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I'm jealous :drool: I love my 25 but I can't wait to really have some room to work with. I'm a long way off from having space (and money) for it though. What are your initial thoughts for direction of stocking?

So tonight I decided to clean inside my Eheim Ecco filter because the water flow was getting noticeably worse. I should have read the directions first, but I figured that I had opened and closed it enough that it would be fine. Unfortunately, I snapped plastic off a piece that helps hold the...

I'm confused, do most ammonia increases usually go that way (spike)? I'm asking because I'm still getting the hang of things and I'm under the impression that I could test for Ammonia every few days at the most and be safe. I guess it depends on ratio of biomass to water volume right? And if...

nice.. waterdrop replied. u stuck with me the longest and were the most helpful. good to see u

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread. I'm just so excited by my new additions to this tank: 5 harlequin rasboras and an albino rainbow shark. The tank is still completely calm and peaceful, except for the rasboras darting all over and playing in the current. I love watching them run around...

*sigh* the power had to be turned off while i was not at home and my HOB filter died because either no one was there or no one thought to put water in it when it turned back on my heater also had to go recently because it was not stopping at the proper temperature. the tank now hovers around...

Thought I'd update this old thread. Since I last posted there's been quite a few changes to the tank. Its got a lot more members now, and I also had an unfortunate accident involving a piece of decoration - a couple fish got trapped under a plate of plastic and I had to pry them out. One of them...

just wanted to report an update on this, she's made a full recovery and has been living with her old tank mates for a couple weeks. at first she seemed gloomy about being back in the community tank (probably had gotten used to the quarantine tank) but now she's active and swims around with the...

No, not yet anyway. Everything kept improving and I haven't seen any new warning signs like growths so I haven't gone out of my way to get them. Mistake?

Thanks for the responses again. Regarding the internal bleeding and red patches: again it's a little hard to tell because the fish has a natural patchy red pattern near the front where its injured (in fact i have at least a couple with coloring like this), but I stared at it a good amount and...

I've got more good news, she's eating normally now =) I'd love to get her out of the little quarantine tank if possible. I think it would be a lot less stressful and a lot less dangerous to be back in the large filtered community tank. I would hate to wipe out all this progress with a bad water...

Thank you a ton for the responses, I REALLY appreciate it! She's swimming around today! No longer staying to the bottom. She still looks like a wreck though and won't seem to eat. I remember though that they often will only eat at the last minute when they are stressed like when you first bring...

It was a tank with 10 but I've got her in a quarantine tank now. She's got more movement now that its been a couple days but I still can't get her to eat. She still just stays at the bottom, occasionally swimming up to the top for air. When she is swimming it doesn't seem like she's having...

I've had my 25 gal betta sorority for about a half a year now with no problems. I always count the fish during feeding to make sure everyone is taking part and last time was short by two. After searching for awhile i found them stuck in one of my decorations in a way I can't even describe. Long...

omg we just had one .... that was scary how ironic . i ran to the fish tank to keep it steady , i should be grabbing the kids or going to a doorway. i need to get this thing bolted in or something. we've been having more and more of these lately! :crazy: edit: it was a 5.9 near the border...

I live in southern California and we're probably more prone to earthquakes than anywhere in the country. A few months ago we had a 4.4 and I remember the one in '94 that was a 6.7 Also, like I said, we're way over due for one even larger than that. Granted, if something like a 7.0 hits we...

Yeah, you're right. There's no way that thing is going to slide from him pushing on it. Are you saying the same is true for tipping the stand over though? I guess another worry is earthquakes, and we're WAY overdue for another big one out here. I guess I'm just being paranoid. Maybe I should...

Ok well, hmm maybe its a 30 gallon then lol, it's been awhile since I got it, I must have forgot or one of my measurements are off. I cant check right now but I think its 16 inches high which would make it a 30

I'm setting up a store-bought aquarium stand for an acrylic 25 gal tank I purchased off craigslist. My tank is a little abnormal in that it's more extra long vs wide (only a foot of depth front to back but it is 3 feet wide). I've got the stand built, but before I go ahead and start the process...

Okay it's been awhile but here's a couple more pics as promised. Still not great shots, but they are group shots in the tank. The little white on at the top of each shot is the one I didn't have a pic of before. BTW, this it the same scene every day when they're expecting food lol they...

Thanks all, I appreciate the positive comments :) I think that is just artifacts in the picture from the camera flash reflections. I'm not even sure what that white band is there in that shot - it's not from anything in the tank. I'm a bit worried about the horizontal strips on some of them...

