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just a quick question. How long does it take for the bacteria to start to die off when out of the water? Example is like when changing the water, the HOB filters tend to drain most of the water back into the tank. it takes me about a hour to do a change,is there any cause for worry here?

i have had the tank up and running for only two weeks with fish in it. We are leaving next week for a little over a week. is there anything i can do or am i going to come home to dead fish? i put the fish in before finding this site , so shame on me i know. Not going on vacation isnt a option...

she didnt say to put it in the intake tube, rather underneath one of the media containers, which would be after the impeller. I dont see the potential of bubbles going down and against the flow of water to get into the impeller, but we will se. I am going to try it tonight and will post anything...

thanks waterdrop. fish store owner has a degree in marine biology and has been keeping fish for 30 some odd years. She seems to be very knowledgeable but i wanted to see what the concensus on here was before i did it. She didnt make any promises on this like it was a miracle cure to cycle...

would it not provide more oxygen directly to the filter media thus encouraging a better place for the bacteria to grow? can you tell me why this wouldnt do any good or is it just your opinion?

I stopped at a local pet store yesterday and owner gave me some advice and i would like to know what you guys think. She said to help the nitrogen cycle along i could put air stones under the filter cartridges in the filter box and it would help provide extra oxygen to the bacteria growing on...

i am struggling with the whole filtration thing. i have done a bunch of reading but need a few days to let it soak in , lol. any way. i would like some suggestions or what you guys use for filter media. I have a 120 us gallon tank with the following filters. two Marineland Emperor 400, each...

oscars here, like little puppy dogs in the water

very good. thanks

i had a similar issue with a bio wheel being the wrong size a while back. the wheel that came with the used filter was too small, i cut a couple of small pieces of airline tubing and put them over the little tits coming off oth sides of the bio wheel, this lenghtened the bio wheel and it fit...

aw heck , i think your right it is bonkers here too, think yonkers is a town in New York. they really would think i was crazy !!

thanks for the lesson Rabbut ! i will start using those terms here, my buddies will think i have gone yonkers ( slang for crazy ) ha

just had a thought, and still trying to wrap my mind around filters and filter media so forgive me if this is a stupid question. since i am changing my water everyday anyway and i have multiple buckets of tank water , should i take my filters out and rinse them off in the buckets everyday or...

thank you rabbut, i will read them shortly. i dont know what a quid or a yonk are, but sounds like a great deal, lol ! I will check EBAY for sure . thanks for all your help.

does anyone have any links to a good article on filtration and/or carbon use? I have spent alot of money to insure that i have enough water being moved per hour in my tank but want to make surei am doing it efficiently. whats the point of moving the water in the tank 10 times per hour if the...

that figures, i will find out when i get home what the pad is made out of and post it. does it hurt to leave the carbon filled cartridgess in longer even though they dont do anything? they still serve the purpose of catching large debris because of the floss on the outside of it and i cannot...

the ammonia removing filter came as a big pad and you cut it to fit in the extra media holder that came with the filter, unfortunatley i do not know excatly what it is but zeolite sounds familiar. i have 3 powerheads in the tank but dont run them all the time, i will leave them on for the day...

really ?? every three days? i did not know that, that could get expensive. The cartidges that come with the filter i believe have carbon in them, i need to change those as well? they are like 10 USD for two of them, that would be like 60 bucks a week.

hello, i am in the process of doing a fish in cycle. I also needed to level the aquarium and since i am doing water changes everyday i figured it was a good time. Here is my issue, i usually do about 50 % water changes daily but in order to level the aquarium i emptied 75% of the water to...

i have moved everything around and still no sign. i am fixing to remove all rocks and plants and see if i can find him.

any ideas ? in our 55 gallon tank we have a jack dempsey, oscar and a bala shark ( will be rehoming the oscar soon) came to the office after the weekend and there is no sign whatsoever of the bala shark. all fish are roughly the same size and have never really picke on one another. i know fish...

diasasswmbled filter and he wasnt there either.

any ideas ? in our 55 gallon tank we have a jack dempsey, oscar and a bala shark ( will be rehoming the oscar soon) came to the office after the weekend and there is no sign whatsoever of the bala shark. all fish are roughly the same size and have never really picke on one another. i know fish...

hello. i was wondering if there is some standard to judge whether or not i am moving enough water in my tank. Currently i have two of the emperor 400 and a Aquaclear 300. Combined this equates to 1100 GPH, tank is a 120 gallons with two oscars and three pictus cats, they are all still small fish...

waterdrop - i was just curious if a higher ph would help in my cycle.

i would like to create a shelf of sorts in one corner of my tank using fake plants, to create somewhat of a hiding place/ shaded area in the tank. is it ok to use the plants that are sold in stores as decorations like what would go on a table or something like that? also i will have to build the...

readings today as follows; am - 0.25 nitrite - 0 nitrate - 0 ph - 7.2 should i do anything about the p.h? i am changing 50% water once a day. trying to find a established filter i can borrow to speed this up a bit. thanks to all that have helped.

you are right waterdrop. it is a 120 gallon tank so it is not taking the water out as much as putting it back in, 50 % is my limit, lol. I did a 50% last night and checked a hour later and ammonia was down to .25 everything else was at 0,. The conditioner i used said it removed nitrates ...

ok, i wasnt sure about how much water to change. what do you think about doing 50 % and then a hour later doing another 50%? and are you saying to use 1.5 times the conditioner?

no one has a opinion on this? I have a oppurtunity to rehome the catfish if i need to, i really like them and would like to keep them however if they wont do well i would rather get rid of them.

well i did two water changes last night, about a hour apart. Ammonia was at 1 ppm initially and was down to .5 this morning. Plan on doing two more tonight when i get home. i did lose my pleco yesterday but unsure if this is due to water quality. i am changing approx. 30 % of the water at each...

the fish are all still small. i use a gravel vac attached to the garden hose to drain it and 5 gallon bucket to fill it back up. takes about a hour to change 30%, not to bad i guess.

2 tiger oscars 3 pictus cats 1 pleco 120 gallon tank , 2 Emperor 400 filters with bio wheels , 2 400 max power heads. thanks

i do have a test kit, liquid based. not sure of the brand it may be the API, it was called the master freshwater test kit, paid like 40 bucks for it? it test for ammonia, nitrates nitrites, and ph. the biggest issue i have is that i am color blind and it is hard for me to read the results, have...

ok, i will start this today. thank you Andy

hello all. i have kept fish as a younger person with much success, got married sold everything but have now got back into it. I may have jumped the gun on this new aquarium and i would like some advice. here is what i have done so far. tank size is 120 gallon, filled it up with tap water ...