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My Goldfish tank has been suffering green water. My schedule has not permitted me to really attack it until this week. 30gal 10 month old tank,, Emperor 400 planted three inch gravel bottom. This week I've done 30% to 50% water changes daily and limited the light to an hour a day. The tank is...

I've asked this question to the manufactures and a few retailers and received no help so I thought I'd ask here. I want to replace the lighting on one of my tanks to provide more light, it's a 29g tank with a full hood. It has a standard 30' fluorescent tube light fixture. Will a 30' compact...

I have an established Penguin filter in one of my tanks. I want to replace it with an Emperor 400, how can I speed the filter/bio-wheel bio-bug development without causing havoc with the water chemistry? Anyone do this before? The bio wheels are different sizes so I can not move them to the new...

Hi Everybody, I just purchased a box of Stack Stones for my tank. What is the proper way to clean them before adding them to the tank? Do they need to be boiled? Thanks in advance.

I found out over the weekend (I'm slow I know :lol: ) that Marineland makes filter frames and pads so you can "roll your own". I ordered a few and they arrived today. The frame and pads are thicker then the throw aways. You use two pads and sandwich any media you use in between them. The pads...

I have a penguin 330 that contains two media baskets. I'm thinking about using one of the baskets to house bio media. I read a few posts here about people losing their bio filter on the bio wheel if the power goes out. Since its that time of the year again and I can lose power in thunderstorms...

Will the use of Ammo-Lock effect the development of the bio-filter? I'm cycling a tank w/gold fish. The ammonia spiked at 2.5 ppm. I have it down to 1.0 ppm now. I was wondering if I should take it down further, leave it where it is or use Ammo-Lock to convert it. Nitrite is 0.1 ppm. and...

Hi All, Newbie question. When reading test results I find it difficult to determine what color the tested water matches to on the test result card. Some of these colors are so close to each other their appear to me as being the same. Should I use the lowest reading that matches or the highest...