Recent content by AlexJordan

So the Oddysea 24" T5 fixture I inherited from a friend finally kicked the can. I did a little research and apparently silently going out was the best way it could. To my knowledge, the T5s in there are still good. Is there anywhere I can get a fixture for them without paying the price for the...

About ten or eleven months.

Update! I just retested both tap and the tank water Tap: Ammonia - .5 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 10 Tank Ammonia - Between .25 and .5 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 30 Definitely going to look into RO water. I thought it was a little weird that ammonia was so high in the tank since the bioload consists of...

Tyler - I think so too, to be honest Steven - Sorry about that! Flourish comprehensive. There's a link with a few pictures in the original post below the parameters. Also, I might retest the water tomorrow, I remember it struck me as odd when I was testing the tap when I moved here. I live in a...

I've had some problems with cyanobacteria in the past (capital P Problems), and this looks a little similar. It's threadlike, slimy, and rubs off pretty easily unless it's on the glass.. I can't decide if it's hair algae or something different. Water parameters: Tap KH 23 GH 17 pH 7 Ammonia .5...

It really does say something about bettas' hardiness when they're able to survive such conditions. When I was in sixth grade, my sister got a betta from a science fair. It's a wonder the poor thing stayed alive in a bowl, with no heater or consistent water changes, but he stayed alive for at...

So on the subject of Walmart fish, here is my latest rescue. It's truly unfortunate how long these fish stay in cups, but this poor guy. He had no color, his fins were a quarter of the length they are now, and he was sitting at the bottom of the cup. I'm a sucker for a poor baby and had just...

I have to ask, since you mentioned not using CO2/ferts, anything like that. How on earth do you get so much fantastic growth? Your tank is absolutely gorgeous!

Hi StandbySetting - No, I'm actually in the US, which makes some things a bit more difficult -_-. Re the regulator, do you have any suggestions for them? It caught my attention since it was several things in one. I'll also start looking for brass check valves and bubble counters, though I was...

I've had both HOB/sponge and gravel/sand, and from what I can see as long as you don't have the filter running while the sand is still settling, no sand gets picked up. If you run it while it's settling, just give it a rinse to avoid clogging issues. Once it settles, there's no sand at all.

I have yet to see anything but bettas being sold there, and the way they are treated is pretty bad. Though I have seen similar treatments in places like Petsmart and Petco, but like StandbySitting said, it's still profitable. I've rescued a few bettas, and if I do I try to pick the sickest...

Hi there, I'm struggling to look for and find the best CO2 system. I have a 29 gal high with swords, ludwigia, anubias, crypts, and java fern that are looking nice but not flourishing. I just bought a 24" T5 fixture with 4 24 W tubes, as i just figured out my 20" was only giving off about 18 W...

Yes, that's what the "bulbs" are. They're 19" and 18 Watts (I think. The listing was from 2014 and no longer exists, and it said 4x18W). As for spectrum I don't know, but looking at newer listings I think they're 6500 K? Is there a cover that fits T5 tubes and covers the entire top? I'm not...

Hello there! I had to recover my tank from the Algae Apocalypse of 2016, which was pretty dreadful, but now we're back up and running. I just did a little bit of replanting, but I was thinking about the lighting. About three years ago I got a 20" hood that fitted 4 T5 bulbs for my ten gallon...

I'm not too well versed in this kind of thing, but what I want to do is use one air pump for both a small sponge filter and an airstone. Is this possible?