Aquariums Anyone?
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Probably the water.
If you use tap water that could be an issue.
Change the water at all? What kind of filtration do you have?
Any pumps or heaters in the water...could be leaking current...oddly enough this can effect things. I've seen it all.
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Tap water with the chlorine treatment in it. Didn't seem to work. Tempted to just collect rain water for it. We have enough of it right now. Lol
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Is that what is recommended? The wife set it up the last time with tap and killed all the new fish within a week or so. We also have terrible tap water anyways. Hate even washing my car with it. Lol
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and with the evaporation. a gallon jug will probably last you a week.
SW, its recommended to get a RO unit (reverse osmosis) as things are really sensitive to water. my 90g aquarium was evaporating almost 5 gallons a week. if not more
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Finally got some pictures of my new setups. Two 55 gals. The first has a jack Dempsey cichlid, 2 silver dollars, a rapheal catfish and a bristlenose pleco. The second has a angelfish, 3 BN plecos, and 5 spotted Cory cats.
The angelfish and the silver dollars are about 6 years old now and have been through hell and back. They lived through my learning curve, a cat the for whatever reason wanted to **** in the tank, a various other mistakes I have made, but they are still plugging along.
The angelfish and the silver dollars are about 6 years old now and have been through hell and back. They lived through my learning curve, a cat the for whatever reason wanted to **** in the tank, a various other mistakes I have made, but they are still plugging along.
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also a tip, dont buy any sort of Oscar...they never stop eating and will outgrow that tank in a rather short period of time... and will eat anything smaller than itself.
also do a water change every other week. If your not familiar with that means... it means take 10% of your water volume out and replace it with good water. Usually the more the better. FW is easy... Also don't use tap water. You want to use distilled water. or Water from a reverse osmosis unit. Tap water has a lot of bad things in it for fish. IE Chlorine.
also do a water change every other week. If your not familiar with that means... it means take 10% of your water volume out and replace it with good water. Usually the more the better. FW is easy... Also don't use tap water. You want to use distilled water. or Water from a reverse osmosis unit. Tap water has a lot of bad things in it for fish. IE Chlorine.
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