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    Tiger barbs

    i love my 3 tiger barbs, they don't like me though, i think its the long bhlue gotee that scares them lol
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    fountain pump experiment gone wrong tonight lol

    I have a huge water pump in my garage that runs off gas and uses 4 inch hoses lol
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    Gravel Vaccuming

    WoW i gotta give Kaz some credit here, thats one heck of a response lol My only problem with my filter is that fact it clogs rather quickly. Its a HOB Regent for 5- 15 gallons and it slows down after about 2 weeks, i get a small waterfall comig out instead of a good hardy one, i alwasy figured...
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    biggest pleco you have owned or own?

    i wonder if anyone has batter dipped there pleco after it passed away and ate it? lol most of all i wonder how it tasted
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    My attempt at a GARF stand!

    Whats a Garf stand?
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    Cinder block stand

    cinder blocks i don't trust, solid blocks or even the big huge chimny blocks work good, once i went to friends house who bought an aquarium and he was gonna makea stand he said, i go over there he has 2 pieces of 1/2 particle board cut into triangles and another piece as the top drilled and...
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    DIY computer based water quality monitoring system?

    www.seaquariums.com down here in flatwoods ky, did an in wall 4000 gallon saltwater tank with 2 black tipped sharks, live sand, 6 UV sterilizers, 6 foot tall protein skimmer and the its computer controlled, it monitors food, water level/ temp, ph levels, salinity, all kinds of things, if any of...
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    Making a cave

    buy your styrofoam, cut it to how you want it, do all your shaping, go buy a 40 bag of cement, mix it up to where its medium thickness, not to much water, put small thing coats of this over your styrofoam and let dry for a couple of days, then was it really good or let it stay in the tank for a...
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    fountain pump experiment gone wrong tonight lol

    hey you all know those little fountains you put on your desk or shelf that come with a submersible pump? i took mine apart and got the sealed pump and stuck it in my tank hoping it would do something cool, it didn't, so i decided to take the samll like 1/2 " hose off my gravel cleaner and stick...
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    Gravel Vaccuming

    I was wondering how often you guys clean your gravel in your tanks? and how do you do it without removing your fake plants? I have some plants that are a pain to keep rooted in the gravel. I also havea question about the bacteria that grows on the gravel. I hear alot of talk about beneficial...
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    Making caves...

    pretty nice looking, i'm gonna try the same, maybe rig some plants on top so the fish won't rip them up lol
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    New fish for empty tank! :-)

    i know the feeling of staring at an empty tank for to long lol it gets old, mines only a 10 gallon right now, little cramped for space, but the fish will have to deal with that rfor right now lol
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    fish hurt/sick

    they said it was took out almost immedaitley, now they want 50 bucks for it
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    fish hurt/sick

    i saw a blind oscar at the LFS the other day, both eyes were covered with cloudy cataracs and its lips were tore up pretty bad, i think the guy said they came from a home where some kids put paint in the tank cu they wanted pink water lol i guess it blinded the fish lol
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    This tank (and loach) is clean!

    i saw a nice fish tank today at a friends moms house, two 55's stacked on one another on some stand, looked unsafe, but they had this beautiful ceramic broken jar ornamant that was just amssive and inside was an albino catfish of some kind about 6 inchs long, apperently he ate a small frog they...
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    Bala Sharks............

    dumb question, but do red tailed sharks like algea wafers?
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    Bala Sharks............

    my red tail has down syndrome i think, it just sets there, it never does anything cool lol
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    biggest pleco you have owned or own?

    WHOA WHOA fish can get TB and it can spread to us?
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    biggest pleco you have owned or own?

    i just thought of something after my post, if the body and fins of plecos are sharp why not use some rubber ggloves like you wash dishes with, new and unused of course....is there any dangers to that?
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    hollow bellys

    so i've noticed, i had a tank a couple years ago, just a 29 gallon i never did partial water changes, i just waited till i couldn't see the fish in the dark green water and half the tank was evaporated lol shows what i knew back then lol
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    biggest pleco you have owned or own?

    I still don't see how you guys touch those things, i miss mine, like FishyFanatic said i love the gracefulness and the way they suck on the tanks, but something about that mouth and soft belly gross me out, i was always terrified when i was vaccuming the gravel it would come up and suck on tho...
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    BIG Pleco blues...

    13 inches ain't nothing, i had one that was pushing 16 and i still was able to catch him in an 8 inch net, he didn't like though lol neitehr did i for that matter lol, as for transporting, i have done this several times with my old aglea eater, i paid the lady who bags these things at pet stores...
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    Algae Eaters

    i love the gracefulness and how cool they look on the glass, but i seriously can't deal with how big and ugly they get, i iwsh they stayed small, like 4 inches or so
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    biggest pleco you have owned or own?

    you try to touch them nasty things?!?!?! oh god they gross me out, thats why i got rid of the tank. he flopped out of a holding bucket once when i had to tear down my tank and started zooming across the carpet, i freaked out and dad runs and grabbed the thing with his hands, said it was the...
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    hollow bellys

    awesome, thanks for the info guys
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