Bettakeeper86

I am in need of some information, I have searched many forums and can’t seem to get a straight answer. I will be moving soon to an area with soft unstable water. PH 6.4/ KH 1dkh/ GH 2dgh, and I have never delt with soft water before. I will be looking at about 400 gallons worth of tanks in my fish room and 600 gallons of pond. I have mostly fish that need a ph of 7.4 and higher. I have watched the co-op videos and am aware that I need to use crushed coral. My questions are as follows: Question 1) Where could I get bulk supply of CC as I will need about 100 lbs? Question 2) About how long before adding my fish into the tanks should I wait for the PH/KH/GH to raise and become stable? Question 3) Upon doing water changes, will the parameters change and could it be harmful to my fish? Question 4) I saw that CC raise PH and KH but not so much GH. Do I need to add in wonder shell as well? Question 5) This will be the first time for me having a pond. How should I approach using CC in my pond or should I?

Thank you, I didn’t know that plecos got caught in the nets.

Thank you

Thank you for the info. I will definitely share my progress as I go.

I am trying to put together a shopping list and would like to know what my best options would be in regards to the aquarium co-op nets. I am building an out door fish room with a 110 gallon pond ( moderate to heavy planted), a 20 long quarantine tank, a 20 long breeding tank ( moderate planted), two 10 gal grow out tanks, and two 5 gal tanks. I plan on keeping bristle nose plecos, corydoras, guppies, rosy red minnows, and cherry shrimp. I know that there are many factors that are involve such as fish size, tank size, volumes of plants, and I am a little lost on which nests might be best. Also would the nano net work for brine shrimp?

I put some Amazon Frogbit in the tank.

I have top fin bacteria starter. My lfs told me to use seachem stability as well, but I’m worried about use a lot of chemicals.

Yes I already have the pea puffer. I think when the snails started breeding it sent the ammonia way up. The tank is almost 2 months running

I think we made a mistake. I set up a pea puffer tank. Once it was cycled, My wife and I added a couple of adult snails, in order to start a small colony. That way there would be food for the puffer once I got it. I left them in too long and now my water perimeters are off. 0.25 Ammonia, 0.25 Nitrite, 20 Nitrate. I have changed out the water 200%. Still nothing changed. I have hundreds of baby snails and I can’t get them all out. Every day they are creating more ammonia. What should I do?

Thank you I will check them out

Does anyone have any information or resources for setting up an out door fish room? I live in Texas and the weather is all over the place. Temperature ranges from the 30’s to over 100, sometimes within just a day or two. I plan on building a small pond but for now just a few tanks.

Do you have any information or resources for setting up an out door fish room? I live in Texas and the weather is all over the place. Temperature ranges from the 30’s to over 100, sometimes within just a day or two. I plan on building a small pond but for now just a few tanks.

I just put in an order for easy green. What the best way to dose the tank.

Should I cut the light down a few hrs, and see if it comes up a little.

1 adolescent Galaxy koi Plakat, and 1 adolescent rams horn snail, I feed frozen blood worms, frozen brine shrimp, live mosquito larvae, and pellets that I substitute when I’m out of when out of particular food.

The tank is about 3 months old. Normally I run at 5 ppm. I test Wednesday and Saturday. My test was at 5 ppm nitrate on Wednesday. Today Ph at 7.8, KH at 4, GH at 5, nitrite at 0 ppm, ammonia at 0ppm, nitrate at 0 ppm. Temp at 80* I also give the tank 10 hrs light with a Finnex Stingray 12”. Some but little algae on the glass, no algae anywhere else. The plants I have are 3 anubias sp, 1 pot lilaeopsis, 1/2 pot alternanthera reineckii, and 1 pot pearl weed.

My nitrate levels dropped to zero. I use API leaf zone. I have a 3 gallon tank, moderately planted. I’m new to planted tanks, and was told to keep my levels low, but I have also read that a certain level of nitrates are needed. Honestly I’m confused as to what I’m supposed to do.

First question. I’m starting to get small patches of hair algae on my plant that are at the top of my tank, no algae anywhere else. What can I do to keep it from spreading? No pics of algae. second question. My alternanthea reineckii is long and stemmy, how can I make it more bushy?

What is an acceptable range of ammonia? My tank is currently at 0.25 ppm. Should I do a water change? All other perimeters are perfect.

Yes, that’s exactly the problem I was having.

I have a Galaxy Koi Plakat (Betta).

I’m having trouble determining the high range PH. To me it appears to be 7.4, but could also be 7.8. Can someone please help?

Closest big box store is 15min. Closest LFS 30min w/out traffic, 1hr with traffic.