Recent content by bambam507

The larger yellow Cichlid keeps chasing and nipping at the smaller yellow one. Have seen some people say get more of the same color to spread out the bullying . others say it is what it is. What about some small sacrifice fish?

ok water change 4/11 water test next day right befor todays water change ph 8.5 amonia 0 Nitrate between 20 & 50 Nitrite .8 water change 4/12 added prime and cycle will test in am or befor tomorrows water change Is this a good sign starting to see progress? or is it possibly just the prime...

just finished up another water change. how long after should i test? or should I befor?

i used dip strip and it looked way better than this test. dip strip nitrate between 0-20 bout ten id say nitrite 3 im lost now HELP

for giggles i tested my well water again and everything is 0 besides ph

ok after water change here are results just to warn you they are not good ph 8.5 nitrate 110 nitrite 3.3 amonia .06 do you put the tube directly against the white card next to color bar or just off the paper? after test added cap full of prime to treat 50 gal

is this the stuff I want and shoudl be using? Prime Product Description Prime® is the complete and concentrated conditioner for both fresh and salt water. Prime® removes chlorine, chloramine and ammonia. Prime® converts ammonia into a safe, non-toxic form that is readily removed by the tank’s...

4/10/2012 Water change Just snuck home from work and drained 30 gall of water out of tank added 18 gallons waiting for other tote to get up temp in tote have 50 watt heater and power head circulating 18 gallons of water. the on deck tote was 67 when i left, waiting for it to get to 77...

I am on well water. so no chlorine :good:

I have started current thread at http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/393118-new-guy-here/page__gopid__3304248#entry3304248 thank for the help

ok to clear some things up . tank was purchased threw classified add , but brand new filter on start up march 25th 2012 with no donor media added sand substrate and Nutrafin cycle march 26th added Nutrafin cycle march 27th added Natrafin cycle march 28th added three Danios to cycle tank march...

LOl the girl friend is hooked . texts me how she misses my fish tank lol any ways she just dropped of an electric yellow cichlid. Looks a bit diff than the yellow from this weekend.

yea the place i got the yellow ones from were not helpful at all. thanks for the input. I thought the tank they had them in at the lfs was small they had probably a dozen cichlids on a 20 gallon tank . and there was like 4 of these yellow ones in there but the ratio was large enuff to not single...

Friday I received my fluval 306, still am not sure on location of in and out of my filters. at the moment I have the fluval 306 and my API nexx filter The fluval 306 says 303 gph and the api says 132 phg , with a combined gph making 7.9 change over per hour Correct? Any tips on how far to...

This weekend drove hour and half to check out some other lfs. Shop had a good selection but I felt rushed into decisions. I picked out some more lace rock and wanted to come back after we went out to eat and employee said oh I can put your fish in large bags and a styrophome box to help them...