When you do your weekly PWC’s, are you vacuuming your gravel good to get the detritus out of the gravel?
I saw in another of your posts that you may have a UGF. Have you been doing proper maintenance and cleaning on it? See my reply to your other post.
What are your water parameter […]
On my blog, I have an article called “Filter Maintenance & Cleaning” and in that article, I have some info and several links to other well written articles about UGF’s. Check them out for the good and bad on UGF’s.
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to articles referenced above listed on the […]
our home depot now only sells China pumps. This spring I bougt one 500gph pump for a fountain and it lasted about 2 months, I do have mag drive pumps by Danner which I have used for over 10 years and never had a failure of one of these pumps. They may cast a few […]
Hello Colleen. I can’t advise you about pumps because I don’t know enough, but I can tell you that my new Matala Pond Vac, purchased this spring, is probably the most useful purchase I’ve made this year. I’m attaching a link which will tell you more about it, although you’ll […]
You should “tent” the tank with a plastic garbage bag or plastic drop cloth and tape the bottom edge of the plastic to the glass of the tank all the way around so that none of the fumes can get into the tank. If you have an air pump, either put it inside the […]
Lenny said…Well.. sell this customer a more frequent maintenance program……. yes that is exactly what I want to do but……not for the place I work for….I want to start my own pond maintenance…I have been working for the past 3 years ( best pond cleaner they ever had) and started at $7 an hr….and […]
Well.. sell this customer a more frequent maintenance program. Take before/after tests of the water parameters and show the customer how bad their water is for their fish. Explain that they need DAILY 10% to 25% PWC’s (partial water changes) and DAILY filter maintenance to remove the pollutants and waste from the water […]
Hi Jasmine,
It would probably be a good idea for you to take one or both of the free online fish keeping tutorials. If you go to my blog, then the “A to Z of Fish Keeping” page, you will see links to the fish keeping tutorials near the top of that page. They […]
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No… do not use chemicals but you should increase the PWC frequency on that tank until we figure out what is happening to the ecology of that tank. There is something in that one tank that is causing your pH to drop so we need to identify the problem so you can fix it.
What size […]