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by Nothinbutrouble99
Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:14 pm
Forum: Hospital
Topic: New GSP in an incompletely cycled tank--what to do now?
Replies: 8
Views: 610

Re: New GSP in an incompletely cycled tank--what to do now?

Bed news; I came back to find the redtail had died. We've definitely learned not to trust the pet store people by now (although they'd all said they had lots of aquarium-keeping experience). I guess I'll get the advice from you people with all the puffer experience now. And now I feel altogether hor...
by Nothinbutrouble99
Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:24 pm
Forum: Hospital
Topic: New GSP in an incompletely cycled tank--what to do now?
Replies: 8
Views: 610

Re: New GSP in an incompletely cycled tank--what to do now?

So you think I need to get the tank back to FW, add the pet store media, in the meantime take the emergency tank back to FW slowly, and then once they are both at FW and media has been added to the permanent tank, move the fish back? I didn't know the bacteria could only handle the SG change once a ...
by Nothinbutrouble99
Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:35 am
Forum: Hospital
Topic: New GSP in an incompletely cycled tank--what to do now?
Replies: 8
Views: 610

New GSP in an incompletely cycled tank--what to do now?

Ok, here's the story. My boyfriend and I, we're new to freshwater tanks (I'm studying marine biology, but that has some huge differences from freshwater and although I've kept tanks of horseshoe crabs alive, I didn't know the first thing about keeping a freshwater tank). We're both intelligent peopl...