Are Balloon Molly Fish Worth Buying?

Aquarium balloon Molly Fish Care is pretty easy if you know what your doing. Some people have problems with these fish dying and others don’t. The balloon effect in this molly fish is from a genetic modifications. A high quality food will help them live a happier life.

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Hi everyone! I’m new here. I’m having a nitrate issue so I’m reaching out for help. I have a ten gallon aquarium with four small mollies and two small black skirt tetras , one coricat, and one small algae eater (not a pleco. It’s literally called an algae eater). My ammonia level is zero, my PH hangs out around 7.2, my water temp stays between 78-80, lights stay on only about 6-8 hours a day, I gravel vac/water change about every other week.

This is the filer I have and I had the aquacleae filter media in it and it gunked up really fast and made the back of my filter start overflowing and leaking, so I took out the media and I ordered some nitrate reducing filter media pad (you cut to size) that was recommended to me by a friend with huge freshwater tanks. He swears by it. But I cannot seem for the life of me to get my nitrates lower than 40ppm, usually they’re hanging out between 40 and 80ppm.

I’ve even done a crash course with the tank and done four water changes over a week (a 50%, and then 25, 25, 25) and STILL my nitrates won’t go lower than 40. If I let the tank go longer than three weeks without a water change, the nitrates skyrocket to over 160ppm (that’s where my master test kit tops out). I have no clue where my problem lies. I’ve about run out of ideas and I’ve followed all the instructions I I’ve been given by various people so far.

I have a 10 gallon. 8 Harliquin rasboras and 8 Cardinal tetras. Aquaclear 30. Sponge, lava rock and chemipure by boyds. 35% water change weekly. I vacuum half the gravel at that time, not all. UPDATE- the problem is my water. It has around 40-60ppm nitrates without being added to the tank. SO, is there any way for me to use tap water still? If not, what would be the best pre-treated fish water to use? Or what are my options?

Does anyone have experience with using a local glass company to cut glass for an aquarium build? I'm interested in building my own custom tank, but would like someone with commercial equipment to make the cuts. Anything in particular to look out for (i.e. glass thickness, edges, etc)?

My local glass company doesn't charge if its wrong. My first time buying I didn't measure before I left. Big mistake. It was off more then the agreed upon +/- and they wouldn't replace. 2nd time went with a different glass company and measured before I left. It was wrong. They apologized up and down and I didn't pay till it was right.

Everyone has different luck growing plants give the guy a break he has a beautiful tank and beautiful moss and that’s all that matters I spent a couple years getting my moss growing technique while I started growing stems really well from the start I didn’t watch his video but I’m sure it’s good too people need to stop being sarcastic and start congratulating people on their successes instead.

Correct me if i am wrong anyone! This is what i would do, if glass is transported and cold allow to warm up set up, do best not to bump tank while setting up. When glass is cleaned inspect seals to insure it's not coming off any where. If all looks good i would use luke warm tap water and fill 5 gallon or so at a time, bye hose or bucket watch for leaks as you fill.

If it doesnt pass the eye test, reseal it. No sense in risking 100+ gallons of water on the floor. An initial water test might tell you it can hold water for the time being, either trust it or dont.

I only use the drops now because I have so many tanks it's economical, but I never had problems with the strips. The problem here is it's impossible to tell you whether the tank is cycled. If you put in used media from another tank than the nitrates aren't saying anything. If it hasn't had an ammonia source for some time and the nitrates have been latent, it isn't cycled. Just need more information on the tank and what you've been doing to cycle it.

I’ve got tetra test strips and the api test strips and I also bought the master api test kit and compared them and guess what , the strips were really close to the master kit only one that was a little off was the nitrate one.

You can’t truly answer from that strip alone. To be sure, you need a kit that will measure Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate. Feed the tank Ammonia, then measure the level and then follow the Nitrogen cycle through to the end waste product (Nitrate). Ensuring Ammonia and Nitrite levels reduce to 0 in a timely fashion. Your strip looks promising though. It doesn’t look to be reading Nitrates.