Water Testing Questions & Other Randoms

[h4hapoo]

I'm so sick of the rain and gloomy clouds i am ready to relocate!! I am jealous you have 80's and sunnyWhere does your brother live must be in New england somewhere! Oliver is your son? How old?
I found my ammonia yippee!!!

 

[waterdrop]

Where'd you find your ammonia? What brand? Congrats!

Brother in West Roxbury section. How 'bout you? The "O" is 12, how old are "A" and "C"?

~~waterdrop~~

 

[h4hapoo]

At a grocery store hannafords and its hannafords brand 9.25%! So the cycle will begin!!

I live in Townsend, MA its about a hour or so from boston about 20 minutes from Nashua, NH and 45 minutes from worchester. Its a nice small town but not to small. (i do sometimes miss the faster pace of city). C is 10 and A is 5. Time quickly passes huh?

 

[waterdrop]

oh yeah, I think I've seen Hannafords when I've been up there. Is it a very widespread chain, do you know?

Yeah, miss some younger days of walking down mass aaavv finding food, its a great city (you look to be significantly out of the fuss!)

WD

 

[h4hapoo]

I think that hannafords is a growing chain seems like they are spreading out. They took over victory markets a few years ago.
Yes mass ave. oh did you grow up in MA? Boston is a great city! always somewhere new to eat! I love watching phantom gourmet to hear about a gem to eat at! I am out of the fuss which on most levels better for my kids but not so much for me! When we moved her i couldn't sleep for 3 months it was so eerily silent!

 

[Yanks15]

Not to butt in but...... waterdrop, we had at least two Hannafords in and around Raleigh a few years ago but they pulled out. Harris Teeter took over their stores. It was a pretty nice market. It's too bad they left. It might have been a little too far south for their distribution.

 

[waterdrop]

haha, not not from Boston, just used to crash on my brother's dorm floor... now that I think of it I guess I've never had time to check out the Boston fish shops (he's still there) but I should take time to do that - I suppose there might be a couple good ones left around there.

Smoke, its looking like you're in CH!

~~waterdrop~~

 

[Yanks15]

I have spent plenty of time in CH. I'm a pretty big TarHeel honk We've seen our fair share of football and baseball games. A friend of mine is a member of the Rams Club so we get to see some FB. My family is into baseball so we went to plenty of games at Boshamer this year, especially after the renovation. Unfortunately they didn't make it as far in the World Series as I thought they would. I'm planning on getting season tickets for next year ( if the economy doesn't kill my business first )

Do you attend the school ? My son plans on applying after next year. He's a sophomore in HS.

 

[h4hapoo]

Waterdrop is your brother into fish too? Dorm floor huh that must have been comfortable!

 

[waterdrop]

Haha, no my brother didn't want tanks because I had them! And yes, I'm at the school and yes, I've got one headed in to college just like you smoke, and my younger one has kept up with all the baseball games too - pretty exciting until the end!

 

[h4hapoo]

Typical of brother's and sister's! either they want what you had just cause its yours or they want nothing to do with it cause you like it! IT's a no win!

 

[waterdrop]

How is Cassidy's fishless cycle going?

~~waterdrop~~

 

[h4hapoo]

So far so good ammonia is at 3 and nitrites are off the chart. I dont understand how though! I dont know if it is because i had some bacteria from gravel and i kept pouring dirty water from other tank (when i did water changes) in while i looked for real ammonia?
I have the api test kit as i said before and on my ammonia test goes from 4 ppm to 8 ppm. so how will i know if it is at exactly 5? will it give me a shade between the color?
also know one should by ammonia from hannafords it is not right and thankfully caught it right before i put it in tank. I have decided that i will not have my mom help with fish at all first over feeding then bought wrong ammonia! thank god i checked the label. I did find some at true value a few towns over and they had blue ribbon which i saw on here that someone else had used it.
My mom did save my tank last night i was gone to cape for shower and we had a hail storm and lost power. so she came running over for me poured water in to make sure filter stayed wet and unplugged filter (needs water to be poured in to prime) then when power came on she came back and got them started.

 

[h4hapoo]

So started fishless cycle on Cassidys on Thursday night.
tonight ammonia hit .25 should have checked this morning but had to go into work early and spaced it. But even though i let it get to low its progress and added more ammonia! Nitrites have been through the roof since sunday

 

[waterdrop]