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The male flagfish has been acting odd lately and until recently it never occured to me that maybe my flagfish are spawning. I'm not a breeder by any means. Lately he's been guarding a 2" x 2" area of java moss. He's chasing everyone away from it, even the female flagfish. When no one is...

This was brought up in another thread. I'll place it here as to not hijack that thread. The formula for calculating CO2 is: CO2 (in PPM) = 3 * KH * 10^( 7-pH ) When we are not injecting CO2, ambient CO2 is ~3 ppm so we get: 3 = 3 * KH * 10^(7-pH) 1 = KH * 10^(7-pH) 1/10^(7-pH) = KH So for...

So for the past two weeks I've been unintentionally treating ich (None of my fish have ich but my tanks have been at 88 because I haven't been cooling). Today's high is 96 with a heat index of 105. Blah...that'll push the tank into the 90's. So I told my wife to leave a few doors open and...

Starting a 20 gallon long planted tank and have come up with tentative stocking lists. I would like your comments/advice on these plants/fish plus suggestions for any other plants/fish that would be nice and not be too large for the tank. Its a 20 long so I only have about a 9 inch water...

I am about to start a 20 gallon long tank and thought I might try my hand at a brackish tank. What would you stock it with? It will have an SG of no more than 1.005 as I will also have live plants.

This is in the planted forum because I want to know how heavily planted tank people stock. Currently in my 10 gallon heavily planted tank I have 6 neon tetras and 6 otos. I have no problems with NO3. I actually have to add 8+ ppm each week just to keep the BBA at bay. I also recently...

I am looking for one of these so I can hook up some cooling fans. The only problem is I can not find one! I have looked at Best Buy and RadioShack and either they really didn't have them...or the person I talked to didn't know what I was talking about. Does anyone know if Wal Mart or Target...

Another potential issue in the breakdown of the WPG rule for small tanks is the fact that smaller bulbs produce less light for a given number of watts. Take for example a 48" 32 watt T8 bulb. A good one should produce 2800 lumens or 87.5 lumens/watt. Now, the same tube in 18" 15 watt T8...

Does anyone know where I can buy an electronic ballast to fire smaller bulbs (18" and less)? All the electronic ballast I find only fire 24" and up bulbs while the smaller sizes are fired by magnetic ballasts. I want to build a DIY hood for a 10 gallon with 3 18" T8 bulbs but can not find a...

Does anyone own this size tank for use other than breeding? I was thinking of getting this tank because it can hold more fish due to its massive surface area (relative to its volume). The bioload shouldn't be an issue because it will be very heavily planted. My question is, as a display tank...