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Guppy/Endler hybrids are infertile so there's no need to worry about futher genetic contamination.

The indepth portion of the profile thing would probably be optional (I'm not going to make someone give me a list of all their fish if they want to buy some more platies or neons), but I do not think asking to know what my animals will be housed in is unreasonable. Especially since it would be a...

I worked in Petsmart for a month. Otherwise no, but I plan to try and hold positions at several petstores over the next few year and will be minoring in business.

The $500,000 we would have should be more than enough to convice a bank to loan us enough to get started (acquiring a loan of $1mil is not out of the question for an opening business venture). Land is cheap -- I've seen 20-30 acers of comercially zoned land beind sold at $20,000, and I'd only...

So far the plan is this: It'd be a split store, one half for fish, one half for pets like dogs, cats, and birds. But we won't be selling any large animals; if you want a dog or a cat we'll have a catalouge of all the animlas being offered by local rescues and the few that we can foster in the...

What would it look like, what animals / fish would be in stock, what would the tank setup be like, what would the floor plan be like, etc.? I know it's silly, but I'm begining to plan and research what a really, really good petshop would be like. :read: So post what you think would make for a...

Fill a one gallon container with a 20:1 ratio of bleach to water. Fill a five gallon bucket with clean water. Submerge the plant for one minute in the bleach solution, rinse thouroughly with water, then place in the five gallon bucket. For fragile plants dip for only 20-30 seconds, limit all...

:D Just drop it off outside your LFS and tell your wife you "took care of it." ;)

Soak all of your wood in a five gallon for a week or two doing 100% water changes and 5 minutes boilings each day until the water is clear. And yes, it will eventually stop leeching.

I'm going to try and hunt down or aqua bid some ricca to lay as ground cover, maybe some corkscrew val or regular valsineria? and get another, larger sword for the back left corner. This tank still feels... in-complete and the moss in the front of the tank looks tacky to me. At least I have my...

Finally found someone in town that grows java moss, so I got a handful of it, some watersprite, and 30lbs of Denver granite ($3.20 from my local landscaping supply store :wink: ) and redid the whole 20 gallon. The betta tank got leftovers. Old 20gal setup New setup Close up of the...

I think gravity pulls the water into the sump and then a pump pulls it back up but don't quote me on that. SW sump plans

I got a 50lb bag of play sand at HD for $2.35. It looks great, was easy to rise, and my cories love playing in it.

It can be used for fresh water as easily as salt. I think the general idea is to hide hardware (put the filter, heater, CO2 into the sump, put the sump inside/under your stand and presto!) and increase the capacity of the tank. You may have a 50gallon tank, but with a 20 gallon sump the total...

Ramshorn snails and gouramis are supposed to eat them, but your best bet is this: Take all your fish out of the tank and run current through your tank by attaching a battery to two pieces of copper wire and places the ends at opposite ends of the tank. The copper combined with the current...