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I'm responsible for maintaining a 37 gallon (high) freshwater tank at my office. (For any who might have it, this is one of Marineland's Eclipse show tanks, and while it is very streamlined and tidy looking, it is an absolute nightmare to do any equipment add-ons without making it look tacky.)...

I've been keeping freshwater fish for a little over a year now, and I love it. I think I really, really want to try a nano reef, somewhere around 7 to 10 gallons. And I really, really want to do it right. :lol: Anyone have recommended reading on the subject? I've found a few boards and...

I haven't added any marginals to my 160 gallon pre-form yet this spring. I have some floaters (water hyacinth and azolla) but they take up probably less than 40% of the water surface right now. So I have algae. I've toyed with the idea of adding a pleco to the pond (water temp is holding at...

Anyone have them? Are they really the products of someone's evil mind trying to manipulate/create a new fish? I've read so many viewpoints and opinions on them- pro and con - I'm undecided. Problem is, I have an empty (cycled) 37 gallon tank, and trying to decide what to put in it. . .

Last summer, I took out my 80 gallon pre-formed pond and put a 160 in its place. The 160 has five goldfish, assorted plants, filtration and a small fountain. So now I have an 80 empty pre-form that I was thinking of devoting to a couple of hardy water lilies and some marginals. I've read that...

:roll: This is going to be a long one, but I need input. Before Christmas, I decided to convert a 37 FW tropical tank to a gold fish tank. There were only five tropical fish in the tank, it was cycled, and water parameters were consistently good, with ammonia readings of .50 or less. The...

I'm curious - if you could only have one tank, what would it be? Give us a full description, and to make it easy, let's say money and space are not a problem. . .

DH and I are having a conversation about the wisdom of investing in some back-up hardware - extra heaters and filters. We have seven tanks - three 10s, one 20, two 37s, and one 55 (the 55 is FOWLR and the others are FW). The reason for the conversation is the heater failure he had on his SW...

I was at my fav LFS last weekend, and the owner called me over to one of his FW tanks, and asked me if I'd seen his new angel rams. I thought I hadn't heard him correctly, but sure enough - he had six 3/4 inch blue rams with angel fins. I asked him if he had crossbreeding going on in his...

How long after you notice the large tummy on the female swords does it take before you have fry?

Saw one in a fish store here - I was told they get to 7" at maturity. Just did a search and could only come up with an Eheim pic and sketchy information. Apparently, the common name is "banded leoporinus" and the Ehiem database says to 12" at maturity, minimum 32 gallon tank. Anyone know...

I maintain a 37 gallon freshwater tropical fish tank at work. It's been running for about three and a half months now, and everyone just loves it. Came in to the office from the weekend, and we had five dead fish (two goldskirt tetras and three emerald cories) and two dead dwarf African frogs...

I'll try to make the long story short. . . twenty gallon, cycled tank into which went four gorgeous female bettas. The tank is highly planted and aquascaped to provide cover. Apparently, Little Miss (that's what I'm calling her now) romped all over one of the others while I was at work, and...

Is there a specific food that one would feed a tiger cowry? We are currently dropping sinking pellets every other day, and the cowry has access to both seaweed flakes and seaweed strips (on a clip on the sand bed). I've noticed it grazes on the live rock, too. I've also wondered if calcium...

I've got a question about navigating from search result pages to posts and back again. If for example, I search on "betta," there are lot of results displayed. If I take time to read a post, when I try to go "back" to the search result list, the page has expired. I have to do the search...

I have a 37 gallon tropical tank with Eclipse 3 filtration that I want to convert to a fancy goldfish tank (after finding suitable homes for the tropical fish, of course). I've got a couple of questions about the substrate and filtration. I already have one goldfish tank, so I'm familiar with...

My black cap oranda (fancy goldfish) is losing the black on his cap. Not the cap itself, and no fungus (I know bad water conditions can cause fungus). Ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates are zero, pH is 6.8, temp in the unheated tank stays about 70 degrees F. He stills swims and eats normally and...

Making my customary rounds of the tanks (six freshwater), getting ready to do maintenance chores :) I did ammonia tests first, and all six tanks were at zero. This has never happened to me before, so I repeated on the three that are still cycling - same results, zero. What do you suppose are...

This is a never used new 75 gallon tank with glass hoods, 48 inch light, 200 watt heater and handmade, very sturdy stand. Local pickup in Little Rock, Arkansas area. No shipping or delivery. Asking $200 for package.

I'm going to ask it anyway. I'm thinking of starting a new 55 gal FW tank. I have a friend who's going to be breaking down a SW tank, and wondered if I got his filter media while still wet, could I use it in the filter of the 55 gallon to help seed the tank? Or would the higher pH and SG of...

Just wondering, as I'm trying to decide if the rocks I want to add to a tank are inert, or um. . . ert. . .

I set up a 10 gallon planted tank last night, using flourite as my base substrate. Because of what I had read about flourite clouding the water, I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed - then cut my fingernails and rinsed some more. (Briefly tried the pantihose rinsing trick, but had to cut the...

I've got a 37 gallon goldfish tank that has been set up for almost three months now, and it still hasn't cycled. Nitrite readings are always very low, and nitrate is zero. I do twice weekly water changes to keep ahead of the ammonia, which stays stubbornly between .25 and 1 ppm. The substrate...

We all know the "rules" on stocking tanks. So how many of us obey the rules with religious fervor, and even take into account the body and waste mass of fish when stocking?

I'm planning a 20 gallon planted tank, and wanted to use some lava rock as kind of a hillside, with java moss on it. My question is - can I use the lava rock that is sold in garden centers, or not? None of the pet retailers (even my LFS) have real lava rock, although they all have the resin...