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It has been a million years but I'm back to haunt everyone! :lol: Here's a few of my current setups. The first two are of my 150-gal SA community, which has about 12 young Geophagus redhead "Tapajos" that I'm growing out, and a single wild caught leopoldi angelfish, along with a pair of...

I have a Fluval XF5 canister filter and need a flow meter to help me keep track of how it is performing, since it is such a chore to drain it and disassemble it. I practically have to take a bath to even reach to the back of this tank, perched on a stool, to feel by hand the outflow and judge if...

I've gone hog wild! I have been looking for some wild or wild type angels to go in my 150, and stumbled upon these, though they are actually P. leopoldi (not scalare, as are most angels you find). Being wild caught, they are still very skittish and nervous, but they have begun to spend more time...

Last weekend I got three wild caught Peruvian scalare angels. These are extremely skittish fish, not being accustomed to glass boxes, lol. It took them until now to actually come out and swim around when someone is in the room. This is the 40g Q-tank they will live in for the time being while I...

I recently redid my 40g tank, selling the Africans, removing everything, replacing the substrate, cleaning out the filters and starting over completely,with rocks, driftwood and sand, in anticipation of obtaining some South American puffers. I decided I wanted to cultivate a breeding colony of...

Hello all, been a million years since I've been to the site, but I've recently updated all my tanks and have gotten a renewed interest in them (whassup, Menagerie!!). This particular situation involves a new tank and a new addition. I set up a 150-gallon FW planted community tank about a month...

Hello all, I used to be a very active member here, but life's circumstances with kids and business took me away from things for what must be a couple of years now. I have kept my aquariums all this time, but have basically just babysat them, changing water, feeding, etc. but not really paying...

Sorry to blantantly show off my now-BBA-free tank like this, but I received so much help here and I am sure that is the reason for my success. A little over a month ago I tore this 55gal down due to a severe BBA outbreak, and I had to remove most of the plants and bleach everything before...

www.Pandora.com This is the coolest - I love it! You enter in the name of a song or a band that you really like, and the program selects tracks that it "thinks" you will like. As each one plays, you tell the program if you like it or not, and it makes adjustments in the song choices based on...

Here are two of my babies! I have had them about six months now and they have grown a whole half-inch :D Watching calvus grow is like watching paint dry...... but I love 'em! They like to hang out in the crypts because the rainbows spawn in there and everyone gets a nice feast of eggs. :?

How do you get away with totally tearing down your tank, removing every object except gravel, scrubbing every bit of glass and every filter intake/outflow/heater/CO2 diffuser, etc., plus gravel vac'ing extremely vigorously the entire tank, doing almost a 100% water change and not have a cycle of...

I'll admit it - I'm showing off! This is my ~2gal planted bowl in my bathroom. Low tech, with only lighting and substrate heater.

Click Here for the photo diary of my nano planted bowl. The bowl is about 2 gallons and has no mechanical filtration and no heater. I decided to use more than just low light plants, and found a cheap light fixture in the garage. The fixture was not quite right for the setup but so far I had not...

I am building a light fixture based on a wall-mounted spotlight. The "bell" that surrounds the bulb is not long enough to enclose the screw-in PC bulb I am using for my nano planted tank. Here is what I mean: I want to replace the glass bell that came with the fixture, and I have seen people...

I am setting up an old computer in the family room for the kids to use, since my preteen wants to have e-mail like her friends, and the little kids want to play games on Nic Jr., etc. I have a network card installed so it will have internet access through my cable internet, but I have no clue...

Everyone needs to go out and get the most recent Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine, the August issue, and flip to page 122 to find our own Pufferpunk (aka Jeni C. Tyrell) and her article on trimming puffer teeth. This is a long overdue primer on this necessary maintenance duty for puffer owners...

Finally, after quite a wait, I have my Altolamprologus calvus. I ordered them from Eddie at Bluegrasscichlids.com, and I am very pleased. I got 4 to hopefully get a pair or a trio for my 37gal office tank, but at 1" I can expect to wait 2 years for these wee things to reach spawning size. They...

I am going to be gone all weekend, camping in WV, and attending the Vandalia Gathering in Charleston. Anyone gone to this before? It is an amazing gathering of artists and folk music/performance/dance. I'll be off the internet from Friday through Monday - will I survive? :wink:

I hope Scott H. does not mind, but I thought this was amusing (in a debate on APD about shutting off pressurized CO2 during lights out): A solenoid is no more necessary for good aquatic gardening than is a pH controller. But it won't hurt. Some Phun reasons for using a solenoid: The...

I was reading about other members and their recent anniversaries, and I just noticed that yesterday was my 2 year anniversary. :D I can honestly say this site has brought a completely new dimension to the hobby for me, and I can't imagine a day without Aquarium Advice. Thanks to everyone...

Here is a pic of a L. caeruleus fry, about 7mm, in a growout tank. Can't believe he held still for this pic! Here is my handsome new Ancistrus, or bristlenose plecostamus, that just came out of quarrantine and now resides in my 37gal ARLC that is meant for A. calvus. He has very gently...

My female Copadichromis borleyi ("red tail") went missing this weekend, and she had just started to spit her fry after holding for 3 weeks, but she was not done. The tank has heavy rockwork but I could not find her still today, so I start moving rocks to find her, since she is a 4.5" fish and if...

I have some hornwort that was going great for months, requiring almost daily pruning, until I used some cichlid rift lake salts in the tank to get it ready for calvus. The hornwort almost immediately started losing needles and is now just a mess, a couple of weeks later, even though I have done...

Here is my 5gal Endler's tank, back when I set it up originally over a year ago, with Fluorite, a 14w NO bulb and a Hagen natural CO2 system: Here is the same tank in early March 2005, shortly after I "unplugged" it and made it a natural aquarium, with no filtration, only healthy plants and a...

Long story, sorry! The other day I was talking to a friend of mine that she needed to come over and ID my cory cats, since she has a particular interest in aquarium catfish and I really did not know what kind I had. I have had them for 3-4 years now and I never see them at the LFS (which is...