Koi Fish Information Centre

Hi Joe welcome top the group!! glad to have you advised is always welcome.

Be careful of advise from your LFS… if they don’t even know what’s in your local water… or maybe you just got an ill-informed employee.
This thread has been trimmed too much but if I remember right, your FW tanks had a pH of 7.2… right? If your 48 hour baseline is only coming […]

Unless you are teetering on the edge of having enough oxygen in the tank to support the fish, which, from the video’s I saw you are not, there is nothing to worry about. Yes, live plants will take in O2 at night and release CO2 in turn, it is not normally enough to upset the […]

I skipped over DebR’s question earlier this morning (what the heck am I doing getting up at 4 AM when I can sleep late?). Algae is a primitive plant, probably the most primitive we are likely to see up close and personal. It is often the first plant to grow in aquaria, even if we […]

From what I’ve read on algae build up (as long as it’s the good algae build up which is greenish/brown) any amount of it is good, as it does the same thing your live plants would do when they clean the water by removing fish waste and all that. My betta […]

All the reports from the various suppliers around here will at least reference the use of chloramines, if not show an actual average measurement.
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I’ve been wondering why you have been waiting for the water people to reply.. The company or town department that supplies the water should have a web site, and on that web site should be the latest report available for public consumption that will tell you whether chloramines are used and a lot of other […]

I just started a new welding business in July. Talk about lying awake at night. Since then I have been looking in to companies who make off brands for big box stores. I havent bought a Marineland or Eheim since I found out about this. Petco brand filters are made by Penn […]

Someone did mention it as a base. If I am not going to place lighting right on top of the tank, plexi would make a nice cover, otherwise, I’d go with glass cut to my specs–one covering about 2/3 of the tank top with cutouts for airlines, filter, heater. And one about 1/3 to use […]

Bill,
You still have the chance of water spilled seeping under the Styrofoam, mo matter what form factor it comes in. You do also have that likelihood of just having a bare tank set on the wood surface. Face it, you are dealing with water in a container here. Sooner or later, the water will spill […]