Recent content by s_anthony

All is well here this morning, and night.. fish seem much happer and I will be doing another WC very soon.. In regards to the newage stuff, I have a few books for my aquarium habits from a new age author named Melody - lots of good info in there. I used to collect rocks and such as a kid and...

If you got tank issues, 1st suggestion is to fix the tank issues first before adding new fish.... not only are you probably stressing that new fish if there is a problem and have the chance of loosing it as well, but you could be bringing in new issues to your tank.... You won't see the...

Test kits say 6.2 and 6.6 for PH in the tanks.. it rose way too fast for my liking almost as if it is fixing itself... the 20% wc i wouldn't have expected for it to make this much of a change... I just hope the fish don't stress too much over the change... My juli cory is acting a little...

This is tumbled obsidian, so we're good there :)

After I removed the hematite, I did a WC (20%).. I'm now seeing changes in PH!!! I wasn't before and it was so frustrating. Now I just get to monitor it over the next few days and do WC watching how fast the PH goes up.. As soon as I finish cooking dinner, I'll WC the other tank that had the...

http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go336/inmon/ BINGO! Good article - this was exactly what I was looking for.... Now if I can find something about the obsidian I'd be happy.... "This gives the water a very acidic ph (4.5) The altering of the ph and the introduction of larger quantities...

Well one site I read states that snowflake obsidian is safe for aquariums since its lava rock formed.. Thanks for the link :)

I just retested KH shows 0 on both tanks... Im spending a small fortune in test kits... :(

On my last test, my KH shows 80 ppm - it is always at 80... and has never fluctuated anytime I have tested. Although the only difference on this test is that I test it with strips from Jungle because my API test kit doesnt have drops for it..

Ok, I won't bore you with the long story (if your interested search for my posts). Ive been having PH issues and no one seems to be able to figure out what the heck caused it... I did a lot of reading and research and I want to find out if I basically poisioned my own fish... :unsure: Does...

While Im removing my rocks - does anyone know if either hematite or snowflake obsidian is either a sulfides, arsenides, selenides or antimonides?

Thinking about it... Im pulling out the hematite and obsidian.. I thought they were members of the quartz family (silica based), but I cannot find anything to back that up so far... I think thats probably a good first step to trying to eliminate some things that could be causing this..

My nitrates and nitrites are both at 0... I have no idea at this point what caused the NH4 spike... I do weekly WC of about 20 to 25%, its worked all a long this way. No new fish added other than the one tiger barb in tank one, but she was taken from tank 2, and I have a feeling this started...

I cleaned the filter about 2 weeks before the wierdness occured... Just a normal rinse.. The filter media is just barely approaching 2 months - I'm afraid to change it cause of loss of bacteria... Gallons per hour are good on both. The filters are both less than 6 months old. No clogging...

Thats the main reason I started yanking the plants... they were too yellow and i didnt think plant food was going to make a difference.. Tank 1 has 6 neons, 2 small juli cory catfish, 2 synodontis petricoli) and the 2 mollies.. I had one "visiting" tiger barb in there too only becasue i had to...