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I've got a 20 gallon FW at home that has pretty heavy filtration on it A Fluval 204 and a HOB filter. It it also pretty heavily stocked - 4 neon tetras 1 inch 2 albino corys 1 inch 2 SAE 2 inches 2 Gourami 1 inch 1 Blue Ram 1 inch 1 Guppy 2 inches 1 Red Tailed Shark 2.5 inches 1 Zebra Pleco...

So I've recently done away with my glass tank top as it was interfering with the quality of light getting to the plants. Now I have more rapid evaporation to deal with. I usually fill my tank with a python during water changes. How do I go about topping off the tank with just a little water...

I've got a small 15 gallon tank lightly stocked with white sand as a substrate. There is a good deal of "gunk" collecting on the surface of the sand. I was sold a fish - the name of which I cannot recall - that would nibble at the sand surface. This keep things pretty clean. I don't know if...

My favorite fish - a sailfin pleco who was a goofy as a puppy - ended up on the floor in the middle of the night. I found him the next morning. What would cause a fish to do that? I've never noticed him even near the top of the tank. I have a moon light but do fish get disoriented in terms of...

Ammonia that is. It is a new school year and I am setting up my classroom tank as usual, preforming a fishless cycle. I was being careless and I put too much ammonia in the water. My tank was only about half full so I immediately put more water in - diluting it to about 8ppm NH3. (I don't...

I found a nice stand with doors and everything that I would like use to repace my cheapo iron stand - with the fluval and yeast hanging out all over the place. What are the chances of moving an established tank. How much water can I take out without having to re-cycle? How much weight can the...

I have been trying to tweak my DIY CO2 system because I can't get consistent and or good levels of CO2 out of it. Last night I ditched Champagne yeast and tried regular bread yeast. I was getting 30 bubbles per minute within a couple of hours and today I came home and am getting more bubbles...

I was reading a thread by Giltch about his or her red cherry shrimp breading tank. and I was wondering what that small plant that is carpeting his substrate is. The following picture was hi-jacked from his thread thanks.

I had what I thought was a good thing going. I have a DYI CO2 set up - 2 two liter bottles connected to a bubble counter connected to an air stone. I dissolved two cups of sugar into enough water to almost fill a 2 liter bottle. Let water solution cool to 103 degrees f. I added 1/2 tsp of...

I am reeaaallly hesitant to add CO2 to my tank. I have read to many crazy stories of fish being gassed to death, pH crashes, and pressurized tanks shooting across the room and killing small children. Oh yeah, yeast splashing all over the place from exploding bottles or the yeast mixture being...

I have a 20 gallon tank 65W CL 8 hours a day. Flourite substrate Nitrite 0ppm Ammonia 0ppm and Nitrate 0ppm (really. I think it is because the plants are eating all the Nitrate and I don't fertilize) I have a Fluval 204 (180 gph) and Aquaclear 30 (150 gph (really?) )filters running. I have...

I just bought a Fluval 204 for 20 bucks. It is like new. Really. Like weirdly clean. So I thought It was a good deal. I have a 20 gallon tank that seems like it needed a more filtering. I was using an aqua-clear 30. It seemed like it just wasn't cutting it. I move things around and have...

I just replaced two 15w T8 bulbs(6700k and 10000k) with one Sunpaq dual daylight 65w bulb (6700k and 10000k). I'm working on the planted tank angle. Now, however, my fish have all but disappeared. My tank used to be pretty active during the day but no all the fish are hiding. Some just lurk...

This pleco has always had patches of pale skin - it almost looks like he is going to shed skin - nothing peeling or raised but it looks white where it should be black and brown.. Lately it is starting to spread. His fins and most of his body have these pale white patches on them. Anyone have...

I've got a nice little low light tank growing with some Anubias, java moss, and something I think are called Crims (Local Fish Store shorthand for a bulb plant that sends out lots of runners and produces really long flowing blades). Anyway, I'd like to branch out -pun intended, and I'm looking...

So one of the first fish we brought home was a guppy. I thought it was male because the colors were pretty wild. Before I discovered this we bought two more male guppies. Well the first one started getting really fat and I got very suspicious. I looked it up and sure enough that first one has a...

I bought a Pit Bull Pleco to put in my tank at work but didn't get back to work in time to put him in tonight. Can I leave him in the bag and float it in my tank at home and take him in the morning? Is there enough Oxygen? Is the plastic going to become toxic to him? Thanks. Pairustwo

I need to do a large PWC (added new flourite and made a mess and now one fish has a popeye). My concern is that my tap has a pH of 7.2 and my tank has a pH of 6.4. I don't get why it falls so low when it sits in my tank for a while but it does. I don't have peat moss or anything like that in...

So I put my first drops of Ammonia in my new tank 7 days ago and it is currently a toxic soup in there March 8th 3:00 pm NH3 3ppm NO2 4ppm (not quite to the 5.0) NO3 40ppm I haven't been letting the ammonia get to low before I re-dose it. I've been adding ammonia every time it gets near...

I am being paitent here but am still curious about something. I am doing a fishless cycle. I seeded a 20 gal tank with a plant, handfull of gravel, a sponge that all lived in an established tank, plus I wrung out a second sponge into the tank as well. I have crushed a tiny bit of flake food...

I'm trying to cycle a new tank I've set up at work. I sort of screwed up my fish-less cycle, I think. Basically I put my seed material in (I used a plant, a handful of gravel and a sponge that I had stuffed in the filter of my existing tank for a couple of weeks) a couple of hours before my...

I accidentally spilled a little charcoal into the tank while I was setting up the filter. I just started a fish-less cycle so no life except for a couple of plants moved from an established tank. The Charcoal is harmless when mixed in the substrate...right?

For my first tank I have ended up with a odd selection of creatures. 5 neon tetras 3 african dwarf frogs 1 guppy 2 German Blue Rams 1 Sail Fin Pleco (at least for a couple of years until it is too big) The guppy and the rams are fun to look at and the Pleco jumps around like a puppy once in a...

I've got a 20 gallon hexagon acrylic tank. I wanted to attach some tiles to the inside to decorate the back of the tank as it will be sitting against a wall and will have wires and HOB filter, none of which I would mind hiding. So I just wanted to ask if silicone will bond to acrylic or cause...

What does everyone think of this: http://www.aquariumlife.net/projects/diy-lighting/55.asp I'd like to turn up the light on my 20gallon tank to help my plants out a little - ON THE CHEAP. Will these types of compact fluorescent lights provide the type of light that plants need? Or can anyone...