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Fritz complete is fine since it removes chlorine, chloramine, binds up ammonia and prevents toxicity of nitrite.

Water conditioners that remove chlorine/chloramine are essential and more budget friendly than a really good chlorine test kit. With a municipality that uses chlorine, they can increase the amount...

I would assume 5ppm of chlorine in your tap water. Unless you have a chlorine test kit, letting the water sit out for 24 hours may not fully remove all of the chlorine. According to this site, it...

If you read the ingredient list on many algae wafers, you'll see that algae isn't the primary ingredient. There's a lot of fish meal.

Are you talking about these?

https://www.amazon.com/Tetra-77877-Whisper-Repair-Pump/dp/B001NTJ058

I bet it expires in a year.

It's overfed, and now the food is pushing on the poo in the intestine.

So you bought fish on Thursday, which means there is a chance it is processed on Friday. Fedex standard overnight shipping occurs only on business days (M-Thurs). I would expect them to ship your...

Quite possibly anaerobic bacteria in the substrate or overfeeding. Comb the substrate and see if you get any bubbles that come up.

could be internal parasite. How long have you had the guppy?

Post count wasn't going up on the thread originally, even if the new posts could be read.

I fixed the problem by making the thread not be moderated. It was looking for all posts to be approved first before showing up as a new post. Not sure how the thread was created to be moderated.

Cycling

Amount of time for a total cycle hasn't changed. A fish in cycle still took at least 6 weeks. You just didn't plan on cycling your tank way back when.

Water Changes

You never...

Get water that doesn't use the water softener (which just replaces magnesium and calcium ions with either potassium or sodium). Putting more additives to raise the GH will raise the TDS of the...

plecos have no problems with salt. Also, sodium chloride is not the same as magnesium sulfate, different effects.

Do you have hard water? What's the TDS like?

How long does it actually take to maintain the tank? If it takes only 30 minutes a day for both tanks, I say keep it. For some reason, chores are associated with something bad. Chores are there to...

Did you test your tap water?

Make sure you have really hard water for a Central American tank.

A simple sump doesn't require dividers. Just mechanical filtration in the beginning like a sump sock and a pump at the end.

How do you look at the gills? Do you take the fish out and open the gill cover?

After using clarity, you'll more likely need to clean the canister again since it will cause all the things to clump up.

I don't think you were scammed. Not all LFS are good at identifying what they are getting, and simply goes by what the vendor tells them, who could also have made a mistake on their paperwork. Even...

It could take a month for an outbreak of ich to be visible (replicating unseen). The ich could be tiny enough not to be seen or hidden behind the gill plate. This is why I treat the QT with 86F and...

Put dissolved epsom salt in the tank, about 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons. It's too late to eat psylium husk if you are already constipated. You have to eat it with the food.