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    Aquarium in basement?

    There are lots of fish that will thrive in your basement with very little heat added. Some that come to mind are white clouds and goldfish along with the entire spectrum of goodeids.
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    Unintentional Cycle? & Stocking

    You are not cycling your tank, it is sitting there wasting your time. If you had dechlorinated the water, the small amount of ammonia in the tank might be having some minimal effect to begin a cycle. For stocking levels, once you get the tank cycled, you are looking at 3 or 4 fish total in that...
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    Tank Support on Laminate Flooring

    A nice piece of half inch ply should do the trick of distributing the pressure over the entire area.
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    lids for an old 75 gallon

    It looks like my 40 long made by ODell from the mid 1970s and a top for it will be easy to make. You can buy the plastic hinge material from places like Foster&Smith and can also buy the back plastic strips there. All you need to do after that is get some decent measurements and have a local...
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    R/O Question

    The RO will never flow when the tank is empty. It produces pure water a drop at a time. That is why there is a storage tank in the system. The tank stores the water for you to use it conveniently.
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    R/O storage tank question

    I find that my own tank at 3 gallons capacity is a handy size. It can fit on one of the shelves under my kitchen counter so I placed it in that corner where you can never get at things anyway. It will freely discharge into a container for about 2 1/2 gallons after it is completely filled, the...
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    saving fry from the filter.

    As BigFoot said, use a slit in the end of a filter sponge. It looks like this on my desktop. And it looks like this in place on the filter inlet tube after about a month.
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    CF replacement bulbs

    You can also order PC bulbs from AHSupply. I think my last bulb was beteen $15 and $20. They carry lots of different light spectra in the 4 pin in a row configuration because that fits their kits.
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    Four more inches of fish

    The inch per gallon is intended to keep newbies from doing stupid overstocking. If it is ignored, the end result is often an overstocked tank. Making excuses to ignore part of the bioload is another way for a newbie to get in trouble but it is not too unusual to see it done. The cories will add...
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    Platys and Mollies????????

    I have kept mollies in salted tanks in the past and am keeping them now without salt. I can't see any difference in the mollies at all. The platies and plants, on the other hand, do not fare as well with salt in the water. What both platies and mollies do need is water with a somewhat high...
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    STOCKING ????'s

    The tiger barbs and the gold barbs are not peaceful community fish, they are very nippy. I have kept both at different times and have some gold barbs right now. Other than them, the tank would be a fine grouping. The tank will not be overstocked but inappropriately stocked.
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    Hard Water Fish & Plant Suggestions Needed

    It sounds like you have it figured out Biogeek. I was going to suggest goodeids until I read that last post. There are many to choose from and almost all do well in hard water. My own tap water is from 250 ppm to 325 ppm of TDS depending on the time of year. My KH runs about 12 german degrees...
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    Do I have a problem with ph?

    ShadyLady, you said you were having trouble getting the nitrates down but that shouldn't be hard. If your chemistry is out of whack, do a 50% water change and the water will much better resemble tap water than before the change. If you have high nitrates in the tap water, don't even try to get...
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    Breeding Kribs + Pleco = BAAAAD! HELP!

    My experience with plecs is that I don't trust them. The only thing I feel safe with when it comes to algae is otocinclus. For algae without attacking fry they would be a better choice. The down side is that the kribs will attack any bottom dweller when they have staked out a breeding territory...
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    Can I use amquel to add fish immediately?

    Biospira has a better reputation than most of the instant cycle products. It seems to work well enough if it has been properly cared for and kept refrigerated between manufacture and your use and if it is fairly freshly made.
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