Sprucegruve

i think thats about it.

maybe if your pump wont work to return the water from the sump consider getting a bigger pump i believe they are cheeper than $120 for a new canister.

but also talk to a planted tank guru about the co2 gassing off advantages/disadvangates for the canister/sump,because i dont know much about c02 yet.

im setting up my co2 in a month or so

asking about what type of filter media? anything that holds a good amount of nitrifying bacteria. bioballs, floss etc, the typical.

if you have another tank handy which is problem free, grab some of that media and throw it in your tank. do this to jump start the process.

I've always done this method with great success.

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i have seen people decorate a tank,fill it,setup filters,grab a sponge from a cycled tank.

2-3 good squishes of the sponge then they added fish 5 mins later

no losses,fish seemed a little stressed but fine

on my discus tank im running 2x aquaclear 110s,and a eheim pro 3 2080

i do so many water changes(70% every 2days)i dont see a need for carbon.

but if i know i will be skipping a water change for one day i will add a little carbon in the filter(barebottom tank,no plants to clean it).

i figure pack those filters with as much bioballs and floss as possible,every week clean your filters slightly,in a discus tank lots of uneaten food gets sucked up and can rot in your filter causing bad water.

you have to think that some people have so much filtration on a discus tank that if there was something rotting in the filter, your ''clean'' water will pass by it up to 10X per hour

also i have never seen this before but a reputable source told me that too much carbon in a tank can cause discus to have lateral line disease

i dont know much about salt water,but from the sounds of it,your nitrates build at a normal rate but because salt keepers avoid changing water because of cost of marine salt,the nitrates need to be removed mechanically(skimmer,or something else)

that is my general knowledge of SW keeping.

Sorry to hear about this jay,at least your wife saved the last few fish in the tank though.

Hopefully your son learned from his mistake and you never have a problem like this again.

welcome to the forum,lots of friendly helpful people on here.

and if your looking for a new tank its the season,it seems alot of people sell there tanks when they move in the spring/summer

not many members got any.i dont drive and noone wanted to come to spruce grove.

i endded up biting the bullet and keeping over 15.

How long would they be okay in a 5g tank? I could buy one next time I'm over. I didn't realized what you had was more than you were planning to keep. I have such a nice idea for a custom made tank to feature the tree. Think it would be okay to be moved a few times til I can build the tank? I have no idea how quickly they grow.

lets put it this way,they have only grown about 1inch -1.5 inch since i got them........the leaves originally all died off,now they have regrown to my lighting spectrum.

doing good but slow growers,the ones that i dont have in fish tanks yet are growing slightly quicker because i can use ferts what would normally kill fish.

I am curious about this too, I have never seem them for sale in calgary. Do they need a salt water or brackish? because I just have fresh water :cry:

they were in full saltwater when i bought them,i have slowly acclimated them to like 2% brackish,i hope to get them on full fresh

blues are nice.

but depending on your water paramaters you should check out harolds Hyphessobrycon frankei also called the Ucayali tetra.

not many members got any.i dont drive and noone wanted to come to spruce grove.

i endded up biting the bullet and keeping over 15.

ill post pictures in the morning

lol yep

like i said that was when i first joined

when i first joined this forum i thought everyone got different member titles depending on what section they posted in the most.

for example i thought if you posted like a thousand posts in the buy/sell section i thought your title would be a big predator or something.

or if you posted a thousand posts in bottom of the barrel your title would be a stingray.

lol i thought it was funny

now i just put my member title to whatever my profile picture is

because I suggsted panacur, the majority here will say levamisole.

:rofl: i think you figured it out lol....jk

this panacur seems good i just dont know ow much someone would dose.

not sure if I should treat the other one but wil

It's a good idea to treat all tanks. It can be easily transferred to others. Sprucegruve described them perfectly...a plague. I've had it twice, and it made it to every tank I had at the time. The meds will kill the worms, but not the eggs, which is why you need 2-3 doses of it spread between about a 14 day period. They're a pain to get rid of, but if you follow the directions then you should be able to get rid of them. Best of luck!

yep this can spread very easily,i moved some plants from my 90 gallon and spread them to my 55 gallon last year.

but levamisole doesn't kill the worms,it paralyzes them,which is why they suggest 50%-80% water change after doseing,so you suck them up out of the sand.

you need to do a second dose just to be sure you get all the worms that are about to hatch

try some freeze dried foods from the pet store.

krill,bloodworms,mysic shrimp,california blackworms.

they are healthyer than live foods,and there is less chance of sickness

Good idea ckmullin.

I personally use levamisole HCL

You can buy it from www.canadianaquatics.com

They will rush ship it to you overnight,they are in Vancouver

Or if you need it quicker jayba can probably sell you some lev

He lives around red deer,or I can mail you some levamisole HCL

But this dog dewormer seems to be safe I was just reading up about it,but I can't find a dosing formula for aquariums

Edit- these worms are a plague,good luck with them

When I had them I dosed twice before they were completely gone,

And I dosed a third time one month later just to be sure

If someone really wanted to test if moving water freezes then plug in a power head in a 5 gallon pail and put it in the freezer over night,it won't freeze

Yes I have heard of this before,she will probably molt and the eggs will fail.i hear this is a common problem in breeding crays.

But if you search the Internet enough I'm sure there is someone that has figured out how to hatch them without the parent.

I'm thinking maybe a egg tumbler for mouth brooding cichlids or something

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Lol sell yours for $35, they are trained snail assassins

Now that you mention it I'm going to add some pest snails to my cryptoheroes Nanoluteus tank and see what they do

I saw my red railed shark do that once,he diddent shake it around aggressively though.

That pretty cool,your fish control snail populations

,you could sell those for big money lol

man dont leave the forum just because a couple dont agree with sonething you agree with.

talk it out with the people privately, :thumbs:

:welcome: to the forum.

i ordered 2 pounds from april in bc

if you want some i still have over a half pound,i can mail it to you

aquarium central has a really good price on these compared to 'petland'.

but i was wondering if all the bettas that arrived in calgary were male?all the ones at AC are male....i dont think anyone will get a chance to breed these guys if the fish farms are just sending males

vancouver aquarium

http://www.vanaqua.org/

i went last summer and it was alot of fun

There are a lot of mixed opinions about disuc care and breeding.

I believe there are a couple people in Calgary that have had discus eggs hatch in normal Calgary tapwater.

But I would still recommend softening your water a little bit,but keep in mind I'm new to discus,and have not bread them before.

I have wild caught discus so I thought it would be best to mix a little r/o water with my tap water,if you are getting line bread discus I wouldent be as worried about the hard water because the water in Germany is pretty hard.

But is your getting discus from an Asian farm then you should probably lower the hardness a bit.

But like I said I'm new to discus.

German breeders probably do use r/o water,because there water is so hard.

Welcome to the forum.

Thank you AriahJade for the good article.

Just adding easy food for beginners

There is a food product "golden pearls" is comes in very very small sizes.

You could try the 5-50 micron size for for baby bettas.

Or if you have a set of rubber boots,go to a clean pond or creek And collect daphnia for the baby bettas.

Just make sure there are no farmers using pesticides or herbicides right by the creek,you don't want there garbage leeching into your food source.

You can also collect glass shrimp,fairy shrimp,and mosquito larva at a pond/creek,but they will be too big for baby bettas.

I have used the golden pearls,when I was waiting for my brine shrimp to hatch,it seemed to work well.

My baby bristle nose plecos liked it,and so so did my baby lemon lime cichlids.

When I was feeding baby brine shrimp to my fry,once a day I would add a small around of powder spirulina for them to eat and I never had any problems