Okay, I'll admit I was never very good in chemistry while in high school and remember thinking I'll never need to know all this info anyway!
Apparently I should've paid more attention if I wanted to get into the fish & aquarium hobby! I'm totally overwhelmed now.
On "cycling" an aquarium: do I really need to do this for a small 6 gallon aquarium that is only going to have a Betta in it? For the first few months I had my Betta, I did a 100% water change once a week and he survived. (Now I don't do that anymore.)
Do I really need to check all these levels of amnonia, etc.? I don't do that with the jar he's in now...
I haven't even started yet and am feeling like I don't know what I'm doing and it seems like an awful lot of time to have a small tank vs. a jar!
Apparently I should've paid more attention if I wanted to get into the fish & aquarium hobby! I'm totally overwhelmed now.
On "cycling" an aquarium: do I really need to do this for a small 6 gallon aquarium that is only going to have a Betta in it? For the first few months I had my Betta, I did a 100% water change once a week and he survived. (Now I don't do that anymore.)
Do I really need to check all these levels of amnonia, etc.? I don't do that with the jar he's in now...
I haven't even started yet and am feeling like I don't know what I'm doing and it seems like an awful lot of time to have a small tank vs. a jar!