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Since I have everything on hand I think I'll trial it out with one more discharge outlet. Effectively making it 1.5" worth of discharge

Ammonia 2 Nitrite .25 Nitrate 5 Looks like things are brewing. The colors are a solid shade this morning + 1 on the ammonia reading. I'll remove some of the floating tuna today. At what point would ammonia be too high and result in me to consider a water change.

*Staring blankly* K

Looking for advice from anyone who has set up something similar. Link to video is at the end. Inlet inner diameter is 1/2" Outlet inner diameter is 3/4" In the video the water level on the outlet had me worried so I blocked it off with my finger until the planter was about to overflow. The...

Yes correct

Ph 7 Ammonia 1 Nitrite.25 Nitrate - a close 5ppm I suppose I'm registering both nitrite and nitrate because of those bacteria/enzyme balls we threw in a few days ago. I added in some flaked tuna today instead of running running to the store. About 1 teaspoon. I checked around and surprised...

Just had to connect the dots. Was never really an academic wonder.

Your explanation has me thinking about the load I'm putting in vs what is suggested. Flakes of food every few days vs a floating piece of shrimp. Sounds like people really like the shrimp route and it's related to bioload. Shrimp just sits there 24hrs a day unloading it's bioload until it's...

I chucked in some of those bacteria/enzyme balls from aqueon. Totally dropped my ammonia, nitrite and left me with a little nitrate. They was a couplebdays ago. Check in tomorrow because I'll measure things in the morning after kids goto school. On a side note I've decided to go the slow route...

Ok great to know. I'll see if I can work something out with the local shop. Appreciate your input on this, it's all very new.

One last question. When my cycle is done. Should I go straight for the fish I want or should I introduce something different and potentially more Harty? Possibly overthinking it due to poor experiences a long long time ago. But I don't want to put some fish in after the cycle and have them just...

I will read up on this Since my tank us going through its first cycle. Should I add in fertilizer during the cycle? Or just let it run its course as is? Only planted these yesterday.

Do these fellas look good. Should I trim off that brown one? I'll get some tabs tomorrow after kids goto school. You saying this has me thinking to start with a low dose and move my way up until there is a good balance. I don't want to hurt my fish with fertilizer tabs or liquid.

Old thread but I wanted to pop in and see how it went. I am doing the exact same thing

You got it on point. Hectic with 3 kids and trying to clearly state what I'm thinking. You nailed it, overthinking it all on my end. Maby I'll just use the current pump and not worry about a secondary. I can still filter it the same way before running it to the planter

I have a 20g tank. I want to play around with some rooting of plants (garlic, lettuce, chives) in an external wall planter. Should my second pump be rated for a 20g tank or should I get something slower like a 5g pump? Since this second pump will feed what I assume is a small biological filter...

Thanks for the feedback

New tank, just going through my first cycle and wanted to clean up the glass (see top left of picture) scrubbing with a paper towel isn't really doing anything. What do you guys or gals use to keep this area looking new and shiny.

Water Is a little off colored because it's a new tank going through its first ammonia cycle. And I just added the wood yesterday. Pay no attention to the floss filter. I wanted to cover things up to see if it would work to stop small fish from getting sucked into the filter. I'll be using a...

It's a new tank. I rinsed it really well and it's it'ssoaking for 2 days. Is there more to soaking it than I think? Is it just a waiting game? Boil it.... sounds interesting. I'll look into that and read up on the process. That's an interesting solution as well. Thanks