Recent content by GrotesqueHybrid

My parents just got a house in Tampa, FL and after living in the city my mother is freaked out by frogs. The house included a pond with some fairly large goldfish in it. My stepfather tells me there are many tadpoles in the pond. Are these harmful to the fish? And even if they aren't I'm sure my...

oh no, i didnt mean it like that. im just saying. its important research everything before starting the project or purchasing the animal. i mean, its cruel to make it suffer becuase you dont know about it **shrug**

im planning to upgrade to lr and ls filtration when i get some money lol. so yea, i pan to get rid of the fluval. but i still dont get. wont extra food and waste also get trapped in the lr?

**winces** eh eh eh, well i don't have a an answer for you im sorry. but....why would you buy something without knowing anything about it, not even what it eats? O.o

oh god, lol. my grandma's tank! well, because of the nitrate spike i have two fish. a marine betta and a yellow tang, decent size. i have a protien skimmer, uv sterilizer, and im currently usuing a fluval 404 for filtration. its a fish tank....uh.....yea, thats alll.

little history, my grandma's tank is about a year and a half old. it had always been fine but about a mnth back the nitrates shot up. im like ok, tank is dirty, watever not, but no. we started doing water changes and i bought mangrove plants and they went down from like 80 to 40, which is what...

hi im posting for my aunt. she has a 20 gallon freshwater aquarium. i dont really know much about the aquarium. in her filter she has a sponge and a phosphate reducer (the stone thingies). her water is cloudy white. i think it may be dead alga. but i dont know. any suggestions on what i could do?

heya all! long time no post. anyway the bio department in my school (two teachers, small school) and i wanna start a salt water aquarium. now theres a problem. NO MONEY! so what i need from YOU is money...but i dont think im gonna get that. advice on how to start a cheap aquarium (like where i...

i have a question as how to feed my red knob starfish, i know its a carnivore, my question is how do i feed the chopped clams and squid? the carnivorous fish in my tank would devour the feed, should i place the food in the starfish's mouth?

GPH alright for a 200 gallon reef tank how many gph should flow through the sump? how big do the standpipes have to be to achieve this?

i'm making an overflow box on my 200 gal with two pipes going out to my 20gal. sump. my question is. how large should these standpipes be? my sexond question is how big should the powerheads for the two return tubes be?

whats a DSB? i probably know what it is but not by the shortned form

BIG question. do i put bio-balls in my sump if i'm making a reef tank?

eh......nevermind, lol

do any of you know a site that can help me set up an in-wall aquarium? i would want it to be visable on both sides, so that only one of the short sides would be blocked........so..........thanks.