Filter did have some media from established one, i do sweep the soil although i find this tropica soil very light and suck up th3 tube a lot, i do 50% water change every week, i have oase 350t filter so clean prefilter every week too, ei dosing and ammonia tests 0, i just thought i may have spiked from soil disturbance,
I like the turkey baster idea think ill do that, goood idea,
just getting a bit fed up with the fish loss in this tank as i do so much care and work on them, its high tech, then my girlfrind pisses me off when she tells me years ago she may have done water change once every couple of months or so all low tech and never lost any fish, some cardinals just died without any outward signs of loss of colour but the one yesterday i saw before it died had swollen gills and was swimming about a bit mad
Co2 comes on 3 hours before lights and hour before they go out, lights on 8 hours, circulation good