I thought it was a good idea to add a 10g filter cartridge to my aquaclear 70(which has its sponge filter as well). Worked good for a few days, I left for the weekend, came back to find my tank down about 6" from the Aquaclear overflowing from the 10g filter being clogged.
STUPID MISTAKES
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jvin85;4614604; said:I'm a bit of a newbie, can someone explain to me what's wrong here? So the silicon won't mold over, it'll have to grow on the glass and on everything else in the sump..??
The chemicals they add to silicone to make it mold resistant are potentially toxic to fish. If you need to use silicone, you should look for one not labeled as such.
at least you relized that it was mold resitant before you got it hooked up and ended up with a bunch of dead fish .. 
quite a few years ago I thought It would really make my 40 gallon breeder tank look good if I added a beta to the stock list which I only had a few small cichlids .... the betta lasted about 10 seconds before the largest cichlid a male firemouth got a snack.... looking back I often think of that and wonder WTF was I thinking
quite a few years ago I thought It would really make my 40 gallon breeder tank look good if I added a beta to the stock list which I only had a few small cichlids .... the betta lasted about 10 seconds before the largest cichlid a male firemouth got a snack.... looking back I often think of that and wonder WTF was I thinking
On our (Wife & I) first 20gal setup, we ended up with 3 guppies, 3 platys, 2 clown loaches, a red tail shark, a glass catfish, a striped raphael catfish, and 2 mystery snails.
I didn't know anything about water changes, dechlorinator, cycling or any of that. I knew we had to let the tank run fishless for a week or so before adding fish, and the LFS sold me some nitrobacter (I guess its like stability).
So eventually the clown loaches start showing signs of ammonia poisoning and I think its some infectious disease. So I decide we need to remove the diseased fish and then the water changed out and the decor & gravel cleaned off so that the other fish don't get it.
We fill two mixing bowls with water to keep the rest of the fish in while we go about this process. Empty the tank, clean everything in tap water, refill the tank with tapwater at some random temperature and start adding the fish back. And by, 'some random temperature' I mean that I'm pretty sure we ended up using everything from freezing cold to scalding hot by the time we were done.
About 3 minutes after we put the fish back in the tank we notice they're losing all color and sort of floating around struggling to live.
They didn't make it through the next 15 minutes
After that I took the fish-keeping reigns from the wife, did my research on what it actually takes to keep fish and we've been happily chugging along since then.
I didn't know anything about water changes, dechlorinator, cycling or any of that. I knew we had to let the tank run fishless for a week or so before adding fish, and the LFS sold me some nitrobacter (I guess its like stability).
So eventually the clown loaches start showing signs of ammonia poisoning and I think its some infectious disease. So I decide we need to remove the diseased fish and then the water changed out and the decor & gravel cleaned off so that the other fish don't get it.
We fill two mixing bowls with water to keep the rest of the fish in while we go about this process. Empty the tank, clean everything in tap water, refill the tank with tapwater at some random temperature and start adding the fish back. And by, 'some random temperature' I mean that I'm pretty sure we ended up using everything from freezing cold to scalding hot by the time we were done.
About 3 minutes after we put the fish back in the tank we notice they're losing all color and sort of floating around struggling to live.
They didn't make it through the next 15 minutes
After that I took the fish-keeping reigns from the wife, did my research on what it actually takes to keep fish and we've been happily chugging along since then.
Well, I just about finished my new sump. This time I spent the extra $3.lol Why would mildo resistant caulk be cheaper? Seems like it should be the other way around. Atleast the 100%silicone caulk dries in like 6hrs vs. the other stuff that dried in 3 days(well actually 4-6days). Makes clamping glass take a lot longer. Just about ready to plumb my tank. Yehhhh.
