Recent content by freckles

I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who has tons of pix of their aquarium on their phone. :D I have videos of my aquarium on my phone that I'll watch when I'm not at home

I enjoy changing the decor in my tank often. I have a 55 gallon tank. Not long ago I removed all but 3 medium sized (plastic) plants and had those placed equidistant from one another along the length of the tank. They were the only decor other than gravel. And my fish turned into complete...

I use a similar flake food. I used to feed the fish only once per day, skipping a day every now and then. Over the past two weeks I've switched to feeding them a small pinch at a time, then waiting until they've eaten every bit of it, then giving them another small pinch, and continuing that...

Harlequin rasboras. They seem to glow orange and they school tightly. I love neons, but I love these guys more

I would add plants of a different color than what you have. You have quite a few plants, but they are all almost the exact same shade of green. Petco and Petsmart have silk plants in a few different colors of green; I have some that are kelly green, some that are bright almost neon green, and...

My angelfish used to swim on its side (body plane parallel to aquarium floor), and straight up and down with its mouth pointing toward the surface. Everyone was always very concerned, thinking that it was sick and dying, but she was just watching the surface of the water for food. She...

It had been sitting in the yard for at least a year, maybe longer.

Looks very cool!

My aquarium wood isn't driftwood per se; I got it out of the back yard from tree trimmings. They do seem to be lowering the PH of my aquarium, however. Type of wood: One is apple and I think the other is hazelnut. Number and size of pieces: They are both large. The apple is about 24"...

My lone angelfish. Got him when he was the size of a nickel. He's now larger than silver-dollar!

Pretty girl. I've always liked the blue ones :)

How about a cylindrical aquarium? It would have a very small footprint, water sloshing would be almost a non-issue, and there wouldn't be as much stress on the seams because of its shape. You could probably have quite a large aquarium going that route, like 12" diameter by 5' high. If you did...

When your mother laughs at you for how long you've been sitting watching the aquarium. And you keep watching.

I put the final coat of polycrylic on my new 50 gallon aquarium stand! It's the culmination of three days' work so I'm very happy to be done with it!

Other than being round, your rocks look completely different than my rocks! It looks neat though. I like how you arranged them. What kind of fish are you putting in?