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  1. mgudyka
    Thank You friend
  2. mgudyka
    That was my biggest concern. Four weeks of seeding!!!
  3. mgudyka
    I hope so! Thank you very the input
  4. mgudyka
    I did have the fritz zyme on hand and I performed a water change after the filter was up and running for a little. I will test my water and swap some substrate from my established tank. I have a fluval 306
  5. mgudyka
    Well this is a brand new tank that I installed a seeded filter onto but never ran for 48 hours. If I do have any saving grace, the bacteria was kept wet the whole time. The filter is still running thankfully
  6. mgudyka
    That is a great idea. I forgot i had fritz zyme 7 (bought it when I started seeding this filter) so I have added it. I did a water change and treated with fritz ACCR. Thank you for the input.
  7. mgudyka
    Well you guys, I done messed up. I seeded my new tank's filter on my cycled tank for four weeks. I transferred and installed the filter outlet and inlets in the tank. I installed the canister in the cabinet beneath the tank. I spent a couple hours acclimating my fish to my water. Everything is awesome, right? Well in the transfer from cycled tank to new, I shut the valve when I moved it over so the water from the canister wouldn't spill. I never opened the valve back up. So from Saturday 8pm to today at 7pm, the filter has been plugged in but no water flowing through it. How big did I eff up here? Are all my bacteria just dead? I am devastated at my own stupidity. I only have 5 fish in this 75 gallon (2 small electric blue acaras, two 8 ish inch rope fish, and one marble sailfin pleco). What do?
  8. mgudyka
    Hi all, I have been seeding a canister filter on my cycled tank for a couple of weeks now (can't remember if 3 or 4 now). My husband and I are going to be making a 6 hour total trek to pick up the fish I plan on stocking my new tank in. Right now this tank does not have any fish, just some plants and whatever hitchhikers came with them. If I transfer the seeded filter before we go, I don't think there will be anything for the bacteria to consume and I don't want them to die. Is it best to wait until we have returned with the fish to install the seeded filter?
  9. mgudyka
    Well I am glad i didn't put it in my prized 29 gallon and just in my 75. They won't have anything to eat so hopefully they will die
  10. mgudyka
    Ok that's horrifying. Time to reach out to the place I bought the plants!
  11. mgudyka
    I found a worm in my 75 gallon tank. It only has plants so it came from one of two sources. Is it cool to feed to my fish in another tank?
  12. mgudyka
    Hi all, trying to figure out a mystery here! I have nerites, ramshorn, and bladder snails in my puffer tank. These don't look like the bladder snail clusters I have seen before so I am I think ruling them out. Whose eggs are these?
  13. mgudyka
    Did your otos look like this before they spawned? This one is plump compared to the others.
  14. mgudyka
    I just discovered I have seven otos. I can't begin to explain how confused I am. Maybe it's not the end of the world if they have some extra food.
  15. mgudyka
    Mine were hesitant at first but I left the chunk of cucumber in there for a couple days and they then figured it out. I sort of regret it because now they spend most of their day searching the substrate for like algae wafer remnants instead of eating algae like they used to hahaha
  16. mgudyka
    I am no expert but that must be a good sign! Unless it's gorging itself after having been starved. I hope your sickly one recovers!
  17. mgudyka
    I have read that otos are usually wild caught, not fed during transit, and are usually sickly and thin when they make it to the stores and could die pretty soon after being brought home. All six of mine have made it past their first milestone of one month with me. They love algae wafers and cucumber. I guess I should knock on wood so I don't come home to one dead when I get home from work. Enjoy a picture of one of my buddies enjoying cucumber
  18. mgudyka
    I am going to get a divider for sure and probably upgrade them to a bigger tank down the road.
  19. mgudyka
    Oh no. No I did not. Is it too late?!
  20. mgudyka
    Hi guys. I am a little worried about one of my two pea puffers. I have a plump one and a pretty lean one. The plump one will eat straight from my tweezers and the lean one seems much more shy/fearful of it so I have only ever seen the leaner one nibble on bloodworms. I am concerned the plump one is bullying the lean one. I have seen the plump guy chase the lean guy around and has chased it away from my tweezers when offering blood worms. I am offering frozen blood worms and live snails I have seen the leaner one hunt snails I think at least once. Right now the lean ones is just resting on a leaf. I placed a snail nearby and hoped it would pique their interest to no avail. If this guy is not eating, how do I help? Especially if it's not eating because of the other guy? Should I put the lean one in my gourami tank with red phantoms and otos to get away from the more aggressive one? I am concerned for its wellbeing
  21. mgudyka
    Alright folks, does this type of device exist? My pea puffer tank gets messy pretty quickly. I used to think I had a snail poop problem, but with my snail population at an all time low but this debris still running rampant, I am in need of a solution. I think my driftwood is like shedding or something. It's like wet sawdust at the base of the driftwood. I have no problem doing water changes with gravel vacuuming, but one change doesn't get everything no matter how hard I try. I am checking my water daily to make sure there is no ammonia or nitrites and nitrates are at a minimum and that hasn't been an issue. I don't want to upset my fish but draining and refilling my tank more than once in a single sitting. I just want to suck up all the garbage but keep my water. Does such a device exist?
  22. mgudyka
    Thank you, good thinking
  23. mgudyka
    Oh these guys are cute
  24. mgudyka
    Well dang. Who is the next best thing in the algae department?
  25. mgudyka
    I did not realize that siamese algae eaters were omnivorous. I wanted an algae eater that couldn't be accidentally eaten by the rope fish. I don't mind target feeding the rope fish though
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