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I've had a whisper 40 air pump powering a sponge filter in my 29 gallon tank for a little over a year now. I'm unsure of what causes it, but after ~6 months it developed a sometimes-there loud vibration/buzzing noise. If i touch it with my foot or press down on it, it'll stop for 10-30 seconds...

2 months ago or so I bought 2 female and 1 male endlers from my LFS (who also gave me 2 fry for free) to do in-tank cycling. 4 days after getting them I suddenly had 10 fry swimming along the bottom. Fast forward another month I now have well over 25 fish of varying ages in my 29 gallon tank...

Hello all, I'm wondering if someone out there might give me some insight as to why my pH seems to steadily increase over time. I'm using RODI water and mixing in seachem's equalibrium and alkaline/acid buffers to reach a pH of ~7, kH ~6dH, and GH ~8dH. I thought it might be the chemicals...

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but does anyone know where I can get the prime bottles that are dispensed as drops? Way back when I had a small bottle of prime that would allow me to put in one drop per gallon. The bottle worked great as I use 5 gallon buckets for fish water...

I've currently got a partially cycled 29 gallon tank with 3 endlers and 2 endler fry (LFS guy was pretty careless). I'm trying to research what fish to add in ~2 months after I'm positive everything is cycled properly, and I'd like a little input. Here's what I'm working with: 29 gallon high...

My sand, glass, and also my filters all have something brown growing on them. The sand is just a spot here or there, it's not all the sand, and the glass has very little. I'm fairly certain this is some sort of diatom growth as the tank is about a month old. Now my question is: Do diatoms get...

Just curious if anyone has ever put one of the Hydro Pro sponge filters in and had their water cloud as a result. I noticed that the water that I rinsed the sponge in had a film at the top of it afterwards but I squeezed it a good 5 or 6 times (I didn't know how durable it was and didn't want...

I have a new tank just setup in the past two days water-wise. I'm using RODI water as my local water has awful PH and has ammonia in the tap. Water was reconstituted with seachem equilibrium and the two buffers (alkaline and acid). I just turned the filters (an older emperor 280 circa early...

I'm not sure if people do this and I'm oblivious (didn't see a lot of references when google searching), but does anyone use something like the azoo micro controller as basic overheat protection? I recently had to purchase a new heater (went with an eheim jager for $21 since I've read good...

A few months ago I posted a question here about my super high pH apartment water and was convinced to buy an RODI unit for an old 29 gallon tank I was going to setup after being in storage for 6 years. I haven't decided yet if I want to do a mix of apartment water and RODI water or just...

I made a post a bit ago about the water in my new apartment having a pH of 9.5 according to my soon-to-be water company. In preparation for this I've bought an RODI unit to create livable water for my upcoming community tank that was decommissioned 7 years ago. Seachem offers two different...

The apartment that I'm moving to in about 2 weeks is water-serviced by a company that uses the local city's lake as a source of water. It's been 6 years since I had fish, but I remember checking pH with the stick strips (I didn't know about the $20 test API test kit) and it being ~7.4-7.6 when...

Before I dive back into the hobby after being out of the loop for 6 or 7 years, I wanted to just see if my current thoughts are ok in terms of stocking and quarantine tanks. My main equipment will be what I had 7 years ago unless something doesn't work: Tank: 29 gallon, I believe it was made by...

I have a thread going in the hardware section but I figured I'd make a separate post here about some questions I had regarding which substrate to go with and possibly some plant questions. I'm planning either a 29 gallon (if it works) or a 40 gallon breeder (I would like this but I don't have...

For about 5 years from somewhere around 2002-2007 I kept a couple different aquariums that have since been put into non-climate controlled storage (in Illinois, where the summer gets hot and the winters get cold). Basically when I went off to college they were dismantled by parents and thrown...