Since most medications have a shelf life that may be exceeded while you are waiting for your personal fishy Armageddon, just keep some kosher or canning salt on hand, a spare tank to use as a quarantine tank, and a small bubble-up sponge filter running in your main tank (or in one tank if you […]
No as it was done on Aquabid with a seller with a good rating. The only problem there is that the ratings are usually given before something happens.
Did you see the seller remove the plants from their tank and bag them up for you? Could they have given them a dip in some kind of disinfectant (alum, PP, bleach, etc.) and then didn’t rinse them fully so you introduced that to your tank?
As \Steve// asked, what were your water parameters before […]
Thank you for all the help you’ve given me here,and to all a goodnight
Merry Christmas and thank you for all the help you’ve given me here, especially Lenny and Ray!
DebR and the Three Goldfish (CB, Lucille, and Raven)
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It may have a negligible effect, since the salt concentration to recharge the zeolite is much higher than what you ever had in your tank. I’ll bet that once the ammonia and nitrite are under control, most of your problems will go away. Then, when you get a larger tank, the rest of them will […]
Actually, I don’t have a specific LFS, other than PetSmart and I don’t ask them for any advice on anything except for where to find stuff in the store. There was a good one not too far away, but it went under last summer sometime. I know of […]
this is a list of the products/chemicals that i was given along with the fish tank:
pH up: contains sodium hydrochloride (ENECNo 215-185-5)
Freshwater Ph test: indicator solution bromothymol blue
Ammonia test solution: modified nessler reagent: contains sodium hydroxide and mercuric iodide
methylene blue: use 10 drops per gallon
Aqua Plus from tetrafin/Hagen: tap water conditioner, removes chlorine, chloramines, neutralizes […]