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  1. Thats what I'm doising but its stubborn a couple days without spots then I stop dosing and it comes back
  2. I got in some cardinal tetras that did fine through a 2 week quarentine then when we put them in the tank we had for them we noticed these spots show up ive dosed the med trio as the packaging said for over a week with no change. They are eating and active and being kept at about 80°f with agressive bubbles from an airstone in a 15 gallon tank with tiger Lilly and cryps and katapa leaves. 8 cardnals in all. Any advice?
  3. Does anyone have a favorite brand or good store to look other than Amazon for Rock wool to stock pots and grow put clippings? Alot of what I have found online seems to be more for insulation and less for plant pots
  4. Thats kind of what we were thinking its unfortunate but it happens. Moving forward wed like to have more rummy nose. But if we need to change our meds or something wed like to know before we get and potentially loose more
  5. So we are looking for some advice. We got a batch of fish from our local store a few days ago. We got 3 panda corys, a bristlenose pleco, 4 mollies, and 6 rummy nose tetras. We used an open 55 gal tank to quarentine and a cycled sponge filter from another tank. We treated with copper safe, ick ex, Melafix, copper safe, maracyn oxy, and aquarium salt as the lables said to. The first 48hrs things were fine but ick ex calls for a 2nd dose after 48 hours 12 hours after the 2nd dose the rummy nose started dying off so we threw the ones that were left into an unmedicated tank and we've lost all but one so far does anyone know if it sounds like we did something wrong or if maybe it was a weak batch of fish? Everything else is still in the medicated tank and we have started carbon filtration on it to slowly remove meds but everything else seems to be doing fine. Does anyone have any advice or input on what happened?
  6. Has anyone used Melafix successfully to treat cyanobacteria? Ive used erythromycin before but its seeming to be harder to find. I have a small patch starting and I'm trying to find treatment options people have used and liked in the past. I do plan on manually removing what I can see. But id like a water treatment to help ensure it wont come back
  7. @Liz hey in sorry my reply is so late life got crazy after I went back to work. So we tried the aragonite in a 75 gallon tank. We used way less than recommended and it raised the gh to 10 and the kh to 14. We also used it on a 30 gallon tank and I'm pretty sure we used a pound a gallon or so and it raised to gh 10 and kh of 12. Both tanks have organic potting soil substrate with a play sand cap and some plants and some driftwood. And we just added the aragonite to the top layer of substrate
  8. I mean I'm a planted tank guy. So id say that. I think it looks really cool and I also think it will be alot less work overall. You should be able to throw tetras and stuff like that in with the live bearers too. Thats a big tank and could support alot of fish but if you are a big fish person then by all means. As long as you are happy with it thats all that matters at the end of the day
  9. @Brandy thanks for the input I went ahead and flooded it I'll post pictures tomorrow I appreciate the effort
  10. Ok I posted this on the plant side but I havent gotten any replies. And I really need some advice, I'm doing a dry start on a 75 gallon tank and I'm noticing mold start on the wood and gravel.. Should I leave it or maybe flood it early or..? Anyone willing to help would be apreciated
  11. So I'm doing a dry start on my 75 gallon tank and today I noticed that its starting to mold on the driftwood and in the gravel.. What should I do.... Should I go ahead and flood it early? Does anyone have any advice
  12. So I'm doing a dry start on my 75 gallon tank and today I noticed that its starting to mold on the driftwood and in the gravel.. What should I do.... Should I go ahead and flood it early?
