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Angel Tank

Discussion in 'Aquarium Equipment & Decor' started by Anthony, Jun 27, 2009.

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If the fish are fine, water is testing well, and it's not getting worse I'd try purigen tied to the intake >>below where your hob water flows so it will basically push over the purigen if that makes sense.

I'd keep doing your regular maint and give it a couple days IF its not getting worse and the fish are fine...still leaning towards a bacterial bloom.

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I'm going to do a large water change in a bit. I just took out the filter pad and cut two layers of the blue and white foam stuff (know what I mean?) and put that in place of it. It didn't seem dirty but when I placed it in my bucket and poured a few cups of water from the tank on it a lot of brownish sand type stuff came out. I'm beginning to wonder if I need the EX 70 over the 45. This filter seems like it's filtering well. I'm stabbing in the dark at this point.

I've never had a bacterial bloom before. Melafix won't fix that will it. Lmao

I just tried Kent Pro Clear in the tank to see if that was any better. After a few hours if it doesn't do anything it's water change time.

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be careful, I wouldn't be doing a larger one...your risking stressing those angelfish..they're too small to stress with a large wc imo.

BE CAREFUL...and wait it out a bit longer.

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Well by large I meant 50%, which I've been doing every few days anyway.

Do you know if the Safe Start did anything for your tank ?

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I just did a 50% water change. It cleared it up quite a bit but I added some Kent Pro Clear anyway. I'll see how it looks after a few hours and let you know. I noticed when I removed the lights there was a slight odd film on the surface of the water and on the overflow part of the filter. It was kind of slimy but I think it may have been some left over Pima/Melafix that I dosed for a few days.

I fed the fish this morning so I'm going to skip feeding them tonight.

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sounds good, lemme know.

I don't know with the tetra product...haven't bothered testing since the fry are doing great and the water is crystal clear.

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I'm happy to announce that my tank is crystal clear !

I can now see that some algae is beginning to grow on the driftwood. I need a pleco.

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wanna bristlenose?
<--got a good bit of them and a clutch of eggs ready to hatch any day now....daddy is in fanning them right now.

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That's what I was thinking of getting. The Ottos are too sensitive and I really don't want to bother with them in the Angel tank.

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I can send you a few if you like...with the small ones they should make it through with Priority.

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That would be great. What size are they ? Let me know what you want for them and shipping and I'll send it to you.

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their small, just under an inch.
I have kordon breather bags and those tabs..can't remember the name.
How many do you want (will have to catch the boogers)?
If you want some just pay the Priority ship fee.
I can also send you some mts and plants with them if you want?

<--slowly bumping heat ...wanting to add discus from that website

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Bag buddies ?

Think you could send like 6ish ?

I'll pass on the snails, I can't stand them.

You're putting Discus in the 90 ?

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should be able too...have to catch them first. Lol.

Yeah, in the 90g...Read up and the fish in there currently should be compatible. Readings are spot on and with the acidic water I should be good to go (6.0 and prob a touch lower).

All I need to do is bump the heat to 82-84F and keep doing what I've been doing. The plants I have should be good to go in that heat range too from what I've read.

<==starting with gradual heat increase now to make sure everyone...and everything does well. If so, they I'll order the 2" ones for 10.95-16.95...thinking 4

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Okay, I'm excited.

I was going to go tomorrow and buy one.

How cute, I've never seen 2" Discus.

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Ya, bag buddies..thats the tab.
ps. remember their in 6.0 ph and possibly lower.
(I don't bother to adjust the ph)

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Okay. My pH is at 6.3-6.5 without me adding anything. I'll drip acclimate them for an hour or two, hopefully they'll be okay.

After being in their bag for a few days the pH in the bag should rise a few points.

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Priority from my zip 15132...thinking it should take no more than 2 days.

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Hopefully no more than 2. My zip is 22932.

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Their lights about to go out..I'll work on catching some starting tomorrow when their lights come on (yay, my breeder thingy in the tank will finally come in handy). Lmdao!

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