Recent content by Justsmarti

Hey guys and gals, what's your opinion on quality water, or what would you consider quality water? I live on a good size farm in central Missouri and we have our own well. It's roughly 300' deep and about 290' of it is through solid limestone or shale. It's awesome to drink too! When we built...

Hey everyone, hope all is well. The tank is finally cycled and we have a couple fish in it now after a wc. A small goldfish my 6 yr old daughter fell in love with, that we were going to use with fish in cycling. It has lived in 2.5 gallon tank with a green eared sunfish that my sun caught with...

Praise the Lord alleluia! I have nitrite! Finally got my first nitrite reading after 34 days of testing maybe I will be successful at cycling my first tank after all! Thanks for all that gave input! I read a lot of post on here daily and the knowledge here is outstanding! Thanks again I'm...

thos is at 32 day mark. Have never had a nitrite reading. Any suggestions anybody? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The knowledge here is impressive! Thanks for your time! I will change my timer before we get fish! Justin Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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FYI, I am about 4 weeks into my cycle and I used this method your asking about. The calculator was a little overwhelming but I came up with about 3.5 ml for my 29 gal and it put it to 5.0 ppm. So to do it again I'd go less wait 30 minutes test if it's not strong enough add a little more. Sent...

Was looking for opinions on getting fish and plants from an online store like live aquaria. We do not have a good pet store close to where I live. We have a petsmart but the selection is horrible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is it ok if it comes on in the morning a few hours then back off till evening for a few more hours? it would be on about 3 hours in the morning and 5 in the evening? I've got it set like that so we can watch the fish of a morning before school and work but if it's not healthy I'll change it to...

I have good water movement. I do jot have an air stone but the pump that I have has a diffuser tube and I have it turned toward the surface so it's making a nice wave and with that there's constant turbulence and lots of air bubbles so I'm thinking there's good oxygen in the water. Nitrite is...

This is the tank. Any suggestions on maybe plants or other decor? It's a 30 gal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks Doc, ill keep testing and will let you know how it's going! I appreciate the feed back! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, guess I'll keep marching on! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok guys, what the heck is going on here? My ammonia is back down to less than 1.0 ppm still have never got any reading on nitrite but I do have a minor reading on nitrate maybe 2-3 ppm. On the 8th I added Ammonia tested on the 9 th it was 3.0, with crazy schedule it was today the 12th that I...

Nitrate still 0 as is nitrite! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk