Recent content by Minze

I am using an Ehiem as well. So far nothing to say but good things. No moisture in the hopper, reliable and an adjustable slide to control how much food comes out. You can choose to feed once or twice a day and also allow multiple drops of food per feeding. I would definitely second the...

I actually do that a few times a year in my tank for the Oto's. On my filter it is the extension tube that it grows inside. I just leave the filter running with a short tube and leave the extension on the gravel for the Oto's. With my 2 guys, they have it all cleaned out overnight. I...

I moved a 40 gallong a few motnhs ago. It was a 15 minute drive from one house to the next. I made the tank the last item to be moved (so it was the first item pulled into the new house) I packed the fish up into a bunch of 5 gallon pain tubs from Home Depot. I sanitized them all with...

Thanks for the reply! until this weekend I was just doing water changes and not vacuuming the gravel. I vac'd the gravel and did pull up a good deal of the needles from the hornwort that had fallen off. I'll see in a day or two if the removal had any affect on the PH swings. For the...

Thanks, that's good to know. Clown Loaches it is. I've always liked those the look of them but always had different types of catfish as my bottom dwellers.

Thanks for the help, the Kh is 53.7 ppm and the GH is 125.3 ppm. Looking up Planaria seems like it may ne the case. Even though I was pulling the food out when the frog wouldn't eat, I'm sure there was some uneaten left around. For the hair like bunches, it's definitely more hair like, not...

First, this is long and I apologize. I wanted to give as much information as possible to try and figure this out. Here is the story leading up to where I am now I had a 10 gallon tank that I kept my African Clawed Frog in (I also have a 40 gallon tropical tank and have been keeping tropical...

I know you can purchase them without a permit in PA. I know that they are almost always in stock at The Hidden Reef which is about 15 minutes into PA from the Tacony Palmyra Bridge. Here is the link to their site. http://www.thehiddenreef.com/

Can you put a colorful gravel, etc over top of the plant substrate?

So is substrate important at all? Can you have a regular gravel substrate and add liquid/tablet fertilizers and have asuccessful planted tank?

I have been thinking of moving an African Clawed Frog from it's current 10G tank to a 20G long tank. I have been batting around the idea of making this a planted tank with the frog and a few guppies. No one else has experienced a CO2 buildup inside the tank? This was something that I have not...

Many moons ago I was told by an exterminator to cover the tops of the tanks with Seran Wrap before he came over to bomb the house (wicked case of fleas at the time). Anyway, we covered the tank, he exterminated the house. He used bomb type poisons as we had to leave the house for a few hours...

Oh, and thanks for the compliment on the Spotted Raphael, he's about 5 inches long but quite fat around the middle.

He is joined by 2 iridescent sharks, 3 ottos, 1 common pleco, 4 3 spot gouramis, and a lone Albino Tiger Barb. He is the last left from his school of 3. Now that he is full on adult size my LFS doesn't carry any his size. I put 3 of the largest they carry in his tank and he nipped them and...