Recent content by _brokenglass_

hey that's a good idea :D if my current plan fails, i'll definitely try that. right now i have 1/2 of a filter floss? i think that's what it's called, the bag that you put carbon in for some filters ;) i ripped one of those up and it's attached to the front of the filter so nothing gets in but...

great live food, but when they're clogging the filter and you have flies around your head all day, not so much fun ^^ i feel kinda bad cutting their food back so much, cause even now they seem hungry all the time (i used to be feeding 2x a day), but i'll give it a try. would you suggest getting...

any advice on how to get rid of these would be most appreciated... i've got a 55 gallon planted tank w/ 12 fish (2 balas, 3 pictus cats, 1 pleco, 1 cae, 1 green tiger barb, 3 clown loaches, and 1 other cafish). have had a problem with the flies for a few months now. i cut the feeding back to 1x...

ok... i dug through a bunch of threads, but none had pictures and none really fit the descriptions... so. help if you can :) little flies, which i assume to be midge flies? started showing up a couple months ago... i brought a few in to the lfs and asked him where the heck these things came...

re: substrate, i went to lfs yesterday to see what my options were, they carry (i was going mostly by the list on the sticky about substrates) both kinds of flourite, tahitian moon sand (i like look of that ^^), and then a... "red sea plant success flora base," not sure if that's any good or...

hellooo... i'm interested in making my 55gal a planted tank... considering i need to remove the gravel to add substrate, i'd think the best way to do that would be to empty the tank? what would be the best thing to do regarding the water, etc, that would cause the least agitation to my fish...

ok he's not unhealthy disease-wise, but i'd still say he's "unhealthy" ~ while moving him between tanks, i remembered a bit too late that you're not supposed to move pictus's in nets... he got stuck, and i had to cut him out. i cut around his fins, on the thought that he'd work himself out of...

some of you may have read my post here a while back... here's what ended up happening :) my boyfriend and i decided that we were going to tackle the tanks nastiness (refer to previous post for picture) together and get it cleaned once and for all. so come wednesday evening, we drained the 30...

i talked to a guy from my lfs, he said that a good vacuuming should take care of the problems in the tank, so i'm gonna try that first. couple quick questions~~ i've done some reading about undergravel filters... the new powerhead i got, it works as a reverse flow also, and the thing i was...

just did water test: nitrate: ~200 (eep) nitrite: ~0-0.5 (safe) hardness: ~200 (lower end of hard) alkalinity/buffering: ~80 ("add buffer-up") pH: ~6.8 (lil on the low side) what i bought: aquaclear 200 filter, ac powerhead 50, & ac quick filter (powerhead attachment) -- not sure if i'll be...

probably best that i add a bit more info, thanks for the replies btw. the clowns are about 1 1/2-2inches. as far as i know, they've been around for quite some time (years) in this tank, and that's as big as they've gotten. the "coworker" actually said they were nearing the end of their lifespan...

ok~ long story short. was keeping a 30 gal at school, moved back home, couldn't take the tank with me. so i was keeping my bala and pleco in a 10 gal, looking for a bigger tank (and more fish). friend's coworker had a tank he was trying to get rid of, and friend later shows up at my house with...

so 2 weeks until college is over, and i'm left wondering how i'm possibly going to get my fish and my tank back up to alaska (i'm in washington right now). the problem is this -- we have to be checked out of our rooms before we can leave, and nothing can be in the room at the time. last time i...

hehe uhm... good question :) when I had it tested, it was fine. read my edit, if you would

hi, quick question... I just got back to college on Monday after spending 3 weeks at home, where my 2 bala sharks accompanied me to. I got back here and immediately went to pick up a new tank (3x bigger - 30gallon) for them, got it all set up and them back in it. the first couple days, they...