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It’s time to start churnin’ and burnin’ them fossil fuels again or we might bring on another ice age… with all this global warming hysteria. Vrooom… Vrooom.. cranking up my quad-cab V-8 truck now and I’ll leave it idling in the driveway till your snow melts!
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It’s the bacteria in solution that I was concerned about. How long does it take for it to get a good foothold in the gravel and biomax?
I’ll go check and see if the extra tip will stay put on the end of the […]

No. As long as the salt is added slowly in the first step to prevent the fish and/or bacteria from going into shock, then they should be fine… at least up to the 0.3% range. When you inadvertently went up to the 0.5% range near the beginning, that might start to affect the […]

Major disappointment! No change at all to my tank water. 4 ppm ammonia and 0 ppm nitrates!
Well, my test may indeed have been flawed. Adding fish would not have shot the ammonia up to 4ppm and that might have had an adverse effect on the bacteria. I might have gotten a […]

The 3 to 5 drops per gallon guideline to bring the ammonia up to 3-5ppm, seems to work in your case.. with the 5 drops per gallon being the max to bring it to 5ppm.. 4 drops per gallon would give you 4ppm. If the initial 6 drops in 12G brought it up to […]

Hi Dewdude; I don’t know how long you’ve had your fish, but they are just like any other animal. They may be too young yet, or they may just not be “comfortable” in your tank set up to be thinking about sex. You didn’t mention how large the tank was and […]

What, no mention of willow bark?
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> —–Original Message—– > From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of > Lenny V. aka GoldLenny > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 11:08 AM > To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [AquaticLife] Re: Ray! - Acriflavin > > Or did you mean… acetysalicylic acid, > > So you’re doing […]

First, a brackish water tank will naturally have a higher pH than your other tanks simply by the nature of the water. You do not say how you are making the water brackish, the specific gravity of the water in your brackish tank is OK. You should use a good quality marine salt, as you […]

Hi Dan and DebG, Just want to bring to your attention, that I’ve posted replies to both of you guys’ messages, and I’m posting this as I don’t see them appearing as email. I don’t know if you and the general membership have seen these emails: it may just be a […]