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I don't have anything technical to add but since getting back into fresh water planted aquariums about this time last year I become quite curious about finding some objective way to measure the PAR values by distance as you have, you beat me to it. I have shied away from CO2 injection and thus...

well it's been a while so I thought it was time for an update. this summer was rough, I was away for the hottest couple of weeks and my wife and children over fed the tank and didn't notice it was overheating :-(, despite my cautions and instructions. when I came home the loach and several...

Yes, for the loach, I've been reluctant to raise temps in the main tank and instead using a quarantine tank for treatment, but mostly with salt. That said, my butterfly Hillstream loach has been very happy (great job cleaning the glass, has a great healthy look, eats well at meal times and has...

after putting the white clouds and hatchet fish back into the main tank, they quickly developed fin issues again so back into the quarantine tank they went. worthy of note, the butterfly hill stream loach is doing great, in fact between the fan shrimp, snails and Loach the tank is staying very...

well I've hit my first snag. it appears that one of the glass catfish came with ich and about the time I started moving forward with sealing up the dome, it spread wildly along with some fin rot in the white clouds, which I missed at first because the females were being quite nippy, so I...

xazax thanks for your reply. I have added springtails! by the time they arrived, much of the moldy smell had subsided, and most importantly, my Rainbow Boa excreted her first hair ball and went back to her normal perky self, which is what precipitated my post. at some point she will just be...

Talked to Josh this morning and cleared up the temperature concern and made my first order for springtails! thanks for the help!

thanks guys. I checked out Josh's frogs and their video on springtails, it sounds like they are temperate, only breeding up to about 72 degrees. I have a Brazilian Rainbow Boa. from everything I've read, BRB's like it warm and very humid as juveniles, 80+% humidity and upper 70's. is this...

greetings Coursair, I appreciate your concern. I am on the higher side, but the guy I bought it from seemed to think it would be fine and he's a community planted tank specialists. this morning I unplugged the heater altogether to see if the temp would come down. I was shooting originally for...

I'm experiencing mold in my vivarium for my Brazilian Rainbow Boa. it does appear that the combination of live plant vivarium and a BRB requiring super high humidity, makes for a bit of a challenge when it comes to mold management. I fed the plants using an organic fertilizer and didn't filter...

Here is the reptile vivarium seal from the outside, held firmly in place by 6 stainless wing nuts: Weather stripping was added to the inside glass "door" to prevent leaking. I had to make the opening vertical, since the aquarium is on top. Vertical openings like this are very tricky...

Today I thought I'd run though the seals and how I got this set up pretty much air tight. The first shot is the lid: Under the lid is 4 inches of rigid foam shown here: Here, I used weather stripping that the top layer of foam sits on, held firmly down by the relatively heavy Tigerwood...

Do you mean alternate cleaning one of the three every 3 weeks...that would be great! Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

My Aquarium Vivarium Biosphere: my hope is that the plants and fish in the tank along with the plants and snake in the vivarium will all develop a symbiotic biotope of sorts. I found this quote that most accurately captures my fascination with this, which I have expanded to an aquarium...

the filters: I was advised by a local aquarium store employe to go with back of tank filtration instead of canister, since my system would be enclosed and out of sight, and quiet, making the overall maintenance more easy. I was also recommended to oversize the filter system. I went with a...