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Okay, i'm looking to get into salt water aquaria. Salt water is what REALLY got me into fish keeping to begin with, i just didnt have experience or resources to maintain a salt water aquarium, so i went fresh. Anywho, now i have a 55 and 37 gallon tank, i'm also looking at buying a 125 gallon...

My girlfriend and I watched something about Hurricane Katrina today and it got me to thinking about the damage the hurricane did to the aquatic ecosystem (yes i know its small beans in comparison to the human toll, but i was curious nevertheless). It talked extensively about the storm surge and...

I'm going to college, moving into a new apartment in the next couple of weeks. Paying for my car and car insurance, rent, and all of my bills. So what is the most electricity friendly equipment i can get, the lower my electric bill the better. (i'm furnishing a new tank for a friend of mine, 40...

Okay, my grandmother REALLY loves gardening, she's nearly 70 years old and is constantly out in the Georgia heat toiling away in her garden. To make matters worse she barely eats anything at all, like going two or more days at a time without eating until someone calls her and "reminds" her to...

One of my bulbs burned out today and i decided i'd replace them both on my 55 gallon, its just the standard 55 gallon with the double hoods. The bulbs are no good for plants so i figured i'd ask here. What are some decent bulbs i could get to fit these hoods, i just want lowlight so it doenst...

Okay, i've been thinking and i'm finally ready to make the attempt, I want to make my 55 gallon planted, i've got 60w so that would put me at low light right? I've got sand substrate, but the sticky said that with lowlight plants that was fine. So to the question- What are some plant options...

Will playground sand work? What are its drawbacks? I cant find any pool filter sand around here, small town.

Simple question, how much does pfs cost?

So yesterday i was at the pond and i see these two little crayfish eating a piece of bait i'd dropped at the edge of the water. One was about 1&1/4 inches, and the other is 3/4 of an inch. They are in a 10 gallon quarantine tank right now. There are some fake plants and some rocks in there that...

If a big tank with just one fish has ick and you take the fish out and put it in a different tank and treat the fish for ick and cure it. Would the ick in the original (big) tank clear up on its own since it has no host to feed off of? not in one day, but over say like a week or two?

Firstly, i want to change substrate in my 55 gallon. I'm going to put pool filter sand in instead. Where can i get pfs? Also, when doing vac's, wouldnt it syphon the sand out as well as the waste? I'm working on some rockwork for the back of the tank right now. I'm using PVC pipes and making...

Have you ever noticed your fish behaving differently when there is a storm? i know this is a natural thing in the wild obviously, but until today i never noticed a change in the behavior of the fish in my aquarium during a storm. They were all swimming around and laying and such, and then after...

What are some indications that sunburst platies are mating?

How many of you actually keep aquarium logs? I keep mine in a spiral college ruled notebook. I use it to keep track of water changes, maintenance, filter maintenance, temp fluctuations. All the water parameters, weird fish behavior. New additions, etc. Sometimes it helps track a problem back to...

Alright, this morning i noticed one of my zebra danios had some spots on his tail. Upon closer inspection, his back fin is ichified (for lack of a better word). I looked around the rest of the tank really closely at my itty bitty tetras, which seem to have ich (which probably means they are...

Here it is, took me all day, but i finally got it set up. Thanks :D. I have a perfect view of it from my bed because it sits about a foot and a half away from my footboard.

Howdy. My dad told me that angela ( my stepmom) was officially done with aquaria lol. She'd killed her last fish. So he told me i could have it. So tomorrow i'm going to pick it up. A 55 gallon tank, filter, heater, hood, air pump, gravel, deco, stand, everything, for free, what a deal ^^. So...

Yes, another thread from yours truly lol. Okay i have an aquaclear power filter 50 gal hob. The intake tube only sits like six inches in the water. I'd like to extend that further down to the bottom of the tank for better filtration. Seems like as soon as the filtered water hits the tank again...

Have you guys made your own decorations for your tank? Right now i'm working on making a cave type deal out of a big piece of slate, been chiseling away at it. Just wondering what other kind of decorations you all might have made.

I have a community tank with several different schools of fish. My friend has two betas and wants to get rid of one of them. So he asked if i'd take it. But i just want to know how betas act in an aquarium with other fish. I've never had a beta and dont know much about them except that they will...

my new 37 gallon tank is finally completely cycled complete with danios, sunburst platies, rainbow tetra, and one healing small oranda (out of place i know), and oh yeah, plecos. I'm still working on the deco. my 10g tank is home to two native fish. A blue channel catfish (3 inches) and a baby...

I have a few neon tetras, zebra danios, sunburst platies, and two plecos in my tank. So what would be some good tank mates for them? They all of course school and stay together most of the time, but sometimes you can see the tetras and platies playing together, the danios mostly play amongst...