My uncle is moving here to VA from New Hampshire. He picked up 7 tanks along the way. I’m not entirely sure he knows what he’s talking about with the sizes. Im sure he’s just saying whatever the sellers told him. From what I know, he’s got a 125, 180, a 60, a 40, 30, and a 20, and one I’m not sure about, maybe a 220? It’s really wide, really long, and maybe 18 inches tall. (Aka I want it). He’s ordered 24 or so koi (some of which are currently in MY pond) to spread between them while he and His family find, buy, and move into a house and dig their pond. Right now he’s living in a family members rental less than 15 minutes away from me and is having me help him with all the setup. We setup his 125 yesterday and I brought over some cycled filter media from my tanks to get him started. When he takes his koi from our pond we will give him some more. Anyways...
This is my thread to ask all of his questions! (and correct his mistakes lol) He kept aquariums back in the day, but a lot has changed. Considering I have so much influence over his decisions about what he buys, I have taken my role very seriously.
So my first couple of questions... He wants a nice canister filter for his 180. I was going to recommend the Fluval fx6?
He bought an “algae eater”. I pressed further and he said he thought they said it was a Chinese algae eater. I don’t known much about those?
I am proud of him, he bought an api freshwater master test kit and had me test the tap water first thing
There is .25 ppm ammonia coming out of the tap. I told him it was fine, but when he needed to do large water changes it would be best to spread it out over two days, like 35% each day instead of 70% in one day. Was that good advice?
This is my thread to ask all of his questions! (and correct his mistakes lol) He kept aquariums back in the day, but a lot has changed. Considering I have so much influence over his decisions about what he buys, I have taken my role very seriously.
So my first couple of questions... He wants a nice canister filter for his 180. I was going to recommend the Fluval fx6?
He bought an “algae eater”. I pressed further and he said he thought they said it was a Chinese algae eater. I don’t known much about those?
I am proud of him, he bought an api freshwater master test kit and had me test the tap water first thing
There is .25 ppm ammonia coming out of the tap. I told him it was fine, but when he needed to do large water changes it would be best to spread it out over two days, like 35% each day instead of 70% in one day. Was that good advice?
