Recent content by flipnshi

I went with an assorted school of mollies, 10. Thinking that if the school was big enough they would ward off would be predators . Put them into the 60 gallon tank and within minutes they were being harassed. Had to transfer to the 29 gallon and just decided to move some of the plants. I thought...

I have to agree with Ps3Steveo, there is no such thing as over filtering your tanks. Excessive, but some have dirty eaters and would like a cleaner crisper tank. I have been a fan of the Marineland 350s they come with a bio wheel to hold some bacteria and all your doing by amping your filter is...

Welcome to the forums.. Whats the tank size? There are four possible sources from high nitrate levels: infrequent maintenance, overfeeding, crowded tank, or bad water from the tap. Test your water source for nitrate directly if you still have high levels then find another water source, and do a...

Id "float" them just to be on the safe side. There might be something off or different, fish are so much more prone to changes. Don't forget to add some kind stress coat as well, I use Prime, it has always worked out for me. I take it the 55 is fully cycled? How many fish will you be...

So...I think that will add to much to the bioload, having 10+ of a new introduction. I don't want to mix the feeders with anything and the 55 gallon is very close to being too crowded for me. I decided to think about it more and just get some new backgrounds and change up the lighting specs...

haha yeah that's the other thing they gotta be cichlid friendly. The "African tribe" stay pretty close to the bottom. Only coming up for pellets. Its a 60 gallon deep approx. 22 inches tall so Im thinking I can get away with a very small but formidable school towards the upper middle and top. Id...

That's why I got so many feeders....treating them as regular fish. So that they will grow up to be healthy fish. Weed out the parasite riddled and unhealthy ones. A friend of mine set one up like this and it turned out to be okay...a lot of time involved tho for them to grow mature enough to...

I was thinking about adding 6 to 8 for school in the 60 gallon tank. Already have a school of Tiger barbs in the 55 gallon. Ive had danios before and thought they would be a decent add. Do they come in a variety of colors, or just the zebra and leopard ones? Something small that wont add a lot...

Googled them....they look cool. I was thinking more active colors without going the goldfish or koi route. A good variety of different colors.

I would like to have some colorful schooling fish top to mid levels. Any suggestions?

Okay so I would like to set up a feeder tank. Ive transformed my 29 gallon fully cycled into this. I went and bought 60 feeder rosy reds. After a week have had some die off and Ive scooped ones that appeared to be not in the best of health, a white dot would appear on one and Id scoop it out. Or...

Someone suggested live food to watch the fish act naturally and chase it down. Ive researched and found that earthworms might and might not retain parasites. Kinda up in the air with this one. So I looking for suggestions... have a cray in each tank and know that they would love it. My newest...

Thanks. Im using micobelift referred by friend, and dropping half a cube of frozen brine shrimp in for a good jump start combined with one bio wheel from each filter. Hoping by like 2 or 3 weeks to cycle. Decided to leave the blue cray put for now and will just some of the bigger fish over to...

I have a question that has too many specifics to leave to error. I have a 55 gallon and a 29 gallon both have a 350 marineland bio wheel and filter. I have a 60 gallon tank that has been filled and sitting for a week waiting for my amazon order for two marineland 350s for it. Cant over filter a...

Only bottom feeders are 1 rainbow shark(catfish) and 1 chinese algae eater. Thing that concerns me would be the 5 zebra danios, 4 sword tails and 5 tiger barbs. All are very young fish, except for the algae eater, rainbow and danios. Already have a 60 gallon filled with water waiting on amazon...