Clean Old Aquarium Glass – Mineral Buildup & Stains

Learn Clean Old Aquarium Glass of Mineral Buildup & Stains. This is a little guy that I put together on how to clean fish aquariums of stains and buildup on the glass. I’ve been in this hobby for a very long time and I’ve tried almost all different types of methods when it comes to cleaning fish tanks. This is my favorite way to do it and I feel like it’s worth sharing so that others can possibly learn from it.

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My PH kept reading 7.6 so did a high PH test and it looks like 8.0. So it’s high. I’ve lost all my fish…first nice ones and now the second round of dither fish. My two other smaller tanks are fine. Ideas? Suggestions?

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it looks like your ammonia is a little green and tbh your nitrate should never be 0 buddy. Right about ammonia need add little prime .. That Nitrate bad maybe they seems didn’t shake few minute it might stay yellow.

Your nitrogen cycle crashed. The ammonia quite possibly killed the fish. So sorry for your loss. question… he is showing no ammonia … so why would that kill his fish? Also if there is no ammonia and there is fish in the tank.. wouldn’t that mean the tank is cycled? Just trying to learn here.

But when a tank is cycled unless it’s heavily planted it will have some nitrates. If no nitrates and no plants then the cycle has crashed or it was never cycled even if there’s no ammonia. Almost all cichlids want a ph of 8 or higher, so you’re good there. The fact that you have no nitrate means that your tank crashed, or was never fully cycled to begin with, and you have little to no beneficial bacteria. Is it a new tank?

But do you really need 8ph for cichlids that have been farmed raised and never actually came from lake Malawi?

But what’s to say the farm doesn’t have a ph of that? What’s to say the breeder you’re getting them from doesn’t have a ph of that? (I know the breeders I get mine from do).

That being said, their biological makeup is based on a higher PH. Does that mean they can’t survive in lower… no. But it means they are more prone to illnesses outside of their biological ranges. The bigger issue with PH, is big swings. Say getting them from a breeder that keeps them at 8.0+, and someone throwing them in a tank with 7.0-. That swing will more than likely kill your fish.

Breeding, growing, color, general health are all dependent on overall water conditions, and those conditions include keeping them in a proper PH range. As a fish keeper, you should be trying to keep your fish as healthy as possible.

You could technically be in the second stage of the cycle, where your nitrites are spiking, in which you’re still not there quite yet.

But yes, if you have fish in a tank, and the tank is reading no ammonia, no nitrite, and low nitrate, that means that the beneficial bacteria is established and they are turning the ammonia and nitrite into nitrate, and your tank is cycled.

You’re tank cycle crashed or your new tank hasn’t completed the cycle. If you have South American cichlids 8.0 ph is like breathing concrete dust if they’re African cichlids it’s absolutely perfect.

Honestly with the API kits you need to shake the shit out of the nitrate bottles to get a proper reading. Then you’ll know, also by the looks of the ammonia do a 30-40% change ASAP.

We got a little frontosa this week and I can’t wait to see him/her grow. For those of you with mixed tanks (i acknowledge they do best in large colonies, but that’s not what i am planning), how many frontosa do you have? How big is your tank? LFS employee told me if i wasn’t doing a colony that they prefer to be singular and might kill eachother if there’s only two/three but i just love him so much.

I’ve kept many tanks with Fronts for several years, still do. They do better in colonies and with other Frontosa. I’ve kept as few as 3 and as many as 16 or 18 together, in smaller tanks as fry from 20 gallons or so up to 120 gallon tanks. If several males are together they can sometimes kill each other off, just like most cichlids but are much less violent than most Africans. Currently I have 8 Mpimbwe in a 75 gallon that average about 2-3″. I have 9 Kigoma Fronts in a 120 gallon, they are 4-8″ in size.

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If you want good info on Frontosas join a FB Frontosa group. There are a couple out there. Most serious Frontosa keepers will tell you species only tanks furthermore they will tell you to never mix collection points or sub species. I mainly have two subspecies which are Burundi (6 striped, big humps) and Kigoma (7 striped, tinge yellow fins). The more exquisite ones are Blue Zaires which cost upwards of $60 an inch.

How to clean old fish aquarium glass water stains and mineral calcium buildup.

Made a lot of progress on the tank over the weekend. I had a room built into my garage to house everything in it such that the tank.

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