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so i'm stealing the image from my friends website, he came up snapped a decent shot and since i'm cameraless it works. http://notunderscore.com/photos/2007/summer07/target8.html no tank shots as its dirty atm fighting algae again, why arn't there any SW plecos?)

anyone ever heard of these? I was walking through a local pet store (mainly does dogs and birds but a nice mini fish setup) and saw a tank full of them. I'd never seen them before or even heard of them (thought chromis only came in blue or green). i'm curious as to their nature and hopefully...

So my true percs have been in the tank for almost a month now, half that time they did the kids thing of dividing the tank in half (one had the half in front of rock work, the other the half behind)/ Now they are hardly more than an inch apart does that mean they've paired up? They never...

Well i picked up a set of true percs today from my LFS. i call them a set as they had them kept singly in side by side tanks, so they arn't a true pair yet. They are both still small and young (the black around their stripes almost touches the black on the other stripe) after freaking me out...

just a slight question would a 29/30gal be too small to house 2 gobies? I've read they can be aggressive to same species unless there is proper space

So looking through saltwaterfish.com i found their guide to drip acclimate, granted there are some posted already but this one is a pictured slideshow that may be a bit more helpful for visual learners (like my self) http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/acclimation.php if this needs to be...

Simple question since the little fiasco i had earlier i've gotten a rather large diatom bloom all a sudden (brown growth on rock and glass i'm pretty sure is a bloom as it brushes off easily and i suck it up with siphon) i've been running reduced lights (roughly 6hrs a day since nothing but...

So i'm planning out a basic sump for my 29 gallon and i was wondering if its possible to have one go in a U/culdasac fashion instead of the standard left to right (or vice versa) fashion. I ask because for space reasons i could get a "bigger" container that way but if i plumbed it normally one...

Ok anyone else had this happen to their tanks? My ramshorn snails (don't ask how they came to be in my tank i'm not sure) like to crawl on the intake of my AQ30 they go down to the actual slotted intake and get themselves perma stuck/sucked into the intake tube (their "body" is stretched inside...

Well with summer temperatures being what they are in texas I'm looking for ways to keep my tank water cool without killing myself on the electric bill. I was wondering if say buying some of the freezer packs like here and placing them in say a ziplock would be a safe way to cool off water...

Well its been one of those 24hr periods where things just happen good then bad. It started just fine did my PWC yesterday, got to post office before the lines got bad, come home all 3 of my chromis are dead on my sand bed in an oddly nice diagonal line. Test water, salinity raised from 1.023 to...

My brother is moving and i'm stuck planning the aquarium move part. We have a cleaned rubbermiad for the fish, water and decoration part but i'm wondering if we can safely move a 55 gallon tank with roughly 25 lbs of PFS and a little water (ie. enough to cover the sand bed to keep bacteria...

I got some baby hermit crabs from the LFS for free to help clean up the bottom of my tank. They only thing i can find from an online source is a scarlet has a yellow face/head are there any other ways to tell the species apart? They are ok for now either way as my tank has no corals or inverts...

ok this is an obvious question but i'm unsure what to do. I bought some "live" cured tufa base rock off the net. The seller told me and showed me pics its cured in tanks with regular (ie. has a lot of coraline) live rock and corals. My question is do i need to seed it with LR showing coraline...

So i added 5 neon tetras to my 10 gallon tank, it currently houses 2 blue paradise fish, 2 zebra danios and some ghost shrimp (the paraduse are leaving today for my brothers 55gal no worries). This morning i notice i only see 3 neons, 1 has disappeared fully and the other had a big chunk out of...

Ok this may sound dumb but how do these fish color? In the local stores they are almost all yellow with white stripes (think a False Perc) but then when i look online and through my book they are shown with large or almost fully black parts of the body, do they darken with age or is it somewhat...

My lights need their bulbs replaced shortly and i've found some nice deals on "noname" type on ebay and local stores, do i need specific coralife bulbs or will a generic 21" straight pin work just fine? I'm assuming 10k is 10k and actinic is actinic regardless of manufacturer for reference my...

I'm converting my 29 gallon to SW and have most of it it done (got actual SW in there now circulating and hopefully re-cycling) 1) I've got a fluval 204 canister on the tank right now, plan on a FOWLR setup and perhaps a year down the line some corals or an anemone or something, will this be a...

Ok so today was a good day for me, got my laundry done, watched the UEFA Cup Final and took care of 3 aquarium tasks with one stone (ok bag of salt) 1) Finished the main converting of my 29gal from FW to SW 2) Killed off the snail problem in said 29 gallon, if not i'm sending a sample to...

So my 10 gallon used to be a planted FW and had a huge snail problem. Granted it was frozen and then emptied fully i made sure there were no last hitchhikers left and used some copper based ICk treatment on the tank while i've gotten it setup and am just running carbon through it right now...

I'm fairly certain my 29 gallon is going to make the swap to SW this summer and i was wondering if my 2x65watt coarlife fixture would be good for making "things" grow on the live rock. I don't plan on buying any real corals or anthing like that but would enjoy the freebies attached to live rock...

Well my lights work fine but one of the fans has upped and died one me, has anyone had experience taking these apart or repairing/replacing the fans?

I've been notcing an increase in the amount of hair floating around on the top of my tank and was wondering the best way to filter or remove it? My little furball has finally gained an interest in the aquarium and the way my lighting is set up i can't use a lid to keep his hair out (the feet...

I've got some rather full bottles of flourish, excel, nitrogen and potassium from my days of try to tame a planted tank if anyone is interested in a local purchase ~didn't really want to post in classifieds as i don't want to ship them out but if mods deem it necessary to move i won't argue

Ok i've been gone from here for awhile, decided to ditch my planted tank because a certain furball kept chewing my plants and up rooting them. Funny thing is my hornworth has continued to grow and is a nice cloud that took over a corner of my tank (keeping it like this for now as my fry use it...