220gal Oscar tank
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Whats the name of those fake plants? Your tank loves great, I love Oscar tanks....cant wait to see if when they are all big. Shouldnt be to long from the sounds of everything you will be doing for them. What do you feed yours?
LOL not a chance! I made a thread in the DIY section on the water changer and added the price and was beat up from one end of the thread to the other. People focused on the cost instead of the ideaCichlid fanatic;1989581; said:Sick! Im so jealous. What was the total amount of the bulid if you dont mind me asking.
I only added the price to share as much info as possible, PM me and I'll tell you.New Laurel Hanging Bush - Olive Green. They came with these foam berries all over them, so I picked them off. http://www.1888flowermall.com/product.aspx?pf_id=PBL060-OGJayK1320;1989667; said:
I've been feeding them Cichild Gold, I just opened a can of Omega One cichlid pellets this week and they seem to like it. They get Plankton as a treat
When they get bigger I'll vary their diet more.Yes I am serious, though, they looked bigger in the pictures. With them (now that I know) being 3-4 inches long, that should suffice.
55 gallons is the minimum to keep nitrates under 20 ppm with largish water changes each week and good filter maintenance. I would personally say 50 gallons per oscar and so does everyone on another forum that I visit that all have thriving fish.
Why wouldn't you recommend 80-90 percent water changes? I do 150% water changes (drain as low as possible without the fish being out of water, refill to 75%, drain again as low as possible, refill to 100%) to set the nitrates back to zero every week.
As long as the nitrates stay 20 ppm and under constantly then I will not bug you...
How are you treating your water before it is changed? I am on city water and we have high amounts of chlorine in the supply.
55 gallons is the minimum to keep nitrates under 20 ppm with largish water changes each week and good filter maintenance. I would personally say 50 gallons per oscar and so does everyone on another forum that I visit that all have thriving fish.
Why wouldn't you recommend 80-90 percent water changes? I do 150% water changes (drain as low as possible without the fish being out of water, refill to 75%, drain again as low as possible, refill to 100%) to set the nitrates back to zero every week.
As long as the nitrates stay 20 ppm and under constantly then I will not bug you...
How are you treating your water before it is changed? I am on city water and we have high amounts of chlorine in the supply.
A good water conditioner like Prime will take care of that chlorine and other contaminents in your municipal water supply. 150% water changes weekly is just a waste of time. You drain the tank almost all the way fill it all the way back up and then drain it again every week??? How do your fish ever get comfortable in their habitat? I do weekly water changes but they are about 30% weekly in a 90g and I always try to stay out of my fishes way when I do it, water changes are very traumatic for a fish so be careful.
I wont say I have zero cholrine in my water as that's unlikely, but it's undetectible with hobby test kits. There is lots of aeration in my tank when it's being filled. It's aireated wehn if drops into the sump and espiecally when it drops from the retunrs to the tank. I also spoke with a marine biologist that is well respected in my area as a filtration expert (it's his job) and he wasn't the least bit concerned about cholrine saying that the amount of water I'm changing is small enough to disepate the chlorine (yeah I was shocked too, but knowing his back ground and what others have told me about him I'm taking his word as the gospel truth).
I wouldn't change 80-90% because of stress. Also I'd be concerned about depliting all the amo and nit from water the bio filtration need.
I wouldn't change 80-90% because of stress. Also I'd be concerned about depliting all the amo and nit from water the bio filtration need.
wow, thanks for the compliment.black_monster;1991403; said:
I agree also that it is an awesome tank!
gnusiance: I know about removing chlorine and etc, but because of the automated system I was not sure how joeyballz did it. Why would you say that they are traumatic? I and many others on oscarfish.com have done it this way for years without any "trauma relating to waterchanging deaths". Cleaner water can seriously have an affect on how your fish deals with stress, a good one.
joeyballz: No matter what fish you have, it will be giving enough bioload for some processing of wastes. Even if it doesn't at first, bacteria do not instantly die, the nitrifying bacteria can take days to starve, so by that time the food source is built up again.
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gnusiance: I know about removing chlorine and etc, but because of the automated system I was not sure how joeyballz did it. Why would you say that they are traumatic? I and many others on oscarfish.com have done it this way for years without any "trauma relating to waterchanging deaths". Cleaner water can seriously have an affect on how your fish deals with stress, a good one.
joeyballz: No matter what fish you have, it will be giving enough bioload for some processing of wastes. Even if it doesn't at first, bacteria do not instantly die, the nitrifying bacteria can take days to starve, so by that time the food source is built up again.
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Awesome tank!