Recent content by cadd

Wow, it has been a while since I’ve updated. I ended up giving away the feeder fish to someone with a backyard pond. I still have the betta. I took apart the 29 gallon tank and finally got around to putting the 55 gal together. Took me a few hours to set up. But this was the final design I...

I don’t know what I got myself into... I just adopted 4 goldfish and 1 betta. And my tank is not even cycled yet! As a matter of fact, I just started dosing it with ammonia yesterday! Got it to 3ppm! Story: College kid. Won 2 goldfish at some social event around Thanksgiving last year. His...

Took a ride to Home Depot looking for slate. No luck. I recall seeing landscaping places on a back road I used to ride, so I headed over. Unfortunately, they were closed. Can anyone tell me if this is slate? And would it be safe to use in the tank? I was being a bad boy, I took 2 tiny and...

I found some cabinet/drawer knobs in the garage and decided to use them for my sliding lid. I’ll be painting them black as well. Ok, it’s time to rinse out the BDBS. Man, it was filthy! I don’t know if it shows in the photo, but there’s definitely an oily/slimy substance floating on top of...

I felt like a lot has happened over the past week. So here goes… Update with Beamswork: I contacted the Amazon seller and they sent me another power supply. I haven’t had time to swap it out yet. I’ll do that this weekend and hopefully that’ll solve the heat problem. First question: Do you...

Thanks. Please keep me updated. Where do you pick up your pieces of slate from? I'll probably need to do the same.

Good deal on driftwood? Would these be safe to use? Or is $20 for all three pieces too good to be true?

I’ve been monitoring the Beamswork light and don’t know if I should be concerned or not. After about 1 hour, the power supply gets unreasonably hot. Holding it in my palm for more than 30 seconds gets pretty uncomfortable. Can I ask you guys to do me a favor and feel the power supply of your...

After doing a little research on the forums with regards to lighting and seeing what other members used in their tank, I decided to with the Beams Work DA FSpec light. It felt like a good bang for the buck light. I didn’t want to spend $150 for a light. At the same time, I didn’t want to cheap...

So I have a little confession….because it’s one of the first 90 degree days this year, I decided to skip work and go driftwood hunting with a good friend. Although she told me she’s not too familiar with driftwood, she did say she has been around tree branches all her life. So, I thought it...

Sold the 20 gal (brown) tank for $20 bux on CL. Some kid picked it up for his garden snakes. I also decided to attempt to DIY the stand for the 55 gal tank. Was able to spend some time on it. Measure once, cut twice? Or is it the other way around? Test fitting After 1 coat. Will allow the...

Thanks for the info. The tap water isn't well water. I'm planning on keeping small fish. Livebearers and schooling fish are what I had in mind. Would those work well with my water parameters?

I tested my tap water with the following results. What does it all mean? My goal is to set up a 55g community tank with some live plants. PH: 7.6 High PH: 7.8 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 5 GH: 14 drops needed to turn from orange to green KH: 9 drops needed to turn from blue to yellow

Yes, I just read that entire thread. Thanks so much for really putting in the time and hard work to compile all this data. It has helped me immensely. 10000k vs 6500k. Can you please explain that? At first I thought it was the cool/warm scale. I think I remember it being called the color...

Brendenscott, I think I'm liking the idea of the Beamswork DHL 1W 6500k light & dimmer combo! It looks like a setup that I won't outgrow if I decide to get a tad more serious in a low-tech planted tank. Question though, I see there aren't red LEDs for this light. I also see there are only 3...