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    River tank logisitcs

    Right now I have a 4ft tank whose primary inhabitants are five, seven year-old clown loaches sitting at about 5 inches each. They chill out with some corys, some rummynose, a couple of SAEs, and a couple of Bristlenose. While I've been in the hobby for years, thus far I've kept things...
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    New 30g : A few pointers if you would

    MTS strikes again. Have a 75g setup for a couple months that I'm still on the fence about stocking and I stumbled into a 30g tank and figured I wanted to try live plants, see what I can do. Need a few pointers. Even reading some info on lighting I'm a little confused. As I already picked up...
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    Water Parameter Woes

    The story so far… Tank: 75 gallons Substrate: 2 parts PFS to 1 part Black Moon Sand Temperature: 78-79 Source water is well water through a water softener using softening salt. Parameters as tested on Day 0 PH: 7.3 NH3: 0.0 NitrIte/NitrAte: 0.0 gH: ~40ppm kH: ~60ppm Day 1- 6...
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    Math Check and Fishless Cycle

    I’m about 2-3 days away from water in my tank. Going to be doing a fishless cycle and I wanted to make sure I don’t OD the tank or get myself into more work then I need. Assume 70 gallons or 265L of tank water This gives (1ml/1000L) * 265L = 0.265mL of ammonia to equal 1ppm I’m working with a...
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    75 Gallon, here we go!

    Finally picked up a 75g tank (48x18x20) the other day at a LFS and ordered just about everything else I need online. Picked up some black textured paint for the back as I’ve seen a few pics floating around here and it looks much better then most backgrounds. Once everything else gets here I...
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    Print/Photo References

    As partial as I am to the internet as the ultimate reasource there is something to be said for media you can hold in your hand. Looking for some good solid texts on: a) Setting up and maintaining FW tanks. Cycling, lighting, heating, water changes, diseases etc. b) Species guide for FW fish...
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    Starting out with Balas?

    Looking to get my feet wet (sorry) in the hobby and have spend a few weeks, checking out LFSs, online sites and forums such as this one, and generally trying to do my homework. I’ve tenatively decided on the Bala Shark as the fish I wanna base my tank around. The trouble I have is that pretty...
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