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angel FORUM BEGINNER My Husband's A Birdbrain Posts: 40	Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 7:25:41 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by angel on May 12, 2011 7:25:41 GMT -6 Testing once in a while lets you know if anything is creeping up. Then you don't have to worry about it if you impulse buy a fish--and we ALL do that!!

angel FORUM BEGINNER My Husband's A Birdbrain Posts: 40	Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 7:28:12 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by angel on May 12, 2011 7:28:12 GMT -6 Oh and Jess--I don't think I've told you how happy I am that you've joined. It's SO good to have another fish girl here! You might have noticed--and this isn't a bad thing--it's a little heavy on the guy side.

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Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 7:44:50 GMT -6

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May 12, 2011 7:28:12 GMT -6 angel said:

Oh and Jess--I don't think I've told you how happy I am that you've joined. It's SO good to have another fish girl here! You might have noticed--and this isn't a bad thing--it's a little heavy on the guy side.

Thanks Tina! Yea, but I don't mind either way. But I'm sure it's nice to have a girl to chat with... even though I'm not a girlie girl or anything. HAHA! I meant to tell you that I didn't put two and two together at the swap that you were "angel". I wanted to say thank you in person for all the help you've given me in the past couple of weeks.

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Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 7:45:53 GMT -6

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May 12, 2011 7:25:41 GMT -6 angel said:

Testing once in a while lets you know if anything is creeping up. Then you don't have to worry about it if you impulse buy a fish--and we ALL do that!!

Yea, I tested religiously there for a while but then for some reason I stopped worrying about it.... well, that won't happen again.

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Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 8:04:56 GMT -6

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You're welcome. And I don't test as often as I should. Got too comfortable with the freshwater tanks and when my shrimp in the salt nano started getting ill testing let me know the phosphates got way out of hand. I think we all get comfortable when things look fine. Stupid stuff in the tap water doesn't help though! Who would have thought there would be nitrates in tap water but there is!

Jess Puff CLUB Posts: 1,272	Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 8:14:36 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jess Puff on May 12, 2011 8:14:36 GMT -6 Yea, I need to test my tap water and check it out. That may be part of my problem.

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Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 8:33:30 GMT -6

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You shouldn't have to worry about it too much once you get this under control unless you are overfeeding or not doing proper water changes. Once it stabilizes you should only have to test periodically. I would say with your stock 30% weekly should be enough.

Once readings are between 5 -10 you should be in the clear.

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Jess Puff CLUB Posts: 1,272	Introducing new fish to a tank May 12, 2011 9:01:20 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jess Puff on May 12, 2011 9:01:20 GMT -6 Thanks! I can't wait until it gets back to normal. I might be stressing about it more than my fish are. HAHA!

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Introducing new fish to a tank

Post by angel on May 12, 2011 7:25:41 GMT -6

Post by angel on May 12, 2011 7:28:12 GMT -6

Post by Jess Puff on May 12, 2011 7:44:50 GMT -6

Post by Jess Puff on May 12, 2011 7:45:53 GMT -6

Post by angel on May 12, 2011 8:04:56 GMT -6

Post by Jess Puff on May 12, 2011 8:14:36 GMT -6

Post by jon carman on May 12, 2011 8:33:30 GMT -6

Post by Jess Puff on May 12, 2011 9:01:20 GMT -6

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