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I don't have anything technical to add but since getting back into fresh water planted aquariums about this time last year I become quite curious about finding some objective way to measure the PAR values by distance as you have, you beat me to it. I have shied away from CO2 injection and thus...

well it's been a while so I thought it was time for an update. this summer was rough, I was away for the hottest couple of weeks and my wife and children over fed the tank and didn't notice it was overheating :-(, despite my cautions and instructions. when I came home the loach and several...

Yes, for the loach, I've been reluctant to raise temps in the main tank and instead using a quarantine tank for treatment, but mostly with salt. That said, my butterfly Hillstream loach has been very happy (great job cleaning the glass, has a great healthy look, eats well at meal times and has...

after putting the white clouds and hatchet fish back into the main tank, they quickly developed fin issues again so back into the quarantine tank they went. worthy of note, the butterfly hill stream loach is doing great, in fact between the fan shrimp, snails and Loach the tank is staying very...

well I've hit my first snag. it appears that one of the glass catfish came with ich and about the time I started moving forward with sealing up the dome, it spread wildly along with some fin rot in the white clouds, which I missed at first because the females were being quite nippy, so I...

xazax thanks for your reply. I have added springtails! by the time they arrived, much of the moldy smell had subsided, and most importantly, my Rainbow Boa excreted her first hair ball and went back to her normal perky self, which is what precipitated my post. at some point she will just be...

Talked to Josh this morning and cleared up the temperature concern and made my first order for springtails! thanks for the help!

thanks guys. I checked out Josh's frogs and their video on springtails, it sounds like they are temperate, only breeding up to about 72 degrees. I have a Brazilian Rainbow Boa. from everything I've read, BRB's like it warm and very humid as juveniles, 80+% humidity and upper 70's. is this...

greetings Coursair, I appreciate your concern. I am on the higher side, but the guy I bought it from seemed to think it would be fine and he's a community planted tank specialists. this morning I unplugged the heater altogether to see if the temp would come down. I was shooting originally for...

I'm experiencing mold in my vivarium for my Brazilian Rainbow Boa. it does appear that the combination of live plant vivarium and a BRB requiring super high humidity, makes for a bit of a challenge when it comes to mold management. I fed the plants using an organic fertilizer and didn't filter...

Here is the reptile vivarium seal from the outside, held firmly in place by 6 stainless wing nuts: Weather stripping was added to the inside glass "door" to prevent leaking. I had to make the opening vertical, since the aquarium is on top. Vertical openings like this are very tricky...

Today I thought I'd run though the seals and how I got this set up pretty much air tight. The first shot is the lid: Under the lid is 4 inches of rigid foam shown here: Here, I used weather stripping that the top layer of foam sits on, held firmly down by the relatively heavy Tigerwood...

Do you mean alternate cleaning one of the three every 3 weeks...that would be great! Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

My Aquarium Vivarium Biosphere: my hope is that the plants and fish in the tank along with the plants and snake in the vivarium will all develop a symbiotic biotope of sorts. I found this quote that most accurately captures my fascination with this, which I have expanded to an aquarium...

the filters: I was advised by a local aquarium store employe to go with back of tank filtration instead of canister, since my system would be enclosed and out of sight, and quiet, making the overall maintenance more easy. I was also recommended to oversize the filter system. I went with a...

the water: Last summer we got so into gardening that our water bill started to get out of control so we put in some rain water cisterns and added gutter glove filtration to the tops of the gutters, the water goes to a "first flush" adapter, where most of the solids are captured and then to...

feeding the plants: Flourish Potassium as directed Flourish Nitrogen as directed Flourish Comprehensive Supplement as directed Also inoculated early on with Ecological Labrotorie's Microbe Lift, Special Blend,

Feeding this cadre of mouths has been a challenge. I've never put together a community tank before so I had a lot of reading and picking the brains of local specialty store owners to devise a plan that would hopefully keep everyone reasonably well fed, so far, so good (fingers crossed). right...

the fish and critters: 10 White Cloud 12 Glowlight Tetra 10 Featherfin Rainbowfish 5 Dwarf Neon Rainbow 5 Marble Hatchet 4 Glass Catfish 3 Metallic Blue balloon Ram Cichlids 4 Orange Killifish 1 Butterfly Hillstream Laoch 1 chocolate Guarami 1 Banjo Catfish 1 Red Spot Nerite Snail 3 brown...

the plants: 2 Madagascar Lace 1 Argantine Sward 2 Anubias 1 Acorus 1 Java Fern 2 Green Manodo Grass 1 Hornwort 2 Aponogeton Ulvaceus 1 Narrow Leaf Sword 1 Crispus 1 Melon Sword 1 Ozelot Sword 2 Nymphea/Dwarf Lili 1 Banana Lili Plant 2 Aponogeton Ulvaceus ("ah pawn og it on you'll vay see us")

finding the right combination of fishes so that I can max out the bio loud to provide adequate CO2 and nutrients from the fishes (plus some supplemental plant feeding) has been tricky. not all fish considered good community fishes are truly good together. if one type out eats the others...

Yesterday I finally closed the loop, placing the air pump inside the enclosure, under the hood with one side of the dual pump going to the breeder type sponge filter in the fish tank, and the other side sending nice humid, warm air from the fish tank down to the vivarium where "Ruby Sparkles"...

Things are bustling in fish tank and vivarium. Quite a few fish are breeding and the rainbow Boa just had another successful shed! Here is a shot of the latest developments: Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Greetings folks, I'm starting to think that a planted terrarium/vivarium is too prone to mold for my Rainbow Boa. the Vivarium is part of a joined aquarium with humidity and heat being shared between them. this puts the humidity easily in the 60-70% range and if I boost it further the plant...

I started out thinking I'd build a tank stand for a 55 gallon glass tank I bought at the dollar a gallon tank sale at a local Petco. I got going with the build and decided to add a second tank for a reptile vivarium. Gradually the project morphed into creating an ultra efficient bio-dome of...