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carbon won't affect the growth of your fish. many people don't use carbon at all. it is mostly just beneficial to the smell and clarity of the water. you can always get rid of your filter and just buy some carbon and a little baggy and put that in, you can use carbon without the filter. i...

also, the reason i went with the tank over a plastic tub is because it is harder to put bubble baffles in a plastic container and i wanted to make sure i didn't have any micro bubbles in the main tank. hth

hey, i made mine out of a 20 gallon tank. i ended up paying like a hundred for my overflow box and a hundred for my pump. then i just got some plastic tubing from home depot to run from my overflow to the sump and used pvc to make my return from the pump back into the tank. i went to a glass...

around here i can get 200 gallons worth of marine salt for $40. if you can get the same deal it is worth it to buy the salt and mix yourself. if you take the .25 extra cents a gallon and multiply by 200 gallons its $50 for that salt and would be $40 to buy the salt and mix yourself. although...

hi, the closest fish store that sells ro water is a half hour away so it would be quite a hassle to drive out there weekly to get enough water to do the water changes on my 90 gal. is distilled water from the grocery store going to be as pure as ro water? that way i could save myself the...

whats the problem with the post count?

yea, definitly diet. i used to get pink!

anybody have a pair of maroon gold stripe clowns? i really want to get a pair soon but i talked to my lfs and they said that that is really hard to come by. is it more possible to get a pair if i order from someone online? thanks

whats the deal. i have just one yellow tail damsel in my 90 gallon and i put a royal gramma in the tank today. the damsel immediatly took a bite out of the grammas tail fin. what i dont get is why the gramma hangs around the damsel if he bites him. he could go clear across the tank and be...

how do you ground a tank? because my tang got hlle when i put him in my quarantine tank so i think that i might have some stray voltage in my quarantine.

maybe try and put a picture of another betta next to the glass! :D

is he just alone? bettas only flare when they feel threatened and are ready to fight. its probably better that he isnt flaring. i'm assuming that when you say flare you mean flare his gills out? they do this to look mean!

what about this one guys? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2375743535&category=20758 its only $52 but it has the clear canister things on it. i am also in the market and if i could get a good ro filter for $100 i am in the market. if it takes double that, i am not. thanks

nori you can either buy at the lfs like i did. or look in the foreign foods section of the grocery store. nori is the stuff they use for sushi. at least one grocery store in your area should have it.

you can go to home depot and get pieces acrylic of 1/8" x 24"x 12" for about $5. you could get two and double up for extra support but i doubt you would even need thicker than that as long as it's not bending or anything.

oh sorry, i guess that was a pretty vague description. yes i meant on the return line from my sump to my main tank. thanks for the help.

whats the valve that i could put on my return line from my sump that would restrict waterflow back into the sump? i think its called a ball valve right? thanks

crap, i'm so pissed at my bubbles. i'm so stumped. i have checked everything. there are absolutly no bubbles going in the pump, i looked with a bright light and nothing. i use pvc for my return line so it seems like it would be a long shot that there would be a hole in it anywhere seeing as...

wouldnt that mean that some water could be getting out as well and you would find a small amount of water or salt creep on the plumbing? i ask becasue i am having the same problem.

3/4 should be fine, you wouldnt be pumping any more water out of it with a bigger pvc. i have a mag 18 in my sump which also has 3/4" output and i use 3/4" pvc and everything works fine. hth

just a quick question here, how do you feed the water into ro systems? from what i have read it sounds like tapping into some plumbing lines but since i am a renter in house my landlord wouldn't be too happy if i tapped into the plumbing, he doesn't care about my fish. anyways, do they make...

with that head height and that pump you might be actually getting about 20 gallons an hour or something rediculously small. i like the mag pumps but have heard they dont have the durability of some other pumps. i guess iw ill find out eventually.

i have a related question. can a person keep enough brine shrimp hatching and growing to have say a ten gallon tank for brine breeding and use that as food for the fish. will the supply keep up? kind of like instead of buying eggs to eat for breakfast everyday, just buy a chicken instead?

i guess i am referring to the red scooter blenny. thanks

the other day i saw this fish that looked like a blenny at the lfs and it was taking mouthfuls of sand in its mouth and passing it through its gills. any idea what it was? i forgot to ask the guy and now i'm curious. thanks