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have you considered a mini water heater, like in a gas station bathroom?

i used to run a pool about 5 years ago-- muratic acid is safe for fish just as it is for humans, its only purposes are to raise alkalinity and decrease ph. chlorine goes away naturally which is why pools operators are always using it. if you filled the tub a week in advance you would not have...

i think i will get away pretty cheaply since i already own the paint and rock, i just need the clear coat. by the time i go to coat it, the paint will have solved the potentially perplexing porous problem. i'm just concerned with the materials leaching into the water, but it sounds like the...

I am told that using limestone will increase my PH-- can i prevent this by clear coating it? and for that matter, can i paint it an then clear coat it to prevent toxins from the paint as well?

Would this bulb likely be a tiger lotus?

i kept a channel cat in a tank for a couple year- i found him in a minnow bucket and raised him until he was too large for my tank and then set him free.

not to mention the amazing ability clown loaches have to out grow their enviroment

i used to have a nice planted tank, and then i got a convict. be careful

the owner said that he has never had to clean it in two year, but if he needed to he would turn it upside down, half full of water, and shake it. he said he might go on to use an algea brush, but that he would have to be extremely careful as pvc scratches easily by design. how about building...

i used one rounded tabelspoon per 5 gallons, as my aquarium salt box indicated, and had good results

if i run the gas line off of my diy co2 reactor underneath the ugf, will having to rise through the ugf and substrate work as a diffuser?

i read somewhere not to use salt with the frogs...

i'm going to souix falls next friday...