Recent content by Ztkirkpatric

My tank is a 175g Bowfront. I did an 80 gallon water change yesterday. My tank is plumbed to a sump in the garage, normally I will start a siphon and run a hose out of it, and get another water hose filling two 5 gallon jugs at a time, and just pour in slowly as water is removed. When it...

I recently converted my reef tank to a dirted planted tank. Its plumbed to a sump in my garage. I put a layer of peat moss/topsoil mix approx 2 inch deep, then set another 2" of pea gravel on top. So far so good. I filled the tank up to the top of the substrate approx 3-4 weeks ago, planted...

Setting up my 175g Bowfront for a planted tank, I'd like to use DH as a carpet in the foreground. can I fill the tank to the top of the substrate and plant the HG and let it propagate and spread like that or does the plant need to be submerged? Should be ample supply of co2 in the air. Is...

I make wine in mine and they bubble for several weeks pretty vigorously, then it'll slow for another month or two. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Go get one of the plastic 5 gallon water bottles. That would probably work well, same setup just scaled a little larger, use 10lbs of sugar. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I'd like to have a carpet of micro swords, maybe few other things here and there. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I currently am running a 175g saltwater tank, I am wanting to convert it to freshwater to reduce my maintenance time/cost. I will actually be doing a native tank with fish from around my home, bass crappie ect. For the plants to grow properly will I need c02? I don't really care to have a...

Thank you

Had these popup a while back, they're everywhere now... I don't try to rid them, they don't seem to bother much.

I have my sump in my garage and had the same issue.... I began looking at the pipe between my tank and sump... One of the fitting was leaking barely.... Slowly enough that it never created any water issues on the floor... But the sat creep on the pipe was building quickly... Anytime salt goes...

Water changes will remove the tap water. There are products that are supposed to make tap water safe to use. I'm not familiar with them. Tap water typically has things like chlorine and fluoride added to it so it's probably best to do a big water change then follow up with more.

Just out of curiosity how long has your tank been up and running? That rock looks super fresh.

I too have a yellow head moray... I've heard of them killing large lions, and triggers... I havnt had any issues from mine.... Yet

You make a valid point ding... I assume if you do frequent water changes your parameters shouldn't drop enough in a weeks time to make that substantial of a difference.

Gonna need a ton of them suckers to have a clownfish fry... I'll bring the potatoes.