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My tap water has about 30 ppm nitrates, so I buy drinking water from the grocery store at $1 per gallon. About $10 every 2-3 weeks

My tap water has nigh nitrates so I buy one gallon jugs of drinking water from the grocery store for my water changes. I mix them together and test before each water change to make sure I am adding zero nitrate.

What I did was to take the fresh clams out on the deck while keeping them on ice, pry them open using a knife, and break up the shells using two pair of pliers. You could also do this at the sink, but sometimes little pieces of shell fly across the room. I placed the busted up pieces containing meat...

Someone on The Puffer Forum suggested feeding clams to take care of teeth and it is working great for me. I went and bought about a dozen fresh clams, took them home, pried them open, and broke them up using two pairs of pliers. I threw away the shell pieces that had no clam attached and the rest we...

Please try to patronize your LFS for everything even if their prices might be a higher than the chains. In the past year, at least three have closed in the St Louis area, stores which have had long traditions in the area. I was guilty of buying supplies at Petsmart and fish at LFS until my two favor...

Hi,

My wife is a glass bead artist and one of her longtime popular sellers are her puffer earrings.
http://strandedglass.com/008.htm

She also makes a pendant with similar beads

don

Thanks again, I'll check out Dr Tims!

don

> the bacteria will die off to only support what is in there

OK, now I understand.

I've been doing 20% water changes every 3-4 days. I tested my tap water once before I added it back to the tank and the NO3 level was 10, so that's why I tried the distilled.

Thanks!

Don

> Just be sure you have completed your fishless cycling, before you purchase ANY fish! Isn't the tank already cycled? I've kept the tank just as it was with the power filter going, etc, and am feeding the ghost shrimp every 3 days or so. I thought as long as the NH3 / NO2 / NO3 levels stay as they a...

Thank you so much. I never realized how important tank cycling is until I started reading your forum. So I guess that all of the fish were so stressed from the initially uncycled tank that they were too weakened to survive. I was surprised that they went downhill so quickly. One day they were active...

Hi, My last puffer died a week ago and I am hoping that someone can tell me where I went wrong so I can try some again. Current tank conditions pH 8.0 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrates 40 spec grav 1.005 I first set up my 20 gallon tank the first week in January and adjusted the gravity to 1.005 with sea...