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Ahh! What great work by Madasafish. Well done Madasa... and thanks for posting Brian. I wish such had been available for me when I first delved into CO2. Would have saved Rex many answers to my questions. Two thumbs way up! Bob :!:

Hey folks. I could use some help/opinions here. I own a new unused Rena XP3 I bought with the intention of getting a four foot 80 gallon I have seen at Petsmart. I can't return the XP3 as I "borrowed" some hose from it... Another tank that I am considering instead is the All Glass standard 90...

My water ( from a well) is really soft. I'm looking for about a 40 gallon plastic, acrylic, or glass tank or tub to hold half of a future 80 gallon aquarium's change water. I will run a power head in this holding container for a couple of days to bring the water's pH up to 6.6 or so. My pH is...

OK. I have a ten lb. CO2 tank with a Milwaukee all in one regulator running to a DIY Reactor which is inline with the outflow from an XP2. When I need to put some more water in the bubble counter, I have to lift up and set the CO2 tank about two feet off the ground, of course turning off the...

I recently bought a few Amano Shrimp as my other lone ranger disappeared a few months back. I searched and searched (and couldn't find) for an old post on this forum... I believe it mentioned something about its important to feed them a calcium supplement in addition to their algae diet (hair...

Well, I kind of scored today. My Java fern was getting huge so I decided rather than mercilessly wacking it again, I would see what I could get. The lfs gave me about $10.00 and another comparable piece of bog wood plus an additional $5.00 since the bog wood I chose was a little smaller than the...

I thought it might be interesting to see and compare what 2.5 months can achieve in a tank. The top photo was cropped in a bit so in the later photo (on the bottom) the plants are a little bigger than they appear. The only difference is I yanked out a bunch of lysymachia and an anubias barteri...

Just for grins, I thought I might post this subject. If anyone cares to comment or correct me... I'm new to this... please do. The beauty of this dosing regimen is you can control the dosing of potassium, nitrates, phosphates, and trace elements individually. I'm thinking many serious planted...

I have an algae which I have always had. It likes current and especially thrives near bright light on the tops of plants where its bright... Grows well on glass with high current too. Lower branches of Alternan. Reineckii are zero affected, but top leaves get it pretty fast and heavy and same...

1. I have a prolific Anubias barteri var. nana which had two flowers. My first "in tank" flowers so that was cool. Now the flowers have "gone by". Do I just leave em to rot or cut them off? I'm guessing you can't collect seed under water. Unfortunately I moved it to my higher light...

I finally uploaded a picture of my 26 gallon if you want to take a look. CO2 and Rex's dosing method really works. :)

I got tired of always taking 5ml of water and putting in three drops to check my pH because my change water is so soft. Of course I found out later that "standing" for 12 hours with a Rio 50 powerhead brought it up to near 6.8 pH tho still at near zero KH and GH. Nonetheless, recently I bought...

I was told by one of this forum's experts that I could get rid of BBA (Black Brush Algae) by getting my CO2 levels up to 30ppm and keeping it there. Well, if I'm lucky I can sometimes get to 20ppm but more often my tank is barely at 10 to 15 ppm CO2 with my current setup (a mini vortex reactor...

This is a fantastic book by Christel Kasselmann. Its a fairly recent translation from the German 1st edition and probably not to be reprinted in English so I've heard. Rex told me about it first. I'm sure many of you folks have it or have seen it. I highly recommend this wonderful book!!! So...

I am battling a mild case of green water. Parameters are o.k on nitrates and ph and phosphates. Been doing some 10- 20% water changes every three days or so. Is there another step short of diatomaceous powder in a Magnum 350 which might "cure" this. I've backed off the light a couple of hours...

My green hygro, which I bought as a supplemental algae buster, seems to be growing fairly well. However, it seems to grow more laterally and bushy instead of upright as the young cuttings were that I had purchased. Now I have a lot of light on this 26 gallon bow... one 55 watt AHSupply bright...

Santa came early this year. Yesterday I was watching my community tank and I saw a tiny flash! I said to myself what the heck was that. Then I spotted a fry hanging on a Lysimachia top. I had two fat Platy females in that tank so it took a little while to figure out which one was birthing. Later...

I have often heard complaints in this forum regarding the LFS making a big profit. :x Hey, if they don't make a profit, they can't pay their hardworking employees a decent "almost living" wage. And those employees won't be around to answer all our dumb, relentless questions. And the store...

Often some of the plants sold to retail aquarium stores have been grown emersed. After they arrive at the retail outlet , the store will submerge the plants. People will buy a plant which looks great and a few weeks later it has changed tremendously or more likely is dead or dying. Beware...

I bought three algae eating shrimp (not ghost shrimp) yesterday. I saw one briefly this morning, but never saw it again. Do clown loaches eat such a thing. I forgot to ask before I bought them? It wouldn't be much of a snack for them, but kind of an expensive mistake for me. Sort of LOL :roll:

Here is a question for you plant gurus. If I get an 80 gallon tank that is about 22 inch tall with four inches of substrate, that would leave me around 65 gallons of water and 18 inches of water height. Will a 260 watt PC cover such a beast? (4 foot long / 80 gallon). I want to try for over 4...

For newbies like myself, I wanted to post a couple of great resource books. I recently bought a hardcover used copy of the "Baensch Aquarium Atlas" for $24 in mint condition (990 pages of detailed, concise and easily digested information... with color photos on 600 fish and 100 plants). Here...

Now I don't believe all my lfs says. 8O They sold me a 65watt Coralife with a 50/50 smart lamp for my 26 gallon Bow. After talking with Rex Grigg, I realized why my plants were struggling. 50% of that light was Actinic blue, which looks great but was not delivering any juice to the plants...

Though I see a little green algae starting on my bogwood, these diatoms are going fairly prolific. Probably am feeding the fish too much. Nitrites seem are holding at around 1ppm. kh 4 ph7, gh7 ,temp. 77 f... Should I bring down the lights to 8 to 10hrs from 12, cut off all dead leaves? Starve...

I found this to be a great explanation of GH and KH at huge website called The Krib http://www.thekrib.com/. As I have been trying to figure some of this out for myself, I thought it best to pass it along. By the way, keep those airstones humming at night. I hear its good for the fishies. Also...