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Hornwort is ridiculously easy to grow, but I've found it also drops a ton of needles in my tank regardless of how well it grows.

I would've never thought of getting rock from the landscaping store. I've always looked at the LFS and been scared away by their ridiculous pricing.

As a way to kind of support my habit, I'm now selling inline co2 diffusers. I use one of these on my tank and it has to be seen to be believed how efficient it is. You can easily get 35 ppm in a 75g by less than a bubble per second. These work best on the intake of the filter that way not...

You can, but I don't know that I would with SA cichlids. It's going to make the water really, really hard. That being said, I would love to do a tank using base rock for Africans. I've seen similar tanks and always found them stunning. A lot of people see them at a glance and think they're...

Super glue is safe. I'd let it dry thoroughly before putting the decoration back in the tank, but I've used it in my tanks before with no problem. I'm told salties use it all the time for corals.

You could add another angel. Larger tetras like the congo tetra wouldn't have to worry about being eaten.

I think I've finally got all the kinks worked out of my 75g tank so I'm ready to stock it back up. Currently in this planted paradise I have - BN pleco Upside down cat (S. Nigrofaciatus (sp?)) 2 kribs that don't get along 6 black skirts 3 glo-lites 4 black neons 3 flame tetras 1 Julii cory...

Very sweet. I have been dieing to make a Tanganyikan tank for ages, but don't have the space or the spare tank right now. I'm so jealous. You will post pics right? Right?

I have one false jullii (not by design, his friends all croaked over time) and I plan on getting a lot more. I've found cories to be weird fish. The ones I've had refused to school with any cory other than their own kind. It struck me as a little strange. How does a fish know what it's...

Basically you need a tank (different sizes for different size aquariums, or you can just refill your smaller tank more frequently), a regulator, CO2 diffuser, and CO2 tubing. Optional stuff is a bubble counter, PH controller and Solenoid.

I love the pillbox idea. That is just awesome. Especially since I can get 3-4 pillboxes free from the local pharmacy. I can be set up for a month in no time. Great idea.

Ok, on advice I received here I ordered some Greg Watson ferts. After a blackout that sucessfully killed all the algae in the tank I'm ready to turn the lights back on, start up the CO2 again and start fertilizing. My problem is I'm not entirely clear what to do with the ferts I got. I have...

Ok, thanks for that info. To clarify, the stuff I got is what I need and if I add Flourish to it for micros, I'll be fine (hopefully)?

It's a 75g tank. Thanks to the articles you gave me I went over and ordered Potassion Nitrate, Potassium Sulfate, and Mono Potassion Phosphate. I figure I can pick up a bottle of Flourish Excel somewhere locally for trace elements and save on shipping. Do these sound like the right kinds of...

I suspected ferts were my problem too. I'll read the links that have been left for me and you'll probably see me back here with questions.

Once upon a time, a planted tank became a CO2 injected planted tank. With a plant friendly substrate, 3 wpg and a pressurized CO2 injection it was destined for greenness. Sadly over the past few weeks, the plants have become over grown with what can only be described as a greenish scum...

Cool. There are several small fish stores here locally, but most of them are crap. One of them is really good but they're totally obsessed with PH. Everytime I or anyone else bring in a water sample they try to sell crap to lower the PH to 7.0 because anything else kills fish. I've been...

I'd recommend buying a tank over renting one. I bought a 10 lb tank for about $90 off ebay. It'll pay for itself by the time I'm needing it refilled I'm sure. Welding places around here rent for about $10-15 a month.

If you have three 12-14 inch fish in that 55 g it's going to be very, very, very close to being overstocked.

If by bullhead you mean a bullhead catfish then I'd watch out. They're nocturnal predators and will eat any fish they can get in their mouth. Plus they get fairly large for a small tank.

Well, today the fish seem a little lethargic, but otherwise everyone is ok. No one appears to be permanently injured. I'm a little reluctant to turn the CO2 back on now.

I'd ship them by just putting them in a ziploc back half filled with water and half filled w/air. I'm tempted to take them, but I'm afraid they'll take over my tank. I have pond snails in there and none seem to get very big though.

How exactly does a QT work for a plant?

After doing the water change I seem to have woken up the Upside down cat (survivor of my one other tank crash). The BN pleco continues to lie there and I'm afraid he's a goner. Most of the other fish seem to be stirring though they're still belly up on the surface. Some are swimming awkwardly...

So I get up this afternoon (I work third) and go to feed the fish. My 75g tank in my living room has completely crashed. I suspect it's because of the pressurized CO2 I've got on it. For some reason it went out of control and the filter is spitting out huge bubbles of CO2. Also, every single...