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I have one of those. Good output. The baffles last about 4-5 months with everyday use. Very noisy.

Housing fish appropriately has nothing to do with enthusiasts minds. It is common sense and needs of the fish. There is nothing wrong with having a 100L tank. But you must house fish which fit into that 100L tank and have small space requirements.

Well my view is that a 100L tank is small. You are overstocked clear and simple. Also poorly stocked. Chain loaches need a group as they are social fishes. The molly's, chain loaches, and Kribs would be ok for now. The leopard pleco gets to 20", the Clown loaches get to 18" - that is 50cm. IMO you should rehouse them in the next weeks, certainly not years. Clown loaches, like all fish, need space to grow when young and small to grow and develop healthily. They are a social species and need to be housed in a group as well. Fish keeping is about looking after the fish appropriately and housing them in what they NEED, not by what you WANT.

Cool as. So with no fish in it or filter on it you can do as many 100% water changes as it takes to clear out the silt. You don't need to wait for anything, or let it settle. In fact if you are not using a gravel vac I recommend you stir up the silt with your hands when you are doing the 100% water changes. This will get rid of it quickly.

Do you have any fish in it? Do 75% water changes daily. With the water going into a bowl sitting on a plate in the tank. You need a good 3-4 cm of stones on top of the daltons to stop the cloudiness. What filter are you running on the tan?

I have found that white vinegar and baking soda gets rid of bleach smell. Then rinse with boiling hot water.

I prefer canisters as mine are super quiet. The AquaOne CF 1200, 2200, 2400 would probably be the cheaper end of the range of canisters. Compared with Eheim and Fluval.

That is seriously wet. I'm glad your house wasn't flooded Caryl.

I will echo the warnings about your Angels. They will show aggression to each other if they don't become a pair. If they do become a pair they will terrorize the entire tank if they spawn. I had a pair in a 225L community and suffered many fatalities. The Angels went from 'peaceful' to nasty aggressive overnight. I would recommend only keeping the Angels with fish of similar or larger size. Or rehoming them entirely.

A lot of the more mature locals have been saying this too. They say they cannot recall it this bad up the valley in the last couple of decades. Sucks to be the cop stuck on the road up Caryl's way! The local volunteer Fire crew have been up and down our road all day checking things and clearing felled trees on the road. Kudos to them.

Kokatahi which is 16 kms inland from Hokitika.

Beck - Modern Guilt

Yeah totally. We just lost another tree and several trunks have been snapped half way down. The wind has increased since sunset. The greenhouse shed across the field has its pvc sheeting torn and sounds like a locomotive at full speed.

Today we have had a bunch of trees fall over next to our house. A shed at the mill on the corner blew away. We have had power go off for about half the day which is a PITA.

I think Janola has surfactants in which may leave residues which will probably affect your fish adversely in enough quantity. Get some plain ammonia from the supermarket. It won't be a brand. Shake it then see if bubbles form on the surface, if so don't use it. You can boil your stones in vinegar, a large bottle is cheap. Or boil is a strong salty brine solution, also very cheap. But honestly I would only wash the stones in a bucket using cold water.

If you move everything across then it should merely be like a large water change. Monitor your parameters to make sure you are aware of any change after you move. Should be a piece of cake.

Yes plants are able to effectively outcompete the nitrifying bacteria for ammonia but it is not really much more metabolically taxing for them to convert Nitrate when necessary. In a heavily planted tank with medium to high lighting and appropriate dosing of Carbon then your Nitrate will be less than necessary to keep up with the plants requirements. Therefore to keep the plants growing you must dose to ~15ppm. So really Nitrate is really more useful than to just stop cyano in some settings. If you have excess ammonia and an imbalance in Nitrate and Potassium then you are likely to have increased algal growth. Some plant guru's recommend dosing of Potassium to 20ppm to give the plants a better opportunity to outcompete the algae in your tank.

Sounds like poor water quality. With those fish in a 200L tank you should be doing LARGE weekly water changes if not more than once a week. How much water are you changing?

I have this email twice. I would say their email was hacked and all of their address book was CC.

Welcome to the forum Snorkel.

That's awesome for you. So much fun to be had setting up a new tank

6500k. Make sure the bulbs have X65 or X67 on them. The Osram bulbs use the number 865. W is the version of the bulb, 65 is 6500k rating.

Any Nitrite is not a good thing. You can detoxify the Nitrite by dosing 1tsp regular kitchen salt per 20L of tank water. The safest way to add the salt is to mix it into a bucket of tank water, then use a length of narrow tube (like air line tubing) to syphon the salty water into the tank. But keep in mind this is treating the symptom, not the cause. As Whetu and Caryl said - test your water, do water changes, check your filtration. If you have measurable Nitrite I would suggest 50% water changes daily until it goes away.

Check out Mitre10 Mega. They are half that price even