Equestrian to aquarium

One more question ,hope you don’t mind , when you quarantine new fish how long do you watch them before adding to your main tank and do you run like quarantine trio through them first or anything. , I would never bring home a new horse with out a vet check ,worming and shots all up to date . No fish vet check , what is your procedure? Thanks

Okay i have my confidence back, Thank you

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Thank you , I will look into fritzyme, this time around I’m in no hurry will let it cycle a couple weeks. I suppose if I’m buying fish from the area all of Minnesota has hard water, and dumped them in spring water ,maybe shocked the poor babies, I will figure this out ,just need a place to start Thanks again

So 300 or over GH doesn’t scare you ? Just treat with prime and start the tank running , no additional stuff ?

Well truth be told I bought spring water treated it with prime and added fish after only 2 days of cycling with stability ,and still lost a few fish

Sorry just figured this is how you reply , please check my posting on water parameters , thanks

Thanks , i have read they like hard i have an API test kit it reads P.H 7.2 high range 7.8 ammonia 0.25 nitrite 0 ppm nitrate o ppm i only have a tetra easy strip test for GH so not sure i trust it I will order API’s kit for GH but paper strip saying very hard 300 or higher so that scared me a little. I have a 10 gallon now i keep 7 guppies in so I’m in no hurry to get fish in the 36 gallon tank trying to figure the best way to start cycling the tank. Thank you. All input super appreciated!

Hi, I am new to fish keeping ,but like everything else I find so many different answers to the same question. So come to you for advise. I’m setting up a 36 gallon tank for guppies. I have hard water form a well but live on sandy soil so PH is not bad, Ive read some people will buy a RO system and use half and half water to solve this. Then Ive read about adding the different chemicals to tank or filter pellets etc....to change your GH. would love to hear what has worked for everyone. Thanks so much Sandi