Recent content by DHJac

Has anyone else tried running a skimmer on a brackish tank? What were you experiences positive or negative? My tank is drilled and I run a canister filter that has both the suction and discharge pulling from the bottom half of the tank through stand pipes so I noticed some of the waste...

Monos, while commonly sold in freshwater, do need brackish to full marine conditions as they age. The reason that they would not do well with your angels and discus is that they require hard water regardless of salt content and your fish prefer soft water.

Since I have a brackish tank at about 1.012 SG and all the LFS keep them in fresh water, I have to drip acclimate over about 1 hr to give them time to adjust to the salt.  I put the fish and all the store water in a bucket and slowly increase the drip rate over the hour.  When I'm ready to add...

The tank has been up for about 5 weeks now and everything is just humming along.  The only plant that doesn't seem to be doing all that well is the bacopa at the front right of the tank.  Most of the leaves have melted and the new growth is extremely slow compared to all the other plants.  I...

Looks good like that.  Any plans for additional plants?

Thanks.   I was planning on putting some sort of floating plant in originally but the other plants have grown so much there's no need.  I haven't done any trimming lately because every time I get near one of them, it gets uprooted so I was hoping they would get anchored better before I messed...

Looks very nice.  Just get yourself some fishing line to tie that anubias to the wood and you'll be good to go.  What substrate are you using?

The tank is now fully stocked.  Met our new betta (my son hasn't named him yet).  He seems to get along fine with the shrimp.  One of the three seems to be missing but the other two hang out right next to the betta and he doesn't even give them a look.  He spent the first few days in the back of...

The tank readings have been zero ammonia, nitrite and nitrate for a few days now so everything appears to be going well.  Shrimp are a new thing for me and I noticed the largest one today seems to just be zooming around the tank nonstop.  One of the RCS molted but I'm not sure which one.  Is the...

I know Aussie humor when I see it   Well, we're about a week into the tank getting planted and I'm see very nice growth on just about everything.  I added three RCS the other day and they are doing a great job of cleaning up the leaves that didn't make it.     The point of this style of tank is...

  Thanks Nick.  I had some shorter tweezers but they weren't cutting it.   I'm thinking of putting a black background up to make the plants pop a little more.  What do you guys think?

The replacement filter came as promised and I now have the tank up and running.  I made a trip to the LFS and picked up a bunch of stem plants and two nerite snails.  This was my first attempt at a planted tank and let me tell you, the combination of a small tank and large hands made it pretty...

Well I have an update on the filter issue.  I contacted Eheim first to see if they would just send me a filter but they said they were out of stock for 6 weeks!?!  I figured Amazon would want me to send the whole tank assembly back, which I didn't want to do since I already had my substrate in...

I'm hoping with as many plants as the tank will have, there will be enough cover.  

This will be the journal for my 6 gal NPT low tech Betta tank.  This tank is mainly going to be used as a learning experience for my 9 yr old son and, well, because he really wants a betta.  We have a 110 gal brackish tank that he loves but it's so big that it's hard to get him too involved with...