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i used to over salt my piranha tank as i was feeding alot of live fish to them from sources i prolly shouldnt have but in my 180gal i was adding about 3/4 of a pound of salt the fish were healthy and great and never had a problem my last 3 live without salt now i sold off 15 of them as far as loache...

1000 watts is a kilowatt so if you have 5000 watts your running 5 kilowats now every hour they run is another story my 500 watt on my 180 runs for 30 seconds every few minutes on a really cold day in an unheated basement i am haveing problems with my electric and am in a high bill investigation as s...

i lost 2 clowns yesterday also
i dunno why either
all my other fish in the same tank are fine
noone looks like anythings wrong

with a short move like that you could do it all in 1 day bucket up the fish lower the tank water to about enuff to keep the gravel covered also use another bucket to hold your filter media toss all this into your vechical and drive when you get to the new place set up your tank filters and what not ...

i have moved large fish in 5 gallon buckets
were they were in the buckets for over 4 hours total
rubbermaids should be ok
i used them for temporary housen for fish

welp heres a stupid idea a water bed heater they are a flat plastic pad they come with a thermometer and a thurmustat (sp) you could line the sump witha pond liner placen the heaters pad under it and it sould work good its controllable from 60-100 degress F on the bed itself it lays on a piece of pl...

anyone can afford UV http://www.aquatraders.com/index.asp i only ran mine when the lights were on i dont have it on my tank atm cuz the fish in there never get sick oh and i dont mean my loach tank either i dont like bleach either i wouldnt put hot boiling water into my tank either it could shatter ...

awsome
as usual

my weather loaches like to hang out on top of my powerhead
and jammed on the intake of my fx5
they kinda fit right into the groves of the fx5

so i guess im saying
i sure hope this is normal

BIO SPIRA choice number 1 if not choice numbers 2 n 3 do you have any friends with fish tanks that har cycled? if so get some of there SubStrate and maybe some filter media ie sponge or gravel stuff fish stores often sell gravel but only as a last resort if you add either of them to your tank you wi...

dead plants

i dont wanna see you give up i was also wondering if you have well water? well water can be scarey dangerous sometimes 1 other thing you could try is native fish like go to the local stream or lake and try some fish from there they might be used to the local water and if you have success with them y...

if you got alot of little red bumps on your arm after you cleaned the tank it prolly was just an irritation from your arm rubbing on the plastic trim i get it all the time i dunno if you clean with your tops on or off but off gives you more room without the rubbing on the plastic i woulda mention th...

toss all your substrate into the new tank in doing so your new filter will get some bactiria into it also put your AC filter onto the new tank add your fish and your good to go id even say gravel vac the old tank into the new tank i switch my tanks around all the time and dont lose fish doing it you...

if it gets worse
givem a squeeze
it might help him pass whatever is stuck