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Got tired of my old layout and decided to ditch the Eco complete and go with dirt. I'm open to criticism, just remember I left room for growth in the new rescape! Should be as heavily planted as my old one in a month or so. Before After Also, the mass of water sprite floating is there for...

Whats the difference? I currently use the whole flourish line and would like to know if its worth moving to aquavitro.

Every time I trim my stem plants back they turn to mush. Specifically ludwigia cuba. All I do is cut it a few inches below the water line. Any advice?

After a long feeling out period of which plants my Oscar would leave alone. I think I've got my final setup figured out. Now I just have to let it all fill in. 75G Fish: Oscar Blood Parrot Cichlid 3x Tinfoil Barbs (until they get big) Electric Blue Jack Dempsey BGK (until it gets big) Final...

Tanks been setup for about a month and a half now and its reall started to take off (literally, i have plants growing out of the top of the tank). Its about time for some trimming but I dont want to mess it up! Wasnt sure which light gave the best picture, so I took one of each light on the...

I have a 75G tank i just setup. I love tinfoil barbs. I love their look, erratic swimming, and their craziness when it comes to feeding time. Only problem is they get way too big! Anyone know of a fish that looks and acts like a tinfoil but doesnt get as big?

I made a thread a few weeks ago about using a mirror as a background. At the time I didnt have a picture that really showed it off well. I finally have a pic that makes it look as good as it does in person. I moved the log covering the path in the center. Now the mirror makes it look like the...

Has anyone had any experience with these stores? I moved back to chicago area this week and went to the one in bolingbrook. It looked pretty good from what I saw. All fish were fairly healthy and had a large selection. After I found out it was a franchise store I got a little worried though.

Has anyone used a mirror as a tank background before? I came home from college and took my dads old tanks out of the attic and he had custom mirrors cut to fix onto the back of the tanks. Ive never heard of this being done before. I set the tank up and it looks amazing! You can see so many new...

I noticed my young black ghost knife flicking against objects tonight. Theres no signs of ich or any external abnormalities on him or any of my other fish. Ive seen my GBR rub against things as well. Ammonia and nitrite are all 0. Nitrate in the 20-30 range. PH around 7.5 to 7.0 when my co2 is...

I wanted to disprove what I have read that once a GBR male/female has bred as a couple that it won't breed with another is false. I was really concerned when my female died of bloat because I had read that the male will never breed with another female and in extremes even die from depression...

How do you properly treat ro water for an aquarium that uses co2? I've bought Kent Marine R/O Right and plan on using that, but from what I can tell it doesnt correctly buffer the hardness. From what i've read, adding a buffer other than crushed coral or another natural method will throw off the...

Im moving back to the orland park area in a couple weeks. I picked up freshwater aquariums while i was away at college so I don't know any stores around orland. I dont mind driving further if the store quality is better. Any suggestions?

I'm beginning to be interested in keeping larger fish, like oscars and fish of the size. I also really like natural looking planted tanks. I dont like the look of fake plants and decorations at all. Will it be a problem if i did a planted tank with large fish? I feel like them being so big they...

I had a pair of GBR's bought at separate times that started breeding twice. The male is fully grown and the female was still young. Sadly the female died tonight. I have no idea why. So, my question is what are the chances if I get another female that he will mate with her?

Not sure if this documentary is well known on here. I watched it last night and was pretty interesting. They record many of the fish we keep in our aquariums in their natural habitat like cardinals, rams, cichlids, and plecos. Worth the watch if you havnt seen it.

I currently live in a 100+ year old house in downtown charleston, so fruit flies and flies in general can be a problem. They land in my tank occasionally And would like to know if its okay if my fish eat them instead of having to net them out.

I got my inline uv sterilizer today, but the barb sizes were different than my eheim filters so I got a coupler to go from 1/2" to 3/4" hose. Its brass though and the water does touch it so I was wondering if it could release anything bad into the water. Its for plumbing so I figured it would be...

I just got this plant last week and it was doing fine. Then once I added a CO2 system the top leaves started turning brown around the veins. Tank specs: 29G Dual bulb t5HO (6700 and 10000K) Aquasun LEDHO w/ plant module Eco complete substrate Paintball CO2 setup I dose flourish excel daily...

I think I have the process down to calculate my co2. I read the article on here about using the formula 3*dkH*10^(7-PH) to calculate the ppm of co2 in my tank. After an hour of my co2 setup at 5bps my pH dropped rapidly from 7 to 6.4. My hardness was 2dKH. So with the formula I got around 23ppm...

Just finished my 29G

My GBR's started laying eggs again. Lets hope this time goes better than last time.

I just bought a dual T5HO light for my 29G. It came with a 6500K actinic bulb and a 10000K daylight bulb. My question is do I need to swap out the actinic for another daylight bulb in order to grow high light carpet plants? My LFS said they would swap it out for free, but I do like how the blue...

I've been trying to research how much CO2 i need for my tank and the majority of answers I have found have something to do with the pH and KH and using a table. Can anyone explain this to me?

I got this plant from Petco and it wasn't labeled. Can someone identify it? It's the tall leafy one with an almost bamboo like stem.