Recent content by am3ience

Hi guys, i'm new to saltwater and I just started this 36 gallon a couple days ago. I got 40 lbs. of liverock from a guy off CL, and 50 lbs live sand. I was wondering if my live rock was high enough? I have two Kessil a150w ocean blue lights and I want to be able to grow anything in that tank...

Is it possible to get higher lighting with bulbs? or is that only accomplish-able with led? With higher lighting, i'm just worried about algae.

So I have a 55 gallon tank that I want to put live plants in, this is my first time trying a planted tank this big. The substrate is pool filter sand, and I have a 48" dual-bulb light fixture with no bulbs at the moment. I'm wanting to get a carpeting plant going, and some other nice low...

I bought 7 fish from an assorted cichlid tank from my LFS, 4 of them were yellowish and orange in color, and 3 were blue with stripes visible at times. These are the best pics I could do, since they all go into hiding once I get anywhere near the tank, but when i'm far away they are really...

I have a 55g tank that only has one female convict and a 3 inch male western painted turtle. I was wondering what else I could put in there. I was thinking smaller fish like barbs, some FW sharks, and a pleco. Something to make my aquarium nicer to look at. Or should I go the cichlid route and...

just googled that, looks like a redtop to me! thanks !

Got it at my LFS and they said it was a redhead cichlid. I got home and googled it and it turns out that isn't true. So what is it?

I'm using one life-glo 20w bulb Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I have a 36g. I dose daily with seachem flourish excel, twice a week with seachem flourish, and use root tabs. Some of my leaves are also going transparent :/ Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I think it might be algae? I'm hoping it is, i'm worried it might be parts of my plants dying :/. Do you think getting another 20w same bulb would be good enough? and I'm thinking of getting root tabs today after work. I was told my plants were all easy low light plants and my LFS said that...

This is my first planted tank, and I want to make it a heavily planted one. My tank is 36g and has amazon swords, java fern, java moss, othellia? and other low maintenance plants. I currently have one life-glo Fluorescent Light Bulb 20W 6700k in the tank, and I dose with liquid co2 (excel) every...

top fin sucks. It only works if you continually use it, after every water change, and weekly. If you want a good proven bacteria booster I recommend Tetra Safestart. It worked for me, I got my tank cycled in a week.

Hi, it's me again, still with my 36g tank, heavily planted now! Current Stock: 5 cardinal tetras 3 honey gourami 2 rams 3 otocinclus 1 SAE I was wondering if there were any good scavenger fish or invertebrate that you guys can recommend for me, for my tank, just incase I have any leftover...

cherry barbs and the threadfin look awesome! Thanks for the input! How many of them should I get?

They are beautiful fish, and breeding them sounds like fun. If I were to want to try and get into breeding them. What sort of steps do I have to go through, and equipment?