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hmmm....1 gallon, Make Iced Tea or Lemonade and forget the fish. Just kiddin' Couldn't help myself.

I have an idea on how to make a HIGHLY Evaporation Resistant top. Get a full glass top (actually 2 pieces of glass with durable tape hinge so you can feed easily). Drill holes with a Dremel (fitted with diamond or carborundum bit) for aeration tubes and for filter intake/exhaust tubes. HOB...

purplestarfish, I find that its only shortcoming in design is non-concurrent dechlorination which I address by doing an "in-between" procedure as stated in my previous post above.

IMO, if you add dechlorinator afterwards, you are introducing your fish to a minute or more of unneccessary stress. I view it as throwing a human in a room filled with noxious gases for a minute or so and then giving them suitable air to breathe. I certainly would not like to undergo that kind...

Yeah - I used to have a diatom filter and they work like magic. Problem is, I am extremely tight on funds right now - outta work at the moment.

29 Gallon. HOB TetraTec PF150 Dual Stage Wet/Dry & Undergravel with Dual powerheads. I only vacuum the few bare spots in the front where I can. I know plants & UGF's are a debatable issue but my plants flourish to the point where I am pruning every week due to the rapid and dense growth. I...

Thanks for the input everyone. In response to Christmasfish - what is odd is that I am anal with checking water chemistry. The nitrates have never climbed past 20ppm's in part due to my heavily planted tank. I test for phosphates which are also kept in check with a phoshate absorbing resin...

Everytime I do a partial water change and/or a gentle gravel vacuuming, I have come to expect a milky haze from a bacteria bloom to cloud my aquarium for 3 to 7 days. I got to the point of frustration that I would decrease the frequency at which I would perform water changes so that I could...

This morning, for the first time ever, I opened all the blinds in the room in which my aquarium is located and let all the sunshine come in. I love the look of the aqaurium this way much more than artificial light. I can see the colors and details of my fish and plants like never before. Of...

Wow. I had no idea that they may be ready to spawn as a result of the color change. I will keep an eye out for eggs though it might be tough as my tank is densely planted. Thanks to all of you for your help.

From the name of your topic, it sounds like something that fishfreek could answer! :)

About a week ago I noticed that the smallest of my 5 Zebra Danios has turned yellowish. Today I noticed another one turning yellowish. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Well, if he used pesticides they sure didn't do much to keep the skeeter larvae at bay - so I'm guessing I'm okay in that department (fingers crossed anyway). Thanks for responding Allivymar.

My neighbor just told me about all these things he saw in his pool wiggling around. Immediately I thought, Cool!! he's got live mosquito larvae in his pool - I can use this as a food source for my fish! Indeed, they were mosquito larvae and he has literally hundreds of thousands of these...

CLR™ (Calcium Lime Rust) works like a champ, but of course only when the tank is torn-down for cleaning without the fish in it.

You may need what is referred to as "Dither Fish". These are typically any active and robust fish that are constantly on the move. When the fish that are hiding see a bunch of these "dither fish" out in the open, it is a sign that there is no threat of predators and can help put them at ease...

I really thought I was on to something with this but it looks like I'm all alone.

On two occasions so far, I forgot to turn on the lights on my tank before I left for work. Each time the water happened to be a little cloudy. When I finally turned the lights on the following morning the water was so clear it looked as though I had run the Diatom Filter for 2 hours! After I...

This morning (before my cup of coffee) I decided to put my final dosage of AlgaeFix in my 29 gallon tank. Instead of grabbing the AlgaeFix bottle I mistakenly grabbed the pH Indicator solution (Bromothymol Blue). After adding 5 drops I noticed the bluish-green color of the drops. I panicked...

Allivymar - I am BOL (Buckled Over Laughing) at your memo joke! TOO Funny! :lol:

The problem is with the growth of this algae on my plants. I can't physically remove it without destroying the plant. That is why I resorted to it.

You guys are lucky. I have tried PetSmart and Petco and they never carry Ghost Shrimp. I WANT Ghost Shrimp!!! (Sorry if I'm slightly off-topic)

I occasionally have the same problem with hard spot algae and I have two ottos. They try, but cannot seem to get it off of anything. I have resorted to a product called AlgaeFix that works beautifully. It has taken 3 treatments (a dosage every 3 days) for a total of 9 days to eliminate the...

I can say from my experience that running the CO2 tube from the generator to the intake tube of my HOB filter works extremely well. My water at the time had a poor buffering capacity but usually maintained a pH between 7.0 -8.0. As soon as I hooked up CO2 to my aquarium, I used the...