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So this weekend my mom came home to tell me that a guy she works with is breaking down one of his 4 massive tanks, which happens to be a cichlid tank. He's offered to give them to me if I want them, so they are taken care of well. I'm really really tempted as I think most cichlids are...

After all the new 'scaping I did yesterday, my water is still slightly cloudy and I'm sure the filters are full of crap from moving all the substrate around. I'm new to having canisters so I'm curious. How long do you wait in between maintenance? How often should I change the fine floss? How...

My fiance found a piece of driftwood in all her junk she took from her parents, and I decided to use it in my tank since it compliments the other piece. I soaked it in a 5 gal bucket for a week, to pull tannins and all that crap out, but when I went to put it in the tank it would float. I...

Hey, so I noticed my Barbs are acting kind of strange. A couple of them were huddled into the one crypt I have and the others were huddled down between the two bigger pieces of driftwood. I did a test and everything seems fine, though my pH is a little high like always. Are there things I...

Craigthor has me all fired up with his riparium so I figured it was time to start my the log for my on going project. Current Equipment: 75 gallon All-Glass aquarium and stand Eheim 2215 canister Penn Plax 300w glass heater Tetra Whisper air pump Single bulb T8 fluorescent light fixture...

I have a pretty intricate plan for my planted tank and I'm going to need some rock and driftwood that meets the picture I have in my head for it. I'm looking for the best places to get driftwood and rock. For the driftwood, I've seen some pieces I like hereTX Select driftwood Large but I'm...

Ok, so I made a post about a light in the equipment forum, but I wanted to come here and get some advice on plants. I have a basic plan and idea on what I want it to look like but I need to make sure it will work. I've actually gone to the length of sketching everything out. I've attached the...

I bought a 75 gallon a month or so ago. I plan on planting it heavily, and really explore aquascaping as a new hobby. I currently have a single florescent light (t-8) and that obviously needs to be upgraded. So I've been looking at lights pretty heavily and I'm still unsure of what to buy. I...

So about 3 weeks ago, I bought 10 tiger barbs to put in the new 75 gallon tank I purchased. They were super cheap and I enjoyed my last tigers so I thought "why not?" Well when I got them home I started inspecting closer and noticed several had a lot of red on their face going from the mouth...

Ok, I want to preface this with I tend to get a little long winded.... be warned. First I'd like to share my background. I've always been interested in fish and a couple friends I met a few years ago were really into it, with big discus tanks and all. After bugging one of them with questions...