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What do you mean by bulk nutrients?

so how do you measure the concentration of Co2 in the water?

Man! There are so many fertilizers and suppliments out there for planted aquariums, can anyone recommend a couple products which work?

I am thinking of trying a CO2 system in my planted tank. How will it affect my fish and the number that can live in the tank. The reason I ask is because I am wondering if the CO2 system will cause the amont of disolved oxygen in the water to drop too low.

There is no risk. The flame would have to be held in the same spot for several minutes. Also water is such an excellent heat-sink any heat on the glass is transferred to the water very quickly. I pass the flame along the glass at about 1ft. per second.

Actually Springtails sounds right since the little devils do a lot of jumping around. Aphids are typically larger than the ones I had.

Well just to let you know I found a solution to the mite problem. First I eliminated their food source which was floating plants and the Lotus lilly pads but after several days the numbers of the mites went down but there were still a lot. So I broke out the flamethrower. I used one of thoes...

I have been using RO water. When I first moved here I used my well water in a 10 gal. tank that held an African Clawed Frog and Water Sprite plants. In a few weeks the plants were sufferingand eventually I went to RO water. When I got my 40 gal. Eclipse I used the RO water and seem to be doing...

My planted tank has had a low pH (6.4) and my Amazon Swords have been suffering. Can someone recommend a product or solution to raising the pH to an acceptable level?

They are bug like and approximately .5mm, pretty darn small. Tank inhabitants are a selection of tropical fish community fish and I have already seen a decrease in their numbers since I cut back the younger lily pads.

I was doing a waterchange on my tank today and noticed tiny little mites on the floating plants in my tank. If I knock them into the water the surface tension of the water allows them to jump back onto the plants. I also have Lotus lillypads and it looks like the mites are damaging the pads. Any...

I have a tiger Barb that has had a big belly for some time now. At first I figured it was going to spawn but it has been about two months and nothing. It also seem to want to float to the top especially after eating which I am assuming is from swallowing to much air feeding at the surface. The...

I do have a friend that has a somewhat self sufficient tank. The water from his well is great quality and he has his 50 gal. acrylic set up with an overflow to the waster drain in his house and a water line with a slow drip from his well water. He never has to do a water change.

My piece of Malaysian driftwood sunk like a rock the day I got it. It is a very dense piece of wood has a good bit of thickness to it and I was not very surprised when it sunk. The "auto flushing" method I spoke of in my earlier post worked great. The water is pretty much clear. I think I will...

Here are some pics of the stand. Added a access door to the front for storage.

I built a stand for my 40 gal. Eclipse. Works great.

I was thinking of painting the back of my tank with acrylic paints, the colorful ones that you can get at an art store. Maybe starting at the bottom with a deep navy blue and working upward to a light blue/green.