water change

I've read mixed things on if you're supposed to do water changes or not during cycling. My ammonia level is about 8ppm nitrite I would say is between 0 and .25ppm and no Nitrate is id about 20 ppm. I have 2 live plants in there if that helps. And im supposed to be doing anything to my tank or...

After a little help here, as I'm non-plussed. I'm mid-fishless cycle with a 450l (120 us gallon) tank and my nitrite readings are making no sense to me. I started with adding Dr Tim's ammonia a couple of weeks ago, plus "one and only" bacteria. I know there are mixed views on whether it does...

Hello everyone, I’ve been an aquarium owner for over a year now and have an RODI setup with a storage tank for the water. I used to bucket/pitcher it in for every water change but I think it’s time to upgrade. I do realize I could hook it up to the tap and use water conditioner but that would...

My sister has a freshwater tank and was wanting to treat her betta who has finrot so I recommended aquarium salt in a water change. Unfortunately in the water change she forgot to include the stress coat water conditioner. This means she put in a water change of unconditioned water treated with...

Hello everyone, I was doing a water change today when I noticed this insect-like thing on the bottom of the tank. I immediately scooped it up and got rid of it. I also found one exactly like it around a month ago. Does anyone know what this is, and if it's bad for the aquarium? Thanks! FYI...

Due to my disability I rarely do water changes but pay a good friend to do them for me. She's awesome. But she is out sick with a bad pulled tooth and 5 stiches so I have to start some of my water changes myself (it takes me about 4 hours - she can do it in 1 1/2 hours). We typically do a...

Hi, I'm new to the hobby. I currently have living in my 20 gallon hexagaon tank: 3 gourami, 2 zebra loaches, 2 guppies, 5 tetras, 1 snail, maybe 2 shrimp but they're hard to find. So I have Ich in my tank and it's on everyone except the loaches. One of the guppies presented with tail rot today...

My guppy tanks have has this cloudy film in them for the past week. In my adult tank it was everywhere. I just set up this 5 gallon for my fry and after going to sleep I wake up to this. Half of my fry are dead and this milky layer is just sitting at the bottom of my tank.

So as the title saids, 20% daily water changes and substrate clean Vs 75% weekly and substrate clean? Thoughts? @Colin_T

I recently switched my 29 gal long to black sand (imagitarium) and I’ve been cleaning it with a regular siphone, but it’s pretty inefficient. The siphon doesn’t pick up all of the debris and it drains water too fast to get it clean, I’ve tried to stop the flow in order to slow the draining, but...

Hey my tank is a bit of a hectic fish in cycle case. I've been doing 75% water changes the last 4 days and measurements. A Platy has started having fry. Should I wait until she's finished to do a water change? How will I know she's finished? I managed to get two fry into incubation box...

Hey guys my normal method to do water changes is to put water in a container, dechlorinate it and leave it 12 hours before I use it. I heard people do another method which is put chlorine water in and dechlorinate in the tank. Is this method safe and can I use this method for big water changes...

Request Help Tank size: 100L/26gal pH: 7.2-7.4 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 20ppm gH: 150 ppm tank temp: 28 degree Celsius (previously 26 but have upped since fish started getting sick) Volume and Frequency of water changes: Normal routine 1-2 per week 25-50% - treat with prime and stress...

I'm having a problem with algea wafers creating so much waste in my gravel. Today I cleaned all the gravel out and did 75% water change. I still had algea wafer waste hanging about the bottom of the tank though, I didn't know what to do as didn't want to risk removing anymore water. So I've had...

Hi, This is my first post on this forum so I hope Im making it in the right category, if not, sorry in advance. Basically I have 200l tank with tripical fish and Im making partial water changes every 7-10 days, usually 35-50l. Before when I had 60l tank every time I was buying 5l btls of water...

Tank Inhabitants: 2 baby blue shrimp, nerite snail, mystery snail Temp: 1 heater set to 86 deg F Size: 10 gallons added a few cholla wood pieces (x3) and it totally clouded my tank, including these levels: added a carbon pack, but I’m waiting on an air pump for a medium-sized sponge filter

First post here guys. I've had the tank on the right for a good while now 8 months. Seems to be well established. I have 10 guppy's, 1 male Betta and God knows how many cherry shrimp. Everyone seems to get along just fine. But I've had this persistent cloudy grey water for 2/3months. Comes and...

Hi, it would be nice if people could share how they do their water change especially on a bigger tank. I am searching for a way to do big water change in my 50 gallon other than a bucket and a siphon because it is very long..

I will be doing a full Masterkit test of the water today, I know the ammonia will be high so no shrimps as yet. On day 4 should I do a water change? and if so how much 50%?

Hi, I’ve had my tank for a month now and I have 8 shrimp and 2 Otocinclus catfish. My nitrates in my tap water are around 30 ppm but I have noticed that the longer I leave my water the lower my nitrates go as the plants are sucking it up. If I leave my water for 1 week the nitrates go down 10...