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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...

Yeah, the saw thing was when I lost my dremel. Handy little device, but whenever everyone in the house uses it for various endeavors it can be kind of hard to track down. the thought of boiling/cooking it had never occurred. O.o That would have made it so much easier!

True, you don't get the tasty part of the experience. But you also don't have to try to figure out how to hold the darned thing still and keep it from rolling all over the place while you're taking a sawzall (sp?) to it, either. I've made quite a few coconut toys for my birds to play in and, for...

I recently started keeping red worms in an old 5 quart ice cream pail for all my fish (and a few crawlers for fishing bait). I had a 5 gallon bucket I kept worms in when I was a kid (yeah, I was a rather odd kid). It never dawned on me that I could keep them for my fish until a couple months...

From what I understand, goldfish are best in a species only tank. They're kind of a special needs fish and will try to eat anything that will fit in their mouths, often to their detriment. Dissection of a dead calico I got for my boyfriend a month or so ago revealed that it had swallowed a rock...

You can do shrimp with bettas. I have personally had great success with it in the past. I have also watched other people's bettas hunt down small shrimps and eat them. I guess it just really depends upon your fish and whether s/he recognizes shrimp as a food source. The only betta I have had...

I think my boyfriend may soon be getting a new 70 gal tank from someone at work who no longer wants it. He wants to make it a goldfish tank and I told him I'd help him get it up and running. The largest tank I have ever owned is 10 gal so I really have no idea where to start when it comes to...

Alright. I was kind of looking for other creatures that might do well, but I seem to be coming up short and definitely don't want to end up killing anything else. I was just tossing possible ideas around in my head and got confused about conflicting info. Thanks!

As far as lighting concerns and such for plants, the Planted Tanks forum people can help you with all of that. There's also quite a few stickies in there!

If you're looking for a multiple fish set up (as it sounds like to me), and have your heart set on bettas, 3 females is a really good choice. They generally look rather lacking in the color department when you're looking at them in the store; but boy oh boy do they blossom when you get them...

After the goldfish fiasco I posted about in the Getting Started forum, someone suggested a freshwater crab for my 5g hex tank. I've been looking on the net for info and there seems to be a baffling amount of differing opinions and contradictory information regarding how to care for them. Are...