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if they did breed there is a good chance young will be sterile

you need to quantify your statements as you make them back on topic you can cycle a tank using chemicals to provide food for your bacteria to establish or you can use a few fish to do the same thing you can add chemicals to lower your ammonia etc or you can do a water change the slower you do the water change the less chance of shocking the fish

i use them on fresh and salt water

Need a stickied thread on the emergency management of toxic comments on the forum so much for first do no harm

conjecture and assumption are wonderful words for a newbie it needs to be straightforward and in layman's terms your average new hobbyist doesn't want long dissertations but a simple answer

it is rarely when you are trying to sort a cycling problem that the source and tank parameters are the same so massive changes can kill

does this help? http://www.calctool.org/CALC/eng/civil/hazen-williams_g

or think they know better

+1

used to use them to direct coolant in the CNC lathes

for the price of a decent new canister filter you can get 3 times the media into a sump

interesting to see scoliosis in the splits and not showing in yellow tads

the brain of a fun guy :rotf:

sticking those 2 statements together may be read as an inference on the posters part that the lack of testing the water killed the guppies

how is their blood pressure?

those were the days of glory :sage:

seaweeds are marine algaes

very effusive

There are other things that cause hypertension than 17x the amount of sodium recommended when adding tonic salt to a fresh water aquarium

a little more reading

thanks substrate is a mix of a fine pale sand, with a heavier greyer sand over that is what looks like a marble pebble 3 tubes seem to be the key in the lighting dept will check K and type tomorrow P.S. No test kits were harmed in the set up of this tank.

it maybe, it is one anthony gave me everything is growing well must be the substrate and the lighting

I have a 2nd hand Aqua one AR980 and 2 buckets of sand from an established planted tank tank was dirty so gave it a quick rinse and clean started cleaning the sand with the hose and sand at the base had that lovely anaerobic smell flushed as best i could and put it into tank about 2cm at front to 6cm at the back started slowly filling with the hose while it was filling i planted some ambulia, baby tears, vallisneriia and a couple of amazon swords anthonylaw gave me when the tank was full it was very cloudy as some of the sand was pretty fine set up the overhead filter with ceramic and glass noodles, sponges and filter wool on top of that to help clear water set heater and filter going left it for 2 days for the water to clear then replaced the filter wool temp running at26c 4th day still slightly cloudy got given 30 guppies and swordtails so did a 50% water change and acclimated them over 1/2 hr in a bucket and put in tank 5th day put in a piece of driftwood i had in the turtle pond and some java moss 7th day did 30% water change 9th day put a pair of marble angels in tank and some mollies as i had no where else to put them 10th day 30% water change and removed 2 dead guppies (they were skinny when they came in) 14th day changed filter wool and did 30% water change, Angels have claimed back corner of tank and laid eggs cleaned front glass algae started put timer on lights as i kept forgetting to turn them off overnight 16th day put small golden algae eater in tank Angels eggs gone 18th day did 25% water change 21st day had to trim ambulia and baby tears back, 2 dead guppies, 1 skinny female, 1 male with torn fins