Shells and other marine items made of calcium will raise your pH which is a good thing if it is too low. Otherwise, maybe not a good idea.
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From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Amber Berglund Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:25 PM To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Fw: [AquaticLife] new tank
You should be […]
You should be safe to use those decorations (if you want to) if you boil them first for 10 minutes. That will clean them and make them safe for the tank, but make sure nothing in plastic as it can melt LOL
Amber
Darlene wrote: > > the tank i have now is […]
Your biological media should be placed after the mechanical media that removes debris from the water. Placing it before the mechanical media means that it will be also doing part of the job of that media, as well as the biological filtration, and thus need to be cleaned often. If you are using chemical filtration […]
Those measurements add up to 19.94 gallons. What do you mean by smaller? Shorter in height? What are the dimensions of your current tank?
I would use it to increase the water volume of your current tank.. either with the bridge or with the U-tubes. Either would increase the water volume. If […]
No matter how many loops you place in the airline tubing as long as the air pump is below the fish tank it will eventually siphon water back into itself when their is a power outage
From what I’ve read so far, nothing is jumping out at me as to the cause of your fish deaths or your cycling issues. Please go through and answer each question as best you can as it’s often the little things that provide missing pieces to a puzzle when trying to diagnose fish health […]
Frank, When setting up your biofilter system, something to keep in mind if “dwell time”. Dwell time is the amount of time it takes the water that’s pumped into the biofilter to complete its cycle and exit the filter. You don’t want to push water through the biofilter at too fast a rate. […]
Oh, I thought a power head was different than a power filter.
So then why wouldn’t you remove the UGF entirely?
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From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of N Taweel Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:11 PM To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [AquaticLife] Re: Breaking Down the Tank-Need Advise
Actually, Steve advised removing the polyster layer. I’m still keeping […]
Actually, Steve advised removing the polyster layer. I’m still keeping that message He wrote: “With the layer of glass wool between the gravel and the UGF (UnderGravel Filter), the health of your filter becomes problematic. Eventually, that layer will become clogged, and there is no good way to […]
Ok Im not sure what kind of plants these are they are long, thick, almost plush vine like plants. One is about 4 foot long with other pieces vining out down it and the other is about 2 foot long they each only have one root, they are pretty almost look fake. In my tank […]