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Not sure if this is the right spot for this thread, if not mods feel free to move it, but I am interested in buying the bio home Ultra media from Pond guru in the UK. Checking out some prices on eBay, 22 pounds of it runs for about $160 and cost $120 to ship. Ouch! Crazy shipping cost. Would...

So couple days ago my wife told me that the clown loach died. :( I'm not home during the week so I couldn't get a look at anything until today. I told her to test the water and parameters looked fine, ammo was a bit high @.5 so she did a 50% water change. As I'm looking @ the rest of the fish I...

Since I got a 2 foot tall tank im thinking an algae cleaner would make my life easier. I just can't decide which 1. The 2 I'm looking @ is the algaefree hammerhead cleaner or the mag float 360A. Other then the price difference, does any1 have any personal experiences with these 2?

Wondering what I can use to clean my acrylic tank inside and out before I start polishing it. Is vinegar safe, or will it cloud up the acrylic? And if it safe, in what ratio should I mix it with water?

Alright, let the arguments begin. From what I've been reading so far is that one half of aquarists hate em, and the other always uses them. The reason I'm thinking about a check valve is because I've decided to use a spray bar for my return. Thinking 10" long, 90° elbow going straight down to a...

The specs say 30" max height, but is that 30" combined? What I mean by that is will it suck the water from 30" below and pump it 30" up, or is it just 30" combined if the pump sat in the middle.

I've seen people use the water sensor alarms that run off of 9 volt batteries, but is there a plug in version with a relay that would sound AND shut the pump off?

Just got back from the Chicago chiclid association swap meet and got a resevoir tank for the ATO some pellet food, root tabs, couple books and this awesome piece of malaysian driftwood. It's about 40"x12"x16" Made a tub outta some concrete blocks and plastic sheet and bought water...

So I'm figuring out how to plumb everything from the sump return pump and ran into a kink. I don't want to have a bunch of pumps in the sump so I'm gonna split off the return with a Y adapter and put a ball valve and a flow meter into one of the lines that will run into the uv sterelizer. Now...

Found an awesome deal on ebay for filter sponges. It's actually 2 of em and one is coarser then the other. They're about 12" x 6" and are $1.51 with free shipping!! You can't beat that so I thought I'd share the link. http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=300682360760

Just thought about this. Water agitation releases the co2 out of the water. I plan on making a trickle tower sump out of a 20 gallon long and have an inline co2 atomizer on the return line. Is that an oxy-moron, or was the co2 in the water that's coming back down into the sump been already used...

I love the look of the Lily pipes in planted tanks. And there's no such thing as clear loc line fittings, and want the clear look on all my fittings in the main tank. So I'd like to use the Lily pipe for the return, but their narrow u shape will not go over the 3.5" braces I got on the acrylic...

Having issues keeping the nitrate levels below 40ppm with my messy goldfish and they're only getting bigger. There's plenty of choices for sw tanks but when it comes to fw no one seems to agree on what to use and if it even works. I did see a nitrate reductor for fw but it is over $300. But all...

Where do you actually place the float switch for an ato? I'm making a sump for a fw tank that's gonna have a trickle tower in the first chamber where the water will enter, a chamber in the middle for bio media and the return chamber for the pump. Since there will be baffle walls the water levels...

Looking at manzanita branches and I'm thinking a combination of those branches with tall plants in the back will hide my overflow and return pipes. But can the goldfish hurt themselves on manzanita?

I've narrowed down my search to the truelumen pro strips. Just got one new 48" 8k white strip on eBay for $165 (cheapest I seen so far was $200) and getting one more for a 90 gallon planted. Also I was thinking of getting a 3 way splitter and get one more strip just for the enhanced light effect...

This is probably a stupid question, but, can you use the aquaray controller with the truelumen pro led strips? I don't see a current USA controller just a dimmer and I'd like to have a sun up, sun down option. And the current strips are cheaper then the aquarays.

How can I limit the presence of the overflow and return pipes? Don't want to paint the back or use overflow boxes, I was thinking I would just use clear acrylic tubes which would work for intakes but for the return there are no clear loc line parts. Anyone have any ideas?

Wanna get my dimensions right. Doing a 90 gallon with a 20 gallon sump and trying to figure out my bulkheads. Got a Rio 3100 as the return and with a 4' head I wanna do around 600gph. Right now I have two 3/4" and one 1" bulkhead. Wanna use the two 3/4" bulkheads for intake and the 1" for...

My little 20 gallon that I got for 2 goldfish that the wife won at the Chicago polishfest last summer. Got it home filled it with water threw in the little conditioning packet and I thought I was set. Boy was I wrong. Learned a ton with this tank on proper upkeep. Went through 3 filters before...

I'm in the process of setting up my tank and have run into a snag. Can't figure how to setup the ATO. Seen it all from gravity fed t0 commercially available $200 units. I've seen the DIY versions where people just splice a $2 eBay float switch to extension cords and pumps, but how safe would...

I got a Rio 3100 as my return pipe for the sump and I'm not liking the barb adaptor it came with. The barb adaptor has the 1/2" inside dimension to fit a 3/4" hose, it narrows down considerably coming right out of pump and I'm wondering how that's affecting the flow. So I'd like to find an...

Bought a used chiller on eBay few weeks ago and didn't get a chance to test it till now. The seller told me he tested it before shipping it worked perfect, but its not working now. The display says Lo and I have it set at 73 while the water in the tub is around 85. The odd thing is when I press...

Came home today after being away for about 2 weeks, checked on the tank, and the Fluval 306 I got on black Friday barely has any flow. It just trickles out of the output. I thought the media was clogged but it didn't look too dirty, but I rinsed everything out anyways, put it back together but...

I'd like to automate my new planted tank as much as possible for the sake of my wife and the aquarium (I know she'll "forget" to dose). So I'm looking to have a pair (1 macro, 1 micro) of peristaltic pumps on timers to automatically dose. I'm thinking 3-5 gallon containers with small pumps...