You can clean the very dirty gravel with fresh water, just treat with dechlorinator first.
If you are too energetic with the gravel, you will kill the bio filter. Id probably siphon out as much crud as possible in your bucket, adding clean water treated with dechlor as required. And then maybe a swish […]
Yes Dora, I am planning to take everything apart. The only goal is to remove the polyster forever “see my previous message for further explanation”. I’m sure that the water will turn BLACK, not just brownish, when I pull the polyster out. And the gravel will probably be impossible to clean with the […]
I got a used 55 gal tank and it was taken down the day I picked it up. I took the UGF out when I got the tank home and started to fill it. The water was so filthy, I had to drain the tank and refill. I’m not sure how many times I […]
The polyester layer is going to have a lot of your bacteria. Did Lenny or Steve or Ray advise this step?
I think I would probably not do that until you are ready to replace the UGF with a power filter. But I haven’t had a UGF for 30 years, so Lenny, Steve or […]
I’m glad it’s a Sunday, somebody will hopefully have enough time to give me detailed answers. I’m breaking my 20 g down this week, to remove the polyster layer between the gravel and the UGF plate for good. Then I’ll set it up again in the same day.
It’s my first time to fully clean […]
Is your tap water treated with chlorine or chloramine or is it natural, like from a spring, well or reservoir?
While using rain water might sound like a good thing, it’s not as good as it sounds since rain water lacks the minerals, trace elements, etc. that water (from the ground) has in it. It’s […]
A few weeks back, I posted about my sick tank. After losing 2 angels, an albino rainbow shark and a platty the tank seemed to settle down. All levels (ammonia, nitrates and nitrites) tested at zero, even when everything was dying. After no deaths for several weeks, I purchased 4 zebra danios […]
Here are some of the things I discovered.
1. I got the new shipment of koi 96 3 1/2″ to 5″ Koi from Japan tweo weeks ago. I put them imidiatly into a 200 gallon holding tank for observation. As with al new shipments of gish I treated them wim Fruan […]
In a message dated 7/6/2008 10:59:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mward98@yahoo.com writes:
i purchased a yellow koi a couple weeks ago. he now has a large sore on his body and when I feed my koi, he comes up to eat he flips over […]
i purchased a yellow koi a couple weeks ago. he now has a large sore on his body and when I feed my koi, he comes up to eat he flips over and over. He still eats. I treated my whole pond for disease and started feeding a bacterial fish food. What […]