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Posted by L u on February 22, 2008, 11:03 pm
Please log in for more thread options How long should I wait before I change the water? And how much water
should I remove? (5 gallon tank). When it's time, I really want to
remove all the water, and clean all the decorations, and of course the
gravel.
If I don't clean out the tank, and I just remove "some" of the water,
the gravel will stay dirty.
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Posted by on February 23, 2008, 2:27 pm
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change as much water as needed to get rid of ammonia or nitrites.
change water to keep nitrates under 20 ppm.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:03:22 -0500, Romantasy1@webtv.net (L u) wrote:
>How long should I wait before I change the water? And how much water
>should I remove? (5 gallon tank). When it's time, I really want to
>remove all the water, and clean all the decorations, and of course the
>gravel.
>
>If I don't clean out the tank, and I just remove "some" of the water,
>the gravel will stay dirty.
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Posted by Tynk on February 23, 2008, 11:46 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Feb 22, 10:03=EF=BF=BDpm, Romanta...@webtv.net (L u) wrote:
> How long should I wait before I change the water? And how much water
> should I remove? (5 gallon tank). When it's time, I really want to
> remove all the water, and clean all the decorations, and of course the
> gravel.
>
> If I don't clean out the tank, and I just remove "some" of the water,
> the gravel will stay dirty.
Scrubby off any algae is fine, but you don't remove everything and
dump all the water with each cleaning.
The tank will never cycle.
Please, please research on cycling a fish tank (nitrogen cycle).
Are you working on bring back those goldies to the store?
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Posted by L u on February 24, 2008, 1:00 am
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Tonight I changed 50% of the water, and added fresh water. Then I added
a capful of AquaPlus to the water.
I need to get that ph test kit.
The manager at the store told me that AquaPlus is better than Stress
Coat.
No, I didn't take my Goldies back to the store. I have gotten too
attched to them.
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Posted by Tynk on February 24, 2008, 9:04 am
Please log in for more thread options Here's what you said before abotu that store mananger:::
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From: Romanta...@webtv.net (L u)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:02:41 -0500
Subject: Re: How many goldfish can be kept in 1.5 gallons of water?
I read about cycling, but I'm just a novice.
The petstore manager said 2 goldfish were fine for such a small tank.
But then I bought a 5 gallon.
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This is why you don't need to be listenting to anything this guys is
telling you.
Even though it's not exactly clear which tank (1.5g or 5g) the
manager is claiming is fine for 2 common goldies, it doesn't matter.
Neither is ok.
Did you tell him you had found out that these fish can grow over a
foot long...both of them (?!?!?!?!) for this 5g tank, and that he said
that would be fine?
I'm curious if you did, and if so...what he said.
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>should I remove? (5 gallon tank). When it's time, I really want to
>remove all the water, and clean all the decorations, and of course the
>gravel.
>
>If I don't clean out the tank, and I just remove "some" of the water,
>the gravel will stay dirty.