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I'm leaving for Chicago for graduate school in a couple of months, and unfortunately I will not be taking my current 15 gallon set-up with me (I'm debating starting a new tank once I get there, but that's another issue). It would be great if I could sell some of this stuff instead of just...

any idea what happened?

Very odd that the 120 goes down to 4ft. Anyone know anyone that makes a 120 long? When you see eat swords, do you mean nibble on/punch holes in the leaves or do you mean entirely consume the plant?

I've had a 15 gallon planted tank for the last 2 years or so in my on-campus apartment (where we're supposed to be limited to 10 gallons :rofl:). Now that I'm graduating and going off to grad school, though, I'm finally going to get the chance to put together what I've been coveting for a while...

sigh...Kav, the only points that you seem to be responding to are the ones made about the nitrogen cycle, even though several people have brought up the fact that other organic and inorganic substances can build up over time if water changes are not done on a regular basis. the basic question...

Kav you complain of flawed arguments and yet what valid argument are you making? Your assumptions seem to be 1. New filtration technology can take care of the nitrate cycle 2. A fish who has adapted to the conditions of the tank can live in said tank There are a multitude of variables...

The point is that over time there will be a build of a "things" (whether that be nutrients, or hormones, or whatever) that the filtration in a conventional tank cannot take care of. As many have mentioned, the point of doing water changes is to maintain a relatively balanced level of "water...

I do have AS, so how does that come into play? And I assume whatever changes I make should remain constant over the entirety of each week. Do you mean just reduce the light by 1/3 and dose regularly on the 3-4 days a week I'll be around? Or reduce light by 1/3 and don't dose at all?

So I've been dosing my 15 gallon planted using the EI method for a while now, but for the next 1.5 month I have to figure something else out. I'm going on graduate school interviews every weekend (well, really Thursday - Saturday/Sunday) until early March, meaning that I'll be missing out on...

not to hijack the thread...but those big red ones...are they usually male or female or could it be both (i.e. is there a difference between male/female appearance, or is it simply based on age)

I read this in someone's post recently and was a bit confused. What the person (I don't remember who) said was that to get a denser carpet of dwarf hairgrass one should plant the small "plantlets" of dwarf hairgrass (i.e. 4-5 blades connected to a root) more spread out rather than very...

I second (or third or whatever) dwarf hairgrass. Doesn't require a lot of light if you got your CO2 under control. And it definitely won't get too tall in a 90 gallon. (growing it under 30W in a 15 gallon)

Well...I did the rescape/added the new aquasoil last Friday. The filter broke on Monday. And I received the fish on Tuesday and Wednesday. So that can't be the whole explanation, because I doubt there was a large difference in ammonia levels between Tuesday and Wednesday, especially since on...

luckily I only added what amounted to probably about 4 cups worth of AS, so hopefully the ammonia should clear within a week or so I did a large enough WC today to get ammonia to 0ppm (thank God my water bill is covered in my rent lol). We'll see what the tank looks like when I get back next...

sigh...this is frustrating I'm stuck at about 0.25ppm ammonia. Tested before a WC, did what amounts to about a 200% WC, still at 0.25ppm. Tested tap water just to see and tap is reading 0 ppm At a loss in terms of what to do besides go to bed and see what it looks like in the morning...

I know I read that salt helps to keep the wounds from getting infected; I can't think of what it would do for respiration. In either case, several sites suggest adding salt (for the antibacterial effect) and an air stone (further oxygen in the water so the fish can still breath despite damaged...

That's what I'm planning on doing. Removing all the soil isn't really an option either. I mean, it is...but it would be an immense amount of work that I just don't have the time for. I'll keep changing the water and checking the levels. Hopefully having the filter on there will help

it's definitely the ammonia; i can see that the two I originally had have damaged gilled (at least...I think; they're rather red and look slightly swollen, which I understand to be signs of ammonia burned gills). hopefully they'll pull through, options are limited at the moment. :(

I'm having a variety of issues with my tank and I need to turn the CO2 off for a few days until the part for my filter arrives. The last time something happened with my CO2 (tank ran out while I was away) I came back to find a good amount of BBA. Would it hurt my plants if I turned the...

I've used H2O2 on several occasions to kill BBA. Works well, just keep the filter running if you're doing it in the tank. Find a syringe and directly apply to the affected areas