Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
Originally Posted By: Bruce Condello
No biofilter for me. Just doing an 80% water exchange every week. My water is stellar and doesn't need any treatment. But last year I still had significant fungus problems after the fish had been in cold water for 15 weeks.


Yikes that would scare me!

So you don't see ammonia creep up before you do your water change?

What kind of fish load do you have?





I forgot to mention one extremely important point. I am feeding my fish next to nothing. Maybe 2% of what they'd get in the summer. Just enough to keep them from starving. Of course that could also be leading to some of the fungus problems. I need to feed them enough to keep them from getting sick...but no more.

Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.