Jack Dempsey

[matt23983]

Would a Jack Dempsey and a Ropefish be compatible together?


Thanks.
Matt

[TZ]

what size tank?
what is your Ph?
fake or live plants?


"matt23983" > wrote in message
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> Would a Jack Dempsey and a Ropefish be compatible together?
>
>
> Thanks.
> Matt
>

[blove]

i wouldnt, ropefish arent exactly aggressive, sure they eat small fish but
they arent outwardly aggressive. the jack dempsey is really aggressive.
plus ropefish are escape artists an dthey are slimier then anything i have
ever felt.


"matt23983" > wrote in message
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> Would a Jack Dempsey and a Ropefish be compatible together?
>
>
> Thanks.
> Matt
>

[san]

Hi to all, new to group but not to aquariums.

I have had at least one aquarium most my life. My first when I was
young (1970's), had a back filter that you used flex tubing to suck
the air out of the uplift tube. During the 80's I owned 9 tanks - 10g
to 55g.
I took a few years off after my husband accidently killed my beloved
fancy goldfish by putting them from the styrofoam box that I used to
bring them with on a 1000 mile relocation move into a 50 gallon tub
(bought at a farm store that was suppose to be used for watering live
stock) that had not sat long enough for the chlorine to disipate. We
had lived out in the sticks and had the best well water for 15 years
and never had to worry about chemicals. My husband didn't understand
why I told him to wait and just dumped my babies (had for 6 years)
into the tub, they all went belly up instantly. I was crushed.

Anyway to the now: I just started up a 29g, been running for 3 months.
It went through the cycle and was doing fantastic. While I was at work
my hubby once again thought he would help me out :-0
My back filter was clogged and he ran it under tap water and stuck it
back in like he saw me do dozens of times when we had well water. He
wiped out all the bacteria and my water is a mess the ammonia was off
the scale last Monday and nitrite was good. I have never been in this
spot before. I spent hours googling and became confused with all the
stuff I found in the archives, I did a 5 gal. water change for 4 days
and skipped yesterday. My ammonia is now at 3.0 and the nitrite is up
to .3 mg/l. My tank is stocked with:
5 rummy nose
5 various danios
4 cherry barbs
1 cat (can't remember name)

My husband went out and bought me another 29 gal aquarium today so in
a few days I will be able to move a few of the fish out. None of local
fish stores would take any of them. So I am running on a prayer right
now.
Questions are: Should I continue the water changes on a daily basis or
how often? Is a 5 gal. partial daily to much? not enough? I have taken
some gravel from a well established 10 gal. and have it sitting in a
nylon in the tank. Is there any other ideas anyone can give me that
might help speed up the cycle on this tank?

Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated :-)

San

[Charles]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:24:29 GMT, "san" >
wrote:

>Hi to all, new to group but not to aquariums.
>
>I have had at least one aquarium most my life. My first when I was
>young (1970's), had a back filter that you used flex tubing to suck
>the air out of the uplift tube. During the 80's I owned 9 tanks - 10g
>to 55g.
>I took a few years off after my husband accidently killed my beloved
>fancy goldfish by putting them from the styrofoam box that I used to
>bring them with on a 1000 mile relocation move into a 50 gallon tub
>(bought at a farm store that was suppose to be used for watering live
>stock) that had not sat long enough for the chlorine to disipate. We
>had lived out in the sticks and had the best well water for 15 years
>and never had to worry about chemicals. My husband didn't understand
>why I told him to wait and just dumped my babies (had for 6 years)
>into the tub, they all went belly up instantly. I was crushed.
>
>Anyway to the now: I just started up a 29g, been running for 3 months.
>It went through the cycle and was doing fantastic. While I was at work
>my hubby once again thought he would help me out :-0
>My back filter was clogged and he ran it under tap water and stuck it
>back in like he saw me do dozens of times when we had well water. He
>wiped out all the bacteria and my water is a mess the ammonia was off
>the scale last Monday and nitrite was good. I have never been in this
>spot before. I spent hours googling and became confused with all the
>stuff I found in the archives, I did a 5 gal. water change for 4 days
>and skipped yesterday. My ammonia is now at 3.0 and the nitrite is up
>to .3 mg/l. My tank is stocked with:
>5 rummy nose
>5 various danios
>4 cherry barbs
>1 cat (can't remember name)
>
>My husband went out and bought me another 29 gal aquarium today so in
>a few days I will be able to move a few of the fish out. None of local
>fish stores would take any of them. So I am running on a prayer right
>now.
>Questions are: Should I continue the water changes on a daily basis or
>how often? Is a 5 gal. partial daily to much? not enough? I have taken
>some gravel from a well established 10 gal. and have it sitting in a
>nylon in the tank. Is there any other ideas anyone can give me that
>might help speed up the cycle on this tank?
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated :-)
>
>San
>

As a temporary measure, I would use amo-lock or amquel to keep ammonia
under control until the filter gets into gear again.

the fish you list seem to not be quite delicate ones, water changes
could be more aggressive. I sometimes do two sequential 70% changes
if things are out of hand, I use tap water with Nova-aqua.


