Recent content by Lohoyan

Hi everyone, I'll be setting up my 110 Gal basin pond soon. I was thinking of putting all the junk, the pump, filter and uv filter in a separate smaller basin and hid it away behind the pond somewhere. It's just that being such a small pond that stuff takes up a lot of the space in it. Is...

Mmmmm, not sure I want to chance it, I really want to see some breeding action in my tank, thoses bubble nests sound cool.

My lfs had all male blood red gouramis so I bought two hoping to add a couple females later. Now they have what look to me like mostly female pearl gouramis. Will they breed together? I could give my ten G to a pair of them for a breeding tank, it has lots of floating plants and low current.

I have water lettuce in my 66 Gal with 4X 54Watts of T5 and CO2 and ferts. Under those conditions the plants become huge, spread out, multiply and will take over the entire surface very quickly. In my ten Gal with no ferts they stay small but still multiply and cover all the surface rapidly...

Thanks for the info. I think the ones at my lfs are all males as well then. I suppose they figure that people only want the more colorful males. Bummer, I'd love to see them make a bubble nest.

Hi everyone, can you tell me if these are males or females? I thought they were males. My lfs got more of these in and i'd like to get a couple females but now they all look the same to me. Thanks.

Some friends of mine winter their large koi in a large tank in their garage to protect them from the deep frozen Alberta winter Temp stays around 46 all winter, the fish go dormant, stay in the pump flow, don't eat a thing and don't dirty up the water. All they have is the dim light coming in...

Recently installed this pump in my 66G planted as a better way to diffuse CO2. It seems to work a lot better than the bubble ladder I was using. But I was surprised to find that the CO2 tubing feeds into the pump output. It injects the gas into the water stream as it shoots out of the pump...

I've been running this tank for over a year now with mixed success. Pressurized CO2 which runs for about 9 hours while the lights are on. I recently doubled the lighting up to 4 T5 HO 39W, 3 are lifeglow 5000K, 1 is a 10000K, I'm waiting for my lfs to get me one more lifeglo. Ecocomplete Dry...

Is it on the outside or inside of the glass? Sometimes when my tanks really full water weeps through the trim and drips down the side and leaves those white deposits. Supposedly a mild acid like vinegar will take them off but I haven't had too much success removing them. I'm considering...

The diatoms are showing no sign of returning since I did he big clean out. Wow, I guess they really do go away on there own!

It's good to know it'll go away eventually, I hope it's soon. The tanks about six months old and has eco-complete. Is that about when these things would be a problem? The Ottos seem interesting, I'll have to look for some.

Thanks for the help everyone. I've never seen Ottos in my lfs but they could bring them in for me. But would they clean the diatoms off the leaves? Somehow I doubt it. Concerning nerites, I've got some now in my 10G that snuck in on some plants but so far they don't look like the big nice...

My 66G has tons of reddish brown algae that forms on the glass and plants. It cleans of the glass easily but it would take days to clean it off all the plant leaves. I did a huge clean today of all the glass and ornaments and driftwood and will do WC tommorow but how cam I clean the plants...

Yes, I've been reading about this, I'm just kind of still absorbing this stuff. Lots of good reading at The Barr Report too. I know I've got a ways to go but sooner or later I'm going to have a little jungle paradise in my tank. Thanks folks, I'll be back asking lots more questions along the way.