JuliandAaron

Excellent tips thank you! Yes, I have watched the king of diy’s video and he’s pretty candid about the success being marginal, but it’s worth it to try I think. And better to do it now rather the forge ahead only to regret it later. It’s definitely going to take a lot of work but between the two of us each using their own drill I hope it can be accomplished on a Saturday. If we are even able to get out 50% it’s worth it. 🙃 However, it’s in the middle of our living room so I think we’ll have to put down some tarp so we contain the stuff. Thanks for pointing that out!

Hi there, yes thank you for taking some time to give feedback. ☺️ Yeah, I’ve watched some videos on YouTube and read some articles elsewhere. Here is the plan so far: use some glass polishing compound with cerium oxide and polishing attachments on our drills. I know we won’t be able to get the deep scratches out but as those are on the sides we’re not worried about those. The tricky thing will be getting all of it the compound out since it’s a 125 gallon. We will rinse it down as we are simultaneously siphon the water out. After that I want to fill the tank up and run our canister filter with carbon for about a week. I think that will ensure all the residue is out. If you have an suggestions with that I’d love to hear them.

Hi there, yes thank you for taking some time to give feedback. ☺️ Yeah, I’ve watched some videos on YouTube and read some articles elsewhere. Here is the plan so far: use some glass polishing compound with cerium oxide and polishing attachments on our drills. I know we won’t be able to get the deep scratches out but as those are on the sides we’re not worried about those. The tricky thing will be getting all of it the compound out since it’s a 125 gallon. We will rinse it down as we are simultaneously siphon the water out. After that I want to fill the tank up and run our canister filter with carbon for about a week. I think that will ensure all the residue is out. If you have an suggestions with that I’d love to hear them.

Hi all. Just got a used 125 galling glass tank and now that it’s all cleaned up I’m seeing a lot of tiny scratches. It almost looks like cobwebs or cotton candy. When I run my finger nail across them they are so shallow you can’t feel anything. Any suggestions on buffing them out? What’s worked for you in the past?

tank stats: 65 gallon, community tank, heavily planted, canister filter, plus power head for added current. ph: 7.5 Nitrates: 10 ppm Hardness: 300 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Ammonia: 0 ppm Kh: 120 ppm temp: 78 degrees fahrenheit We have about 10 orange fin danios and have had them for approximately 2 years. Over the last month or so I noticed ones body shape slowly changing. She swam and ate exactly like the others, and I thought it odd so I did some research but found nothing about it. And time went on. Yesterday I thought I was watching her and realized it was another one of the danios with a similar body distortion. This morning I found her and was shocked! She is completely distorted and has a bulging red sore in her stomach now. I never saw her because she was hiding and not swimming with the others. We added aquarium salt to the tank last week at 1 tsp per gallon since I didn’t know what to do yet but knew something was up. (Now my crypts are melting but that’s a topic for another time🙃) But that’s the only medicating we’ve done so far since we didn’t know what we’re were dealing with and salt is a good place to start. I caught her out this morning and she is in quarantine but I don’t know what I am dealing with or how to treat it. I suspect she is not one I can save and may euthanize her but I want to try to treat her first. But it’s spreading! Now I see 3 female danios with the same shape but she is the worst. None of the male danios look odd. None of the other fish are exhibiting symptoms.(rummy nose tetras, mollies, rasboras, a betta and some cory cats.) I have found nothing helpful on the internet, some people have posted similar issues on other forums but there was no information or resolution offered. Have any of you seen this before? If so how did you handle it?