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The craziest thing just happened to me a few minutes ago so I had to make a post about it! So back in May of this year, I bought a tiny little Rubber Lipped Pleco for my 55 gallon tank, and a day after I added him to the tank my girlfriend and I headed to New York to visit some of her family...

So I'm probably going to be buying a 46 gallon bow front tank in the near future and I thought it would be fun to let some of you on here decide what I put into it. I am sure there are a lot of really creative minds on these forums so I'd like to see what some of you can come up with as far as...

One of my female mollies just gave birth two weeks ago to five fry, and another just gave birth to five more this morning so I'm just checking to see if anyone is interested in buying any for a pretty low price, and if not, I'll just give them to anyone who is interested as long as you pay for...

So I was doing my weekly water change and what not, and I decided to change out the fine filter pad (white pad) in my Eheim Ecco 2236 while I was at it, since I've had it for several months now and it was completely saturated with brown gunk. Changing it definitely helped a lot -- I have a much...

I'm a bit concerned that I'm not cleaning my gravel quite as well as I could/should be each week when I do maintenance on my 55 gallon planted tank due to the fact that I have quite a bit of plants around the background which make it difficult for me to get my python down to the back areas of...

I have a 55 gallon planted tank, dosing dry ferts using EI, pressurized CO2, 2.3wpg of lighting. I have been testing my phosphate levels the past couple of weeks, and after each 50% water change my levels are just under 1.0ppm, but as the week goes on, even without dosing any phosphate this...

So I've been planning on starting an African Cichlid tank for a couple months now, and if I want to stick to my originally planned schedule I need to start getting things in motion next week or so. I had a few questions before I got started, just to see what you guys would recommend: 1. What...

I've had pressurized CO2 on my 55 gallon tank now for a little over a week, and I've been noticing that the water level in my bubble counter has started dropping slightly. I assume this is normal as time goes on and that I'll need to refill it at some point. I was just wondering what the best...

So I was looking closely at my 55 gallon planted tank this afternoon and I noticed a little molly fry swimming around in some of the thick background plants. I looked a bit closer and I discovered three more. Pretty big surprise to me, but it's really cool. I was wondering what I should do at...

So I finally got a pressurized CO2 setup for my 55 gallon planted tank, and I set it all up yesterday and it was running fine all day. I have a solenoid hooked up to my regulator and set on the same timer as my lights are so that it shuts off when they do. Everything shut off last night with...

Not really new tank-related, but my girlfriend and I just adopted a 7-week old kitten this afternoon and his favorite sleeping spot as of now seems to be behind one of my canister filters -- maybe we should name him Eheim!

I've been searching around on various sites for prices on pressurized CO2 setups as I would like to upgrade to one later this summer, and I noticed aquariumplants.com has a "complete" system that comes with a regulator, milwaukee controller, a reactor 200 w/ rio pump, tubing, calibration...

I have a DIY CO2 set up and I noticed today that bubbles are coming out of it very very slow now, at one point I thought it had stopped entirely. But if I take the bottle and spin/swish the water around in it a bit, a whole ton of bubbles come out for a little while and then slow down/stop...

None of the local places around here sell BN Plecos, surprisingly, and the sites I've checked online all say out of stock except for thatpetplace.com, which after placing an order they called me this morning saying they don't have any in stock either. If anyone happens to breed any or knows...

So I've had a 55 gallon community tank cycled and running fine for going on two months now, I usually do tests on my water parameters once a week now, typically on the weekend sometime before I do my PWC for the week, and today I got some strange results. pH: around 7 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite...

So I've just setup a DIY CO2 system on my tank last week, and I've been reading about different CO2 recipes that people use and I've noticed some people have suggested using champagne yeast rather than normal baking yeast because it will give you a longer lasting supply of CO2 and will not...

So I've been cycling a little Eclipse 12 gallon tank for a while now so that I can set up a small tank that my mom has been asking for this summer. It has been set up for over two months now and I'm still seeing absolutely no traces of nitrites when I test the water each day. Has anyone else...

I'm running an Eheim Ecco 2236 on my 55 gallon community tank and I just picked up an XP2 to help out with additional filtration last week. I planned on performing my first maintenance/cleaning on my 2236 today, and I have read that I should only replace the fine filter pad (white pad) each...

I just got an XP2 canister filter today to go along with my Eheim Ecco 2236 to add more filtration to my 55 gallon (soon-to-be planted) community tank. I noticed it came with this Bio-Chem Zorb pouch which says it contains carbon and some other stuff to help give you "crystal clear" water. My...

I've had a couple smaller Clown Loaches in my 55 gallon tank for a few weeks now and they have both been doing fine -- very active, eating well, and I do partial water changes on a weekly basis. The tank is properly cycled, I keep the temperature around 80F, and water parameters are usually 0...

Hello plant people! I bought a 55 gallon aquarium kit a couple of months ago because I wanted to get back into fish keeping on a more serious level. I hadn't had fish since I was a kid, and back then I didn't know half of what I know today (thanks to these forums!). Anyway, so I've got my...

I have an Eheim Ecco 2236 canister filter running on my new 55 gallon community tank, and I was just wondering what the most effective way to clean the filter would be without too much risk of removing the beneficial bacteria and putting my tank into a mini cycle, and also how often should such...

I suppose I should have posted this a week or two ago when I first became active on the forums, but I was busy discussing some questions I had on cycling my new tank, but now that things are finished up with that, I figured I'd post and say hello to everyone and introduce myself a bit :) Just...

I've been in the process of cycling my new 55 gallon tank with a couple of Giant Danios in it for the past month now and I'm starting to get through the nitrite stage now (not quite finished yet, but I like to plan ahead), and I've been trying to decide exactly what I'd like to put in the tank...

Hi everyone, this is my first post on these forums (loving the forums, BTW, so much helpful and interesting information to read about!), so go easy on me! About a month ago I decided that I wanted to start getting into the hobby of fish keeping and such, so I got myself a 55-gallon aquarium...