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"3 dKH is the bare minimum for safe CO2 injection." -what is the danger? Drops in pH (this certainly didn't happen to my tank when I introduced my half-arsed C02 process)? Is there an outlining of the dangers that can occur when messing about with C02 introduction? Thnxthnxthnx

I have a Coralife PC with a 50/50 bulb set and 28 watts (that's the bulb it came with). As I have a twenty gallon tank, I understand I should have a higher-wattage fixture (which I can't afford). Nonetheless, I've been told I should get a different bulb set for the benefit of the plants. But...

Thank you for the info. -pooliicat

PS How come you can say "poo" on this family oriented website?

"As for the stagnant water. Would you fill up a bathtub and let it sit for a month or so and then get in it??" OKAY, OKAY! Sheesh. Maybe THAT will be what I say to my friend. "WELL: Would you fill up a bathtub and let it sit for a month or so and then get in it??" Nobutseriously, thanks as...

My first thought was to basically start over, too. Empty out all the water, wash out the gravel in case anything evil began to grow in the stagnant month...but when asked, I did not know the answer. Any suggestions for smart-sounding things I can say to my friend as to why new water is better...

I set up a 10 gallong in friends' house. Ran it for a while. Got a plant. Eventually got one Zebra Danio. Then all was fine, Danio was healthy. After a coupla months, the friends went to Ireland for a month. I took the plant and danio and put them in my tank. Their tank sat lightless...

We're not, like, all related, are we? Ma? Is that you?

Some men (and very, very occassionally, some women) enjoy IMPOSING. Imposing and flirting are not interchangeable. When a person backs away, tries to terminate an exchange, looks uncomfortable, appears uneasy...a person merely flirting person can see these clues and back off. A person who is...

Check out the following link. It's great. http://www.qsl.net/w2wdx/aquaria/diyco2.html I am totally new to C02-ing. Thus far all my lazy...aspidistra...could be bothered with is a two liter bottle with a fermenting C02 mixture and a tube siliconed into the two liter's lid. The tube affixed...

Perhaps related, perhaps not: also, don't lights light coralife power compacts put out more lumens that standard fl fixtures? This came to mind because I, too, have a twenty gal and use a 28 watt light fixture...but it is a power compact. Does using power compacts change the two w/gallon rule...

Read around in a book and online and, yes, otos are the way to go. Thank you.

I am reading a little online now about algae eaters, how Chinese Algae eaters are only good at this task when they are young and how they grow rather large and can be aggressive. Are there algae-eater types that stay smaller and unaggressive? I do have two way wonderful synodontis cats that...

Wondering if anyone has ever done the wild thing in a fish store does not make me a pottyhead. And I did say earlier that happening into a conversation with another fish store patron, sharing information and enthusiasm, as Menagerie did, is great. I think one thing clear is that fish stores...

"Ummmmmmmm julicat...........If the question you can't ask is the question I won't let myself think about.............the answer is YES." YOU'VE *consummated a relationship*- actual intromitting carnal knowledge *edit* IN A FISH STORE????? If I did that, they would NEVER let me back in my lfs...

"If you really want to annoy them start naming the fish you go to visit in their store" 1) This is hysterical 2) The idea is all the more funny because it would be SUCH a noviceaquarist thing to do um, wait... THAT was egocentraquasupremicist of me... Is anyone naming their fish? I do not...

I am pretty much scared of the workers at my lfs. I needed to ask so many questions in the beginning (now I just ask them here, heh heh heh) and I am self conscious of the possibility the workers will think I am raving stupid. It seems a prerequisite for working at this store is the ability to...

Or, how many people have successfully picked up people in fish stores? Anyone ever been picked up in a fish store? One time I came down to the first floor of my lfs with six rummy-nose tetras I'd just caught. A rather attractive person came up to me all aglow and said, "You caught those...

As I see it, fishkeeping is one big fat learning process. For every aquarist who has the time and money and energy to pursue all the levels of complexities of this hobby, there are 10,000 aquarists who get a tank set up one day and feed the fish daily and hope for the best. Running into a...

San Francisco in the Inner Richmond district. A block from 6th Avenue Aquarium and 9 blocks from Nippon fish store. Fairy Lake Discus might be nearby as well but I have not ventured therein.

Thanks for info all. The C02 thingy is bubbling away into the tank. The C02 airstone is just affixed to the front of the tank for now so I can see that it's working. It's working. Seems to be working great, actually. Very productive mixture apparently. Is it possible or common for the...

Hikari has sinking wafers that have whitefish as the first ingredient. Have been using these for a long time. Just got sinking shrimp pellets for the sake of variety as well as the hope that the pellets sink where I want them to (the tetras pick up the wafers and zip around like gluttonous...

thank you thank you thank you all kwikky: the end of the airline in the C02 bottle should be OUTSIDE of the water/yeast/etc mixture, not immersed in it, right?

I was really excited to go to the Chicago aquarium because of its reknown. I was not commenting on the breadth of its selection or variety of exhibits. I was, admittedly, slamming the Shedd Aquarium. Not out of of localism or Monterey-ism or Bay Area -ism; my anticipation was met with a truly...

Wow, I can't say...can't say that which was beeped from my last post here. No chiefly British derrogations here. Interesting. Rhymed with "tanking" ...