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Its a fishless tank but thats because im tryin to cycle my turtle tank so im a little concerned about tryin to raise the ammonia levels with products etc.

Ok i've been cycling my tank for 9 days now and theres been no changes in the water conditions. Should i have seen some kind of change by now?? My tank readings have always been and still are: pH = 7.4 AMMONIA = 0.25 NITRATE = 0 NITRITE = 0 My tap readings are: pH = 7.0 AMMONIA = 0 NITRATE =...

Ok its not for fish its for my new turtle tank im having custom built. The tank will be 180x60x60 cm with aprox 3020L of water in it. The basic turtle rule of thumb with filtration is times it by 10 and you've got the L/HR you need. So as you can see i need some mega filtration and how much...

Ok now i have a post about this in hardware but im not getting any response so thought i would try in here to. I just worked out that im going to need some kinda setup that can filter at a rate of 3060L/HR min! Any suggestions on how to acheive this with external filters without putting more...

thanks i'll have a read up about each plant thats been suggested and see what i can get from the lps's around here. Hopefully there will be something that suits me.

Your not the first one to forget to unplug. My last heater only lasted about 8 months because i unpluged but didnt wait long enough.

yep you got it right hazel's the turtle but dont worry im having second thoughts about putting fish in with her.... well actually i think im getting a bit of MTS. Now that im having her new custom tank built im thinking of using her 90x35x35 for fishies by simply removing the basking platform...

Ok heres the deal im building a new tank and its filter/s are going to need to be able to do an absolute min of 3060L/HR. I currenly have a Jebo 815 that does 1000L/HR. As far as i know the biggest any brand makes is 1200L/HR. Does anyone know of a brand that does more or a way to not end up...

Black.... hold on.... White.... no no wait.... Black.... er maybe.... White... or better still.... BOTH? On Second thoughts... Maybe Grey is the way to go then its neither black or white!

I have a very minimal amount of substrate covering the bottom of about one third at the most of the bottom of my tank but was thinking of getting 1 or 2 live plants if i can.... any ideas?

As i've recently discovered being a newbie here myself any ammonia is a bad bad thing.... Have you cycled your tank? How often and how much have you been changing the water?

Ok now here i go.... The fish needs to: Look pretty! The smaller the better Very Hardie the tank it will be goin in is normally around pH 7.6 and about 27oC. I've tried doing a bit of research of my own. Just...

Yeah i just tested the water again this morning and i was gettin an ammonia reading of 0.25 again so im guessin i looked at the colour wrong or sumthing. Did another 25% change an we'll see what colours of the rainbow we get tomorrow. Well as i had a bad feeling would happen today i still got...

Thought i should update with todays water readings and see what everyone has to say about them. pH = 7.6 Ammonia = 0 Nitrite = 0 Nitrate = 0 I havent done any water changes since yesterdays reading..... is it really possible that the ammonia is gone? The turtle hasnt been in the water or...

Ok as you can see by looking over <<------ i dont live in Canada or the US. So i dont have a local WM :o they just dont exsist. we have a similar department store but they dont sell live stock only some essential supplies and maybe a little more depending on the store your at :D However...

Had to do a about a 25% top up yesterday due to when i was removing the fish. Tested the water again today and the results are still the same as yesterday should i be doing another 25% or waiting. I normally feed Hazel (the turtle) out of the tank in a feeding container. This way she poops in...

If you still need the help it may be of some assistance to know i just brought a Jebo 815 External today for in my bedroom it pumps 1000L/H and is dead silent cant even hear it when my ears next to the tank.

Yeah i know i shouldnt have done such a big change but it was an impulse buy when i did the change i didnt know i was getting fish and didnt already have any. like i said i'll work on the condition of the tank water and then look at trying again. Any suggestions on the best way to get the level...

I've had my turtle in the tank for about a year. However i only just decided a few days ago to try and create an environment where my turtle and some neons can live together. The water had a 100% change the day before the fish were introduced as a turtle does not need to be cycled. At the same...

Ok so as i said in the previous thread i rapidly (within about 24hrs) lost all 10 of my neons. I didnt have anything to do any water testing at all at the time. I now have some results. pH = 7.6 High Range pH = 7.4 Ammonia = 0.25 Nitrite = 0 Nitrate = 0 Sadly i dont have a test for the water...

I now have a fish count of zero. However the cleaner and more balanced i can get the water the better for the terrapin so im off to get a testing kit and a bigger filter and see what happens to the water over the next few days. Fish keeping is a good way to tell if the water changes well before...

Thanks thats kinda different from what i think i remember the lps telling me when i brought the last one. But i guess getting one bigger than i need is better than getting one thats too small.

Details of my pets are given in the What are your pets thread. However i think im not doing bad managing to contain myself to 4 pets considering i only have the space of 1 bedroom to keep them in.

I have.... Ashtin (A cat that lives at my mothers house) Hazel (A red eared terrapin that i rescued from my ex bf) Aphrodite (A female mouse) Lucifer (A male mouse) and im experimenting with tropical fish keeping. Other people in my house have.... 1 Rabbit 1 Cat 2 Frogs There is also talk of...

I have Hazel (a red eared terrapin) inside all year round in a heated tank. I recently tried putting neon's (a tropical fish) in with her however i've decided to get a new filtration system set up before i try again. I started with 10 neon's and now only have 4 not too sure if they will survive...

Currently i have a 200W heater servicing about 75L or 20 gallons of water. But i've decided to get a new custom tank that will contain about 200L or 53 gallon built. So i want to get a heater that will be able to service that when it arrives. How big do u think i need to go?

If not it just means spending the money so that they dont need to share a home though im now down to 4 of my original 10. Time to do some serious cycling.

I ended up removing the fish and putting them in a smaller plastic fantastic tank. So that i could treat them quickly while i decided what to do about the turtle tank. But after about 2 hrs it was very apparent that it is not Ich killing my fish and i came to the conclusion that it is bad water...

well i guess my first 10 neons was the begining and end of my tropical fish experience then....

Ok i have my baby who im totally in love with that i rescued from an ex bf. Her names Hazel and shes a red eared slider whos about 13 years old so fully grown. Shes not really that water active profering dry land and alot of sun. So i figured why not try some neon's their pretty and they can...

Well i decided to go with the white spot idea since it seemed the most logical problem. Its now been about 20 hrs since the first fish died and i have 6 of the 10 neons left. Moved 5 into a hospital tank as im not sure if the white spot treatment would cause any problems for my turtle but im...

thanks Havent had anymore drop since a started posting but im off to the lps to see what they have to offer because the remaning fish dont look as pretty as they did when i got them......

Not too sure their mostly on their fins i just noticed but from what i can see not all the dead ones even have the spots. So maybe theres more than one thing wrong??

Night before last i went away for a night and when i came home lastnight all 10 of my neons were ok no signs of anything wrong. Then lastnight while i was still up i saw one looking very dead. then thismorning theres another 2 dead. I looked at the remaining 7 and theres about 3 of them with...

okies well i dont have teribly too much to say except i have fish rapidly dropping so imma go post.