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tkos - it's not so much that i travel frequently, but i have to travel abroad twice a year and these trips can be anywhere from 2 weeks to a month and a half. it's long enough that anyone i have take care of my tanks will have to perform some maintenance. i'm keeping dwarf cichlids (apistos and...

it contains phosphates, right? do you have any problems algae? when my water gets back to where i want it and i buy this stuff, will i have to treat the pre-existing water, or just the water i add to the tank? when you say it softens the water, do you mean GH? haha, sorry, a lot of questions there.

My new 90 gal has been giving me a lot of grief lately. I would like to keep my pH around 6.5-7 but anything around 7 would be fine if stable. I have driftwood in the tank that brings the pH of my tap water down to around 7 from over 8 (my tap water has a very high pH, it doesn't even register...

i have about 60 or so cacatuoides fry in a 10 gal with two sponge filters, java moss and a heater. i've been feeding them frozen bbs 2-3 times a day by shaving a tiny piece from one of the cubes and distributing it around the tank with a syringe. i often see them eating (though they do a lot of...

thanks madasafish, that was a lot of help. i think i'm going to go for it. Regardless i'm going to need more space to grow out about 60 cacatuoides fry, so if i can do it while saving money all the better :D Another deal i got was when my bumblebee cat ($4) ate one of my female cacatuoides...

i dont know if this would be considered a bargain, but i would like some input before i go ahead and get it. its a two year old 90gal in great condition that comes with: a stand made by a friend of the owner (looks very sturdy) an eheim professional II an emperor filter (needs some cleaning)...

it's honestly hard to say. i think i can make out what looks like individual strands of hair, but it's thick. i'm not really bothered by it, but i'm worried it's strangling the roots of the bolbitis. the sae i have does a good job elsewhere (not the glass), but he doesn't touch this stuff. i...

i have some fungus (at least i think it is) growing on driftwood, and around the roots of my bolbitis (attached to driftwood). it looks like white hair or fluff. a guy at my lfs suggested using maroxy, so i started that last night. my red tail shark, who just came out of hiding, has a white...

Ok, if heat isn't a problem, would 62 watts (32 from pc bulb, and 30 from NO bulbs) in a 30 gal be too much for 2 java ferns, 1 bolbitis, java moss, 1 rubin swordplant, and a new addition i've already forgotten the name of? my tank is pretty deep and i'm not running any CO2. i have red/brown...

Is there a risk of adding too many lights to a hood? i'm not worried of too much wattage, but when does heat become a problem? so far i'm thinking that if i have space i should be able to add something

Another problem i'm encountering is that i have all this shelter for them, and keep adding more and more, but the females aren't holding their ground. they let everyone else take over, and now my red tail shark has a coconut shell, a flower pot, and a big area of the driftwood centerpiece all to...

Usually they're grey with a touch of black around the eye and down the lateral line. from what i've read they turn yellow when they've spawned or are about to, but i didn't think it was something that happened in a heart beat. when he isn't right in their faces strutting, they turn right back.

I just put two female A. cacatuoides in my thirty gal with the male, and he's wasted no time in brushing up on the courtship skills. both females turn almost bright yellow when he approaches them, and are barely moving. they haven't even had time to stake out any territory. should i maybe pull...

So is upgrading to PC lighting a complicated affair? Do you have to change anything out? I have an eclipse 2 hood, and am in desperate need for more light. i've seen pictures of the smartlight retrofit kits, but does that mean you take out everything you previously had in the hood (is there a...