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Hello! I finally got my bigger tank yesterday! Like the title says it's 125g. It was used and I got it for a steal ($100 with glass lids)! Filtration: AQ110 HOB, Topfin60 HOB, API Nexx Canister, Fluval 304 Canister. (I'll be buying Fluval fx5 soonish and just using the fx5 + AQ110). All of...

I'm about to buy a 125G Aquarium from someone. He told me it was used as a terrarium before and not for fish. Is there a real difference if the tank was meant for a terrarium? Is there a way to tell if it can handle the water or not? Do they even make glass aquariums that big that are strictly...

I'm about 90% positive that I'm picking up a 125g tank tonight, and the 10% is only because he also has a 100g and I haven't decided which one I'm going to take. The 125G was used as a terrarium and has never held water before so I'm a bit iffy about it, but I mean... I don't see how that would...

Hi guys. I promised a couple members I'd post updated pics of my tanks. Here they are: 55g w/ assorted cichlids. This will all be moved to a 90g later this summer once they get bigger. I have a bunch of lace rock just scattered along the bottom and it gets moved pretty regularly. I don't...

..to reduce aggression in your tank? With cichlids of all kinds, there are many ideas and opinions on how to reduce aggression. Examples of that are rockscaping, sexing, large tank, male-only, different colors / species, aggression levels, etc.. This is not a guide, this is a personal...

First off I'll start by saying I'm sorry if this is the wrong section, but this would definitely be considered " general thoughts " :) Last week I was browsing LFS's with my girlfriend, just taking looks and what-not. I like to go around and see the new stuff places have. My third stop I saw...

Hi guys! I recently posted about setting up a new 10g, but I decided to ditch the 10g and go with a 20g to start off. I got this setup today and got it running tonight. It's still a bit cloudy but you can get an idea! I'm going to fill it up with more rocks as it progresses, but I think I'm off...

Hi all! I'm a FW guy, as you can see in my sig ;). For Christmas I'm going to be re-homing my 10g fish and switching it over to saltwater for my girlfriend. I'd love to have a bigger SW tank but I'm limited on space and I just want to create a nano-tank out of this 10g. Anyway. It's a regular...

Recently got this 8 year old Synodontis cat. I don't know the exact species, can you please help? :) Sorry for bad quality, but still shows the general look of him.

Great video on the rift lakes and how they became. Also some information about how every different cichlid that we talk about on these forums became the way they are. Here's another video on lake malawi, there's two more parts to it if you like it. This shows how they live, and what we're...

I recently re-homed my 7" Oscar. I didn't have the space to upgrade my 55g to a 75g for him. I'm a firm believer that full grown Oscar's need 75 at least. I kept my Grey Bichir in my tank. I got two beautiful JD's. One female Jack Dempsey and one male Electric Blue Jack Dempsey. The EBJD is...

I'd just like to hear some opinions on my questions. 1. 55g is big enough for a single Jack Dempsey? Better than an Oscar in a 55g? Oscar's grow quite a bit bigger than JD's and really should have 75g, correct? 2. After browsing a lot of forums and doing some reading, it sounds like a good...

Told my girlfriend it was a QT tank incase one of our fish get sick, but I'm adding fish to it to keep the bacteria growing ;) Anyway... It's not going to have very good filtration, it was my first fish tank that I put away in the closet of shame. Aqua-tech 20 filter, very small lights in the...

Current 55g Oscar tank. Tankmates: Bichir Eel and Common Pleco(til he outgrows it:)). Using API Nexx Canister filter and Aquaclear 110 HOB. I think he knew I was taking pictures Feeding him some pellets. Whole tank Angle

How do you guys deal with it? Bio-wheel? I've read that it's a major factor in HOTH disease. I've just been manually removing any floaters that get stuck in spots. I have lots of surface agitation and movement, but they float pretty well :P

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this, or maybe seen it in person. But wow, I saw this yesterday and can't get enough of it... Incredibile Acquario gigante in giappone - YouTube Shoulda probably put this in the lounge, but I post mainly in the FW forums and I want to share it! :D

Someone has a Fluval 304* on craiglist for 50$ in my area. I know this is about half off new, if I was to get this filter, what should I look for? Think it's a bad idea to buy a used filter? thanks!:) *whoops meant to type 304, it's late o.o

I got my 40g BREEDER setup recently, filled it with fish my LFS helped me choose. Of course some of the things they told me weren't true, or they just didn't know. Anyway, I have to overstock it to control aggression, I'll get adequate filtration like a Fluval 405 before any of them reach...

So my girlfriend suprised me two months early by getting a 40g breeder and hood for me today at petco. 1$ /g sale rocks :D I've decided after talking to numerous people and reading that I'm still going to try to do malawi tank. I have 7 Africans that should stay within 5-6" range, and I will...

1-2 months from now I will be getting a 40g Breeder tank. I will use my Topfin60 filter on it, which is already an established filter in my 10g (it's only running at about 1/4 water flow because it's in the 10g). Right now I have my 10g that I put two Cichlids in today, a Lemon Drop(or electric...

So, I'm trying to use my single Whisper 150 Air pump on my 10g and my 55g. Problem is when it's split up between the two, it will choose the 10g because it's not as much water pressure. I can't seem to figure out how to get it to level it out so it will actually push air to both of my tanks...

I'm sure everyone has these, the leaky vials from the API kit. When you have to "vigorously shake" it, it usually loses a little bit of water / chemicals from inside. Any easy solutions? I wouldn't mind but, I'm worried about the corrosive / irritation from the chems.

I got my girlfriends Betta moved over to it's new home in a 10g tank. Running a Topfin60 filter on it (too much filtration, but I can adjust it to only do about 1/3 of normal water flow). The filter was in my 55g tank, and my nitrites have already dived down. So far I have: 1x Male Betta 4x...

So... I posted a thread asking if the ac110 would be a good filter for my 55g. Two days later a guy who works at my LFS, who I usually associate with, said he had a AC110 that he got a month ago, that he wants to remove from his tank because his Fluval 405 was plenty to power it. He sold me the...

I'm running a API Nexx canister and a Topfin60 HOB(cheapo petsmart 55gal starter kit) filter on my 55g. Would an AC110 be my best bet to replace the topfin with? edit: shoulda put this in with hardware....it's late lol