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    Tadpoles

    My parents just got a house in Tampa, FL and after living in the city my mother is freaked out by frogs. The house included a pond with some fairly large goldfish in it. My stepfather tells me there are many tadpoles in the pond. Are these harmful to the fish? And even if they aren't I'm sure my...
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    nitrate problem + confused

    little history, my grandma's tank is about a year and a half old. it had always been fine but about a mnth back the nitrates shot up. im like ok, tank is dirty, watever not, but no. we started doing water changes and i bought mangrove plants and they went down from like 80 to 40, which is what...
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    cloudy water

    hi im posting for my aunt. she has a 20 gallon freshwater aquarium. i dont really know much about the aquarium. in her filter she has a sponge and a phosphate reducer (the stone thingies). her water is cloudy white. i think it may be dead alga. but i dont know. any suggestions on what i could do?
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    aquarium and school

    heya all! long time no post. anyway the bio department in my school (two teachers, small school) and i wanna start a salt water aquarium. now theres a problem. NO MONEY! so what i need from YOU is money...but i dont think im gonna get that. advice on how to start a cheap aquarium (like where i...
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    red knob starfish

    i have a question as how to feed my red knob starfish, i know its a carnivore, my question is how do i feed the chopped clams and squid? the carnivorous fish in my tank would devour the feed, should i place the food in the starfish's mouth?
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    overflow size and return pump gph?

    i'm making an overflow box on my 200 gal with two pipes going out to my 20gal. sump. my question is. how large should these standpipes be? my sexond question is how big should the powerheads for the two return tubes be?
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    sump question

    BIG question. do i put bio-balls in my sump if i'm making a reef tank?
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    in-wall aquarium setup

    do any of you know a site that can help me set up an in-wall aquarium? i would want it to be visable on both sides, so that only one of the short sides would be blocked........so..........thanks.
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    ANEMONES URGENT!!!!!!

    i bought two anemones a while back, as a result my nitrates went up to about 20 for no reason. anyway one of the anemones keeps withdrawing and its tentacles become deflated periodiccly. i noticed this about 5 minutes ago. according to my grandmother this has happened before and it had acctually...
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    anemones and nitrates

    hi i recently purchased two haiten tip anemones and put them into my tank. i have two question one is, could this have triggered a sudden rise in my nitrates? my nitrate rose to 20 after putting in the anemones, is it the anemones or could it have been somethign else. second. the first night the...
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    small qt/algae growing tank.

    i want to get a 10 gal. and make it a qt/algae growing tank. what i want to ask however is if i can connect it to my current filter. i have a canister filter so i was thinking of just putting a three way hose connector. would this be ok or will the new water from the new tank mess up my other...
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    need to grow algae

    hi, i have a tang and clownfish tank and i need to grow some algae because my tangs constantly eat it and they need to eat, lol. i had some green algae, only a little bit and they quickly ate it. problem is no more is growing. the tangs are still eating well (lettuce, nori algae sheets, frozen...
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    yellow tang coloration. semi-urgent.

    i recently purchased a yellow tang. its been doing fine and eating all that i feed it. (sushi sheets, romaine lettuce, tank algae, spirulina enchanced brine shimrp and an omnivorus mix for yellow tangs) its been fine all day but when i went to check up on it just now i noticed a opaque brown...
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