Recent content by sporkman

For the record, from a level of slightly above 3 (oops) to 0 was about 5 days. It was kind of interesting, basically roughly .5 PPM/day. Going to try again in a few days just to satisfy my curiosity about this, and then unless there's a miracle clearing in like 24-ish hours I'll add in some...

Sorry, I should have referenced my prior threads, but it was cycled around the time everything shut down up here and I've been running it w/o fish since. I do not have live plants (and I don't see that happening soon, there was zero stock at the store). I was mainly just curious if the bacteria...

You're all probably going to laugh as I've been running an empty tank for like... 6 months. Anyhow, I recently went to my local Pet Supplies Plus to see what the stock looked like and I'm going to try to put together a list of fish to populate this 20 high tank. I put some ammonia in last...

I am the slowest tank builder ever. :) I am algae (or whatever) free it seems. I did a large water change and also went months without lights so... :)

Pet Supplies Plus here is immaculate. They seem to have really great staff. Never seen such happy parakeets either. I was just wondering if the wholesaler they use has a good rep or not (Fish Mart).

That is nuts, all native (north american) fish? Interesting, thanks for that link. I also heard back from my local Pet Supplies Plus, they are using "Fish Mart": https://www.fishmartinc.com - any input on that company?

Hmmm... So no fish, no food, no live plants, and I already have problems. Ugh. Also it is LED lighting - there's a row of "warm white" LEDs and one of blue. I had exclusively been using the white LEDs... I guess for now I just physically clean the plastic plants and see if it comes back? And...

Thanks, and sorry for taking so long to ask... So even though it's jet black, it's called Blue-Green Algae, and even though it's called an algae, it's bacteria!? OMG, I should have went back to guinea pigs. Just to be 100% clear, this is not a trick of photography - this stuff is black. When...

I know it's likely not a big deal, but the chemistry suggests I cannot see a constant 0 level on nitrite, no? I'm still clearing ammonia after a "snack" dose in 24 hours, so I think this tank is fine (although I have another thread about algae). Pet Supplies Plus is still open, so when I'm...

I first saw some black... something on a silk plant and didn't think much of it, maybe just some fluke or something. After some time, I noticed that I was seeing this on other plants (they are all either plastic or silk). I've seen reference to something called "beard algae", but this stuff...

Hi all, I just want to sort of wrap this one up. Still no fish, so I'm just caring for an empty tank. I've added some ammonia a few times to watch that the bacteria are eating it up. As best as I can tell from the guide here and a book and a few other sources, the tank is cycled and I should be...