  13. There is always a variety of factors from water quality to the health of the fish when you first get it. But if you do some research quarantine and make sure they eat and go to the bathroom then in most cases you will be fine. Just make sure you know what kind of chemistry your fishes need and what they do amd don't go well with (and on the topic of chemistry I wouldn't chase numbers too much when it comes to ph and hardness steady parameters seem to do better than ones that fluctuate too much)
  14. Over all safety all depends on what the rock is made out of. If it's a rock with heavy metals then it may have some negative affects long term. Also everything I've seen online warns to check for pyrite as it can leach copper and acids into the tank. But as long as its inert rock rinsed and boiled you should be ok. That being said it being sharp is really more of an issue if the fish you want to use it with are the kind that dig or live on the bottom. Somewhat rough gravel shouldn't be much of an issue for middle and top dwelling fish or things like shrimp
  15. So we are trying to raise our gh and kh and we are using something called aragonite (we picked it up from petco) our ph is pretty high already out of the tap (high 7's) but its been a few days and it's time to test water today (its been 3 or 4 days since we put it in) we will let you know what we find out. Not sure what your tank looks like as far as scape and whatever but the stuff we got basically looks like semi fine white sand. Everything we saw online said to use about a pound per gallon or so. If it works for us maybe it will help you out too
  16. If you try it make sure there is a check valve for each pump ie: pump a check valve pump b check valve t tubing sponge filter. Otherwise one pump could just be pushing air through the other pump backwards and not letting air into the tank. Other than that you should be fine. Also every time I change anything with my air pumps or tubing that causes me to touch the check valves I will blow air through them both ways. I notice the cheaper ones can get to where they dont let much airflow through and that will just make your pumps work harder and wear out faster
  17. Neons shouldn't be too bad. They're not great for the "fish bowl" mindset. In my opinion. I've tried cardinals in the past and from what I've seen neons are a fair deal easyer. If you just want different kinds of fish that arnt too hard to do I think neons would be good. Green eyed tetras. White cloud minnows and all that should work out ok. If you search long enough you will find someone who didn't do the research or take care of the tank as a whole and then say whatever fish is hard to keep. Breeding neons can be a pain. But just to have from what I've seen they arnt too bad. All that being said I don't think cardinals are too bad either I think we just got a sickly batch. But even if they are similar in difficulty neons are a bit cheaper per fish from what I've seen.
  18. Thanks for the input.. I'm no stranger to plants not flourishing first try. But I did want to try to avoid something potentiality obvious that I managed to overlook like ohh no plant a needs super hard water and lots of flow but plant b only does well in soft low flow type of a thing. But as always I love hearing back from others.
  19. If you are looking for new tanks and you dont want to go the used rout and want just standard tanks our petco is doing the dollar a gallon sale till jan30ish up to 29 gallons and had much bigger tanks for half off too. Not too sure if the sale is nation wide at the moment but I would geuss that it is.. Good luck lol. We picked up a 29 a 20L and a 10 for under 100
  20. If it does really bother you there are a good few videos on line. Especially by serpadesign on how to re do the silicone and stuff like that. I think the king of diy does some too
  21. You could also look at doing an over top diy sump (lots of videos on how to and pretty cheap) you could build your own. Or a few days ago chewy (the online pet store) was running massive sales on canisters (I dont think Cory would mind canisters so much if they were priced alot better lol) I got one rated for a 30 gal tank for 30 dollars those arnt on sale right now but on chewy.com or the app theres a marineland 360 gph canister for about $115 and a 220 gph for about 85. Theres alot of diy canisters online too if you. Or you could drill the tank if you really wanted to and do a sump
  22. We raised shrimp with ours and did have a bit of a problem with the duckweed getting in the skimmer at first. But there is a controll dial that worked well for us that basically put all the flow to the underwater intake not the skimmer, we also used nylon stockings (panty hose) and a small plastic zip tie to keep any small fish shrimps or snails out of the filter, there would be some that managed their way in from time to time, but that was usually when the water was high in the tank we think they were climbing in the outflow instead of getting sucked up through the inlet. I will say the maintenance peg on the lid stuck a little bit so you have to kind of watch out for that. But it was a really sturdy and quiet filter. Well worth the money in my opinion. I haven't tried out too many other hob filters but I'll take one of those over anything that has a cartridge system any day
  23. OI dont have alot of experiences with all of those plants. However the research ive done over the years would suggest that youve done the right thing so far. I do have two peices of advice though. One, for the shrimp I had great results using shrimp kings food (I got the trial pack that came with something like 5 different foods and id just rotate between them for every feeding) I was also using bacter ae and that stuff was awsome. Its a powdered bio film that may help in your situation. The same company that makes the bacter ae also makes mineral tab things that my shrimp loved. Fluval bug bites (shrimp or small fish) was another favorite for my shrimp as well as boiled zucchini. Hopefully that helps your shrimp begin to thrive a bit better. For the plants i don't have lots of personal experiences with crypts or bruce but what I've seen online (and I think I watch more aquarium themed youtube videos than I do regular tv lol) pretty much all agree on one thing. Do what you can. Then have patience. Everyone who loves to plant their tanks wants the plants to look great as soon as they can. But these things take time. And at the end of the day part of the beauty of this hobie, especially with a planted tank is the fact that this stuff doesn't work out every time. But it will put you on top of the world when it does. Keep your chin up take a deep breath or two and I'm sure that in the end it will all work out. The refund sounds like it was a good plus too. Sorry that was so long winded and I hope it helps out.
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