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I just went out and gathered a bucketfull of hornwort from a nearby lake. That lake is simply infested with hornwort. At least I'm pretty darn sure it's hornwort. Anyway, I brought it home and realized that there is TONS of critters in it. Small snails, big snails, little worms, big and little...

Nobody can seem to tell me what's going on. I have a standard 55g tank with 160w of 6500k, T12 shop lights. I have I DIY co2 system at about 1bps, being completely dissolved. I'm adding the recomended amounts of dry kno3, kh2po4, a little extra iron and potassium with leaf zone, and flourish...

I just recieved my kno3, kh2po4, and Seachem Flourish fertilizer and I need to know how much to add to the tank. I've searched around and all the sites and threads I've found are very confusing to me. This may be asking a lot, but if someone could just give me a dummy's version of dosing in...

I recently aquired two fire-bellied toads from my sister-in-law's sister with almost all the equipment. But I had to put it all together and make it look good. I decided on siliconing some pieces of plaxiglass I had sitting around to the inside of the 10g tank to make a little less than half the...

I have had a massive BGA problem in my 55g planted tank for a while now. It would take me hours to suck it all up from the gravel and scrape it off of every leaf. I researched it and found that a blackout would help. So I've had no light in my tank for over a week now and It looks to be almost...

Nothing new to you guys, but brand new to me. What do you think? I cut a hole in an old aquarium salt container, stuck a powerhead through, and bubbled co2 up from the bottom. Super simple.

I just got brand new lights for my 55g planted tank because my old ones were way underpowered and burning out. So the new lights are two shop lights with two 40w, 6500k, 3000 something lumen bulbs each. I put them on the tank and did a water change and algae cleaning and all that good stuff. I...

I just got an Oakley plexiglass display cabinet that they use to hold their sunglasses. I can't post pics at the momment but I will get them on asap. It has big aluminum edges as a frame and 1/4 in. plexiglass for the sides and back. It will be about 92 gallons if I pull it off. It's going to...

I recently bought two shop lights for my 55g planted tank and I'm building a custom hood for them. They are both 4 foot long, 2 bulb T12 fixtures that I'm setting in a 1x8 costom pine wood hood. With this plan, the bottom of the bulbs will be about 3-4 inches above the water surface. Without any...

My plants in my 55g stopped growing a while back and started growing some kind of black mold/algae on all the leaves, which is a pain to get off. I finally realized that it was probably my lights, because it had been close to a year since I got the grow bulbs for my standard fixture. I did my...

I can't seem to find any tank for sale anywhere bigger than 180 gallons, and the ones that are that big are very expensive. So I'm looking into building my own big tank from scratch. Does anybody have any experience with building their own? Or have any web sites or advise that might help? I...

Is that "fake" gravel substrate you see, that's pink and blue and all those fancy colors, actually real rock just died fancy colors? Or is it all synthetic materials?

I have a 10 gallon fw tank with a 3in. long lobster/crawfish in it, I just looked inside and saw a ton of little brownish spots on the glass. I stared at them for a second and realized they were moving around! They're only maybe a millimeter long, I thought about maybe a snail problem, but they...

I would love to start a FOWLR damselfish tank. But I've never done saltwater before and don't know where to begin. I heard that saltwater has a higher ph level, but how do you get it there? My tap water is unusualy high at around 8.4 ph, So i figure why not try saltwater instead of 6.4ph tetras...

I really want an RO unit, but I might be moving soon and don't want to deal with having a big instalation prosess. portable countertop reverse osmosis drinking water system - remove fluoride, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs and more I had my eye on this one, any opinions?

I'm tired of testing my water with strips or liquid tests, and I was wondering if they made electronic water testers that test for ph, hardness, amonia, ect...all in one?

Hi, I had some goldfish that I got from a halloween fair (never heard that one before!) about a year ago. Nobody ever told me anything about cycling or cleaning maintanence they just said put 'em in a tank with some water in it! So I got a small 6 gallon tank with no heater from petco for 5...