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I got a fair few so bare with me, hope you's like em. First some tanks then some fish. Boring display tank Blue Gene Jack Dempsey Breeding tank (they are in there just hiding) Temporary whiteknight tank My Saratoga Sailfin Pleco (washed out from flash) Barramundi My male blue gene...

I am changing from a single 3ft tank to a 2teir 4ft with sump set up. I am using the gravel, internal filter and bioballs from my diy canister from the 3ft for the change. If I just add the gravel into one of the tanks and have completely new substrate in the other tank. Will this cause a mini...

I am transfering my fish from 1 3ft tan to 2 4ft tanks. I have been filtering the 3ft with a diy canister with about 100 large bio balls and 50 small bioballs and a 800lph internal filter. Either tomorrow or wednesday I will be transfering everything over between the 2 4ft tanks. The gravel from...

Just picked up my first aro/toga today, got myself a saratoga leichardti. The thing is so skitish it keeps on jumping into the lid, thank god I put something over the tank. He's in there with a small murray cod, silver perch, golden perch, eel tail catfish and 2 bristlenose catfish. This is only...

just bought 2 4ft tanks and they have 1 Inch holes drilled in one end of each. I am wondering what plumbing fixture I would need to utilize this hole as an overflow. I have been looking for god knows how long and can not find anything that will work in this manner and maintain the diameter of...

Aragonite raising ph My tap water pH is around 6 by my test strips so obviously I need to raise it a fair bit for african cichlids. I've been reading and it seems that adding aragonite/calcium carbonate as a subtrate raises the pH to around 8 and adds a buffer to keep it there. Is there any way...

At the moment I have a 50 Litre tank with a 500Lph internal filter with some fillter wool added inside it for a lil extra finer filtration (obviously it has flow control). There is only 1 fish in there at the moment murray cod (native australian fish) and will be adding a 2 eel tail catfish...

Is it possible to have nitrates, no nitrites and ammonia? I got through a cycle without an ammonia tester and no fish death. So I was wondering if I actually need one after the cycle has completed? Obviously don't want to harm my fish it's been 2 weeks since i've done a water change and my...

I am wondering if someone can outline some of the measurements of there reflectors single bulb or double welcome. My brother is a stainless steel fabricator and was hoping he could make me up a DIY reflector. He builds commercial kitchen appliances such as ranges, splashbacks, benches, cold...

Tank is 200L 3x1.5x1.5' and will be home to 16 African Cichlids (3-5cm) and 2 Peppermint Bristlenoses (3-5cm), So far i've read they are dirty lil buggers and was planning on filtering the tank with a 1000 Lph internal filter with spray bar attached and a Jebao 1500 Lph canister. In a perfect...

My gf is interested in getting into african cichlids after I started a native tank. She is interested is solid bright colours, we are thinking 2 Electric Yellows, 2 Electric Blues, 2 Snow White Socolofis (albino) and 2 Peppermint Bristlenose catfish. We were looking at getting 2 red zebras...

Hey guys my name's Rohan and i'm a first timer to the whole aquarium world. Hopefully I can add something of use to this forum and would like to tell a bit of a story about how I became interested in fish keeping. I've been always interested in fishing but more for the sport of it not to eat...