cr0wley

At first I thought that a fan had blown some animal hair in, upon closer inspection they wiggle around here and there. I THINK that they're detritus worms, could anyone confirm/give advice on dealing with them? I know they're not harmful, I believe that they popped up because of moving some planted substrate over from an established tank to this newer one.

Hi everyone, I'm basically looking for a good hob filter for my 20g that is currently cycling with a sponge filter. I was heavily considering one of the Marineland wide filters rated for 20g, but I think I'd like to overfilter slightly for safety's sake. Are there any other decent 20-40g hobs that are cheap, roomy, and customizable like the Marineland 20g?

Yup, I understand that, was only using it because of the emergency on hand. I use tap water with prime, and added crushed coral, as adf's like higher PH.

Thankfully have not lost any stock due to this, fish that had a bit of red gills are looking great now, also dosed seachem stress guard.

Hey there, thanks to everyone that chimed in, I ended up doing a small 15% wc in my 5 gallon tank with the RO water until a local pet shop opened up, scrounged up some car change and grabbed a tiny bottle of Prime. Crisis averted.....for now.

Chlorine test strips on a multi strip are showing no chlorine as well. I think I pretty much have to try it at this point, I will report back once they've had some time to sit.

Here's the water source parameter page for the city, it looks like it only lists chlorine and not chloramine. Am I correct in assuming that as long as I aerate/evaporate the chlorine out, I should be good?

Hi there, broke as hell until next week and noticed an ammonia spike in one of my tanks. Normally I use Prime or Aqua Essentials for wcs, but all I've got available currently is an RO system. Can I use the RO water warmed to room temp for this emergency? I tested the RO with chlorine strips, was showing 0 chlorine.

Moved the previous ghost shrimp and kuhlis over to the community tank, got a pair of ADFs. One hides generally, the other is all over checking stuff out. I've had them for about 2 weeks now, they both seem to be eating, but one is a tad skinny. I'm afraid of overfeeding considering the volume of the tank. What is the absolute best way to ensure that they get food? I've been tweezerfeeding them small bits of freeze dried tubifex and they both appear to eat it when placed in front of them. Really enjoying these little guys though, goofy behavior and personalities. Also planning on superglueing some mesh over the light gap in the tank lid, as you can see right now I just have cardboard laid across the gap.

It's a very Rolling Stones thing to request the star of the video to be 1/8 their age lmao.

I've been on a thrashy kick lately. Have been listening to a lot of Megadeth, Slayer, and Vektor lately. Also have been listening to a bit of Pantera and The Butthole Surfers. https://www.last.fm/user/cr0wley_

All of the other kuhlis and the ghost shrimp I moved over to the 10g have been doing just fine. I'm really perplexed by what could have happened. I sifted through all of the substrate and found a dead shrimp, but absolutely no sign or skeleton of the 4th kuhli. The aquarium isn't very immature, its been running for about 6 months with just snails in it.

I fed heavily last week, vacuum gravelled it up and did a few wcs. I moved all of the critters out to my 10g for now, looked through the substrate and under everything and could not find a body. Going to let the tank just go for a week or two to process the excess and then move them back over.

Hi there, a couple of weeks ago I got some ghost shrimp and a 4 kuhlis for my 5 gallon. I haven't seen the 4th kuhli in a few days, and today woke up to a bit of a stinky tank and an ammonia spike. Is it very possible that it could've died under the substrate or have been eaten by the shrimp/snails after death? I'm a bit puzzled by this. I've read that kuhlis can disappear for a while, but the ammonia spike leads me to believe that something happened.

Ah, I was under the understanding that with larger tanks like the 40g breeder, that the weight is all distributed to the frame. If you look at the closeups of the shelving, timestamped, you see that the actual supports for the shelf is on the edges and corners.

Hi there, so I recently realized that I have enough space in my room to accommodate 2x 40g breeders. I was looking around and heard that a few people have had success with Home Depot-esque industrial storage shelves. I came across this online; https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hirsh-Industries-36-W-x-18-D-x-60-H-4-Shelf-Iron-Horse-Freestanding-Shelves-Black-and-Gray/182662914?from=/search and noticed that this shelf looks more durable due to the multiple layers of steel on the arms, versus cheaper units with only 1 layer of steel on the arms. Does anyone have experience with something like this? If so, please chime in.

Nps!

Yes, I've mentioned in the posts that I've been using API Aqua Complete which is their Prime.

Of course lol.

Yup, I plan on it. Since my nitrites are zero this time it looks like its starting to come around. I have some bottled bacteria that should be delivered Monday for a final kickstart.

Current params are 6.4 ph, 0.5-1.0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 20-30 nitrates. It looks like its starting to swing around.

I'll get current tests up later tonight, have been insanely busy and distracted. I did notice that it looks like a bacterial bloom in the tank, is that a good thing now?

Gotcha. Thanks guys.

What I realized is that I had gotten complacent with the tank after it had been set up for a while. I slowed way down on wcs, was doing mostly topoffs, and not gravel vaccing once the aquarium became fully established. I know I messed up by not maintaining wcs and cleaning teh debris of nitrites/nitrates.