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I was hoping someone might have a recommendation as to what flake food for tropicals that's got nice big flakes. I've got 9 silver dollars and some harlequin rasboras and neon tetras with a few other tank mates. I while back my brother had some flakes that were pink, super thin, but very large...

I was wondering if anyone had experience with creating their own background picture in photoshop/gimp/etc. and printed it out for their aquarium. I've been considering this as an alternative to buying a X by Y size cut from the petstore, plus the background I want doesn't come in the needed...

I never noticed this before, but while looking at Tetra's website today I learned that there is supposed to be a difference between the white box and yellow box Whisper Air Pumps. The white boxed pumps are not UL-listed while the yellow boxed pumps are UL-listed. It's interesting on how the...

Recently I added a 75 gallon Aqueon to my home and already owning a 75 gallon Marineland I wanted to just give a quick comparison in case anyone was trying to decide between the two. Some people prefer on or the other, All-Glass / Aqueon or Perfecto / Marineland, and honestly I don't know that...

This weekend I installed an Eheim Ecco Pro 2236 and 3 days after having it run I can say I'm happy with it. Assembly wasn't terribly difficult and as many have said the instructions didn't help much - but they did help a little. So there is some value to the instructions. I've never owned or...

I was wondering if anyone with experience with Fluval FX5 or 405 could tell me if an FX5 would have too much flow for fancy goldfish? I know the FX5 has much more media and flow per hour but I don't know how much water current fancy goldfish like. Thanks in advance!

I understand that filtration needs to be sufficient for the size of the aquarium, but is it enough just to provide enough filtration for the amount of fish in the tank? For example, I have 10 guppies that I am going to move from a 20 gallon tank to a 55 gallon tank and the filters I have for...

This has been an ongoing issue for a while in my 75 gal tank. I have a type of hair algae growing on my plants. It seems to only attach itself to plants too. It was covering my Water Onion, and mostly on my amazon sword and it was all over the Dwarf Sagittaria and Broadleaf Sag. It's...

My goldies have ich and I'm in the process of raising the temperature. Results from the test kit is coming in... pH: 8.1 Ammonia: 0 ppm Nitrite: 0 ppm Nitrate: 160 ppm ? (above 80 ppm) Here are some pictures of my fish: Here is ich on a Moor And I've read in some places but wanted to make...

I was just thinking about filter media for HOB filters and was wondering if large grain sand could be used in a fine mesh bag. I didn't know if it wold escape the filter though, but I was thinking it would work well for a replacement of carbon. I like the fine filtration of carbon in my ACs...

I'm planning out my goldfish aquarium which will be 75 gal. I'm not sure what filters I want to use. I was thinking Eheim, either 2217 or 2236, and the main reason is because I know they're supposed to be dead silent. Since this tank is going in the living room and I'll be sitting next to it...

I'm getting started on planning my 75 gallona aquarium stand. I've made one previously which work great, no problems with it. I waa wondering though, how far apart I can space the vertical 2x4 between the corners? The one I'm using now has 2 vertical supports evenly space from the sides. So...

Last night I had to run out to Petco to get pima & mela fix for what I have decided it white skin. While I was at the store I decided to get a bag of Hikari Goldfish Staple. So I medicated the tank and shorty after I fed them the new food. It didn't look like they cared for it. They would suck...

I just added 4 Goldfish to my aquarium, 2 Comets and 2 Fantails. I was wondering if Goldfish had names based on color variation like Koi do, such as Kohaku. Thanks!

My 75 gal planted tank is getting out of control with algae. It started with brown algae, but I scraped that off the glass and all was good. Then I started to get black algae on my water onion, so I cut back on lighting and got an Oto and Zebra Nerite Snails - none have touched it... Now I've...

So far I have a working Python, it just doesn't work exactly as I want it to. I bought the faucet attachment (Aqueon brand), then bought 40' of 3/4" OD (5/8" ID) tube. The biggest gravel vac I could find was for a 1/2" ID (5/8" OD) tube. So far the best way I could fine to connect the two...

I just finished my preliminary CO2 setup with 2 liter soda bottles using other people's advice on setting them up. My setup so far is for a 75 gallon tank and I have a Hagen Diffuser Ladder in the two back corners. The ladders are attached with the supplied tubing to the soda bottles. To...

This week I added some new plants to my 75 gallon tank. I added a a large Water Onion (Crinum thaianum, I think), a bunch of Jungle Val (maybe Vallisneria gigantea), and some sagattarias (broadleaf, I think it's Sagittaria platyphylla, not the arrowhead type. Also Dwarf Sag, probably...

I've been doing a lot of reading between different sites and forums and still can't come to a conclusion on what I'd like to stock my 75 gal. tank with. I'm still a beginner with keeping fish so I know I can't get fish too advanced like African Cichlids, but I'd like something different than...