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I plant on having a piece of glass or plexiglass between the bulbs and the tank. I alos am going to have a fan and some vents to keep the lights/ballast cooler.

I am building a t5ho hood for my tank. I have all the parts i need excpet the endcaps. What are the best/cheapest caps I should get? I do not need the fancy vho caps or anything like that. Just a decent endcap. Thanks

they have a bunch of k's but the 6500k was what i would get if i was to get them. 22 inches and 24 watts each(the size i was looking at).

Sorry I didn't clarify, I meant the bulbs.

I was wondering if there was any issue using the t5ho lights you can get at the hardware store for a planed tank? They seem to be much cheaper then the ones sold for plants specifically. For a 30 gallon tall would 4 24watt t5ho be good for a medium to high light tank? thanks

Well I have a 10 gallon planted tank with red cherry shrimp. I have a DIY Co2 system set up. I have the bottle with the mixture with a tub to a gas separator. The tube from the mixture goes almost to the bottom of the bottle. The tube that goes to the tank is close to the top. It them goes...

I took everything out and washed it before building the gas separator. I cant get a picture of it, its in the back of the tank and comes blurry. All I can say is its attached to the tube where the co2 comes out, its white, it reminds me of a cotton candy.

So I did the gas separator just as the link showed, but I'm still getting the white wispy growth at the base of the Co2 ladder. Any ideas of what else it could be or I could do?

one that prevents back flow? No, what would that do though? The water in the tank isnt back lowing into the bottles.

Ok well ive set up a 10 gallon planted tank, and i am using a DIY yeast mixture. A few days after i set it up, there was this white whispy growth at the end of the tube where the co2 goes up the ladder. I was stupid and had the line going directly fron the bottle into the tank. So i took it...

The only thing in the tank are the RCS and some snails that hitchhiked on the plants.

The problem that is that I have seen these shrimp for that past 3-4 months with eggs, but never babies. The only time I have seen babies is the first 2 months when I got them. I don't know if its the same shrimp with eggs, or different shrimp. For the last 3-4 months there are always multiple...

Hello, I have a 10 gallon planted tank that I have Red Cherry Shrimp in. When I first got the shrimp, they were breeding. Now i do see females with eggs, but never any babies. The eggs are a greenish or off white color and are not translucent. the water temperature is around 76 F. The...

I have been looking for a power strip that also has a built in timer. I was hoping to find one that controls each individual outlet separately. I need 5 different things on 5 timers. The ones I came across at Big Als and Dr Fosters appear to turn some on as they turn others off. Is there any...

I actually ended up getting the PVC and gravel to work. What i did was used ALOT of silicone, spread it evenly and the put the gravel on it. I then pressed the gravel down with my hand and shook off the extra. It actually worked pretty well, the gravel sticking nicely.