2 days in and no sign of anything, but that's to be expected I suppose. It seems like a pretty large amount of water and filtration for 6 little fish. I'll see how it goes though. I've got that thread posted now, head over to see some pics

Some of you may have seen my fishless cycle thread, it was a long one as the cycle took over 4 months and never finished. For various reasons I decided to go with a betta sorority instead of my plans of a tetra community tank. As for the tank, it's a 25 gal acrylic 3 feet wide. I always read...

I've got everything in now, including fish! I have 6 female bettas in. I will make a new thread soon in the betta forum with pics! Thanks again to all especially WD for helping with the cycling even though it never really finished. I learned a ton from the whole process, and it will definitely...

i've had a betta for over 3 years before and a new one for the past half a year. thats a big part of why i'd like to just go with them after all. i know i can handle them (other than taking care of a whole group) and i like the way they look (and act for that matter - they often have fun...

Yeah, I'm the kind of person who dreads giving up on something until I get a minimal result I want (this case being a finished cycle), so believe me it actually took a lot of convincing myself to even give up on it. Rather than empty the tank and throw it in the garage though, I've been already...

after days and days i still got the same behavior. i dont think i'm going to record anything anymore. i dont think i'm even going to try to cycle anymore. either way i'm sure i'll be back, but this just isnt working

yeah the thing is that there's so many factors, so many things that CAN go wrong, and it's sometimes hard to see when/what they are, especially for a newbie like me. that's part of why i'm not even that aggravated by how long it's taking. this is a learning experience first and foremost. i...

all the same cycle i'm afraid. it's obvious i've messed up somewhere, but i'm still trying. maybe i didnt do the conditioner right one time, who knows. it took over 2 months to get nitrite to stop peaking, and it's been a long road to nowhere since then.

well.. i was excited to finally see ammonia gone after 24 hours, and it's been consistently doing that for days now..... but... started testing nitrite again at 24hrs and it's there again. part of me thinks its off the chart as the drops slowly turn purple at the bottom after dropping them in...

sorry, i could have been more clear about that. - i took all the water out and threw it down the drain except the last bucket (about 2-3 gallons) - i used that last bit of water from the tank to clean the filter and then put it all back in - i added 2x 25 gallons worth of dechlorinator to the...

Because it's been 3 months now, my tank is a dirty mess, and I was really confused by that whole process :) Cool, because that nicely sums up exactly how it went, except I don't have gravel, I have sand. After all the time of worrying sand would be a lot harder to clean, I actually find it a...

tested pH today: 6.0 wow, i had no idea it was crashing that bad, considering i had another huge water change only 2 weeks ago. i performed a 90% water change today, and i cleaned the filter while i was add it. i feel horrible for a lot of reasons. i obviously wasnt taking of it. there was...

I haven't updated the spreadsheet graph in ages. I'll try to get around to that soon. As for the lack of testing other than ammonia, I only have myself to blame for that. I'll try to do a full round of testing soon and try to be more regular with testing the other levels :/ I think it's...

Thanks for the support you two, and to everyone else who has some hope for me. Same results again for the past week. I haven't been as consistent, but I'm still at it the majority of the time. Recently I've noticed a significant difference in the amount of water my filter is pumping. What used...

I did the water change as advised. 75% last Saturday. I'm sorry my data has been so little detailed lately, but in a way I've been more consistent with attending to the tank, because it's been weeks since I missed dosing. Seriously, ever since nitrite stopped spiking and dropped to zero, I've...

Well, it's been awhile without anything new to report. For the last week I've been seeing low levels of ammonia at 24hr, so I'm still working on that. I haven't written down the occasional pH and nitrite test that I've done the past week, but there's no alarms there. I really think I skipped...

Well the tank was clear within a few hours of that water change. A few days have passed, and I haven't kept the best care because I've been injured but I'm trying to not let it fall apart. Still, promising stats tonight. Day 76 12hr Ammonia = 1.0 Day 76 24hr Ammonia = 0.5 Nitrite = 0 pH = 7.8...

I finally got my substrate in! You probably don't recall but I had a thread a month or two ago trying to decide on a substrate to use. I decided in the end to just go with my original choice: white sand. I went with the advice that I shouldn't second guess my original vision, plus I most...

if it's a HOB, what about using a splash guard? basically something like a half a large plastic bottle that will stream the water into the tank instead of splashing it