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I recently converted my established tank to a cichlid tank by adding texas holey rock on top of the existing gravel, and also adding 8 yellow lab and eleven 1.5 inch demasoni. Water quality is excellent, no ammonia or nitrite spikes from the sudden bioload (tank has been up and running for...

So, I used large pieces of texas holey rock as a base for my mbuna tank. The 4 foot 55 gal tank is only about 12 inches wide, so there isn't a lot of room to get to the substrate and vacuum in lots of places. I have a python with a standard vacuum, are there alternative fittings that are thinner...

Well, I was about to get out of the aquarium hobby but my daughter wanted to try her hand at a cichlid tank. Established tank for YEARS that had dwindled down to just a single skunk loach prior to converting it to the cichlid setup. Talking to LFS, daughter doing research,daughter picking fish...

My last flourescent bulb with T12 pins doesn't have much life left in it, and the T12 bulbs don't seem to be available locally anmore. Guess I need to buy a new light. The LFS was promoting a LED track light with 2 channels, comes with white and moonlight blue LED. Dimmable, can take more LED...

.....life has brought me back to this forum at a time I am on the cusp! Life, family, and work have conspired to make me ignore many things, including AA. Four tanks have dwindled to one, while children grow and furry pets get most of the attention. A community tank, once thriving, has been...

Well, my bulb died today, and it will be a day or two before I can replace it. So I popped in a regular household flourescent bulb. Everything looks on the green side now. Guess those fish display bulbs do a good job of muting greens and bringing out other colors.

Well. some months ago I decided to try and break the "PlantSlayer" curse, by setting up a low light, low tech, low maintenance 10 gal planted tank. I ended up with a potted crypt and a java fern, after killing off some other crypt species and anacharis. I initially messed with the tank, brusing...

I bought 10 pristella tetras months ago. They all seemed about the same size back then. Now, the school has two really huge tetras, and the rest are relatively small. I am guessing that this is some sort of Alpha male and Alpha female school trait? two fish in the school get huge, and the rest...

Just notice that my Angels are acting a little wierd today. One Angel is spending all its time poking its nose into the nooks and cranny's of a fake platic plant. I have seen Platy fry hiding in those nooks in the past (though not recently), so I assumed this was some sort of hunting behavior...

I broght home a package of tubifex worms instead of blood worms by mistake. My spiney eel is in feeding mode, ie: serching the tank after I dropped them in, but I haven't seen it eat any. Anyone know if it will eat them, or should I go out and get another package of bloodworms tomorrow?

I have an oceanic 55 gal tank, the 4 ft long flavor. It came with an oceanic flourescent light fixture ten years ago. I have broken the connector for the flourescent bulb. Since I have a matching tank, stand, and canopy, does anyone know who would manufacture a 4 ft long fixture that would fit...

I just did battle with a slow growing, green glass algae that clings to the glass so hard I am going to need an orthopaedic surgeon to get my hand back into original shape after scraping so hard. Man this stuff is tough! It laughs at your normal algae sponge. It scoffs at the magnetic algae...

I keep hearing this clicking noise, usually 2 to four times rapidly, and it always seems to be coming from the general vaccinity of a skunk loach that hitchhiked in on another tanks plant. It sure seems the loach is running off some other fish when I hear this. There are no invertebrates in the...

Just got back from the LFS, ready to put my crypt plant in my neon tank, and there is a fish gasping at the bottom of the bag! About 2 inches long, drab color, has a somewhat "loachey" appearance to it. Feeling sorry for it, I dump it in my main tank. Will post pic when I can get one. Wonder...

Well, the mortality has been rather high in my Neon Tetra tank. Out of 12 fish, purchased from two different stores in different weeks, I am down to one lonely neon again. 10 Gal Tank has been up and cycled for two months, pH 7.6, ammonia zero, nitrite zero, nitrate 5 - 10. Tank has anacharis...

Well, I have a 10 gal tank, been cycled for over 6 weeks, with plants - anacharis, crypt, and anubia, and a small piece of driftwood. Aquaclear mini filter, temp of 78 degrees. pH of 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate between 5 and 10 ppm, probably closer to 10 (dang color charts!). I took out...

Well, I was shopping for a new bristenose pleco today. I went to three LFS and they all had plenty of them, but they were all less than an inch long! Lots of fish, all on the tiny side of small. I wonder how long it would take such a tiny pleco to grow to 3 inches. A month or two ago and there...

Well, for the last two weeks the algae has been growing on the glass, and just today I decide that its time to do something about it. I haven't had to scrape algae since the tank was set up 9 months ago. Then it occurs to me, where's my bristlenose pleco? Kinda hard to miss a fish that size. All...

Well, it happened. They finally made a so called "reality" show that I watched. They played some great tunes, the show was not completely predictable, and the finale is next week. It would be wise, but obvious if they picked Marty. Mig doesn't seem "butch" enough for INXS, but he is a fellow...

What is the time lag before a post is forwarded to the people watching the thread? And if you edit a post before the lag is done, does the edited post get sent or the original unedited post? And does thread watching have an atomatic expiration time? Like, if no posts in 2 weeks, no more...

so, how long have the "edit tags" been in place? Just noticed them tonight. You know, the edit summaries like at the bottom of this post. See it? Wait, trying to get one to appear

I just set up a 10 gal planted tank. I have a aquaclear 20 (mini) on it. My original plan was to take bio-media from an established canister filter and put it in the aquaclear 20. But the little filter is, well, little. The ceramic noodles it came with are much smaller than the pourous biomedia...

Yes, I am finally going to plant a tank again. Dont ask how many previous failures there have been. I am going to follow the plan laid out on Plantgeek.com - http://www.plantgeek.net/article_viewer.php?id=17 Low light, low tech, in a 10 gal tank. Aquaclear 20 filter, 50W heater, 15 watt 8500K...

Cory cats are usuallythought of as peaceful bottom dwellers that get along with everybody, right? Well, whenever I stick some freeze dried tubifex worms to the glass, one Cory swims up and muscles everyone else away. It has chased off my two angels that are twice its size! It is rather bizare to...

I thought my Angels were acting a little weird. Unusually perky. Very active. Mad dashes in the tank. I discovered the reason today. Platy Fry in the tank! Nothing makes your angels happier than some live food to hunt. Poor little buggers. I dropped some frozen Baby Brine Shrimp in the tank to...