chlorine

Hi all, I bought the java moss about 2 months ago and it's been sitting in water in a plastic tray on my window sill growing waiting for me to get around to doing something with it, hence this post. I have read that rinsing it, soaking in a 5% chlorine solution for 20 minutes, and then rinsing...

Setting up a new tank and I put some rocks and filter media from my other tanks in to help cycle but I just realized that even though I've always done it this way does the chlorine kill my beneficial bacteria? I always put tap water in and then conditioner in after I fill the water up.

So I located the spec sheet for our local tap water. It appears that they use Chlorine but they also list some other Chlorine compounds. I noticed that API Water Conditioner has a dose rate that is much higher for Chloramine vs Chlorine. Would I be able to use the Chlorine dose rate give the...

Hi All, I have just started with my first aquarium with few golden fishes. After few weeks I saw some fungal infection on one of my fish for which shopkeeper suggested to change complete water with ( anti-clorine + blue medicine + green medicine ) , I tried that but due to this one of my...

Hi everyone! I have a new tank which has 12 Neons 5 Salt and Pepper Corys and a male Betta in. The tank is rougly 18gallons (though I live in the UK so its 70 litres). I've been using the JBL proscan test strips and app. I've always had really reliable results and my local aquarium shop...

Hi Guys,   I have drained my tank completely in preparation for converting it from Tropical to marine. However the whole thing is covered in rock hard coralline algae. It is 450L so a vinegar bath is not really an option and razer blades aren't helping at all. What should I do? Please help me...