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So I havent posted on in here in forever....4 major moves, 2 redesigns and 14 fish later im back on the boards. But my question is, I have a huge problem with my tank water evaporating very quickly, and leaving behind the ever ugly mineral deposit lines at the top of my tank and all over the...

so i was feeding the tank today, and i looked over and noticed this black fuzzy thing on one of my pieces of driftwood.. got a couple pictures, just wondering what it is and how to get rid of it.

I have a 55g tank, usual 48" long, with a jebo odyssea on it right now. It is the 3 switch...the one that comes with a bank of normal light, the actinic bank, and a few moonligts. It is your basic ebay special for like 100$ or something. Well to put it simply i absolutely hate this fixutre...

So a few months back (september) my family and i made a major move from Indiana to Connecticut. I broke down my tank that had just started to really develop for this move. Was not really happy that i had to do it, but it had to be done. The tank and the fish all made it out here without...

so it turns out at the end of the week i wll be moving from central indiana to nothern connecticut.. all in all it will prolly be a two day move (just drive time) ill probably stop feeding the fish tuesday night or wednesday afternoon, break down the tank and clean it out thursday night, and...

so lately i have noticed my fish have been...fatter..than normal. it looks like they are gettin bloated, idk if it is cuz thier diet is off. or if it the beginning of dropsy, which would suck... right now all i feed is NLS community and growth, Tetramin Flakes, and Hikari algea wafers for the...

so today during my pwc and tank clean of the week, i decided to reposition my spraybar, i pointed it at the back glass at a downward angle, instead of straight toward the front glass. there is barely any, if any at all, surface agitation now though, is that going to be a problem??

so im thinking about expanding from my 55g freshwater to a nano sw tank. ive always wanted a sw tank and i have room on my desk for a tank. i know smaller tanks are more work just due to the fact that it is harder to keep levels stable and the smallest level change has a huge affect on the tank...

so i got my potassium sulfate from gregwatson yesterday, and im wonderin how i should go about dosing. never used dry ferts before. so any help is appreciated. TIA

so i figured out my co2 today and it is around like 6ppm...yeah...which is another reason i think my plants are doing poorly..so im lookin to get a pressurized CO2 system set up here in the next month or so. i was lookin on aquariumplants, and they have a whole setup that includes everything...

so i was going to get a couple of these today, and i looked at every LFS around here...not one of them had them, only common or rubber lip or a bunch of other kinds, but no BN... so does anyone have a good online retailer for these lil guys? TIA

so i have had a dwarf flame gourami for the past few weeks. it was the first fish i got for my tank. i was going to add more the next week, but the gourami got popeye and i was treating that, well the popeye is now completely healed, so i went and purchased some more fish this morning. i got a...

so i got some plants for my tank: Congensis (Anubias congensis) Balansae (Cryptocrone crispatula) Java Fern (Microsorium pteropus) Dwarf Sagittaria (Sagittaria subulata) Anachris (Egeria najas) Java Moss (Vesicularia dubyana) i have a 48" jebo with two 21" 55w 50/50 bulbs. ive been dosing...

yea so i get home today after a long and very annoying day at work. and im lookin at my tank, and i notice the right eye of my gourami (only thing in there other than my frog) is HUGE!, i mean if it was a human sized fish it would be the size of a softball sticking out the side of its skull. so...

so i have a 48" 260w (only running 160w right now) jebo odyssea. it is a good fixutre, but the mountin legs SUCKED, and i couldnt get them to work with my tank. and even if i had, i wouldnt have been able to get my canopy back on my tank cuz the light when have sat too high. so i was originally...

so, im most likely going to be running co2 on my tank in the future, right now im running 2 21" 55w 50/50 cf bulbs in my jebo. but im going to put the 12000k back in when i get co2 up and running. so im lookin for a list of all the parts im going to need to get the system up and running, or if...

so i got my mts and java moss and fern today while i was at work, couldnt wait til i could get home and get it planted, and to my surprise my new stuff from bigals came too. some flourish, NLS growth and community, a replacement part for my python, and my new light bulbs for my fixture, and a...

well i want to get my plants and everything in my tank before i start adding fish, so i was wonderin if anyone had any low light clipping they can stand to part with? some java moss, any anubis, java fern, dwarf hairgrass (really like the look of that for ground cover) also i didnt want to put...

so im almost done cycling my 55g, and i want to get some plant life in there before i add my fish. so im lookin for any low light plant clippings that anyone might have. would like some java moss, java fern, anubis.. also i have eco-complete as my substrate, and im lookin to get some mts to...

so in a bit im going to start addin fish to my tank, going to go slowly, not add them all at once. overall i want about 10 or so barbs (5 belted, 5 black ruby), a gourami or two(was leaning toward a blue, but now im leaning toward a dwarf), a few yoyo loaches (which is extremely hard to find...

so i ordered a jebo odyssea 48" 4x65 watt (260watts total) fixture from ebay for my 55g. i just want to do a low light plant tank for right now so im going to only run one bank of lights. so is 65watts too much light for the 55g and ill need to run co2? or is that low enough that i dont have to...

so i was dosing my tank with ammonia a few moments ago, and i decided was lookin at everything, and i went to check the temp and i noticed these..."things" on my thermometer cord just swaying in the current.. i have no clue what it is, if i had to guess i would say some kind of algea since i...

so i got my driftwood for my tank today, two of the pieces are very nice, but the one small just is meh, just a cut section of log lol, oh well, i plan on having it prolly in the back center of my tank with caves on each side of it, and plants around it, so it doesnt much matter. but the...

well i had a stock list previously planned out for the 30 i was going to get, but now that i moved up to a 55 gonna work on a new list. school of belted barbs (5-6) school of black ruby barbs (5-6) blue gourami 2-3 yoyo loaches prolly 6-8 goldfish for a while (while the tank is still cycling...

so i was just sittin here lookin at my tank, and the intake tube on the xp3 has finally mifped me to the point i have to do something about it. that is the dumbest color to make that tube, it just sticks out with the light on it. so i was wonderin if anyone knew of a brand of spray paint i can...