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Up for sale is a brand new Filstar XP3 (with a pack of bio chem stars) and an Ebo Jager 200W heater (15 in.). So... Filstar XP3 filter + 1 pack of Filstar Bio Chem Stars $128.38 Ebo Jager 200W heater $18.99 Both items are still sealed in their original packaging. You pay shipping, which I...

I have a bunch of brand new, unopened fish stuff - XP3, Ebo jager heater, filter pads, thermometer, other misc. stuff - that I'd like to sell, as I'm not going to be using it. I bought it all thinking I was gong to set up a 40 breeder turtle tank and I never got around to it. Infact, I still...

Looking at my tank right now I've noticed my GBR has gotten worse. He's having a lot of difficulty swimming and is basically floating around the bottom of my tank. His tail end seems to be more buoyant or floats up. He'll spin on his nose when *I think* he tries to turn around. He can't really...

Which one would be better for a plant noob? Right now I have sand, and that hasn't worked out to well. I have some time to switch out the substrate and want to get more into plants. There's 2wpg of NO fluoros right now, w/o CO2. The tank is a 20 gallon long 30 x 12 in. So I was either going to...

Well I finally did it. I finally added a GBR to my tank. I've overcome my procasination and indecesiveness and just did it. Today at work I eyed up the one good looking GBR in the discus tank and decided I had to have him. I wasn't going to wait for myself to set up the 10G or re-do the 20G...

Well folks, after working at an LFS for a while I think I just realized pH means nothing, unless of course you're doing Discus, Africans, or breeding fish. People come in all the time asking for their water to be tested. I ask them the normal questions. And when I ask them how long it's been...

Well my male dwarf gourami is dead today. I scooped him out of the tank while doing a water change. He was missing about 1/2 of one "feeler" and 3/4 of the other one. I didn't notice any visble fungus/parasites on him or anything wrong in the past few days. He has been eating. It seems like a...

I intially wanted a pair of GBRs in my 20g long when I was first setting it up. However, they died. And I soon gave up on them. Recently, the LFS I work at just got a bunch in. They've been there for possibly half a week to a week. I can't remeber exactly when we got 'em in. The lot of 'em is in...

I haven't posted in about a couple months. Been doing other things. Anyways, here's a couple shots of my tank. It's been setup for a little over a year. I DIY'ed the hood myself. It contains (2) 20W T12 fluorescents. Painted white on the inside. I have laterite under the sand and peat moss under...

My Canon A520 4MP came in the mail yeseterday, but I didn't have time to play with it yesterday. Today I did :D. I've been wanting a digital camera forever and now finally I have one. I took around 40 pics of my tank and this is probably the best one out of 'em all. Camera setting was on Sports...

I recently stumbled across this site while looking up info on hydroponics. http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/ Basically, It's about a guy in Australia who's really into aquaponics and he's built a couple systems in his backyard. For those who don't know, aquaponics is a combonation of aqua...

I don't know if this is normal or not, but lately when my dwarf gourami has been eating, air bubles having been coming out of his gills. I first noticed this a couple days ago, so I don't know if it's been going on forever. Now, this is only when he eats. Not when he is swimming or anything...

I don't know what the world is coming to. Coming home from school today, it was a half day, we were at a red light and I look over out my window and see this mini van with spinners.(Spinners are car rims that have an outer part that keeps spinning even when the car is stopped) And yes, they...

I have a bottle of Seachem Flourish that I got about a year and a half ago. I opened it back then but ceased using it because I had a low light and being the newbie that I was thought ferts would make my plants grow :oops: I gues s it did help them a little but it also caused a lot of algae...

My question is do these decrease the quality/effiency of the lighting. I'm trying to cram a couple 24" shoplights under my 20g L hood and since T-8 bulbs are skinnier it would be easier to use those. The shoplights come with T-12 endcaps thats why I would need the converters.

I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I can never do it right. I always get water ALL over the place. On the stand, on the carpet, on the hood. I have a syphon and stick one end of the tubing out the window. For some reason I always get a mouthful when I try to syphon. I guess theres like still...

Slowly but steadily my 20g L planted tank has been going down hill. The tank has dwarf sag, java fern, hornwort, java moss, and money wort. The fish in there are in my signature. I have a thin layer of peat on the bottom followed by laterite and then playsand. Right now I'm not adding any ferts...

I bought 3 bunches of hornwort recently and it has taken over my tank. The stems are SO long. The stems at the bottom are starting to turn brown and the leaves/needles? are starting to fall off because I guess all the other stems are blocking the light. What should I do? Should I prune a whole...

When I got home from school today I found 2 of my 4 cories on there sides motionless. Sure enough they were dead. They had all been eating and schooling happily together in the previous days. First a little background. I got these a week ago from Petsmart :( I wanted cories but I should've...

I think 3 of my 6 Black Skirt Tetras have fin rot. Their anal fins are starting to get a little frayed. One of 'em has a little white on the edge of his anal fin. Is this fin rot or just from being "beat up by other fish"? The other 3's fins' are looking good and healthy. I also have a powder...

I bought 4 spotted cory cats at Petsmart the other day (Petsmarts tanks were looking better then the other LFS's) They even had a couple panda cories in the spotted cory tank! I was hoping to get a couple of them. Anyways I asked the girl working there that I wanted 4 cories. Like usual once she...

Is Bio-Spira worth it? It's around $20 for a 3 oz pouch at my LFS. Are people still using it and does it REALLY work? Should I go for the Bio-Spira or Fishless cycling? Basically, I'd rather pay $20 for something that is going to work instantly and easily then do fishless cycling. But I want to...

Hi all, Growth in my 20g tank has seemed to slow down in the past couple of weeks. I have around 2w over the tank. The bulbs have been in there for about 10 months. I think I read somwhere that bulbs lose their intesity after 6 months. Is this correct? Could this be the reason for why my...

Hi all, I need some fish recommendations for my 20g long. Right now all thats in there is driftwood, java moss, dwarf sag, and some bunched plants. I plan on getting some anacharis and some other plants in the near future. This tank has been empty for a while and its finally time for some...

There is about 100 of these in my tank. They are small opaque/white and ovalish. They're not baby snails because they move too fast on the glass. The only new things I've added too my tank are the 2 bolivan rams that died. No plants nothing. I'm pretty sure there not snails also becuase they...