Recent content by gu2high

My Amazon Sword gets too big, and produce lots of baby shoots too. I need buy dwarf sword if available.

thanks, jsoong. Yes, your idea is what I am going to do. Use a 17" X 3" X 3/8" glass as a center brace. Then find a platic shim to put on top of it. After silicone them, I hope they will be strong enough to support not only glass tops but also to support the water pressure on the front and...

I got a 90 gallon tank without center brace. It is used as a reptile tank by previous user. But I want to use for fish and I need a one piece of 48" x 18" glass canopy (glass top), I can't use 2 pieces of 23.5 " x 18" as it dones't have cetner brace to support the glass tops. Anyone know...

I am setting up a new 75 gallon tank and need some plants. Jrp, please open a new post when you have more available. Thanks!

My Amazon sword was dying too, all leaves were rotten. My pc bulb is 1 year and 4 months old. I used Flurish Comprehensive. I almost wanted to get rid of it. However, after I used Excel, within one week, to my surprise, new leaves came out. In 3 weeks, it looks like a new, very healthy...

I am considering to buy large amount of Flourish Excel but don't know how long it can be stored. I read in the forum that it will break in 24 hours in the tank, but if not used, how long can it be kept until expire?

Buy some Florida flag fish, and no more hair algae issue.

In my local pond, there are tons of pond snails in summer. I don't know right now in winter.

Sex them is very easy. Now the fish are 6 weeks old and about half an inch and I can tell sex easily. The female has a black dot on dorsal fin and its body has black bands - look close to adult female. I bought a female first, and a male in 2-3 months. They are living in a community tank...

I have an opened old golden fish flake and it is 14 years old. It is still GOOD and DRY! I feed it to my community fish and don't see any problem.

Since no much useful information on the web about it, here I am writing my breeding report. The male guards eggs. I moved about 30 eggs to a 20 gallon planted tank. The female actually laid more than 120 eggs in total during a period of 3-4 weeks. The rest of eggs in a community tank probably...

After more than one month, I don't see them interesting with each other.

I would pour some bleach in a busket of water, dip the plants for 30 seconds to 2 minutes, the dip time depends on the concentration of bleach and plants - soft leaves should be shorter. Then rinse well, dip in a clean water for another 10 minutes with double amount of de-chlorinator such as...

I wonder why lfs don't sell a 'seed' for the filter. The 'seed' can be some floss in the working filter at lfs. In this way, the new tank can be cycled very quickly.

Thanks, if it is diatoms, it is good news to me. I like ottos and are going to add more ottos to the tank.