Recent content by Dimitrios91

As for Oscars and plants, they say the same about Gourami's. I have yet to see one plant disturbed by the 5 Gourami's I have. I have had Oscars years back, they never bothered my plants until they were simply to big and needed the room to move around, which is just why you upgrade the size of...

You can get a good canister filter from Petco for 125.00 or so. I have the Marineland 350 Magnum Pro w/ two bio wheels, mine came with my tank from Ebay. Check Ebay you may get it for way less, also most anything you need to run your filters will be there as well, excellent pricing as well...

Well I do it the old fashioned way. 90 % of my tank consists of Tetra's and they love snails. Since snails are pretty delicate, crunch the lil buggers against the glass and let em float to the bottom, before they reach the bottom a fish will swim by and devour it within the blink of your eye...

What is a GSP anyhow ? I swear I need a shorthand version of the common dictionary these days

I personally went with the fish in cycling procedure. Used feeders from a local pet shop, they even allowed me to test there water prior to taking the ones I wanted. I kept the fish for about 6 weeks, after which enough ammonia had built up, all the feeders survived and the pet shop was happy...

Fish can go quite some time without food. In there environment before they were captured, food isn't all that plentiful like there is in our tanks. Main reason people have so many problems with ammonia issues, cycling failures. A hungry fish will search those lil voids in your tank for...

I purchased a 250 Watt Visi-Therm from Marineland for my 55, but heating overall 65-70gal. This is in my basement as well and the temp drops to around 50 down there. These heaters are some of the best around and I personally recommend them. My tank stays consistantly between 79-80. I have a...

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to stop in and let everyone know I joined a few days back and love the wonderful world of aquariums. My profile lists what I currently have as for tanks and what not. Eventually I may go to salt water, seems like a good challenge and the fish are quite amazing to boot...