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Hello hello everyone ^^ Been a bit since I lasted posted here, but now I am back in business with my tank. Some time ago, I had to do a but of an overhaul on my tank. My fish had all died, the bettas by some odd bloating which indicates to me bacteria in the tank and the otos by unknown means...

Ok, for the past month now I have been battling with my tank over a major algae issue, to the point where water changes are no longer fun. I have gotten to the point where I usually do 50% pwc every Sunday and Wednesday just to keep my tank looking nice enough to show other people. So, I will...

Well, shouldn't say that, I love vacations in fact, I just hate coming home to what people might have done in their attempt to "babysit" my fish. So yeah, just got back from house sitting for my brother and his wife for 2 days, gave my mother written instructions to care for my tank, which...

Ok, I've forgotten what my camera is exactly, but it isn't a nice new digital by any means. However, from time to time it gets some nice shots, so I thought I would show some of the good ones off ^^ Maybe after I get my film developed with these 2 new rolls, I will have some newer ones. These...

Ok, I've been naughty again. The whole idea of raising something and growing plants is really an itching bug for me now. Today at work, while I was watering plants (I work at a gardening and landscaping family run business) I kept running into toads. They were freaking everywhere! So the bug...

Hey everyone! Here again with my latest attempt at conquering my tank with an aquascape idea derived from some others I have seen, hopefully you guys can give me your takes on this idea and possibly good sites that might offer what I am looking for if my sites intended are not the best offers...

And once more I pop in here in my quest to do some aquascaping. Currently I have a low light tank, the 12 gal that I have talked of often, that is holding plants to be grown a little bigger for my mother's 55 gal tank. However, once those plants are removed, I want to create a specific...

Hey everyone, here I am once again ^^ Sorry to be such a worry wort bringing up so many questions, but I don't like just sitting on my hands wondering about something even after doing research. I found for my tank that I have a 5000K 13W Compact Fluorescent ES12 lamp, about 8 in long. I feel in...

Oi! Ok, my mother has been dishing out the questions for you guys to answer, so I finally gave her a notepad and asked her just to write down whatever came to mind that she was in need to know. She gave me back a nice little list of items she was concerned of, so once more I ask upon everyone's...

And once more from the lips of my dear mum :roll: Our water is naturally hard here (Minnesota) and quite alkaline. My mother wants to use peat to soften the water up and reduce the pH (works in my 12 gal tank well), but from the responses here, she wants to know if this is the most effective...

Wow, I've officially become my mother's messenger to this site ^^ She was wondering what was everyone's take on using frozen vegetables for fish food, like peas for instance, and how often to feed fish that if it is a good food source.

Yeah, yeah, another question from my mother ^^ She currently has a 55 gal tank, but wants to update to an already purchased 100 gal tank. One little problem, it has a leak somewhere along the front glass wall and she doesn't know what the best sealant would be for it. Any suggestions?

Hey everyone ^^ I have an unusual question for all of you, although that's not out of the norm really. See, my mom's filter, a upright Penguin filtering a 55gal tank, is not quite doing its job. As a result, my mother is trying something new with making her own filters using filter charcoal and...

Ok, its late at night and although I have done some net browsing, I can't seem to figure out something between nitrite and nitrate. Some help here would be greatly appreciated ^^ Now, I know nitrite is the bad amount of the two, NO3 correct? But is this supposed to form in an older tank more so...

Hello everyone ^^ Please be kind since this is actually my first time on the boards, but seeing as how everyone here is so knowledgeable, I figured I might as well throw myself to the wolves here. I started a planted aquarium about 2 months ago, and I have quite a few questions to say the...