Search results

So I added some koi angels last month to my 120g. I'm not sure what went wrong but they all died. My tank is pretty well established and grossly under stocked at the moment. All I can think of is that after I added them I then thought I'd do a water change and filter maintenance. Maybe not...

Hey everyone! Been a while. I've been traveling almost every week for work this year which has made my 120g project very slow. Which, actually is probably for the best. I started off early this year (like...February :P) setting the tank up with some black skirts and red eyes. I'm sorry to...

I'm running the Fluval FX5 on my tank and I was wondering what the optimal setup was as far as the media trays. I'm not happy with the clarity of my and I was wondering if I should run with the polishing pad in one of the trays all the time and then bio media in the other two. What do you all...

Ok, these last few years of fish keeping have been very frustrating for me. First I set up a 55 gallon aquarium that I tried to do as a planted tank and really never got it going very well. I'd say I had about 6 months of a pretty nice aquarium before it pretty much collapsed. Last year I...

I thought it'd be fun to post pictures as I slowly get my new tank set up. I was debating going with either a 60G or 120G tank several weeks ago and since size does matter...I went with the 120. Of course, this is significantly bigger than any tank I've done before so I haven't quite been ready...

Has anyone bought anything from here: D&T Aquariums I just want to make sure they're legit!

So I've never really done this before but I've never really had a tank quite like this 120g before. Wiping out a 20g or even a 55g tank with ick isn't as disasterous as killing 30 or more expensive fish. So I think I need a tank for treating sick fish and for quarrantine purposes. How big...

I called a local breeder I found today and I was a little surprised at some of the stuff he was saying on the phone. I'm looking at doing rift lake cichlids...he said I'd want 60 - 70 in my 120g which sounds like way too many to me. (I was thinking maybe 30 would be good). He also said I...

So I ended up getting the 120 gallon tank w/stand a couple weeks ago. This morning on Ebay I won a new Fluval FX5 canister filter which I'm very excited about since it looks like a really nice filter. With shipping it came to $200 which is significantly less than anywhere else I looked. That...

My current location has extremely hard water. The water is pretty much unusable straight from the tap. How do I go about fixing it though so I can use it for an aquarium?

Hey all, its been a while! I moved last year and decided not to set my aquarium back up until I was more settled in my house. I had a lot of furniture to buy and didn't want to find out that my tank was in the wrong spot. (It would have been ;) ) Anyway, trying to decide what to do with a...

I was visiting my parents this weekend and I took a look at my mom's fish tank. Its a 20g hex tank. It was a birthday gift for her back when I was in high school. She's really pretty good about following my instructions on adding fish and feeding them and because of that she has always had a...

Well, its a guarantee...I get ready to go out of town...the fish get sick. :roll: Anyone know what that is?

Ok, I really need to do this. I have plenty more fish to add to my 55g and it would just be really stupid to introduce fish in a month only to ruin what I have going right now. (Not to mention after adding the GBRs last night I'm all paranoid...) I already had one ick outbreak a couple months...

I was going to do 2 or 3 schools of tetras in my SA theme tank but the GBRs at Petco were simply too pretty. I wavered on getting them several times since they're a bit harder to keep but the rest of the tank is looking so good and as much as I love the schooling tetras I'd rather give up one...

I just noticed that several of my crypts are starting to melt. I'm wondering if it has to do with the dense plant growth I have now as I don't dose any ferts. I've been trimming my Rotala and replanting it quite a bit and I've added a couple swords. Is this possibly causing the crypts to not...

I'll have to post some pictures up tonight when I take some shots but I've finally added a couple angels to my tank. I actually got them at Petsmart rather than my LFS because for some reason the Petsmart always has an outstanding selection of angels. I got an absolutely beautiful golden angel...

I currently have a school of 5 red eyes + 1 bleeding heart (I don't know what happenned to Red Eye #6. He vanished...no body ;) ) in my heavily planted 55g. Do I want to add another school of tetras next or put in my angels? I'm really dying to get to the angels :) They have some nice ones...

Every time I do a water change or mess around with my plants, my tank ends up ful of tiny particles and honestly even once its all settled, my tank is never as clear as I'd like it. So I was thinking of getting a diatom filter to run when I do my weekly PWC. Any thoughts or advice on these...

Alright, now that I finally have a planted tank with the plants not dying, I want to try and focus on this whole aquascaping thing :) I'm simply blown away by some of these tanks and its given me a lot of ideas of what to do. Here's what I have now : I'm going to remove the Egeria densa...

Well, after giving my tank a few weeks to ensure that the ick outbreak was over, I decided on Friday to start restocking. Sadly the ick killed off nearly all of my fish. Of the 9 bleeding hearts I had and the 6 juli cories, I had one bh and one cory left. Treatment was difficult since I left...

Been a while since I posted to this particular forum :) Going out of town so much has kept me busy. The plants have been busy as well, especially my Rotala & Water Sprite. The Crypts I have have settled in well and are beautiful and full. The only one that isn't really doing it for me is the...

I remember reading somewhere that pond snails at the waterline was an indication of some sort of imbalance in the tank but I can't really remember. Just wondering since my snails seem to like it up there (Though there are certainly plenty who don't)

I currently have (I beleive) a single 200W heater in my 55g. Its not doing the job. So I need to upgrade. Should I keep that one and get a 2nd 200W heater or two 150W heaters? Or some other combination of numbers? ;)

how should I handle this? I'm going to be gone for a week...do I do the heat treatment? I forget how long to do it off hand but I won't be back till next monday night. That seems like a long time to have the temps in the 90s.