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woah.. that's huge. certainly explains why i'm finding it harder to keep my nitrites low than I did with the ammonia!

Would not do that at the moment. In acidic water most of the waste is kept as Ammonium (NH4+) which is not as toxic to fish. If you bring the pH up you will have a greater proportion of Ammonia (NH3) and your fish will die very quickly at 3ppm. My pH is quite high (8.0) and my fish started...

good thing it's harmless! noticed this last night when I bumped my airstone and had to rearrange it, the hose feeding it was covered in white fuzz which then dislodged and made my tank look like pea soup. got the siphon out to suck up the big chunks and left it to the filter to catch the...

I started with a fish-in cycle with 3 black neons in a 20L tank. All perished, most likely ammonia as I was not doing enough water changes. I since bought an API master kit (was using the useless test strips previously) and 4 serpae tetras and things are going along much better, except I have...

buy an adjustable filter? c'mon guys where's your sense of adventure. the solution is quick and cheap!

Kitty what's the biological capacity of the aqua ones vs an external canister? Sorry to continue the hijack.. but I'm curious which filter would handle the bio loading better.

look up DIY coil filters, if you make a large filter that the water moves through at 1-2 drips per second then you can encourage n-bac growth in it. but they can take 6 months to seed so it's not an easy solution. however, if you get the flow rate wrong then it can produce hydrogen sulphide...

10% daily is nowhere near enough if your ammonia levels are high. if your ammonia level is 2.0ppm and you do a 50% water change it drops to 1.0ppm. Add another 24 hours and it'll be higher because fish continuously produce waste. So it might be 1.5ppm. Another 50% change and it will be...

ppm and mg/L are the same thing when dealing with dilution in water as water's density is 1g/mL. those nitrites are quite high as well, but they should come down when you change water to fix the nitrates.

I'll preface by saying I'm a complete newbie to tropicals and I'm still on my first tank cycle BUT I have read a reasonable amount of reports regarding bacteria and therefore profess myself to be a consummate expert on the matter :P There are 2 types of bacteria - live types which are most...

I've got 4 Serpae Tetras and they want to tear strips off each other sometimes... it's awesome watching them face up against each other and then lunge in for a hit and chase to the other end of the tank and back :hyper: the females seem to be the most tetchy.. 3 of them are females. the...

You're forgetting chicken salt. It's great on hot chips! I've read plenty of comments on the net that the whole drama about table salt having iodine in it is meaningless because the concentration of iodine is so small and that table salt is OK for fish. And since I read it on the internet it...

Fish can certainly be conditioned to certain behaviour.. we kept fish in primary school and the teacher had us switch the filter off every time we fed them. After a few weeks the fish 'learned' that the silence and lack of air bubbles meant food was imminent and they would immediately rise to...

The idea that digital is more accurate simply for being digital is unjustified, everything is built to a price and low price = low quality simple as that. A cheap digital will be built without care and uncalibrated and it could be reading 600 degrees but it looks more impressive doing it.

It's the internet.. just rock up and start posting :P I'm still cycling my very first tank and after killing 3 black neons I have found exactly the same as you - the test strips are a waste of money. Someone else commented to similar effect, I just bought an API master kit today and it is...