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I'm moving away from home to Santa Monica and am looking to start a new tank as my parents have grown to like the one i set up in our family room. i'm going to sell my tank to them so i can buy a new one. the old one is freshwater and i think i've pretty much got that one under control -...

hi guys, i'm about to move to LA and live in my own apartment for college. i have a 20 gallon freshwater planted tank going for about 2 years now and is VERY healthy and alive. well, i want to get into some reef and saltwater fish and was thinking about a 24 gallon aquapod with all of the...

i too use safari on my mac but just downloaded firefox to use this site. it is a pain to have to use a different browser for 1 site, but working server administration for a company has taught me to just say whatever after a while and live with 1 percent not seeing the forum. live your lives admins!

hey everybody, ok, so i have a nice pond in my backyard that has many many many frogs and tadpoles in it. the tadpoles are growing legs now, and i was thinking about moving 2 or 3 into my 20 gallon fish tank stocked with live plants and a bunch of tetras. i keep the water around 78* and was...

yeah, all you need to do is clean the wheel track, when algea and gunk get built up it creates too much friction, i actually had my wheel dry and killed all the bacteria, i had to start with a new wheel, it sucked! but now i just clean everything off everytime i do a water change and no more...

hi everybody, i have had a planted 20 gallon tank set up for about 8 months now showing ammonia at 0, nitrates at 0 and nitrites at 0 around 78 degrees. i had about 5 cardinal tetras, 4 rummynosed tetras, and 10 glowlight tetras swimming around in my tank. we started loosing fish and thought...

hey everybody, i have a 6 gallon tank with 4 tiger barbs, a corry cat, a pleco, and an african cichlid. i do water changes about every 2 weeks but the nitrate never seems to rise at all. what could be causing this? ive tested it with the quick dip stuff, and also taken water samples to 2...

hey everybody, right now i have an albino corry, 2 tiger barbs, and a pleco in my 6 gallon tank. im thinking about some more tiger barbs, maybe like 3 more, but i want to know if there are some other cool agressive fish that i can get, maybe a shark??? just want some recomendations. thanks.

i have a 6 gallon eclipse system and the water temperature likes to chill at around 85*. the tank is right next to a window with about 70 degree air constantly moving through obove the tank. i have my heater set at 70 and its now unplugged. i have an incandescent light bulb, but i keep it on...

alright, thanks

hey everybody, you might remember me from some posts i made a month ago regarding my 6 gallon eclipse system. well its almost cycled and i have had all my original fish die. so i went to teh lfs and bought an albino corry and 4 neon tetras. i would like to eventually plant my tank, but i hear...

thanks guys

also, will the gravel cleanings get rid of my bacteria???