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haha I would consider it but we finished our basement about two years ago! A little late for that now as I'm not too keen on ripping the walls out :P and the more I've looked at the tank itself the more I think it might be worth selling and just getting another one with a stand included, around...

The length of the tank would be perpendicular to the joists Sent from my A0001 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Yeah I figured a sump would be suggested, I'm just not sure how feasible it is for me right now. And it's the main floor of the home, which is joisted with a steel beam going through the middle of the home On top of that it's parquet, which so far has been very chip, water, and damage resistant...

Hello Everyone! So I've never done a saltwater/reef setup and I recently purchased a 110 gallon tank with a considerable amount of equipment for $300 (good deal? bad deal? you tell me...) The previous owner had it set up as a reef and I was wondering if doing this would be not only feasible...

Edit: Probably going to set up the 110 as a reef.

Photo of current setup EDIT: Can't post photo for some reason

Hi Everyone! So I went through a huge aquarium redo and was looking for some ideas. I currently have a 55gallon mbuna tank with rocks and some fake plants, and it looks like I'll be switching out the 55 for a 110. Right now I'm debating on whether I should keep the mbuna or maybe try something...

Hi Guys! So I've been setting up a 20gallon (tall) planted tank and was thinking of going higher tech (I'm getting a CO2 system and will be regularly dosing ferts) and I have some issues with lighting. I currently have a single 15 watt t8 bulb (6500k) over the tank and either I could get...

Hi there everyone! So something super interesting just happened in my aquarium and google/forum searches got me nowhere so I thought I'd share and see if this has happened to anyone else. I just recently moved two of my holding Mbuna (one bluish-striped one and one bright yellow one - I don't...

The cichlid fry would really attempt to eat a cherry shrimp that's pretty much the same size as it? For some reason I find that hard to believe

Just an update in case you guys were wondering how everything turned out. I ended up finding a used 20 gallon with a hood and t8 light for free, the tank just needed to be re-sealed. So I moved all the plants I had to that one and I'm setting it up as a shrimp tank with RCS's and right now...

Hello all, First off, just so you know what we're dealing with here, I've got a 55 gallon cichlid tank (all mbuna from what I can tell... store sold them as "assorted cichlid" and many of them are too small to see any difference) and a 20 gallon planted tank that I just started up about 10 days...

Hello all, So I've got a 55gal cichlid tank with about 10 mbuna in it right now, as well as a rainbow shark, and two plecos (the plecos are most likely going to be moved soon, any sort of plant makes them think it's a salad bar in there....) Anyways, point being, the fish are still pretty...

As far as I understand, the lights shouldn't be on too long in a planted tank, but I'm not quite sure why, and tbh really I just turn my lights on when I get up and off when I head to bed simply because of the way my schedule works out during the day I can set it up to a timer but really I...

So I've just recently bought these plants, they came in three separate bunches I'm running a pretty low light setup but I have the lights on for usually more than 12 hours a day, sometimes up to 14 I've dosed some basic ferts and the roots seem to be coming in quite well compared to the fact...