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I wish I could help you and hope someone will be along soon. I hope he can spit it out on his own. Great Emma replied below!

Take your water to the local fish store and get exact readouts for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and ph and KH if they have that test. They will test for free. I don't like to take "it is okay" for an answer - I have them give me the number and I write it down. Goldfish need a ph above 7. How big are yo...

I cant tell if this post is for real or not.

I wouldnt have one loach in your tank. And you should be doing daily large water changes.

How about nitrates - are they registering yet?

What kind of loaches (sorry I'm sure you recently posted on this)

Goldfish are one of my favourite fish. I noticed someone else posted they had a 90 gallong goldfish tank which was really cool.

I learned so much fishless cycling and am in the same boat as you. My husband gives me the grrr face when I ask him for help discerning the colours on the cards. And the worry of the fish swimming in toxic water isn't there either. I am fishless cycling (rather keeping a cycle alive) in a qt tank fo...

i wouldn't use fish to cycle - its stressful on the fish if they make it through but they could get sick (ich, flex, flukes etc) and cause problems. Why not fishless cycle or seed the new filter with some media from your old tank and feed it ammonia until its eating enough ammonia to support your ne...

What about adding the second story and putting the first level under the substrate (resting on the tank bottom) for him to dig in?

I stopped looking in the walmart section because I felt like crying every time I did.

I'm up in Ottawa and the walmart near me no longer has a fish section. Someone mentioned that walmarts were getting out of the live fish business. I wonder if its locally, just Canada or all of walmart?

I'd add a double dose of prime also. I will link to the threads. ... there may be something that will help you: It starts on page two of this thread - it was recommended he not add it as someone else had a bad experience: http://thegab.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3125&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15...

Someone on another forum lost a dear fish when he added algaecide and it was algaefix. It was horrible. Ever since reading that thread I will never use it and I live with nasty black brush algae. I don't want to go through the process of blacking out the tank. I figure it helps with ammonia and eati...

Very nice tank. I love wendelov.

What did you do to get rid of the peasoup algae?

I will post on the local aquariums society. I'll get the tds of the tank and tap water tested.

Hey Diana - I meant to reply yesterday. Thanks so much for taking your time to read my post and replying. I added carbon right after reading your post. I have ammonia in my well water. I've had lengthy discussions about this on another forum. Conflicting advice - some say its not normal, some say th...

Hi guys. THis is a lengthy post but I hope you read it and help if you can. I was watching my 30G tank today when I saw one of my two weather loaches react very badly. Like a twisting spazzy swim. After months of watching them I'd never seen one act this way. On closer examination his/her eyes looke...