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Aquaponics is a great nitrate removal tool. Although you have to keep in mind that if you are growing edibles in your media tray... When you harvest the plants... You are taking away a nitrate eating component. You have to keep the system balanced by either replacing the plant that was harvested...

Hopefully these pics post. They are hard to photograph with a camera phone... Fast little buggars!

Have quite a few male yellow perch for sale. Most are about 6"+ and currently kept in a large school outdoors. I am located in the Dunnellon/Crystal River Florida area. They are pellet trained. I am not shipping these guys. They make a great addition to the aquarium as a predator fish.

A lot of things can be used on a concrete slab for a pond... Kiddie pools, pond shells, jacuzzi tubs, vintage tubs, watering troughs... Anything that holds water and is not toxic to fish. As a DIY project... Make it cost less, look nice and work well. The box can be made almost any size and is...

Water usage usually boils downs to nitrates (water changes in a closed system) and evaporation or absorption. You are going to want a complete system... Meaning a balanced one. Fish, plants, snails. The DIY box ponds we built can be finished off with wood or stone veneer on the outside to give...

Here is a pic of three different above ground pond types that I have set up grow tilapia right now. Maybe this will give you some ideas. Let me know if you have any questions.

Looks very nice. I have a similar one and had to reinforce the corners as the weight of the water started to push it apart. It is about 6'x7'. I would skip the gold fish. Feeder gold fish carry disease... Especially walmart ones. Run your pump through a bucket/tub with a smaller water volume...

72x24x24 180 gallon glass aquarium for sale. Located in Dunnellon Florida (34433). Pick up only. Has one chip on corner, but cosmetic only. Holds water and is in excellent condition. Has 3 boxes of extras including timers, skimmer, etc... $500 best offer. Must sell. I have no use for it currently.

Found a few of these little red worms on the bottom of my nursery tank. I'm afraid they are trying to eat a few of the eggs that have been dropped by the mouth brooding female (eggs are still live and developing). What are they? Are they harmful?

So... I figured out part of the problem. The death was caused by this guy getting beat up really bad by a VERY aggressive female. After separating her with another semi aggressive female I studied her behavior to see if there was any deterrents I could use to help correct this behavior. She...

Are there always ulcers with scale loss and columnaris? when he came in his fins were nice. The next day he wasn't eating and his pectoral fins were ragged. The day after that he died.

I'm not seeing any white patches on the fish. When the one died he had some extra mucous over where the scales had fallen off. I didn't find him dead until I got home from work so he spent a few hours in the tank lifeless I'm sure... Can just the stress of moving older and larger fish cause any...

When I noticed the first one very lethargic... I moved him to a small qt. less than 12 hours later he was dead and these translucent white things were already growing on the glass in the qt. I have read where other people have had this, but they are all unfinished topics with little information...

To describe the "fluff"... Imagine hydra with a little stouter base, translucent white and much shorter tentacles. Almost like a 3/32" translucent white piece of soft broccoli waving in the current affixed to surfaces....

I can't get a pic of it... Wish I could. It is a translucent white color that bloomed overnight. It took over every inch of the aquarium and nearly clogged my canister filter... Reduced the water flow. The more effected fish seem to be very lethargic, not eating, fins fraying and scales just...