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alright my friends- i have a few 5 gallon buckets full of genuine beach sand from beautiful huntington beach, ca. i've been thinking about changing over my 46gl bowfront to sand for awhile now and was thinking of using this newly acquired sand. are ther any toxins/poisons i would need to worry...

for a 100gl tank.... lets hear'em

saw a pair at a lfs. looked silver in color and both had 2 large black circular spots on them. they were in a freshwater display...anyone know anything about them or keep one?

been using a 50gl bowfront as a grow out tank for my 240gl for awhile now. well, i've got everything i want in my 240 now and plan on either selling the 50gl or keeping one or two nice looking freshwater/bracksih water fish in it. i'd like to keep nothing more than 1 or 2 large fish in the...

alright, just picked up a 110T from a buddy of mine. i usually do a fishless cycling and it takes about 1-1.5 weeks to get a good cycle going. i usually add the intended fish for the tank at approx. trhe 2 week mark depending on the water conditions. when i was at my lfs the sales guy asked...

first, i know they like to school so what is a good number of fish to work with? second, i know they get quite large...but do they grow fast like an oscar/arowana or slow like, ummm, well, i can't think of any fish that grow slow.... so any hints? just for the record, these clown loachs will go...

i've got a beautiful baby silver arowana in my 40 gl grow out tank (he's about 3.5" long). only problem is i haven't seen him eat yet. at the lfs i bought him from they feed the baby aro's cut up meal worms and baby crickets, which is what i feed him. any hints on making sure baby aro's eat and...

anyone know when a person is supposed to be able to determine the sex of guppies? also, at what point am i supposed to separate the males and females? thanks

allright, after viewing the stickys, here is my situation: i just bought a juvenile jurupari and green terror. both fish looked great at the lfs, but after a few days began rubbing themselves against the plants/gravel in the tank. i know this is unhealthy behavior, but i can't put my finger on...

looking to put together a brackish tank with 3-5 mono's in an 80gl. would like to have a pleco or two. any suggestions?

hey- i bought a few guppys for fun a few months ago. two of the females appeared pregnant after a week or so and continued to get bigger week after week. now i'm at about the two month mark, both are big as a house. what does it to get them drop the babies they are carrying. i would hate to...

OK- well, i bought a pair of german blue rams for a 20gl tank i have setup in my bedroom. i bought the fish from a lfs that i don't normally shop at (first mistake). when i bought the fish i asked him to bag them separately in case they were a pair of agressive malesm he told me not to worry...

a friend at work has a 5in tiger oscar and a 3in albino oscar in a 100 gallon tank with an eheim 2128 and an eheim 2260 as filtration. he has completely neglected the tank and fish and as a result the tiger oscar has lost the majority of its red/orange scales and looks just horrid to be honest...

Okay- I think i one of my lyretail swordtails is coming down with ich. this is the first time since i have been in the hobby (a few years now) that i've run into this problem. my question is this. my swordtail is in a planted tank with a couple other swordtails and a couple paradise...

ok, i have my planted tank up and running, but the one thing i haven't seen mentioned is the need, or lack there of, for an airstone. can anyone let me know if its needed or not? current load: 20gl tank penguin 330 filter 8 plants 2 lyretail velvet swordtails 2 paradise fish 5 Red Tail Mirror...

ok- my lfs has a new pleco. its approx. 1.5 inches long and looks like the number 8 turned upside down with a normal pleco tail. it is very flat and almost looks like a halibut or flounder with a pleco tail. its tan in color and seems to love the algae. they are labeled as a butterfly pleco at...

i just bought this pleco: Gypsy King Tiger Pleco (L-66) (Peckoltia sp.) i read about them on liveaquaria as well as few other sites. has anyone on here owned one? does anyone have any hints to keeping them happy?

ok i know corys are a schooling fish, and i have 4 emerald cories in my 180 currently. what would be the max amount i could add to the school before they separate into 2 separate schools...

just noticed green poop floating at the top of the tank... diet consists of hikari pellets, frozen bloodworms, and flakes occasionally. there are three plants in the tank. poop has never been green before nor have i noticed any change in poop color/appearance lately. any ideas? should i be...

on my 48gl bowfront that i use as a growth tank for oscars i run 2 emp 400's and have 2 air stone running on the tank as well. i would like to take the airstones out as i think the emperors provide enough surface agitation... somebody let me know if i'm wrong and going to potentially "drown"...

alright, now that my 180 is up and running i have a 48gl bowfront sitting empty. i've been looking at a few different types of fish, but for sure doing a species tank. my girlfriend wants me to do puffers, but i am very interested in doing either discus or a brackish tank... any hints on discus...

what can happen to fish in a tank if the temp goes as high as 89-90 degrees for a few hours and then is brought back down to a reasonable 78-80 degrees? what are the short term/long term effects on fish?

i've got a 8 inch albino tiger oscar and a 6 inch j.d. in a 90 gallon bowfront. over the weekend here in socal the temp got above 90 degrees. since it rarely, if ever, gets that hot, 99% of the homes do not have AC, including my apt. i was out all day sunday and wasn't home to monitor the temp...

a couple months back i made a thread about a friend of mine with a 225 reef tank that he had to move to an upstairs apartment. he was unsuccessful and had to move it to his parents house. that presented a problem for me as well, considering that i had a 280 acrylic on the way. i had to...

okay i found out my 180 will be in on Sept. 1st. i want to have everything purchased and ready to go before it gets here. i looked on the Eheim website and this looks to be the best cannister filter they sell. i want the very best in cannister filtration and this looks to be the best... i...