Chewyrat77

I currently have 10 mollies/platies/variatus in my 125 with a dwarf gourami. Do you think it's a big enough tank to get away with adding one or two more gouramis?

Anyone have tips or tricks they use to keep small fish from being extracted through the water changer? Never had to worry about this with african cichlids. Lol

No live plants but your absolutely right, I could do away with one. I love how clean and polished my water stays though. Lol. I just picked up some pvc fitting on my way to work so I'll see what I can do with those. Maybe having larger openings with reduce the flow enough since it wont be coming through those tapered tips

Yeah I thought about doing that but don't really want to. Two fx4s on a 125g and wanting to add a betta in with my mollies/platies/variatus. Lol. Not sure if I'll be able to reduce flow enough. Switched from african cichlids to livebearers is the reason for all the filtration. Maybe the 10g QT is a better place for the betta but I dont want to be pumping meds through him all the time as my 125 isn't fully stocked yet

I'm looking to reduce the output flow

I've seen suggestions of putting a spray bar in or placing an intake sponge filter over the outputs on an fx4. What do you guys think of placing a piece of sponge or coarse filter pad inside of the output nozzle to reduce the flow?

What do you think about putting a piece of sponge or something on the inside of the return nozzle?

It's a 10g tank, brand new carbon. It was a bag of carbon that came with an old filter that I never used. I cut it open and put half (roughly a small handful) into a mesh bag I had and saved the other half.

How long does it take carbon to remove meds?

Sorry I meant to put that they where NOT red like an open sore.

I have a 10g QT tank with mollies, platies, variatus and one dwarf gourami. I noticed after about a week of the gourami being in there that a few of the other fish where picking at his head on both sides and then he developed white patches that looked basically like sores starting to develop but was red like an open sore. I placed the gourami in a breeder box to isolate him from the nipping and stress. He is now healed up. Do you think this could be because of only being in a 10g tank with not much cover and this will subside after they all get moved to the 125g with a decent amount of cover/plants?

Well there's alot going on. I got fish for the QT before it was done cycling so I'm dosing daily with seachem safe daily. Plus I'm in the middle of a bacterial bloom. Before the bloom I had one fish starting to get ich so I started the med trio. Did all three meds because I figured I might as well if I'm going to do one. Havent had any deaths yet and starting this weekend I will begin the second round of general cure. Saturday will be the two weeks between first treatment. Thoughts?

How should I go about moving fish from QT which has a current ph of about 6.4 to my main tank that has a ph of about 8.2?

Will adding Fritz Zyme 7 help anything if my aquarium is already having a decent bacterial bloom?

What are your guys opinion on gravel vacuuming during a fish in cycle? Do or Don't?

Any tips for keeping a tank cycled while there are no fish. It's a 125g and there is one bristlenose pleco but I removed 10 cichlids and I want keep my bio load capacity high

That's kinda the same thing I'm wondering but with ich I would treat the 75 since cysts could have fallen off and when they rupture you'll have more ich. Can only kill it while it's in the water column

Thanks. Any insight on post I sent Cory above about my quarantine process?

Ok. Thanks Nice to hear from you. Just got my order 10 minutes ago. Excited to put this usb air pump on my QT tank so the 125 can have its pump back. How would you go about this QT process? I have one bristlenose pleco in my 125g that has been with african cichlids that I never quarantined. I now have a 10g QT tank with mollies/platies/variatus and one dwarf gourami. I'm already several weeks into deworming and treating for any possible bacterial infections and I should have included the pleco. The only thing I suspect the bristlenose could have is internal parasites so do you think I can just swap the fish in the two tanks when the QT process is done on the 10g or could there be internal parasites still alive in the water column?

Yeah. It's a 125g with one one bristlenose pleco. Lol. I recently sold my african cichlids and I'm doing a community tank. I have mollies and one dwarf gourami in QT right now. Want to add more substrate before adding the new fish.

When adding more gravel to an existing gravel in an established aquarium should I use the dechlorinator on the water in my bucket during the final rinse or just add it to the aquarium?

I tested water today half way through my med trio in QT tank. The ph tested at 7.4 and everything else fine. My main tank runs at 8.2 to 8.4 always. Anyone had the med trio lower there ph?

In the main tank when there are no fish or the bristlenose in there? I'm going to put the bristlenose in with the new fish once I start the med trio

Would you just treat the main tank for the suspected internal parasites or do a round of erythromycin too?

Ok. I might do that. Ouch on the wallet, it's a 125g. Your probably right though I was just trying to avoid that.