the line, do you get off on costing people time and money on a substrate change? Who knows what a fish is thinking?

I've got corys on sand and gravel all are eating, growing, reproducing, and thriving. Damn if I can tell a difference.

You know some corys bards got nipped off a few times and it must have been the gravel If you really thought so much about fish you wouldn't put them in little glass boxes. You telling beginners that sand is a must is really your opinion Bryan not gospel

Prove it Bryan. What really like sand is expensive filters........

Corys do just fine with gravel

Oscar fits,one day I was eating trail mix out of a bag the same size as Oscar's food. He was pissed

30g hex guppy, cherry shrimp tank with corys. 3 months in Lit with a desk lamp with a 23w cfl through frosted glass. Plants are all from the original planted 55, Java fern, crypt, ludwigia, wisteria, and val. Running a ugf and a wisper 40 hob. Water changes weekly, 2 drops of micros 1ml of...

Sounds like it my be too soft, charcoal will help with the stained water. You sure it isn't brown algae on the plants instead of rotten wood?

Mycelium it won't hurt anything, ive had some in a new setup

The Jack Dempsey's regularly spawned the Oscar was fully grown I did swap off the pacu after a couple months. You know back then a 55 was a really big tank.

I occasionally vacuum the front of mine then use a Magic Eraser to clean the glass underneath the gravel

It's fun watching my two youngest grandkids putting their faces against Oscar's tank and getting him all excited. Oscar does like to move stuff around in his tank and will bite the crap out of you for trying to put it back right...

Water changes, yeah.... I'm pretty sure he poops twice as much as he eats... and all of it is to big to fit through the strainer.... I've removed mine so the poop doesn't get to deep.

Heck oscars don't swim all that much, he mostly watches tv or is trying to get my attention so I will feed him some more

He gets water changes about every 5 days He's 13"

I've got my oscar in what I call a 65 short [40b). He was starting to touch both sides in his 55, he actually looks smaller in his 40, it is mostly about the footprint. I know what they say now, but thirty years ago I had a oscar, pacu, Jack Dempsey's, convicts, firemouth, Jews and tiger...

Jungle val, ludwigia, wisteria, cryptocoryne, all do well for me

Fenbendazole

my newest ten with a few clippings.

Cool

I like my tank full of mutt guppies, their always busy chasing each other around and begging for more food

Thanks everyone

A cattle trough might be better, ive had a channel send a fin clean through a icechest