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You guys are sure making me impatient to make the switch! As soon as the water temperature is ok to move the koi this spring I am tearing the tank down and starting over. Any suggestions for the substrate/gravel? I plan on getting the visitherms. I like the idea of two. It seems that if one...

Thanks for the warning regarding the mollies. I had a lot of goldfish fry last year from the orandas. Center piece fish? I think I need to do some studying up!

Actually the water is pretty good and not terribly expensive. My last bill was $197 for a quarter. But it does have a lot of chlorine and in the winter the nitrate goes up from fertilizer runoff. The tap water tests at about 10ppm in the winter. Chlorine water is not quite as good as fish poop...

Grateful for the advice and information. Will use it! Thank you for the advice. I am looking forward to ditching the ugf. I have make a kind of snake siphon that wiggles under the ugf through the uplift tube openings to keep it clean under there but it is a pain. The stuff you clean out of...

I have one and will never, ever be without one. The running water from the spigot through the faucet attachment provides the suction which pulls water from the aquarium. You leave the water running while you siphon out from the tank. I cheat in two ways. First I fill the hose from the sink until...

My tank is a 70 gal with a fluval 404 canister filter, two hagen power heads run on reverse flow with an undergravel filter. The gravel is medium size"creek bed". The lighting is a double fluorescent strip. I also have an in line uv filter. This set up is 5 yrs old. Currently I have one koi...