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I'm having no luck finding an answer but how do shrimp relate to fish as far as bio load? The old standard of 1 inch of fish body per gallon of capacity is fine and easy but does it apply to shrimp?

I've got a 12 gallon edge with 3 galaxy rasbora, 3 endlers, 4 cherry red and 2 rock shrimp and so far everything seems fine but I just want to make sure its not overloaded.

Can I add more shrimp?

Southpark Petsmart has Coralife salt on sale for $35/bucket. Also, if you look in their pond section (what??) they've got Laguna test strips, 50 for $15.

Either I go to Petsmart too often or they have the best deals.

Alright, round 2 on the great petsmart selloff. Plants are 1/2 price and fish are 75% off at 50th street and 137th ave location.

I would say just don't overdue it. My boyfriend had frogs before ... and they seemed to produce far more foul smells than any fish I ever had. Yuck. Just my thoughts.

Thanks for the heads up but I've had the frogs up for a year and I'm pleased (and proud) to say that I've never had any foul odors coming from their tank. I know my fiancee's fire belly toads can get pretty funky if the water changes are even slightly lacking though.

As far as the cycle, so far so good... my 12g Edge is set up with the standard HOB into which I put some of the foam from the frogs.

Day 1 and everything is at ideal or safe levels according to my ammonia gauge and tetra test strips.

Water is still a little cloudy but that'll work itself out pretty quick.

Tint isn't too hard to apply to car windows and sticks well as long as you use heat so on a nice flat, clean surface like a tank it should be pretty straight forward.

Just go slow and make sure everything is CLEAN.

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll give it a shot and report my results.

I'm cheap errm, frugal and I like to save money on my hobbies, but I also like to share deals.

For example, I noticed last week that PetSmart on 170th street was selling all their fish for 75% off and I understand that 50th street and 136th ave will be doing the same if they haven't already, and other stores may follow suit. I was told they're doing it due to renovations on the tanks and filter systems but what the heck, it's a great deal for regular type fish... nothing exotic of course, but still a nice deal.

PJ's Pets also has their Fluval Nano tank stands on sale for $20, down from $65.

Anyone else find steals of deals out there?

So, I've been pondering this one for a few days as I slog through cycling one tank and get ready to cycle another: Can I use the filter media from my frog tank to start the cycle in my fish tank?

I got this idea from reading about people swapping media between their fish tanks to jump start bacterial growth so I searched around and found nothing that helped my case. The frog tank has been up and running for about a year and everyone is healthy and happy. Water tests seem to indicate everything is good in there and as far as I can tell the frogs don't secrete any poison.

Are there any other questions I should be asking myself or would you folks suggest it's worth a try?

Hello all.

I've kept fish before, long ago, but my fiancee and I have decided to get back into fishies... tropicals for me and salt for her.

I'm sure we will have plenty of silly questions but I'll try to search in advance.