Recent content by nuprin

update on kermit: i found him dried up and dead on the floor. :sad: i have no idea how long he's been there. he's a little guy, so probably somehow found a small opening for him. i lost my little demasoni that way, too. *sniff* :byebye:

any plants in particular you recommend? duckweed is apparently illegal to sell in georgia. no wonder i haven't been able to find it anywhere! i saw it on ebay for a buck, tho'. will check out the tropica site, too. tank still looking good! :P

dunno about alkaline water. i'll ask the fishstore guy when i order it on monday. duckweed is so hard to find! i tried home depot and called like every store in town. never found kermit. there are plenty of places to hide, including places the fishies can't get to, so he might yet live a...

yeah, there were like 5 or 6 websites with specific instructions on how to bake the baking soda to drive off CO2 and water (or something). maybe that's something important with reef tanks or something. i used a little of the baked stuff with regular baking soda, three tsp the first day, and...

:lol: that's funny! no, for real, there are a bunch of websites that say in order to use baking soda, you need to bake it in the oven at 400 degrees and then mix it with regular baking soda. weird, huh? it's supposed to get all clumpy, but i did it for two hours just to try it and it came...

is baking it necessary? i read on a few sites that if you don't, the pH will lower...

thanks for all your suggestions! i did check the tap for nitrates, but it came out at zero. that's what i thought at first (or that something was wrong with the strips). how quickly is it okay to increase the tap now that they're already kinda in pH shock? i just wanna know how much baking...

Hi everyone! i'm new to this forum, but have been keeping my africans for almost four years now. i have an 80g with 2 penguin 330s and crushed coral as substrate. i have about 15 1-4" mbuna, one 4" red empress, one albino bristlenose catfish, and one pl*co. i keep the temp at 83 and do...