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i decided to convert my 29g to a SA tank. the fish that i have currently are- 3 angels (1 to be removed if 2 pair up) 2 bolivian rams (can't tell if its a pair, but looks as if both are males) 2 kribs (definitely a pair, hasn't spawned yet) (not SA, but oh well...:mrgreen: ) the fish are...

i don't know if you guys have seen this already. i'm sure toirtis has :) . http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/management/Homrich_Color_Enhancing_Foods.html enjoy.

Hmm…let’s see. I had actually no intention of setting up a 75g in the beginning. That’s why I bought about 9 juvi labidochromis caeruleus and put them in a 29g, with the intent of settling with a 1m/3f ratio when they mature. But then there is always the terrible curse of this hobby, called the...

i was wondering what reactors people use in their tanks to dissolve co2. and what they think is the best out there... these are my experiences - my bubble ladder got clogged up with plant matter, and snails. the powerhead reactor was pretty good, but i need the powerhead elsewhere. my...

here are a few shots on how these guys look face to face...again, curtsey my roommate...

it almost a year since i was passing the dump behind my apartment and my roomie noticed a battered 10g with a ugf lying around. that's how the craze started. when some of my fish started dying, i joined this forum after the usual initial lurking. slowly the number of fish and tanks started...

i was planning on a 40g long tank. but my lfs just got a 75g on display and i caved. its just so biiig.... however, being on a student budget, i got the cheapest stand i could find - an iron stand. but it had a definite bowing along its length. so the tank is not supported along its longer...

both my roommates like to take photos. in fact, all my previous photo posts were their gifts. so here's another assembly - here's the dark angel (pardon the brush algae) the rainbow shark playing bandmaster male guppy watching bubbles on anubia leaves (tank integrated with 20g)...

i want to keep a 75g tank in my apartment on the 5th floor. i wanted to know if its safe. i went to talk to the management about this, but the lady in the office was absolutely horrified with the idea. she even wanted me to get rid of all my tanks because the damage the water can cause to the...

i recently moved (not a long trip, just two floors up in the same apartment complex). but moving is really a pain when you have tanks around. anyway, everything went well except a diamond tetra with a bloody mouth. i think it banged itself onto something during the move. here are a few shots -...

this the current state of my 40g planted after i moved last weekend and rescaped things a little bit. i'm still following the barr EI, without measuring parameters. as a result i have to battle with several kinds of algae(duh!), the current one beng some sort of blackish algae (which feels...

following is an excellent article (with pictures) that depicts the tremendous aggresion generated between the big malawi cichlids. the aggressor is a breeding victorian hap, pundamilia nyererei and the passive (but larger and in no way helpless) guy is a cyrtocara moorii...

here are a few of my fishes and a few tank shots...

do the special substrates do any good other than just buffer the water? do cichlids attain better coloration and spawns with these? or is it just another ploy to extract more money? i can't find a sand locally that is coarse enough. all of them are extremely fine. so, even if i can prevent it...

i am looking for differences between a copadichromis azureus and a Aulonocara sp. "stuartgranti mbenji". i looked up some pictures but can't make out a definitive feature that separates them. i bought one and unfortunately, can't id it. i'll try to post a pic by tomorrow. (my photographer is...

i was moving a few fish from my 40gb ( not a hard drive, but a 40g breeder) planted tank :mrgreen: . i caught three black neons easily. but the rainbow shark and two rosy barbs were giving me a great deal of trouble. so i decided to make some room by removing a piece of hollow driftwood from...

i have a 40g breeder (36*18*16) tank with the following: lights - 4*40W GE plant & aquarium bulbs (yep, they stick out a bit), roughly 3 wpg substrate - 2 bags of eco-complete mixed with black gravel co2 - DIY co2 diffused via AC300 (thanks steve :D ) fertilizer - pmdd from greg watson's store...

i had a 3" pearl angel in my 40g moderately planted tank. i added 3 more 2" black angels last night. the bigger angel was kind of a bully from the start. but it has stepped it up a notch with the newcomers. the poor guys are hiding among the plants, and whenever one ventures out, the big one...

this has been bugging me for quite some time. why does nutrafin recommend 2 of their units on a 40g or more? if i try to compare a 2l soda bottle with one nutrafin system, the bubble generation rates don't seem to much different (though i'm not exactly sure), since it depends on the relative...

i recently setup a 40g...and i'm really out of money... but i still need a fertilization regime that's cheap... i found this one ...http://aquaria.net/articles/plants/barr-dose/ and it seems to be reasonable... i was thinking of flourish / kent as the trace source and gregwatson.com as the...

i ordered 2 bags of eco-complete substrate from aquariumplants.com on the 22nd last month...still not shipped... are they this late usually...? i know it was stupid of me to start a planted tank without getting the substrate first...but i had no idea that it was going to be planted in the first...

i'm running a fluval 304 on my 40g planted tank...i recently noticed that the output flow was slowing down...so i cleaned out the foam pads and noticed a lot of plant matter sticking to them... so i was wondering if a prefilter at the intake would stop leaves and small bits of plants getting...

hi, i recently bought a hagen nutrafin co2 setup...but the unit is so small i doubt using two would be sufficient for a 40g moderately planted tank... so i have decided to go diy on that ...and use the hagen unit for my smaller 10g planted...(sorry TG and czcz for not listening to u guys...

i am planning to start a low to medium light 40g planted aquarium. most of the plants won't be root-feeders...so i didn't invest in a wonder-substrate...just plain old black gravel :) ... i have about 90w of fluorescent lighting over the tank...this is a bit tricky...the tank is 36"...and i...

i am facing an algae outbreak in my 10g planted tank for about a month now...from appearance i have identified it as black beard algae...long dark and tough strands on the edges of slow growing plants... the tank houses 7 neon tertas, 4 ottos, 2 albio cories and a flag fish...i know it's a bit...