Recent content by pkillur

Yeah. So, in theory I have a 360 gph pump on my Fluval 404 with max head of 6 ft, so probably the flow is cut in half for the threeish feet it goes up and into my tank. So, at 180 gph (in a perfect world) it takes 25 minutes to disolve all the chloramines. This is all in a perfect world with...

Just to play devil's advocate, the reason he said he didn't want to recommend them is because he started using one a year ago on his Discus tank and like 4 of his 12 discii died. Food for thought, and I know Discus can be finicky, but this dude's been in the fish business for like 20 years, so...

Howdy all, MY lfs guy chastised me the other day when I mentioned getting a python. His logic was that putting untreated water with chloramines (we have them) inside the tank and waiting for the prime to circulate it was a bad idea and would have negative effects in the long run. He suggested...

Yes, at least in theory... I thought of something else. I have a couple MTS as well. Did you recently add any in? Perhaps one was on a fish or something? It could perhaps be baby Malaysians. After looking at this picture, that could be what we're both looking at: (FYI, pic is from...

Snail eggs... I physically saw my mystery apple snail lay eggs that look exactly the same as that. I'm going to make my best guess that they're eggs from your snail. Either that, or we both have snails and both have the same weird fungus / growth that looks like eggs from a snail and no one...

Sweet! Angle Iron will look awesome!

*Screech Screech Thump* - Please excuse me while I bust out the soapbox here for a minute.... I'm sure I sound like I'm beating a dead horse, but every time I see someone say they don't want to break down an aquarium, I put my own personal experience into it. Please see this picture: We got...

My goal long term (year or so) is to purchase another tank (the wife doesn't know this yet though :) ) and move my freshwater guys into it. Then, I'm going to make the 72 gallon brackish and convert it all the way into a full blown salt tank. Dragon Gobies survive a really long time in Salt...

It appears that my new dragon goby has decided that since he can't oust my fairly vociferous king-of-the-tank blue gourami "Rasputin" from his hidy cave, he has now decided to burrow under my rock between the front part of the overflow. (Seen below in the first picture) The main problem with...

Catfish I would try a farlowella. Put some driftwood in and you're golden.

Go back to home depot and buy a 6 dollar timer and then you don't have to worry about the switch that often :)

As requested, here are the pictures of the new tank setup: Click on them to get bigger versions... I went from this (this picture is old, and unplanted...) To this cool setup. Still working on it a bit...

I was looking at Oscars and was told that Oscars need a minimum of 80 gallons per fish for their swimming patterns. I got this quote from oscarfish.com: The 120 [gallon] will be totally maxed out with just the 2 Oscars. In fact, if this is a tall 4 foot tank, I don't think it will be...

No Cycle substrate replace I just did this on Friday night. I have a 72 gallon bowfront tank. Barring the couple of hours it took rinsing the sand off and on it took me 6 hours. I left the fish crap on the bottom of the tank, however I have a filter that's been running for almost 6 months...

As crazy as it sounds, I bought a 75 gallon show tank with 75 (ish) pounds of rock in it. When I finally got to setting the tank up a few days later the rock had almost completely dried out (I was kind mad about this because I was trying to keep bacteria alive, but my wife forgot to "feed" it...