--

- Charles
-
-does not play well with others

[Eric Gironda]

"san" > wrote in message
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> Questions are: Should I continue the water changes on a daily basis or
> how often? Is a 5 gal. partial daily to much? not enough? I have taken
> some gravel from a well established 10 gal. and have it sitting in a
> nylon in the tank. Is there any other ideas anyone can give me that
> might help speed up the cycle on this tank?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated :-)
>
> San
>
If you can find it locally, a product produced by marinelabs.com called
BioSpira would be perfect. There's a section on the site that explains
what this stuff is & how it works, as well as a "find a local vendor"
section. "Cycle" is a similar product, but according to marineland, there
BIoSpira IS the bacteria you need for the bio filter, in a package. I used
it to set up my 90 gal FW tank, and had NO spikes.
The problem is that if you've used amquel or similar, there will be no NH3
for the bacteria to use, so you'd be wasting your money. Kinda a tossup,
remove the NH3 quickly, or add the bacteria and quickly cycle the tank, but
not able to do both.

Eric G,
Pgh, PA

[NetMax]

"san" > wrote in message
. com...
> Hi to all, new to group but not to aquariums.
>
> I have had at least one aquarium most my life. My first when I was
> young (1970's), had a back filter that you used flex tubing to suck
> the air out of the uplift tube. During the 80's I owned 9 tanks - 10g
> to 55g.
> I took a few years off after my husband accidently killed my beloved
> fancy goldfish by putting them from the styrofoam box that I used to
> bring them with on a 1000 mile relocation move into a 50 gallon tub
> (bought at a farm store that was suppose to be used for watering live
> stock) that had not sat long enough for the chlorine to disipate. We
> had lived out in the sticks and had the best well water for 15 years
> and never had to worry about chemicals. My husband didn't understand
> why I told him to wait and just dumped my babies (had for 6 years)
> into the tub, they all went belly up instantly. I was crushed.
>
> Anyway to the now: I just started up a 29g, been running for 3 months.
> It went through the cycle and was doing fantastic. While I was at work
> my hubby once again thought he would help me out :-0
> My back filter was clogged and he ran it under tap water and stuck it
> back in like he saw me do dozens of times when we had well water. He
> wiped out all the bacteria and my water is a mess the ammonia was off
> the scale last Monday and nitrite was good. I have never been in this
> spot before. I spent hours googling and became confused with all the
> stuff I found in the archives, I did a 5 gal. water change for 4 days
> and skipped yesterday. My ammonia is now at 3.0 and the nitrite is up
> to .3 mg/l. My tank is stocked with:
> 5 rummy nose
> 5 various danios
> 4 cherry barbs
> 1 cat (can't remember name)
>
> My husband went out and bought me another 29 gal aquarium today so in
> a few days I will be able to move a few of the fish out. None of local
> fish stores would take any of them. So I am running on a prayer right
> now.
> Questions are: Should I continue the water changes on a daily basis or
> how often? Is a 5 gal. partial daily to much? not enough? I have taken
> some gravel from a well established 10 gal. and have it sitting in a
> nylon in the tank. Is there any other ideas anyone can give me that
> might help speed up the cycle on this tank?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated :-)
>
> San

i) you start the food chain with fish food, so feed less
ii) continue water changes to control the NH3, otherwise use an ammonia
locking product (ie: Ammo-lock) to convert it to harmless NH4 (you could
do 10g water change twice a day if your ammonia is at 3.0, but note that
your pH affects how much of your ammonia is toxic (NH3) or non-toxic NH4
ammonium ions).
iii) seed bacteria (as you have done, but old filter media is best), also
bio-spira or other bacteria starter would help
iv) water changes to control the nitrites (NO2) and a bit of aquarium
salt is supposed to help
v) plants will help smooth out the peaks, but as you have no time to get
them rooted, go with some floaters like Hornwort & lots of light.
vi) and keep your hubby away !
hth
NetMax