I have never killed fish despite knowing nothing when someone gave me a few feeder goldfish they no longer wanted several years ago. I now house my goldfish in a 1000 gallon buried stock tank outside they are thriving and reproducing.I have 3- 40 gal and 1- 100 gal community tanks with all live...
It was HO takes two 39 watt bulbs it had a sign below it on the shelf that said "New Item". Only problem is they only had one size not a selection in HO just the 48".
I was looking for some inexpensive lighting options and while at Home Depot I found a 48" dual 54 watt bulb T5 HO fixture for $40.It was posted as a new procuct. I bought 2 and now have 216 watts for my 100 gal tank for 80 bucks plus the cost of the bulbs. You have to wire and custom mount them...
We drink bottled water but cook and make coffee and tea with it. I called our county gov. and it appears they don't really care about our water on private land from wells they don't even have any testing they will do. It is kind of funny since here in California they seem to care just about...
Well I broke down and bought a RO/DI system now I have to figure out what to do with the purified water! With the high PH hard well water the fish are used to I am really unsure of exactly how to condition the water to put back in the tanks. Equalibrium? ph buffers? phosphates? feel like I need...
I just figured out I have not been doing the API nitrate test correctly I was not shaking the test tube for 60 seconds my 37 and 100gal newly cycled tanks have nitrates at the high end of the test color. I read some tap water can be high so I tested my well water :yuck:and it is just as high out...