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No like I really meant in general! I started posting in here over the summer and it was really busy. Now, not so much. At all hours. I guess we shall see if Lady Hobbs' theory is correct. It makes...

What's so snarky ? I think you're being a bit oversensitive! And it's not like this is some charitable help center with people putting in "volunteer hours;" it's a freaking message board and...

I DID say that I performed a 95% water change after removing the divider. I really hope none of you are lawyers or doctors with this level of attention to detail!

i've noticed a SERIOUS decrease in traffic on here since i last posted. what's up with that?

FINALLY some useful information! i will definitely give this a go if i can't get this thing to cycle soon. thank you

yes, i have cycled a tank before. and i said that the water gets to .25 every two days, which thereupon, i do a partial water change. i am doing nothing differently here besides using this...

tell him to man up and put some ice on it

where is "around here?" and yes, i am going to leave these two fish in the tank until it's cycled.

sorry forgot to answer part of this...no ammonia in my water. my tap water doesn't even contain any nitrates which is pretty awesome.

GET this...i just tested about 18hrs after removing the...

keep it by itself and just get various schools of amazonian fish...they will last as long as they last and he will feed on them and you can have a constant variety

i never discounted the fact that there were silicates in the water, nor that diatoms need silicates to form their cell walls.

it's pretty obvious this fellow has silica SAND in the tank due to...

well, i don't think a QT tank is really for the long term, right? that should be obvious.

the danio and guppy are in there due to misbehavior and i figured, may as well cycle this tank for the...

i'm getting the first shade of green on the API (0.25) every other day...no trites or trates..

lots of conflicting info here:

if your tank is a cyclin', and you are beginning to get higher concentrations of nitrates...that is 99.99% the cause...

remove it from the glass with a credit...

nope! the filter is operating just fine with normal flow. it even gets that "good" kind of gunky inside like all my other filters do where you can tell the bacteria is building up. the water stays...

hello all...long time no see

i set up a 5.5g hospital/QT tank about a month to five weeks ago and have been using one of those submersible mini-filters. no carbon. i stripped out the carbon and...

and if you want to disambiguate the word, i would hope you realize the definition of "several," is more than than two, but not many. we learned that in middle school.

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my tank is fine and in good health and harmony. if it wasn't, i would cut down on the population. all my fish are tiny and fully grown. i think the biggest fish in the...

calling the fish i work so hard to keep, "miserable," is not an overstatement, but wholly untrue. i am just several inches over the rough "rule of thumb" of one-inch per gallon in the tank, which...

don't be so quick to judge. the guppies were the first ones in the tank with 20 gallons to themselves. the gourami pair that fought was a mistake because obviously two gouramis without a wall between...

my 20gal is stocked to the gills (see stocking list below) and i have no problems after some sorting out (my dwarf flame gourami killed the blue dwarf gourami and the fancy guppy killed his three...

i have my betta (taylor) in a 5.5 gal with two apple snails (dave and grohl...my fiancee named them...huge foo fighters fan...

the amount of interaction my betta has with all within and around his...

Hobbs...are you aware of any drawbacks to that product? I find so much conflicting information on it? You ever use it?

if adding to the school or time doesn't help to the point of satisfaction...my explanation...they're tetras...they're relatively shy by nature

backed. my six corys are the most active fish in my community tank. i wouldn't put them in a small tank like that. they'd be suffocated.

i have a ten gallon that i'm going to put a ton of...