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Bonus shrimp for the win!

My Bolivians stay in the bottom third almost exclusively. Though they are not aggressive, they are definitely not shy. They will swim around and up to any of their tankmates, including the angels. They don't fight off the other fish to get to their meals but they don't starve. These have been...

Your tank IS beautiful. What's the story on that background?

Platy - Thanks for the compliments! I actually use timers on this tank. DIY moonlight then about an hour later the LEDs come on then finally about an hour after that, the t5. The process is reversed at night with a bigger window for the LEDs by themselves. The dimness of those lights, especially...

BTW. KINGS WIN! Off to the conference finals! GO KINGS GO!

I actually have a single bulb hot5 that I combine with the LEDs. Color is so much better and more vivid with it. Look at the difference!

I wasn't really talking about the difference between fluorescent and LED. I think that the difference in light dispersion is obvious to anyone who looks at the two different lighting systems. What I was trying to say, probably badly, is that pictures that I have seen with the Aqueon LED system...

Here we go. 48 inch Aqueon with three LED strips. In my opinion, still too dim.

I've seen pictures of tanks using these lights and they seem so much brighter than the ones I have over my tank. The lighting with just the Aqueon LEDs is just dim compared to those tanks, very pretty but still dim. Maybe my eyes are just used to a nice bright tank, not staring at the sun bright...

I think black sand is pretty bad azz. Pic of my 10 gallon betta tank.

Bryk, sorry for the late response. Yeah, I tried it with just the single white LED strip that came with the unit and found it too dim. I have since put in three colormax strips and the result is impressive from an esthetic point of view. All in all, I like it. Looks nice and didn't break the...

These pictures show how much space I have to work with. I'm hoping that the hygro grows tall to fill some of space up top. Maybe find a nice tall piece of driftwood.

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including...

I had a single ho t5 bulb over my 60 gallon tank when I happened to see this at my lfs. Price was right, I was curious so I bought it with a white and a color max strip. The unit looks nice enough but it's made of cheap plastic. I removed the t5 and put this over my tank and turned it on....wow...

I have considered cories for the bottom but I was concerned about the footprint. Seems like a small space for cats. Hex at 10 inches a side. I'll post pictures tomorrow. I always have 'extra' bags of ceramic rings in a few of my other tank filters for my inevitable new projects. If and when the...

So it's been over a year since I acquired this tank and, to be honest, have had a difficult time trying to stock it. Rather than a hexagon, this tank 'feels' like a cylinder. Finding specimens to occupy it wasn't really the problem. The challenge was putting in something that was aesthetically...

So there is no adhesive that will allow acrylic to stick to acrylic? Hmm...really? OK. http://www.mcmordiebros.co.uk/tensol_cement.htm http://www.modernplastics.com/ips-weldonreg-acrylic-cement-p-1195.html BTW, I've heard that both of these cements are non-toxic after they cure but you...

or epoxy it...or whatever you do to stick two pieces of acrylic together.

Why don't you just buy a thin (2mm) piece of acrylic the same size as your blue panel and silicon it?

I just bought a bag of Vigoro river rock pea gravel from Home Depot. With the exception of it being really dirty....wash rinse repeat....it works really well for a gravel substrate. It was a good mix of different colors and looks amazing in my tank. Regardless of what everyone seems to be saying...