Your current Fish tank Setups!

Ace Modder · 5 Feb 2017 at 09:42

Here is the results from my tapwater.

And here are the results from my tank this morning

I have just done another 15% water change.

Malt_Vinegar · 5 Feb 2017 at 10:39

That's a high nitrate reading for tap water. Have you give the tester bottles a good shake before you took the tests?

Also, I think you need to do high range PH as it's off the normal scale.

NoobCannon · 5 Feb 2017 at 10:55

Thats an outragous reading for tap water. Looks like 80ppm on my phone.

Your ammonias much better, goldfish are dirt machines so without overfiltering or a huge tank i honestly dont expext you to get it to 0.

Also goldfish could seemingly survive in toxic waste.

Just keep up with the water changes for a few more days and see if you can get the levels any lower your doing the right thing

Ace Modder · 5 Feb 2017 at 11:14

When I did a high level ph test it was at the second, so the ph level is at 7.7

with my tap water being so high with nitrate, is that a major issue for me? the tap water was between 20-40.
And yes I did the shakes/drops by the book.

NoobCannon · 5 Feb 2017 at 11:23

No, Some nitrate is good 20-40 ppm is fine looks higher on phone and obviously you wont ever get it lower as thats what your base levels are.

Ace Modder · 5 Feb 2017 at 11:45

So I pretty much just need to cycle daily until my nitrite levels are down.

NoobCannon · 5 Feb 2017 at 11:50

Yes nitrite and ammonia are the main ones to get as low as poss. Pref 0

V F · 5 Feb 2017 at 14:30

Impressive looking through peoples setups several pages back and all their backup equipment. Batteries and such. Wish I had all this information when I was into this in 96 - 2002.

LizardKing · 5 Feb 2017 at 22:07

New Betta, the picture really does him no justice, he's a shiny almost oil like silver with hues of red and blue depending on the angle/light.

Currently has a few ember tetra to keep him company and so far there all pretty tame, we shall see though!

Unicorn · 5 Feb 2017 at 23:42

New tank settling well, all fish very happy. Swordtails pregnant again so more babies to try fight for there lives.

Noticed iv been dosing just over double easy carbo for a week, Oops! I know double is safe and harmless to fish/plants but as iv got Cherry red shrimp they get quite irritated by it and often do die. Iv been dosing my nano at 2x for a year without issue although its a lot more heavily planted in comparison and has a thick carpet going on now and iv about 50-100 crs in there alive and happy. Probably going to cut back and slowly ramp back up to 1.5x over 2 weeks to avoid also melting my vals off

Best of luck with the betta

I miss mine but he was agressive towards everything so im glad hes gone at times too

Things change I've changed · 16 Feb 2017 at 22:57

Got some balloon mollys from pets at home, three days later and two of them have pop eye, the temp is good and the water parameters are absolutely perfect? I did some research online and a lot of people seem to say they need salt water to thrive really?

theaterix · 16 Feb 2017 at 23:57

Recently setup my discus tank

Got some REAAALLY high quality fish from Chens Discus, best place to go

arc@css · 17 Feb 2017 at 01:07

lowrider007 said:
Got some balloon mollys from pets at home, three days later and two of them have pop eye, the temp is good and the water parameters are absolutely perfect? I did some research online and a lot of people seem to say they need salt water to thrive really?

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/BrackishSubWebIndex.htm

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/mollies.htm

Things change I've changed · 17 Feb 2017 at 10:54

arc@css said:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/BrackishSubWebIndex.htm

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/mollies.htm

That is a fantastic article, seems mollys are definitely a little misunderstood and harder to keep than your arrive community fish.

NoobCannon · 25 Feb 2017 at 12:48

Havent checked if this aloud (cant see why not) but am upgrading my RO unit

Current one is 50 gallons per day and being replaced with 150 gpd unit as bigger reef tank now.

Obviously 50 gpd one is going spare so if anyones after one and wants to collect it
From essex to save it going in the bin next week they more than welcome.

Its a 4 stage unit with a di resin filter just made 100ltrs of ro and it came out at 4tds so still good (i dont replace resin untill it gets to 10tds)

Malt_Vinegar · 26 Feb 2017 at 09:36

Not selling, so should be fine

Robzere31 · 26 Feb 2017 at 09:47

The downside of letting your 6 & 10 year old nieces name your fish, my 2 year old Red tailed black shark is now called Barry

Penfold99 · 26 Feb 2017 at 21:15

I am waiting on my new 425litre to be delivered and I am still undecided on which substrate to get for my planted tank, I keep looking at the Eco complete, but I can see this getting very expensive as I will need a lot of bags.

Keep seeing the Black Diamond Blasting Sand come up on the US forums, cant seem to find anywhere in the UK for this?

What would you guys recommend?

NoobCannon · 26 Feb 2017 at 21:27

I keep reading of people using potting soil for planted tanks mixed with a bit of pea gravel.

Makes sense to me.

b0rn2sk8 · 26 Feb 2017 at 21:38

Got my tank 'dirted' couldn't bring myself to spend £75 on Eco Complete. Small bag of cheap potting soil from Wilko and capped it with some black gravel I got off ebay. You just need to pick out the sticks, use a colander or something to pull them out.

You only want to do a maximum of 1" of dirt with 1" of gravel on top. I would do 0.5-0.75" my self and leave a channel at the front and sides so you don't have to look at it. If want to boost the iron you can put some clay in the bottom, you don't need much, just use little pea sized balls.

The down side to 'dirting' is if you pull up a plant it makes one hell of a mess. You have to do it really carefully.

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