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do you have a drop checker? or a pH controller for your co2? this the diffuser that i have: Glass diffuser i also have their bubble counter and their oracle drop checker

do 30% water changes and don't add and fertz or co2 for a week and cut back on the lighting, your plants will settle in better. then after the week is done you can go back to your normal cycle and your plants should out compete the algae for nutrients hope this works for you. its what i do...

are you planning on keeping only plants? even if you don't have co2 injected into your water, if you have a lot of plants and you don't add any fertilizers your plants are going to die. plants also die pretty fast if they have to compete with algae while they are trying to adjust to new...

if you have a canister filter you can plug your co2 airline straight into it and it will become a reactor for you as well. other wise you can also put the diffuser under the intake of the filter and it will help circulate your co2 a lot better and i mean a lot better

since surfactant just increases permeability or solubility so to say, it can be harmful in that it would make the other polutants in the water more easily absorbed into the fish, but as long as you use a dechlorinator you should be fine. i used ammonia with the surfactant in it as well - it will...

if i have a planted tank, which i will by summer time, i will have a pressurized co2 system thats going to be set on a timer that will inject co2 during the day... if i turn it off its going to affect my plants, but if i leave it on then the fish may have a problem with rising water temps, and...

that is one really big tank to put upstairs. im afraid to put anything above a 55 gallon tank upstairs lol i dont know much about the strength of concrete and how much force it can hold, but if can put it upstairs you should put a board of wood on the floor and put the tank stand on top of it -...

i was at that stage last week and now it takes a bit longer for the drops to turn purple, but i still havnt seen a rise in nitrate at all using the API test kit, i had a couple of those really bad test strips and i put the drops on it and it instantly turned the nitrate reading off the charts -...

when i have the heating on i dont have much of a problem, im just worried about the summer. especially if we have a heat wave it gets really hot indoors

that is going to come in handy when the cali heat starts.... living in an apartment with crappy air conditioning is not good.

its been said that when your tank is cycling you can get a pH crash. so i would presume that is what it was, unless you had recently added any decorative materials in there - i think wood is acidic as well. if you're tank is fully cycled and your tap water has some ammonia in it it shouldn't...

would adding spirulina to mix just be a bonus?

you should post the readings you got for the GH and KH and are you using a dip stick/strip or a liquid test kit? and about your cycle being done, once it drops both ammonia and nitrite to 0 in less than 12 hrs, continue to dose at the same ammonia dosing for about 1 week, this will ensure that...

id have to agree with Eggy there. i read somewhere (im pretty sure on this forum) that if you feed your fish meat it should only be beefs heart cause it has no fat or very very low fat, but then it said that this should only be once in a while....

would this one be better? i wanted to get the moon lights/LED's as well Includes: one 65 watt 10,000K Daylight and one 65 watt True Actinic 03 Blue compact lamps as well as two 3/4 watt Lunar Blue-Moon-Glow LED lamps. Lamps are straight pin arrangement. Also features 3 on/off switches with 3 8...

there is the coralife fresh water T-5 tubes. one pink and one blue in there. if i get two of them would that be too much? cause if i understand the description below i would be getting 72W or 2.5 WPG. if its a lighting fixture and has polished reflectors does that increase the watts per gallon?

would this lighting fixture with LED's be sufficient for medium lighting a 29 gallon tank?

Hi I am just starting to get into plants and i was wondering what you guys would recommend for my 29 gallon tank. i was looking for medium lighting levels and wanted to have the lunar lights as well. currently i just have a tube light that says its 17w, the fixture says its 20w 60hz fixture...

does anyone have any dwarf Riccia they are willing to sell? or does anyone know where i can get some from? every time i come across someone with it they run out in a matter of hours

be sure to pick up a liquid test kit and not the test strips (they're pretty inaccurate)

i searched for the JBJ one and i keep finding expensive ones.... i found the parts at different places and i can put one together for about $74 (all things shipped) the brass bubble counter (it has a check valve in it) i want i need to do a little bit more searching for cause the place i found...

i havnt seen one around, i noticed most people just post them in the beginner section

i cant focus anymore after 12 am, seen too many solenoids they all look the same now lol

thanks waterdrop i'll do that from now on

alright so i looked at different solenoids and its A LOT cheaper to buy them from the manufacturer. i was thinking of going with clippard the only problem is how do i know which one i need to get? lol if you dont know that one is there any that you would recommend?

wow i feel pretty retarded now.... but thank you i feel enlightened! :) Phage you mentioned you bought your solenoid online, i was wondering what kind of solenoid is recommended, i googled solenoid and wow there are a lot of different types. unless i buy a used regulator with a solenoid for...

i've had this spike in nitrite for a couple of days now, the drops turn a deep purple as soon as they hit the bottom of the tube. i just thought that there would be some nitrate to measure since i had some earlier in the cycle (i guess theres a possibility that i got bad readings the first few...

haha i dont know where i got shoe armor from? didnt realize that till you mentioned it lol i think you can keep feeding the bacteria with ammonia and then the day your fish are scheduled to arrive or the night before you do your water change

I know that its used in a CO2 system but i don't know what its function is.... and they must be pricy if the skew the price of a regulator by so much

ps: the link doesn't work lol

i knew i was forgetting something haha the fertilizer! thanks, i'll go for the fire extinguisher then, does anyone know if places that sell paintball equipment refill fire extinguishers? if not i'll just drop by or call. if im going to go for a fire extinguisher or a canister about that size...

im still cycling my tank right now (fishless cycle), its a 29 US gallon tank so i wanted to get some ricca for it (i know its messy and stuff but i love the look and the challenge) i cant seem to find anyone around me so i'll have to get it online or at an auction, one coming up soon :)...

i had the problem of not being able to get any mature media, most of the stores just looked at me like i was crazy. and i have had a few set backs in the beginning lol (extremely high ammonia over dose) but i think im pretty lucky to be where im at in the cycle cause its been a month and the...

yup, it is a fishless cycle and im at the 30th day today yea thats where i am right now, the ammonia drops from 5ppm to 0 in 8 hrs, it never really got to every day, it was at about two days then sped up to almost every 12hrs. i top up the ammonia to just under 5ppm every 12 hrs, should i...

thats pretty awesome!! my ammonia goes from 5ppm to 0 in 8 hrs or less and my nitrites still arnt being converted to nitrates so i dont know whats going on

so my tank now reduces the 5ppm of ammonia to nitrites in 8hrs.... the only problem is im seeing no nitrates. the highest they've gone is 20ppm and that was last week. now it doesn't go over 5ppm is this normal or am i having a weird problem?

you shouldnt have a problem at all with a loss of bacteria, as long as your filter media didnt dry out. there's not much bacteria on the substrate, most of it will be in the sponges. i did the same (but without having fish) just put in some fine floss/a water polishing sponge and it will be...

the Emperor 280 may work well, but if you are going to have messy fish (im pretty sure sharks are one of them) you definitely want to go for the Emperor 400 or equivalent filter. i think most would agree that when it comes to filtration the bigger the better. as for the sand opposed to the...

i don't know much about marine yet, but i think if you posted in the saltwater area they'd be better equipped to help you out :good:

you're ammonia and nitrite drop to 0 in 12 hrs already? :o