Recent content by mango

Your tank looks awesome! I've been making rough-looking hidey-caves in my ceramics class this summer while everyone else is making gorgeous pots, too. I really like the tree though. Now I want to make one and I have a question about the construction. Were the ends of the branches left nonglazed...

You can usually get silicone at the hardware store in larger quantities and for less money than at the LFS. You just have to make sure that it is 100% silicone with no fillers/additives/colorants other than the acetic acid that keeps the silicone pliable until it dissipates. If you're going to...

The gunk and waste would need to be cleaned out of there just like anywhere else in the tank. Once every 3-4 weeks is the most I would push it before cleaning in it.

It depends upon how long the tank went without fish in it as to how much (if any) of your bacterial colonies have died. The bacterias responsible for breaking down wastes need a pretty constant supply of oxygen to survive. If you've completely changed out our substrate, you've gotten rid of a...

My tanks are in my bedroom, which is in the basement. About a month ago, after returning from a visit to my boyfriend's brother and sister-in-law for the weekend, I found what looked like a giant spider dead in the bottom of my tank. The water also looked awful so I knew my dad had not actually...

I thought maybe it was carved driftwood because of the texture/color and the way it's all curvy. It's pretty sweet either way.

WOW Is that driftwood!? It's gorgeous.

I agree with what's been stated so far, cories are uber cute and will help keep everything clean. If you're looking for an invert, MTS are supposed to be really good about sifting through sand and keeping it from getting gas pockets and such. I can't say this from experience as I haven't had...

No, all the fins are red. Except the anal fin, that's getting a bit of black to it now but it's still mostly red. It's supposed to be that if that happens you have a male fish. I don't plan on keeping anything with the same body type. Basically tetras, a pleco, maybe cories, my ABF and...

That is an awesome piece ofdriftwood. Where did you get it?

I'm not too sure of the shark in a community tank yet myself, either. I figured I'd try it and see (with lots of hiding places to lay claim to) and if it's not working then Burt will be getting his own tank all to himself.

Like stated previously, don't use cinder blocks. We built the basement of our house with them 4 years ago and went through at least 1/10 of the final number used just because they got set down wrong or bumped wrong by another block. Sometimes I swear it was just because you looked at it funny...

Congratulations! Sounds pretty darn good to me.

lol I know what you mean. I, too, am a sucker for bettas. I had to stop that because it got too expensive to live in the dorms and buy a new tank and accessories every 2-3 semesters. The first betta was in a 1 gal desktop tank someone was giving away when I moved into the dorms. His name was...

I'm going to be getting a new 55 gal tank some time this fall, probably between August and October. The problem is that 55 gal seems huge to me right now (prob won't after I get it set up and get used to it, though) and are so many super neat fishes. So first I'll list what I currently have...