Recent content by iamaj

WHat exactly is pearling? Yup I ordered them online. There are very few plants around here i can use in my low light aquarium. ostrichkiller, a marimo (not marino like i said :) ) moss ball, is exactly like its name just a ball of moss :) They come from japan and are supposedly "the next big...

I want mine to sink! I dont want them to float :( Well its 2:46 (am very very very am) est. 3 moss balls have sank, and one is still floating. aj

Possibly, ill wait till i get in from work tonight (2-3am) and see if they are still floating. I think if they float, like you said, they are hallow inside. I think i red something about tearing them, rolling them into a round shape, and stapling it so it doesnt unroll. But would the staple rust...

I just got 4 marino moss balls today. One of them sank and the other 3 are floating. I thought i read they will float at night, but they have been in there for close to 5 hours in direct light and still floating. any one know why? aj

Its a penguin 110 filter http://www.petsmart.com/products/product_776.shtml like the one pictured. aj

also, do the tannins have any effects to plants/fish/water quality?

If it was slightly discolored no biggie but it looks likes a like colored tea. Activatec carbon? like in my filter? or is that charcoal... any ways how would i add activated carbon to it?

hi i have soaked my driftwood for two weeks, then put it in my tank. So in total it has been soaking for about 3 weeks. and the water is still discolored. I have 2 pieces of asian driftwood, and 1 peice of african. How long will my water stay discolored?

Well im outside Charleston, WV. I got the neon from two different stores. A LFS and petsmart. Like you mentioned it could just be the fish are ill or not well cared for when you buy them. Like i said the only time i had a neon die is from the ich attack (sucks) and when my frogs ate em :P aj

I have never had a problem with neons. Except for the recent ich slaughter i had that wiped out all living fish. I got 2 neons one time as a feeder fish for my firebelly toads. I put them in the water area to see if the toads could catch them. For two weeks they never did so i put em in a...

thanks, ill try that alli, some one on a chat said it could have been the ich and a parasite. Ill keep a better eye on em next time.

i think the fixture is 20" long but with a 18 watt light. I bought the lightstrip a little over a month ago it has a screw in light before. I was looking at the AH stuff, i was thinking of still using my new strip light a 1x13 behind it. I would make a plexi top for it to set on. I think my...

I have a 20 gal hex tank. It has plants, right now it has aquatic clover, java moss, anacharis (sp?). Im going o get 3 marimo moss balls, another java moss clump, and a java fern. All are low light plants. Right now i have a 18 watt fluorescent light on it. My clover is doing great, my...

Well just to update, like i thought every thing is dead. I even got the Rid Ich like suggested. So now just plants are in the tank. Im going to let it run for a few weeks and sdo some water changes. But i think I have discovered the real reason why the fishes died. About a month ago *before...

Hi again, I got Rid Ich today. I did a 50% water change, removed the carbon from my filter and added the rid ich. The molly is dead, and i have three remaining neons. One is on the verge of dying, and the other two have very little strength. This is grim, but i give them 24 hours. I did read...