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Taking a guess that this has been mentioned but none of the Resources Links in the sticky work. Not sure if it's just me or not?

It's been a while since I've been here. I used to have a 10 gallon planted with the works, but then moved on to Saltwater and reef keeping.. in the days before this site got into that sector of this hobby. Fast forward since that time: I spent about 3 years reef keeping, then moved.. gave...

I have recently come back to Freshwater Planted (from having a reef aquarium for a couple years). I was browsing around this forum and ran into a pressurized CO2 topic. I was considering going DIY yeast again, but am aiming for consistency ;) I am considering getting the Milwaukee set up...

So I am trying to set up a VHO set up for a friend but this is the first time I am doing it. I followed the ARO ballast diagram but it isn't lighting. My question is this: In one light bulb are the end caps the same or is there one type on one end and a different type on another? He as two...

So it just occurred to me as I am setting up my aquarium that my lighting isn't nearly as powerful as what I had for my reef aquarium (halide with T5's). I am using 2 X 95 watt VHO's. I have this vent fan I used to use and began adding it as part of my set up (A bit complicated) but am wondering...

So the short story is that I started out freshwater, then went into Reefkeeping and now that I have moved and realize I won't have as much time to devote to that part of tank keeping, I've decided to go back to a planted freshwater tank. The best part? I'm devoting a small open room to this tank...

I seem to be reading often conflicting views on certain pufferfish as to whether they are full freshwater or brackish. Figure 8's seem to be stuck in the middle as well as a few others. I am looking for a true (entire lifespan) freshwater puffer that would be happy in a planted 40Br tank. Any...

Well I haven't done Freshwater in about three or four years.. I left after discovering Reef Keeping and never really looked back. But now as I am moving and decided it was best to give my precious corals to a coral farmer friend, plus I am taking a major job change to my new residence I thought...

Hello everyone! I hope everyone has faired well with these past hurricanes. I would like to inform the North Florida hobbyists that Ocean Exotics (formerly Aquatecture) in Gainesville has some exciting news! We have decided on moving more fish and coral through our store, so new...

I wanted to know more about acrylic tank building. Is there any websites or books I could find to do some research on this topic? I got an opportunity to use a large oven and other tools to make an acrylic tank. I am thinking of either doing a weldon-the-sides type tank or, if there is a way to...

Well after some major struggling and obscene tank problems (tanks busted a seam, machine probs causing overflow, the use of the S.O.S. overflow tube (been replaced by a cylindrical U-tube), and freakin' WHITE planaria my tank is now reaching back to normal. Unbelievably, even after the exitworm...

Hi everyone, in my set up I have no prefilter as of yet (set up issue being fixed in a week). But even when I have this set up before, I never had a cloudy tank (white fog type) this bad. Thus far I stuck a giant whisper filter in my fuge and just let it run hoping to catch some of whatever is...

Argh I have almost nothing in my tank yet I have ran into every single issue a reef tank could have. First of like a bum I used tap water.. my mistake. Then I get planaria, an explosion of planaria. Now I took a closer look at one of my snails (moon snailes) and then on where my star polyps are...

Okay I know I should have posted in the sick fish and coral section, but I am mystified by something else. I have a single domino damsel and an algae blenny. Everything was going great, then I installed my two MJ-900's last night and still everything seemed peachy. This morning everythign still...

Alright people one of the best things about this site is the photo contest and I wanna see 'em! By the looks of it my still-getting-set-up tank-which-still-looks-like-junk tank has an awesome chance! So if I don't see some submissions soon.. then you guys will force me to take pictures of my...

Hey verone I have added my second fish to my tank.. an algae blenny! It was neat, after acclimating the bugger My domino kept getting near it and would just chill right by it.. or right on top of it! But now they seem to just chill. Hope he does something to the encroaching hair algae.. but even...

After looking at my stock, and what I want in the future.. I realized that the majority (except for maybe one acro but I aven't even decided that yet) are all soft corals (leathers, mushrooms, frogsawn, hammer, ricordia, brain coral, xenia, etc). I just recently stuck in a temp internal filter...

Yo everyone, I have just set up two 92mm fans and a 80mm fan into my canopy... I sodered the fans to a variable adapter (3v-12v). I have an open back canopy (closed on the front and the two sides). I stuck the two 92mm's in the back blowing air out, and the 80mm is above the metal hallide also...

Hey everyone this sounds a bit dumb, but I half been half dead today and may have mis heard my friend's advice today. Anyway after havign my tank pretty much cycled he emntioned that I should be adding kalwasser to help out with the corraline growth in the tank. I think he may have said to dump...

I little bit ago I built a DIY skimmer for my 45G main tank to stick in the 29G refugium, but found it too big, and want to build another one. Does anyone know what dimensions my skimmer needs to be to accomodate a very light fish load (mostly a coral tank) for my set up?

I have two 92mm fans that I want to use at the exhaust for my 45G tall tank. Is there a way to have them be powered by a single ac/dc adapter.. also what voltage will make decently quiet? thanks!

hey everyone, I was deciding which design was best but got stuck. Basically I was wndering whether I should go for the one fan blowing in on one end of m 45G tall, and have another blowing out on the other end of the canopy OR have two exhausts (two fans blowig out in the rear)? If I were to do...

I am thinking of building an Overflow with a durso in the back box. I need somewhere around a 500 GPH flow rate, what dimensions of the pieces of acrylic would I need cut to get the specs I want for it (500 gph and have it fairly silent)? Also what diameter pipe should I use? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I am almost done setting up my system of a 45G tall tank, with a 29 gallon refugium. For the return and oveflow, I am getting a 500 (or more rated) gph overflow with a mag 7 pump. I want to make an order today but I wanted to know what powerheads and how many should I put in the...

well after two days of grueling mishaps, building, damaging, and a bunch of craziness.. I finally have my 45G tank hooked up with an overflow, a 29G refugium, a 250 watt halide with two 55watt PC 03 actinics. It all worked great and the tank is getting much better looking. I still have some...