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I will be volunteering at GA aquarium. It will be my first time volunteering. Does anyone have any advice or insights? Experiences and Recommendations?

Hello all! Today while itching to go fly fishing again at Chattanooga river. Spotted this little island thingy. And it just looks sooo amazing I think I'll try to mimic this in the future with aquarium aquascaping. Share some inspirational pictures of nature if you want.

I was at micheals looking around for items to build a small moss island, when I stumbled upon water gems. there were few diffrent kinds of colors. clear, blue, and red. I thought it was pretty neat because I see some sort of jelly used in lucky bamboo plants sometimes. I read the info on the...

here is my new project. a planted one gallon bowl. to start things off. my inspiration comes from the walstad method and planted hob filters. i will have aquatic plants in the bowl and pond/indoor plants hanging and around the bowl. my equipments. -one gallon bowl - api first layer pure laterite...

what kind if light timer do you guys use? I used the marineland light timer from petsmart. it didnt work for me. theres also the zoomed one and it pretty much works the same. my experience with it is, I pressed down the dials in for the light to come on, but it doesnt. help?

im really clueless about what I will need. im going to set up a low tech planted one gallon bowl. since it is low light plants I will be dealing with, I wouldnt have to bother with lights as much. but I still want lights. im looking for bulbs so anyone has suggestions on which kind?

sooo, this came to mind. ''what if I use yoga mats as an underlay for a tank stand?'' anyone do this? done this? thought about it? it would be the same as using styrafoam serving the same purpose. what do you have to say about it? safe? no point in doing it? could use something diffrent, if...

does anyone who keeps indoor plants use these? http://www.asianideas.com/plantfoodgreengreen.html is it safe for other indoor plants?

ok, the situation is, i am slowly stocking up necessities for my up coming tanks. so far what i have is, 20 gal long. 10 gal 1 gal bowl seachem prime dechlorinator. and this here is what i will get next, the Hydro Sponge Filter for the 10 gallon...

saw them at walmart in the lighting area. for plants and aquarium usage. f20 t12,7500 lumens, I dont know what that means. the lights I know are t8 6000k and t5ho.(around there) which most planted aquarists' use. any input? still trying to learn about. lightings, wattages, etc.

sooo I finally got myself a one gallon bowl. happy! but clueless how I will project this bowl. what I have planned is to plant it with cryptocoryne and add root tabs. and maybe a snail. no filter, heater, etc. (ill look into these if im going to decide on adding a snail). and well heres the...

so I, think ive come to a liking in swordtails and platys. went to a aquarium meeting about livebearers back. in early august. and I guess just now I understand a little more and now I am intrested in keeping them. there was this one swordtail I like, but dontremember it's name. its body is...

hey! heres a guy i have been subscribed to on youtube for a while now. his tanks are amazing! heres one of most recent videos Ada 120-p "Sequel" - YouTube and he keeps some rare crypts he says, pretty cool. just want to share to aa if you guys have not seen his stuff yet. im looking foward...

hello all. I have a 10 gallon tank just sitting around for me to someday set up. right now, I do not think I can set up a tank that will be running 24/7 on electricity so I am thinking about turning the tank into a planted tank with no filters and heaters. i plan to sit the tank next to a...

baby largemouth bass!! during a pond fishing afternoon today, my bottle trap intended for mosquito fish, trapped this fella. did not expect to catch a bass but... cool beans! anyone else does this too? bottle trapping, etc.?

which type of miracle grow are good to use in aquariums? ppl talk about topping sand/ and or gravel ontop of miracle grow. so is potting a good choice?? when ppl talk about dirt tanks, thats what they mean right??

so while reading upon what are some good size tanks for quaratine tanks, this question er.. idea came to thought. what if I were to go get fish/fishes that has ick or other illness symptons from a fish store and brought them home for the sole purpose of practicing how to hospitalize them and to...

its just nice when a pair of fish is formed. I never achieved this before though and would like to someday. I'd like to pair german blue rams and gouramis. just sharing my thought :)

have anyone gone out to their local lakes, ponds, rivers, and or creeks and collected wild plants from them for your aquarium?? I have recently been fising a lot and been to a few lakes and rivers. spotted a variety of plants such as frogbits, cambobas, and lilys. I fished in minnesota...

Are my Assassin snails beeding? i have 2 assassin snails in my 20Long tank. and here, they look like they are breeding. Most of the time the snails would just bury theirselves in the substrates all over the tank and come out sometimes to climb the tank wall. this is the first time i have seen...

i am thinking about getting some white cloud minnows. My 20Long is stocked with 10 harlequin Rasboras, one 2 1/2inch flame dwarf gourami, 1 amano shrimp, and 2 assassin snails. ( i just rehomed my 2 corydoras and 2 ghost shrimp into a 29 gal) i researched they can grow up to @ least 2...

My crowntail's home.

Hello ppl of AA! I added a rock into my 20 long southeast Asia theme biotope. Bought the rock from my lfs. They have really nice rock selections, most of are too big for my tank though. Anyway hope you all like it. Here's a before and after. Any suggestions of how I can rearrange my rock is...

Recently my tank has been fighting algae. Both green and brown algae were growing in my tank. And since the algae grew, snails started showing up too. They had eaten off most of the brown algae on the tank glass and I'm happy for that. There about 10 really tiny snails visible so far and their...

Does anyone have this problem when you turn your lights on or off then your fish would get startled? I have a hood fixture, should be the one on my display pic. And that happens all the time. Every time I turn my lights on or off my fish would suddenly jerk when the lights go on or off. So I...