Recent content by gardentoad

greenmaji, I don't suppose you could draw a picture of that, could you? I'm picturing a pipe from the filter plate up to the surface and then doing a 180 degree turn back down through the hole in the bottom of the tank to the filter. If I have a hole near the surface, what would keep the water...

I don't see a problem with one school of tetras in a 10 galon established tank. IF you stop at the tetras and if you can keep the temperature level. I know that 1 goldfish can handle a temp fluctuatin better and they do not produce as much exess waste if kept cool and no other fish. Have you...

When my daughter was 5 she got a fancy goldfish. It was about 1" long. I put him in a 10 gallon tank. I kept a snail with it most of the time. The snail was replaced a few times. Five years ago we put it in a pond. The fish was about 4 1/2" long. My daughter was 19 when we put it in the pond so...

I'd like to see the 23" goldfish that was raised in a 10 gallon tank.

I agree with not bouncing the goldfish around. This is probably not what you want to hear, but 10 tank is too small for a community. Sure some people get a few fish to survive in one, but there is a big difference between surviving and thriving. Think of a 10 gallon tank as an efficinacy...

Thank you all for the welcome. :D Toirtis, I am owned by a Geen winged macaw, a ducorps cockatoo, an african gray, 4 cockatiels, 4 budgies and 6 parrotlets. What is an M2?

Two other factors that come into account are the diameter of the hose or pipe you run and the bends if any that it makes. Use the largest diameter hose you can for less resistance and few turns. A 90 degree bend will cut down the flow much more than two 45 degree bends. A large radius is less...

We built a swing set/play house for the kids and a privacy fenc out of the brown stained treated wood 7 years ago. Five years later we had to replace our well pump. The board of health tests your well water after you replace a pump and told us there was arsnic in our water. It wasn't deadly in...

Be sure you fold some ofthe extra liner under rather than cut it all off as you finish the edges. Sometimes as they settle you need to let it out a little and if you cut it too close you can't do that and have to fill in under it.

Nice pond. I love the bridge. I really like the uncluttered look, unlike my pond. I have a couple dachshunds too. One of them, a puppy won't stay out of the pond.

Hi, I'm new to this site too. I was, a few years ago in the same spot you are now with starting up a salt tank. I thought it would be okay to get a little live rock and add more occassionally. It didn't work for me. a sea urchant and a starfish were hiding out in the rock and I enjoyed watching...

Hi! I'm new to this site but not to fishkeeping. I have kept freshwater fish for 30 years since I was a kid. I kept a 55 gallon salt water tank for a while but sold that years ago. I had a fishroom at a previous hose with 50 f/w tank running. I bred mostly Angelfish, some african cichlids and...

A friend of mine lost a tank full of cichlids when they did a lot of painting in the room with an oil based paint from the fumes. I had a fishroom in my basement and when we had to have the house treated for termites we vented the air compresser out the window and covered the tanks with plastic...

The fluctuation was the difference between the water in the bag and the new tank water. Most pet stores sell fish living in local water. They loose some right off when they release them, but they loose more money when people bring dead fish back. Ph will not stay up unless the water is hard...

I have just purchased a used 215 gallon tank and wet/ dry filter. Not all of the parts and plumbing is there. The tank is drilled on the bottom, 3 holes one on each side and 1 in a column in the middle. The pump is external and the w/d filter is a 55 gal. tank with an eggcrate shelf on one side...