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Hi All, In the past, on this site, we've come to fairly general consensuses over products that reportedly cycle tanks. We pretty much decided that "Cycle" from Hagen was rubbish, but that BioSpira was a microbial miracle. Now there's a new product on the market... SeaChem has fairly...

Hi guys, A new look for my 55 planted. Very institutional-looking right now beacuse the plants haven't grown out, and I haven't decided what to do about getting a nice bed of glosso or something similar together... Hmm... Some new plants, a new pH regulator, and a new Eheim liquidoser...

Well, folks... I've gotta say that even with the pressurized CO2 system I had in place on my 55, I was not getting my plants to pearl, because CO2 levels weren't stable enough. However! Now that I have a pH controller on the tank, my plants are all pearling--even the Bacopa caroliniana...

Day 1, 10/23/04 Hi all, I recently bought a 30 gallon cube tank from a friend. It's brand new (she didn't have enough time to start or maintain it), and it's a beautiful thing. Its measurements are 18.5"W*20"L*21.5"H (alright, not quite a cube...). It is acrylic (finally, an acrylic tank!!)...

Hey everyone, I haven't been in the market for a Milwaukee SMS122 pH controller for a while. Does anybody know where I can get the best deal on one of these? I've tried Aquabotanic and a couple of other sites. The prices seem to have gone up since I was last in the market. Thanks, Jon

Hi all, Sorry I've been so distant from the board recently. I've been in England celebrating my parents' anniversary with them. This plays into the short story I'm including here. When I left for England on the 24th, I made sure to clean out the fish tank that I maintain for a professor I...

Hrm... Menagerie rudely :wink: removed this thread about www.petsandponds.com/securestore to the Canadian forum where many of us cannot access it! However, I have decided that I'll resist this anti-USAism and start a new thread here so that anybody who wants to can still talk about it. I'll...

Submitted by madasafish Scientific Name: Melanotaenia boesemani (Order: Atheriniformes, Family: Melanotaeniidae) Common Names: Boeseman’s Rainbow, Boesemani Rainbow, Boeseman’s Rainbowfish Discovered: Allen and Cross (1980) Region: Papua New Guinea Maximum Size: 9 cm (not counting...

Hey, A few of us lucky AA members had a chance to meet up in the NYC area yesterday: QTOFFER, Menagerie, lmw80, Allivymar, BrianNY and me. Maybe one of them will post pictures of the party, but I thought I'd post a few pictures of the adorable 1.5 cm albino ancistrus babies BrianNY gave all...

Submitted by madasafish Scientific Name: Hypancistrus sp. “L-260” (Order: Siluriformes, Family: Loricariidae) Common Names: Queen Arabesque, Queen Arabesque Pleco Region: Rivers in Brazil, South America Maximum Size: 4” (not counting tail) pH Range: Should be low-neutral. Planet Catfish...

Hi All, It's been a while since I started my own topic... This one is interesting, though I am not sure whether I'll be able to follow it through to its conclusion. I have several (6-8 ) pregnant amano shrimp in my 55 gallon tank, and a couple more in my 10 gallon QT tank (filled with java...

I've got HALFBEAKS!! Dermogenys pusillus: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=11298&genusname=Dermogenys&speciesname=pusilla Wow! I saw them in one NYC store several months ago, but didn't have any space or time for them. Now I have a new tank, I've got lots of space for...

Yay! My new Zonancistrus plecos came this week, after a mis-delivery last week in which I received some rather homely Peckoltia specimens... I think these new guys are absolutely gorgeous. It took them a few days to warm up to the tank I've got them in, and even longer before they were...

Heya, I'm setting up a large 100 gallon acrylic tank for one of my professors. I've never worked with acrylic before, and am concerned about my choice of algae eaters. I know that plecos have grating teeth that may scratch acrylic (some ppl have reported this), but I've never put this to the...

Hi Guys, I know most ppl have seen gold nuggets before, so this isn't all that exciting, but I thought I'd post these pics nonetheless, as these plecos are so incredibly beautiful! They've added a lot of color to my tank and are outdoing my poor snowball plec! Enjoy!

As promised, here are my Rainbowfish pictures. Some *really* cool pictures here if you have even remote interest in mating behavior... First: some pictures of the fish themselves. The best pictures I could take (and it tooks half an hour to get these pics!). Second: A picture of a male...

Well, in an effort not to hijack Allivymar's *Blue* Rams post, I've decided I'll post my similar question in a separate thread... Anybody ever seen Amano Shrimp with a bright red lateral stripe down their dorsal? I saw them last week in the LFS for $4.50 a piece, and decided to go with the...

Hi all, I'm sure most of you know that the reason Fluorite and Fluorite red are so red is that they have a certain amount of iron in them. Well, this clay tuns out to be a lot more iron-rich than I thought..... Today I was using my Hagen magnet glass cleaner (((used to hate them, love them...

So, I'm trying to figure out why nobody takes my bait (so to speak) when I suggest ppl fill their tanks with Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia and other genera) species. Praecox, Boesmani, Axelrod, Celebes, Threadfin, Australian, Turquoise are a few of the popular species, btw. I've gotten a lot of...

What are your thoughts on this beautiful foreground plant? Anybody had success with it? I've heard it's quite hard to keep... I'd be planting it in a Fluorite-based 55 gallon with 150W of light (a little low, but not too bad) and a CO2 tank system. I'd be fertilizing every 3 days or so with...

Here's a picture of one of my mini swords. The long horizontal strand to the bottom right of the picture is the rhizome (a way of propegating a plant without sexual reproduction). It extends about 3 inches and has two new stems growing from it. I've had these swords for about 2 or 3 weeks...

So, I was awoken last night by an intruder! As I listened carefully, I could hear floorboards creaking every 10-15 seconds. I couldn't tell whether the culprit was in my apartment, or whether there was somebody upstairs, but I listened quite intently for about 10 minutes, and eventually turned...

Hi NY/NJers, I've got a lot of extra zebra danio fry that I can't really house. There are about 25 of them ($25-$40 value). Anybody interested? They'd be for free if you can pick them up (in Manhattan). Jon

*Hi all* I've done some searching online for CO2 units, and am getting one to replace the DIY unit in my 10 G (simple Hagen "Plant Gro CO2 Natural System" unit), as the DIY one is pretty unreliable and kinda bulky. However, I'm also getting a unit for my 55 gallon, and am unsure what's...

Yep, I finally followed up on my puffer dreams and bought myself 10 Dwarf Puffers (Tetraodon travancorius) today. I'm enthralled. Spent several hours infront of their transition tank (1 gallon), watching and taking pictures. None of which came out particularly well!! But I have a few in the...