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Hi Everyone, After about a year out of the hobby (four moves tends to make it difficult to keep fish!), I have started setting up my 29 gallon tank again (and all of my other tanks, but that is another story entirely). :D My main concern is about my old driftwood - it has been sitting dry...

Hi Everyone, It's been quite a while since I actually logged in, but have been lurking everyday...well, maybe several times a day :oops: . It seems that I have over 17,000 posts to mark as read! Anyway, a friend and I are planning a trip to New York in November and we're trying to find cheap...

Just wondering if anyone's coming to the ACE auction on the 15th? I'll be there for sure...on the prowl for a new tank and some killies :D

I was visiting a friend today and saw that her tank is absolutely covered in algae. I just finished poking around in the forums and noticed that the algae she had looks a lot like cyanobacteria. It was almost like felt in appearance and covered the glass and much of the decor (but not the...

When I fly home to visit my family in a couple of weeks, I'll be picking up a couple of baby Queen Arabesque (L260) plecos from a local hobbiest who has been breeding them. They will be a few months old and between .75-1" when I get them. I am planning on putting one in my 29 gallon and one in...

After what seems to be a horribly long time, I've finally gotten my new tank up and running. Here are the specs: TANK: Size: 29 gallon Filtration: Rena XP1 Filstar Filter and Aquaclear Mini Heater: Ebo Jager 100W Heater (I know it's a little low on the wattage...getting another one soon)...

While everyone's posting about their pests (ants and ladybugs, so far), I thought I'd add my questions to the mix. I live in a downtown apartment w/ a balcony, and always have pigeons come and go off my balcony. It doesn't bother me too much (except for the occasion droppings sweep I need to...

I was at Big Al's yesterday, and came across an absolutely beautiful pleco that they called "Amazon Tooth Nosed Pleco"...he was only about 1.5", black with bright white spots (similar to a Snowball Pleco) and had an incredible lyre tail. I asked more about him, but nobody knew his L number...

Well, I knew my male blue ram was still a little stressed from his recent move, but now I see that he has a bit of cottony growth on him. Right at the very tip of his top black 'spike' fin, he has a tiny bit of cotton-like stuff. I think that it's just a cotton fungus, or maybe columnaris...

So I just did a major redesign of my 10 gallon tank, and am totally disgusted by the amount of fish waste that is now *everywhere* in my tank. I'm confused because the sand (black tahitian moon) never looks dirty, and I'm always sure to make sure everything looks as clean as possible...

Despite my urges to be overly cautious, I can't stand my lone female ram looking so lonely since the other two died and will be bringing home a new male tonight. I am getting the ram from a fellow aquarist instead of the LFS. While this could be a silly quetion, I thought I'd ask anyway...

I did some major housecleaning in my tanks tonight, and went to work on both my green and brown algae blooms (the green from my tanks being close to my windows, the brown...just because). Anyway, by the time I was finished, there was an algae storm in my tanks...bits of green algae floating...

Although I know this should probably be posted in the DIY forum, I thought that I might get more of a response over here...but if I'm mysteriously moved over there, I'll understand :D Anyway, I will be setting up a new tank shortly and would like to make some river rock structures for my fish...

I am so sick of having fish die on me all the time. Not only does it ruin my day (literally), it makes me want to give up on keeping fish on a regular basis. I've thought about this quite extensively, and I think a number of factors are in play. First off - let's be honest - when you have a...

No sooner do I post about my luck with water params in the General Discussion forum do I look back into my tank and see a problem. Bear, my male Blue Ram has his spine severely bent at a right angle...not a head-and-tails-in-the-air type of bend, though. If you look at him from above, he looks...

Ok, so I left for a week-long vacation on December 24 and did a major water change on my tanks that day right before I left. I returned on January 2 to major green and brown algae outbreaks, and also to find out that my fishie-sitter had to net & flush a couple of fish (but that wasn't a...

To make a long story short, the tank that I want is a full inch in length longer than the tank stand that it's meant to go on. This, to put it mildly, sucks. tank stand dimensions: 30.5" x 14" tank: 31.5" x 13.78" My question is...is there any way that this tank can go on this stand? As it...

I recently bought and assembled a tank stand for the 29 gallon tank that I'm picking up this week. The stand is on carpet right against my living room wall. I noticed tonight that there is a noticable slant on the top going from back to front (ie. if a put a pen on the top of the stand, it...

I've been doing a lot of research lately, and am planning on starting up my first planted tank. It will be a 29 gallon housing blue rams, panda cories and some (yet to be determined) tetras. The hood that I am getting will be 40W. I know that this will limit me to very low light plants, but...

Hi All, After taking a break from fish-keeping, I recently decided to set up my tanks again. Knowing this urge had been growing for a while, I ordered some Bio-Spira from Bernie back in November that had been resting comfortably in my fridge. Anyway, I set up the tanks last week and bought...

Hello Salties! After being active on and off on the FW side of the board, I come to you with a question :) I found the auction below on Ebay Canada. Although I'm aware that it's not going to go for the $1.00 price that's listed, I was just curious as to what you folks thought everything was...

I've stumbled upon a 90 gallon that's for sale near me. I have two questions, and am hoping that you fine folk can help me out. 1. The deal is: - 90 gallon tank - stand - Fluval 404 - Emperor 280 - Ebo Jagr 250 - really nice coralife light set-up The asking price...

So I'm going to be moving at the end of the month, which means that I'll need to take down my 10 gallon tank. As for breaking it down and putting it back together, I shouldn't have too much of a problem (only moving about 10 minutes away), but I have several options in regards to the fish...

We've been having an algae problem in our tank lately that started out as soft green algae, then had some hair algae as well. We've mostly gotten it under control by feeding less and lessening the amount of time the light was on...or so we thought! I was watching the tank last night and...

:cry: :cry: :cry: We came home today to one of our Neon Tetras showing classic signs of Neon Tetra Disease. We did a bunch of research online, and decided that the best thing to do would be to remove him from the tank...the symptoms that he was showing were listed as definitely fatal. We...