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I've just set up a simple DIY CO2 injection system. I didn't go through the trouble to use any kind of fancy diffuser. I just used an airtstone. I didn't want to go through the trouble or money, and I'm more worried about the possible negative effects of too much CO2 on my fish. I only have...

I'm thinking about crafting my own homemade CO2 injection system, but I have some questions. I have a ten gallon, and I'm thinking of using one reactor with a seperation chamber and then attaching the line to a small airstone. Does the size of the bottle matter? Will I get more effect from...

I have never used any ferts. What should I feed the sword that's really fish safe, I have a ram and he's going to be really sensitive to a lot of things.

I already dimmed the light with 20% window tint. It is dimmed in the picture. The CFLs that I am using were way brighter than a normal flourecent tube, and anubias are low light plants. One of the main reasons I wanted to dim the light is to stop algae growth on the anubias to keep the algae...

By the way, Does anyone have any suggestions on some plants that would be good in my aquarium? I live in a small town, and I'm about an hour away from anything. I'm going to petsmart this weekend. I'm planning to get some grass that they keep in tanks to shade my tank some more. If you...

I posted a thread on how to dim lighting in my aquarium in order to make my fish more comfortable and to control my algae problem a little. Someone suggested flourish and excel might help with the algae problem. I want to make sure it is well researched before I use it. I have an aubias and...

Thanks Jessica. Tell me more about this flourish and Excell. I have never used ferts, and I've read that fish don't exactly like them. My aqurium is at a level of homeostasis and I'd hate to do something that might make my fish sick. I think the algae is the kind you mentioned. It does look like...

If anyone's still interested, I found away to fix my lighting problem. I put 20% window tint on the glass part under the light, It's still bright enough, but it doesn't freak my neons as bad. The color temp seems the same but the light is not as intense. Hope it helps the algae problem...

I have a planted 10 gallon aquarium. I have a few plants. I don't know what all of them are called, but I am concerned about anubias and amazon sword. I currently have two 6500k cfls. They are the kind you get from walmart that are intended for use in aquariums and are 10 watts a peice. I don't...

Thanks for the advice about color temperature. MIne right now if 6500k, but they are cfls and I think they are too bright. I'm starting to think that the best solution is to get a big grass plant to shade the top of the tank, and to find a way to dim my cfls a bit. I've looked into dimming cfls...

Look, I bought a ten gallon tank, so that's that. Some day I'll get a huge tank, but it's definately going to be saltwater. Most of the fish that I have have a realatively short lifespan anyway. They are going to be kept in captivity, not the wild. They will not be at the highest possible level...

Yeah, I cycled the tank. My stock is absolutely fine, despite what everyone would tell me, because my fish are perfectly healthy. They are all actually in better condition than they were when I bought them. Every single one of them. The neons are extremely bright, radiant and active. They...

I have a ten gallon aquarium. I've had it for probably about 6 months. It is already "overstocked", but I've had the same fish and plants in it for over three months and had no deaths. All of the fish and other animals seem to be thriving, actually. I have six neon tetras, two small...

I got a ram cichlid yesterday without putting much time into studying them. I live in a small town, so I went to the nearest city to buy a fish. I ended up with some type of ram. He is very beautiful, but I can't find any pictures of fish that look like him. At first he hid behind a peice of...

I'm thinking about going to get a fish for my 10 gallon tomorrow, and the honey gourami seems like it would be a perfect fish for my tank. I think the sunset color variety is the best looking and that's what i'm gonna look for, but I've heard that fish of that color variety may actually be...

When I got my aquarium, about six or seven weeks ago, I had a bunch of nuisance snails come with a plant. I worked hard to get rid of them, and had'nt seen any in about a month. Today I've seen a few little bitty ones. I guess some new ones have hatched out. I have a dwarf gourami. Do you...

Thanks guys. You've put my mind at ease. I'll do a little airstone research.

I've been an aquarium owner for about a month, and I've really been enjoying the hobby. I have a ten gallon, with a normal incandecent hood that I bought at wallmart. I used the wallmart compact flourecent aquarium lights, and I'm pretty happy with them for the most part. I added some neon...