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Hello, I've been away from fish keeping for several years and now that I am no longer moving around and/or living in apartments it is time for me to fire up one of my favorite hobbies again. I have $1500 to spend on an aquarium setup. What would you do? I am interested in having a planted...

Emperor 280 with media basket, filter pad and biowheel removed. Destined for a 10G "nano" marine tank. If I am planning to keep live rock, a few soft corals, invertebrates and maybe one small fish would the 280GPH flow rate be too much combined with a small powerhead (such as the 106gph...

Due to the small volume of water in a nano, would I be best off not starting a tank since I go on business trips of 3-4 days at least one time a month? I don't have any problems with my planted tanks (feed + dose all of them the morning when I leave and then again when I come back). It seems...

If you were to keep only one of these fish in a tank, what else would you put in the tank with it and what total size? I am thinking about a heavily planted 29G with the only tank mate being a pitbull pleco. They seem to be small aggressive and territorial...I see recommendations for 55G with...

I always wanted to try this stuff out and see how well it works...in a planted tank. Tank: 20G long Time frame: 3 months Substrate: Cheap coated gravel Lighting: twin GE plant & aquarium 20W NO florescent bulbs Filter: Eheim Ecco 2232 comfort Plants: Mixture of easy to grow (& hardy) low...

I would like to know where people are getting their Ammonia from. "local grocer" and "local department store" are not working out for me and I don't really want to burn any more gas and time. Hopefully, you can name specific stores known (at least in your area) to carry ammonia. I have...

Don't do it. My bamboo shrimp was gobbled up the first time it molted with the new roommates (my Rams). Nothing else ever bothered it (angelfish, severum, polypterus, various loaches, red tail shark, cories, german rams...). It would have been the third molting for my shrimp since I picked it...

I have a few swordtails (so I can have some little itty bitty swordtails for an occassional snack for the polypterus) in a tank with some bolivian rams. I just noticed one of the female swordtails has begun emulating the ram behavior ...and is ramming the largest ram (which is about 1.5 times...

I just bought a little Pentax Optio30 and decided I would try to capture an image of atleast one fish so I concentrated on snapping a picture of my polypterus.

Originally printed in Popular Mechanics July 2004 edition. Thought it was an interesting little short that maybe others would find interesting.

Okay, so I am soon to be getting a 55 gallon tank. Not quite sure what I want to stock it with but a possible list I have is as follows: One Heros Severus (Severum). One Polypterus Senegalus (Cuvier's Bichir). One Labeo Bicolor (Red Tail Shark). Let me know if severums prefer to be in pairs...

I was wondering by what process they make the clicking noises so I observed them closely for a day. I wanted to know why they click when getting flake from the surface and why they do NOT click when getting flake that is floating down. They click when they eat "bottom feeder wafers" but not...

Just wondering if they would eat flies if they were floating around on the surface of the water. Someone let one in the house and it was buzzing around my head annoying me. I snatched it out of the air and tossed it into the tank but nobody is going for it...it is roughly 1/4" long (yeah, its...

That are NOT veil tails? I don't care for the veil tail look at all...and the only one I've found so far without a veil tail is the one I have already. Oh well, this keeps me from having to get a bigger tank. That is all...

I had realized a few days ago that I had not seen my SAE in awhile. I figured the other inhabitants gobbled it up and it didn't bother me greatly since I never had any types of algae it is normally chosen to control. This fish never really had any personality (and it always thinks my arm hairs...

ARRGHHH....I knew loaches were a bit on the rough side. Especially when you have a "dominant" one develop. My dominant yo-yo loach has been getting more and more out of hand lately (not territorial like the other aggressive loaches have been but just chasing things in the tank more since I had...

My Java Fern is utterly suffering from the heat I am putting my tank through (87 degrees fahrenheit due to possible ich outbreak). Growth slowed as the heat increased. Now at 87 degrees for 8 days I have seen no measurable (by my eyes) growth on any of my Java Ferns (baby plantlets and the...

I was in one of the local Wal-marts and I always like to look at what they have in their tanks...this time I saw their "silver dollars" had Ich. I then turned to the person working there and told them of the infection (which was looking very bad on several fish). I hope they have some type of...

If you could give me a five minutes of your time to fill out the following survey to support a research paper I am working on I would appreciate it. If you do not know the answer either leave it blank or give a *close* estimate if you can (mainly applies to question 10 since I don't expect...

Well it seems two loaches I had in QT have ich. I did not notice until I had moved one into the main tank already...the first one did not have the white spots but the second one most definitely does. It took quite awhile before it become obvious (plus I don't have any lights on my QT...now I...

The guy at the LFS almost had me convinced that I needed to buy a 55gal tank and buy the Marbled Goby they had in there...It was a big brute about 9" long and he said it will grow about twice as long but since it prefers to hide in the sand and wait for prey to pass by it you don't need a very...

Anyone ever sell plants to their LFS or do most just use ebay or similar places to sell plants? Just wondering...I'm going to have quite a few extra java ferns and the first lfs I asked said they don't buy plants so I figured I might ask here first for other's experiences before I try every...

Anyone grow any NON-submerged plants like standard house plants or small vegetable plants and use the water after cleaning your tank to keep it fertilized? I was thinking that when I do my weekly gravel cleaning and water change I could pour off all but a few gallons of waste water and be...

Just curious if anyone attempts to alter the tank parameters to simulate mild seasonal changes such as: Altering the time the lights are on (easy to do with a timer) for longer summer days and shorter winter days. Changing the temps of the tank...2 or 3 degrees cooler in the winter as compared...

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