Recent content by FallynLeigh

I just don't have the time or the money.  I'm just going to leave the tank alone and let it sort itself out.  If they die then oh well I guess.  This is my final post.  I'm 99.9% sure they'll live because they're doing just fine and some of the levels are actually down on the tank.  I won't be...

My fish have always been fine.  The tanks have always been pristine and even when we change the water it barely kicks anything up- and we mix up the gravel to get to the bottom.  The levels of nitrates, nitrites, and pH in the tanks have always been great with only minor fluxes.  I've had all...

Look, I'm sorry but water changes just aren't happening more than maybe once a month.  Until now we've never had any problems with doing one 20% water change bi-anually.  This is all that is possible right now.

I understand that, but the soonest we can do a water change is this weekend.

Okay, so my mom is home and we have talked about what to do and here is our complete plan of action:   For the ten gallon- put 1/4 tablespoon of aquarium salt in each morning, put recommended amount of ammo lock in tank every other day.  Do a ~20% water change this weekend... maybe.  Add a few...

I'm just going to leave the tank setting up to my mom.  She's always done it in the past and done it pretty well.

Yeah, it was a sad day... but when I go to the lake I still sometimes see one or two.   UPDATE   I tested the water and... Nitrates: 160ppm Nitrites: somewhere in between 5 and 10 ppm maybe like 8 ppm? pH: 6.5 KH: 80 ppm GH: 180 ppm   All fish still seem okay, no white ammonia burns or red gils...

Meeresstille- I know that, but she just gets really fed up sometimes.  Thats what she did with my guppies a long time ago.

I'll suggest that to my mom.  I don't know when she'll want to go to LFS though because it is a little bit away.  Maybe I can get my grandpa to take me on thursday.   I also have to bring the dead fish back anyways, so I'll be going in the next 2-10 days no matter what.

Sophie- I don't really have a way to test for ammonia.  I only have the strips. I doubt my mom will spend the money to buy the liquid test kit.  She's pretty fed up with all of this and just wants to dump the mollies in the lake and get gouramis.

  Thank you so much for that!  It'll definitely be helpful!

I don't know.  It's always worked in the past.  I'm just kind of thinking of bringing the most of the mollies back to the LFS and when the fry grow up bring most of them to the LFS too.  I don't really want to because I've grown to like them, but ... I don't know.  I forgot how much trouble...

Okay, I'll do the first one tonight when my mom gets home because I have no clue where the bucket is or if its clean or how to clean it or what to do with the old water.  Should I add more salt in the meantime? 

TLM- Of course!  That was the first thing I did!   I added 1/4 of a tablespoon because that is roughly equal to 4 grams (according to google  )

Okay, back.  So gramps couldn't bring me to the LFS but I have a good bit of ammo lock left so I think I'll be okay.  Just tested the water and the stats are: Nitrates: 160ppm Nitrites: 10ppm pH: 6.5 KH: 80ppm GH: 180ppm   So the nitrates have gone down a little bit according to the test strips...