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A few pics of my 72 gallon tank that I took Today. Full Tank Pearl Grouami showing off Blue Tetras, one of my favorite My monster Anubias grows right out of the water. Another shot from above the water.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!! Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat... ~Nicholas Gordon Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ~Steve Almond Eat, drink and be scary... but don't bob...

It has been so long since I updated anything about this tank, that I was tempted to just start a new log on it. This tank has been running for about 20 months, and in that time it has proven to be my most challenging tank. The combination of very high light and small water volume makes it very...

This is the start of my journal about the set up, and eventual maintenance of my office tank. So Far: ADA Cubegarden 60P Mist 2l Powersand M 12l ADA Aquasoil Amazonia (only used about 10l so far) Current USA Nova Extreme Light - 2x 24w HO T5 (48w total) STC Needle Valve 10lb CO2 Tank ADA Glass...

Nymphaea micrantha is a plant that has been growing in my tank for about a year and a half. About a month ago it started to send a flower stalk to the surface. I trimmed all the leaves on the surface of the water, and the flower stalk vanished in a few days. After that, I let the plant go a...

It's not quite a year since I set up my 72. It is a year since I first saw the tank in the store, and decided that I just "had" to have it. ;-) I reinstalled my photo editing software today (new hard drive) and was looking back over some of the picture of that tank. It is kinda cool to see how...

I just came accross this stuff, and thought I would share. I am ordering one bucket, and so should be able to report on it after a while. http://www.aquariumplants.com/product_p/ss-1.htm

Is anyone here going to the AGA convention in two weeks? Should be some fun, Monterey Bay Aquarium behind the scenes tour, Iron Aquascaper contest, and supposedly the auction has an amazing selection of plants and such. http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/convention.html

I am reposting this from another forum, where someone was asking me if a solenoid can be used on a DIY CO2 setup. A solenoid is usually used to either shut of CO2 at night, via a timer. Or to shut off the CO2 when it has reached a certain level in the tank, via a Ph controller. This method can...

Keeping fish my whole life I have had to keep with "common" parasites such as Ich on occasion. Most are really no big deal, a little heat, a few meds, or maybe a quick euthanization..problem solved. But, in just under 2 years of growing plants... I have had to deal with a nightmare assorment...

I was messing around with a new Ph meter/indicator that I bought this week and I realized that while I love to share pics of my tank, I almost never show pics of what it takes to make it all work. This is a series of shot that I took showing off behind under and around my tank. Basically the...

On another thread about EI I posted the spreadsheet that I use to check my routines on my various EI tanks. I was surprised that I got a lot of positive feedback both on the boards and through PM's. People also had a few common questions which I will anser here. Also, some errors were detected...

So was browsing this forum just now and my wife walks over to my tank and says "That is really pretty honey, look at all the pearling". I glance over at that tank to see she is pointing at the driftwood. Its my algae that is pearling... ack. ;-) Hmmmm.... could I make an algae only aquascape...

I picked the "Eriocaulon Species Type 3" up last January. I have not seen any info (except from greenchapter where I bought it). Eventually I want to submit this as a profile. But for now I thought I would just put the info I have out there. It is growing in high light, CO2, and aquasoil. PH...

The Echinodorus cordifolius "Tropica Marble Queen" is one of my favorite plants. I started growing it about a year ago. My original plant grew many plantlets and has since been sold. I grew one of the plantlets to a full plant. That one was featured in many of the pics of my old 55 gallon tank...

This is a log of my new 72 Gallon Aquarium. It has been a little over a year since I first decided to put some plants into my 55 gallon tank. Here is the oldest shot of my 55 that I have, about a month after planting. http://webpages.charter.net/zezmo/55_front_4-25-05.JPG Here is the last shot...

This is the 10 gallon Nano that I set up in January `06. There is about 8 gallons of tank, and about 2 gallons in the filter. The filter is 2 stage, one is all Floss, and the other is bags of bio media. The tank came with one, and I added others from more mature tanks. There is a third part of...

About 3 weeks ago I picked up this nice little 10 gallon nano cube. THe brand is "Cube Masters". It is a Chinese import. I was surprised by the decent quality. Here are a few pics of the Nano. These were taken before I aqua scaped it. I just tossed some stuff in from my clippings. Heh, the...

I mentioned a while back, that I was keeping a shrimp only tank (inspired by the whole ghost shrimp mortality issue). I am happy to say, that when properly acclimated (drip style) and when put in a shrimp friendly environment, the ghosts (grass) shrimp have very low mortality. With my new...

Er, I made the title phonetic so it would not get censored. I have a couple fish who have small worms sticking out of their anus. These are small clear/red worms. Really they are clear but you can see their red blood or whatever inside of them. They are round and tapered/pointed at the end. I...

As I was explaining to my Girlfriend, it's not that I wanted another tank, I just needed one. So I have my main "show" tank which is my 55g. So quite a while back, I set up a quarantine tank in the other room. Over time I started keeping my plant clipping in there, and some juvenile fish that...

Even though I have kept fish in some form since I was a child. It has only been about a year that I have been interested in having plants in my aquarium. At first I was trying plants to aid my efforts to breed Dwarf Gouramis. Now it has only been about 6 months that I have been playing with DIY...

I had a nice little surprise in my tank last Friday. I was opening the cover to look at some plants, and I saw a single fry swim by. I grabbed my turkey baster (for fish only :wink: ) and plopped him into my "hanging hospital". It was so tiny, it still had the yolk sac in its belly. I wasn't...

Does any one have any experience keeping Freshwater Limpets? On an impulse (yah I know, bad, but we all get em) I bought two at the last local Aquarium club auction. By all I can tell they are snails with flat shells. I stuck em to the glass in my QT tank and they went right to work happily...

As I have mentioned on here, I run a DIY CO2 with 2 2-liter bottles and my own special formula. I change half the bottles every 2 weeks and seem to get reasonalby stable CO2 production from this setup. As for getting it into the tank, I had 2 things. One was a plastic treasure chest that I put...