Tiger Oscar Coloring
- Thread starter Cloudk
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Well, it's at 75-80 cause of the turtles
I doubt they'll out live the turtles!
But if they do, I'll change it. Promise 
I doubt they'll out live the turtles! But if they do, I'll change it. Promise Alot of messy fish there. I would do large frequyent water change (at least twice a week) to help them stay healthy (no hole in the head) and color up.
I think if you do some research you would see that its inadvisable to keep these fish together especially in such a small tank. I just figure I tell you before someone here on the forum rips you a new one. Ofcourse, if you have no care for the health, life, and even the look of some of your fish you can continue what you are doing. But if you want the fish to look as nice and be as happy as they possibly can then you should focus on the habitat of one type of fish and try and recreate it.
Small tank? Seriously? The freaking thing is 240gal and I have 2 fx5's running, full of media. And to everyone else, about the waste: I'm getting in the habit of cleaning the gravel once a week, resulting in about a 30%ish+ water removal. I recently found I have high nitrates in my refill water(40ppm), so I don't want to do too much change at once. My only problem is nitrates, but I was doing water changes so much, I think I was making my own problem. Got my 2nd fluval and filled it w/ biomedia. So far, my hunch was right and my tank nitrates have gone down w/o my almost daily water changes. So I'm working on perfect water perameters. Everything else is good though, ph, ammnoia, and all that.
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Ponyo;5061979; said:
Do people read the posts before theirs? If u'd read my post, u'd see that I said, my water perameters are almost perfect. Only the nitrates, and those are steadily going down. If anyone is interested in my media: fx5 1: prefilter, bio-max, sockfull zero-carb(carbon & ammonia remover mixed), 2 clearmax, and a little seachem matrix dashed in. Fx5 2: prefilter, biomax, 3 carbon bags, 2 clearmax, one basket full of seachem matrix, and more zero-carb. Sponges too of course
everything except the seachem, is fluval brand. Gotta love fuval. Where would we be w/o u
Also, I have a large water circulator, and 2 of those air pump things. One is ingeniously installed in the outake of the fx5
Cloudk;5061959; said:Small tank? Seriously? The freaking thing is 240gal and I have 2 fx5's running, full of media. And to everyone else, about the waste: I'm getting in the habit of cleaning the gravel once a week, resulting in about a 30%ish+ water removal. I recently found I have high nitrates in my refill water(40ppm), so I don't want to do too much change at once. My only problem is nitrates, but I was doing water changes so much, I think I was making my own problem. Got my 2nd fluval and filled it w/ biomedia. So far, my hunch was right and my tank nitrates have gone down w/o my almost daily water changes. So I'm working on perfect water perameters. Everything else is good though, ph, ammnoia, and all that
sounds fine to me. I'd just worry about your goldfish temp, but they'll probably die first just because of that. I'd just rehome em and get something cool, but it's not my tank and if you love em i understand.
anyway, i don't see how youre keeping your nitrates down. sucks about your water. what exactly helps your nitrates go down as normally this is achieved by water changes? I'm just curious. Biomedia only helps with nitrites and ammonia.
