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I bought a fluval cannister filter about two weeks ago, and since replacing the HOB a film of something has formed on top of the water. any ideas what this is?

I bought a co2 system today, it came with a simple bubble counter and a ceramic diffuser. I have it set to 1 bubble per second, but i'm not seeing anything come out of the diffuser... is something wrong? the only way i see any bubbles come out of the diffuser is if i turn the regulator way...

for my 36 bowfront. It comes with 2 carbon bags for 1 level, biological media for the 2nd level, and more bio media for the 3rd level. Do you ever need to replace the bio media? I mean does it break down over time or anything? I am guessing there are 2 levels of it for that specific reason, so...

So my first fish died (only been in hobby since Jan). Was making some changes to the tank, so I had moved all the fish to a temp. 10 gallon, came back 10-15 mins later and there he was dead on the ground. He must have jumped out, he was my favorite too :(

I've spent a lot of time searching for pictures of different types of algae, and I think it's Staghorn Algae.. but I'm really not sure so if someone could ID it for me that'd be great. It started showing up about two months ago, I've been the time I keep the light on and I've been doing partial...

We have a few female guppies and one of them has a tube-like growth/hernia 'something' coming off of her. They have given birth before and we never noticed them having something like this on them, so can anyone tell me what this is?

It seems like everyone does either FOWLR or Fish+Coral. Browsing on some online vendors I noticed a lot of them sell marine plants, so why doesn't anyone doing SW ever have a planted tank? Is it just unpopular or something? I mean some of them look pretty cool to me... but I've never done SW I...

So my first planted tank has been running 5 days now, and I'm wondering, if plants need nitrates, are partial water changes still necessary? also, i bought a liquid fertilizer (aqueon aquarium plant food - macro & micro nutrients) and I was wondering if this is all I need to dose. I also put...

so this is my planted tank, only been in the hobby for ~2 months so this wouldn't have happened without all the help I recieved from you guys so thanks :) plants: 1 annubia 2 micro sword 1 bleheri 1 asia 1 water wisteria 1 unknown lol, the plant with the red leaves, lost the tag it came with...

before i make a batch, i was wondering if by putting the diffuser/airstone directly under the intake of my HOB filter will help diffuse the CO2 even more? Also, is my HOB filter going to agitate the surface too much and let too much CO2 escape? I've read that this is a concern but I'm hoping...

I want to start adding plants to my aquarium, but the more I read about lighting the more confused/frustrated I get. I don't know if I need to buy a whole new fixture, or just a new bulb, or if my current lighting is enough for the average/common in-store plants. but here is what I have. on...

I've only had an aquarium for a month now but I'm already tired of the artificial look of the blue rocks, fake decorations, etc. My plan is to convert to a planted aquarium but I'll probably do this slowly as there's more I want to learn before I bring in the plants... so my first step will be...

I signed up a few days ago and a few of you have already answered a lot of my questions so thanks. I'm new to this, bought my first tank, a ten gallon, a month ago. I'm really enjoying it so far and I want to learn as much as possible. I plan on either converting my 10gal to planted soon or...

So far I've been using tap water but I've been reading about RO/DI water and most sources say it's much better. However I've read a few articles that say RO/DI water is also too pure and fish+plants suffer from missing important nutrients found in tap water. Therefor, if you're going to use...

Hi everyone, I'm really stoked I found these forums (google). I'm new to this hobby, started a 10 gal about 2 months ago and I'm really enjoying it so far but I'd like to know a little more so I'm hoping some of you can answer a few questions for me. My kitchen faucet has a pur water filter...