BigWater

Now I am kind of a newbie when it comes to the use of RO water. I know that it may adjust your pH but I also assumed that it would lower the GH aswell because the minerals should be filtered out by the RO unit. Now I filled up one of those reusable water jugs from Safeway and added it to my shrimp tank, obviously I added prime as a precautionary measure. I took out some water from the tank split the difference and 5050 tank water / RO. so far I have done this the last few days to not change things too fast. BUt the GH is not coming down. So i decided to test the RO water and it is as hard as nails. Am I looking at this wrong or is the RO unit at Safeway not working very well? I will read more on this but I was hoping that someone on here may have ran into a simialr issue and has a solution. THanks

I'm pretty sure if you talk to the right people you can find reefers in and around Bonnyville/ Cold Lake. Look for the two guys standing outside the convience store in trench coats listening too a boom box. Kinda like Jay and silent Bob -roll-

Weren't you banned on this site when your name was 55gallon???? You should have writen in you "what I've learned" section that clown puke comments get you banned. :boxer:

No you should be fine, our platys clean up hair algea aswell.:thumbs:

To me it sounds like something is stuck in your in take hose. The pump is pushing out the same amount of water but not being able to recover enough from the intake to balance out the system. If your gaskets were gone you would see a leak as small as a drip would do it, but your no seeing that so i would say you are clogged up.

Silver tips are aggresive in my experience and will keep chasing until they kill off your other fish one by one. Also, I have found that chinese or siamese algea eaters become aggresive as they get larger.

From what I've seen ehiem still can't touch the amount of media you can put into a FX5 and the self priming feature is worth having incase your power goes out.

Stopped in there today, they just got a new shipment of plants and some really nice ones too some really nice red ones that I havn't seen before, too bad my tank isn't bright enough. But I must say you all should check them out...

Legally I don't think you can take rocks from crown land. If I'm not mistaken you can't take trees from crown land to plant in your yard. So taking a rock or 10 falls into the same category I think. That being said there are some really nice rocks out there to be found . I think the law is more or less made to stop hordes of people from going out and taking everything and leaving nothing for nature. Everything in moderation lol

Well I am new to the use of sponge filters. I like the idea of them as an additional biological filter as it's main role and mechanical as secondary. In all the tanks I have sponge filters in there is another mechanical source of filtration. The sponge filters I have currently in my shrimp tanks but am not sure at the frequency of cleaning them or would you clean them? I ask" would you clean them" because the shrimp just continuously graze them picking up larger pieces of debris and the biological end of the filter should take care of the finer small debris? So what do you other users think :smokey:

Wow, thats a lot of great information, filtration filtration filtration. You have to remember these little guys originally live in streams in Japan, and asia. CRS need a little lower temps around 23- 25C to happy, although you can go cooler. There is tons of information on the net just start surfing and reading.:thumbs:

Try flipping the bucket :smokey:

You don't get it man, it's layed out quite clearly by one of the previous posts. It is illegal! There are no loop holes, you just can not do it. There has been so many problems in this province when it comes to our lakes, with illegal stockings it just shouldn't be tried.... Besides even though you say your not going to relocate fish, doesnt mean you won't. Why not look and get a gar or something it kinda looks like a pike, and has a nice toothy grin for yah :beer:

You should check the alberta fishing regulations before doing so. I believe there is something in about game fish, I am not positive but I don't think you can legally do it. That being said years ago my brother and I caught a small burbot while at the lake. We brought it home, and after a month or some it went crazy and died. Probally an ammonia spike because we knew very little about what we were doing. As for keeping walleye, good luck most lakes in alberta you can't keep them legally anymore, so keeping and catching a small one would be illegal, and the same goes for pike there are size restrictions.

Try a blanched piece of zuchini placed just before you turn off light when you wake up for work pull whats left out hopefully with your snail friends on it.