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FOWLR for now but I may add coral/anemonae later.

I'm a veteran freshwater aquarist but I've never ever dabbled in saltwater aquaria. I need some advice. I've got a spare 20G tank and it needs to be filled. Does a tank as small as 20G really need a protein skimmer? Smaller skimmers are apparently expensive and ineffective, and larger...

Oh jeez, yeah, it's bad. I was cycling a 2.7G on my office desk and for the first month I thought my coworkers were going to crucify me.

Which biomedia is best? I'm setting up two Aquaclear 110s for my new 90G, and I've always used ceramic media, but since I've gone and run out I'm trying to decide what needs to be bought. In your experience, should I be using bioballs in each unit (and my DIY CO2 reactor) or is it better just...

azn_fishy, you may not have a good seal. I thought I was having problems at first until I realized that my glue job wasn't very airtight. The other possibility is that you used hot water instead of warm water. Hot water will kill yeast. I ran out of white sugar but I have a gallon jug of...

On the upside- at least two fry have survived. They sure are good at hiding! The sick guy-he's still in good enough health to run away real quick from the net, I can tell you that much.

Changed another 5G of water today and added a carbon packet today. I'm not convinced it's a bad sword batch. They wouldn't all go within such a short period of each other.... ...would they?

I just got back from rememberance day ceremonies. He's not doing hot at all- he's gasping at the surface. All of the other fish are fine. This is quite unusual that it happened so suddenly- and they did spawn successfully! They were incredibly healthy for two and a half weeks and then *boom*...

The tank is cycled. The ammonia reads 0.5 because of peat staining. The ammonia is actually zero. Because I have a visual impairment, I use a colour calibrator pen in order to read my kit. The slightly peat stained water lines up at the .5 kit reading. You will also notice, BrianNY, the the...

I started with: 7 Cardinal Tetras 3 Schwartz' Corys 4 Blood Velvet Swords 1 Albino Ruby Shark I'm now down to 1 Sword, overnight. Three died in the last 48 hours, and I don't know why. Conditions can't be that far from alright, as apparently they spawned in the last little while. I've...

That doesn't seem likely given that it's a water filter. If an easy way to add CO2 for plants was to just add a pitcher full of Brita water, then planted tank enthusiasts would have been all over it a long time ago.

Yep. No name on the tank it was in. Figured I'd just give it a whirl.

BillD, while I appreciate your response, it is often best not to tell someone with measurable, verifiable, and repeatable results that their results can't happen. My tap water pH fluctuates. That's a fact. We may get our water from the same lake, but there's a lot that happens to it between...

I'm having difficulty naming this plant. Can anyone help?

My Toronto municipal tap water fluctuates between 7 and 8.6- so there are days when filling up the tank is an easy option, and there are days when it isn't. Most of the time, it's on the alkaline side of 7. Since I had plastic plants in my 20G tropical, it's made sense to use Proper pH 6.5...

tl123tsk, if houses were only rated for 30 or 40 pounds per square foot, they wouldn't support people.

I'm looking for a decent and cheap dechlorinator. There are so many options available that I'm totally overwhelmed. My primary goal isn't anything but dechlorination.... I'm not looking to stop fin rot, halt nuclear arms, or make my filter 'happy.' I don't even know what that means, but...