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I got myself a Fluval 406 for my 72 gallon tank to replace my old filter Right now its running along side my current cascade filter(the old filter). How long do I need to run the new filter before its established?

earthworms, feeder guppies and sometimes crickets worked on the one I had as a kid. Kept him around 15-18 celcius(room temp) with a undergravel filter and he did fine. good luck with him.

red eyes do not swim well, just be aware. put lots of easy climb out options for when the frog do fall in the water.

thats a bacterial infection in the cut. Lots of water changes and scaleless safe fish medications. Use a fungicide since his immune system is stresed and a bacterial medicine to handle the infection. Do a lot of water changes and good luck.

and they are a dangerous invasive species with a no catch/kill limit here in California. They have few predators and eat native fish, amphibians and turtles. Use them as fish food or bait, don't let them go. Bullfrogs are good to save east of the rockies and good to kill west of the rockies...

nitrate 0 out of the tap.

like I said my nitrates are holding at 30-40 on both of my test kits. the nitrate beads are resin that absobs nitrates as a helper, not to replace water changes. Its helped a little. I'm doing a lot of big water changes right now to little effect. probably the whole tank twice over across the...

I have a 26 bowfront tank with a fluval 105. I'm a little over stocked(18 inches of fish. 4" of which is keyholes) so I do weekly water changes all that jazz. So testing my water a week ago I found high nitrate levels and low ph 6.3 or so. Did a big water change that day and the next day, no...

1 pair, kribs like room and get up to 4 inches long. You can get 2 pairs and let them decide to pair up with whomever they like, but you will need to remove the other pair afterwards or they will attack each other.

apistos usually only have problems with other apistos or similiar conspecifics. You should be fine adding one to your tank.

Just want to say it. My angels laid eggs before and I could never get teh babies to go free swimming. This last time I left them with the parents and they got the hatch to go. I siphoned out the babies after 2 days into a 2 gallon tank. After 3 more they got to free swimming a little bit...

if it moves lke a catipillar and doesn't have legs its probably a fly larvae. There are many of flies with aquatic larvae. Keep it away from your fish. Almost everything that looks like what you have there is carnivorous and predatory.

so tommorow I'm going to go look at a used aquapod. The price it good and I've seen the tanks in the LFS before and they look snazzy. Anyone have bad experiences with the aquapod or know of glitches I need to look out for?

i wouldnt use this filter on saltwater. Its ok for freshwater, but salt wants really good water quality, I doubt my canister can do what you need.

So my 72 gallon has a Pennplax Cascade filter on it that I got when I picked up the tank used. It does about 285 gallons and hour and is rated to handle up to 100 gallons. I've been going with it since october and its ok, but I think more would be better. I've been looking at the Fluval 406...