Recent content by AJ356

How annoying. To the person who packed this item.. "you had one job" well kind of...

With the ammonia readings, are you using API liquid testing? If so, I found that false positives of very low ammonia level will happen unless I only use the test tubes for ammonia testing. I used to mix the tubes for ammonia and nitrite tests. No matter how well I rinsed out the tubes...

I am pretty sure that dude that spat fell in the draft because of character concerns. I hope they make an example of him in terms of a suspension. If that happened over here in the UK with soccer, I would imagine the suspension would be between about 3 and 6 games maybe. I'm figuring he might...

Sounds good. My main advice is not about the pump, but about the accountant. If needed, shop around for the best one / wife / partner. Put this hobby first, always :)

I am not sure if female BNs are less so, but I've had experience with multiple male adults and they are too aggro toward each other for my liking, nothing serious, but I dont really like to see it. I'd make sure not to have more than 2 adult males in a 200 litre if it were me. Not sure on females.

As you will see from my post above, my opinion is that it's more about time (in seconds) as to how much to feed fish. Although, I did include some exceptions to that rule of mine, and there are probably some other other exceptions I did not think of right now.

Very surprised to read this from you Colin. I think overfeeding fish is probably the number two downfall of many an aquarium and lost fish lives (due to ammonia and nitrite poisoning), with number one being immature filter media, and obviously, the two are linked. I tell people that, if you...

That's interesting. All my old fluval internals were great, 1 to 4. Wish I'd never got rid of them

I like the natural look you have. Unrelated observation, seeing that old style Fluval Internal filter brings back good memories. I loved them.Takes me back about 10 to 15 years that does. Is yours a 3 or a 4?

I doubt it in terms of unfair advantage, because I am pretty sure most HC and GMs were the ones happy to shorten pre season from 4 games to 3 games in the first place. That's what I remember from the talk at the time. You could argue that the two teams involved in the hall of fame game are at an...

Welcome to the forum. My only input to this right now is to be careful with corydoras and barbs. I've experienced too much harassment of corydoras by barbs to do that again. I think there are some very docile barbs that might be okay, but I wouldn't put corydoras with your bunch. In my...

If you use 50/50, then that might mean a pH of about 7.7, so out of interest, what are you planning to keep in there that won't work with a pH of around 7.7? Not that it's always that simple, that 50/50 mix means an exact split in pH. I don't think pH levels always follow the normal...

I don't consume caffeine like Magnum Man does. But one of his threads about the impact of the air from our environment on our fish got me thinking. I have one internal filter that is missing a rubber cap at one end of the impellor, I tried to improvise on a cap I found lying around, but it's...

Make sure you keeping that external filter full of tank water. Not sure how long the bacteria will last for, but a lot longer than if they are bone dry!

If there is enough oxygen it looks like, and the way your fish breathe will let you know, and no ammonia or Nitrite levels, or just low nitrite levels 0.125 to 0.20ppm, I wouldnt do a water change just yet, and keep monitoring for ammonia and Nitrite. If the Nitrite are 0.25ppm or over, I'd do...