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Awesome thank you much

I'm talking about the electronic ones that go on a timer

In both tanks?

Im going on a seven day vacation at the end of the month. I do not have automatic feeders and Id like yo do without if I can because frankly they're expensive. So i was wondering if my fish would be okay with out food for a week. I have a 55 gallon tank with about 15/20 African cichlids and I...

So I went to the store and bought a quart of the darkest blue paint I could find and look how it turned out lol I was aiming for a DARK DARK blue to make it look like you were peering out into a dark under water abyss. But i dont think its gonna turn out the way hoped. Guess I'm going back to...

Would anybody suggest using a fibrous roller as apposed to a sponge roller or brush?

How much is one of those?

I have the color I want, I just want to know how its going to work on glass

Oh awesome that's good news because I'm a cheap-o I diy all kinds of stuff. Thank you very much for your help!

Well that's what I'm asking, which ones look the best? What kind of light produces more blue?

Anyone ever painted the back of their tank? I'm thinking about painting the back of my tank a dark dark blue because that plastic stuff doesn't stay on very well and has to be wiped down from time to time. I heard about someone painting their tank and thought it was a good idea so I really wanna...

I might add that my set up used to be a planted tank so all of my lights are 6500k 54w HO bulbs. Also, I have a 216W 4 bulb lighting unit, If buy bulbs that are lower wattage, and put them on the system will it use less energy?

What spectrum and wattage bulbs should i use on my cichlid tank? I have recently switched from a planted tank with tropical fish to all African cichlids. Here is my set up, tho I'm still unsatisfied with the look. Something just isn't right about it. And I was wondering about lighting, will my...

No it's been established for about 6 months already. But I just recently decided to do away with my old fish and gravel and do a cichlid tank with sand

I knew that but how do i lower the ammonia, nitrite, nitrates? I've been doing a water changes very frequently, added media for bio filtration and added bacteria supplement to kick start the bio filtration. My cichlids appear VERY agitated and I'm getting worried because they are flashing more...

I just started up a cichlid tank and About a week and a half/two weeks ago I did a massive filter clean, cleaned the tubes, intake, exhaust, impeller, filter pads. I cleaned just about everything except the filter media such as carbon and lava rocks which I use as biological filtration (because...

There may be algae on it I can't tell it could even be dead algae but the pink has been there for a few days

Rosy barbs Altum angelfish Neon tetras Rummy nose tetras Bushy nose plecos Gouramis Rainbow shark Clown loaches 55 gallon tank 216 watts of light Sunsun 303B canister filter DIY yeast co2 with ista max mix co2 reactor

Here are pictures of the Rotala wallichi

I put this Rotala wallichi in my tank several weeks ago. My crabs started to get into them and started sniffing the bases of the plant so I kept having floating Rotala everywhere. So I got rid of the crabs and replanted all the Rotala. Over the past few weeks I've been dealing with a major algae...

I need help! It looks to me as if I've got several different types of algae. I've been using an algae killer which has kinda been working, but I want to make sure this stuff isn't gonna come back

Are red clawed crabs bad to have in a planted tank? I keep finding some of my recently purchased Rotala wallichi floating at the surface of my tank and I'm not sure if my crabs keeps snipping the bottoms off or if they're just badly planted and float up... Anybody have any experience with red...

So you think doubling the the filter standard is gonna be okay on my fish and plants?

So I've been doing a lot of research lately and I think I want to transition over to a canister filter. Right now I'm running a marineland 350 power filter On my 55 gallon planted tank and I'm getting tired of cleaning out plant debris out of the filter pads because I have to do it almost twice...

Okay so I'm on amazon looking for a 4 tubed T5 light fixture and I saw one that really stood out to me. Except in the pictures it shows that it takes two type of bulbs, one picture with T5s and another picture with something called PL bulbs? I need a fixture that takes T5 bulbs and I really like...