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Better to weld it in place with acrylic solvent or viscous acrylic cement. See http://www.tapplastics.com/uploads/products/pdf/Working%20with%20Acrylic.pdf

Why bother unplugging it? I never do. In warm weather the heater should just turn off (although I'd never let the house get that warm; 78-80 degrees even in the middle of the night?). Most heaters are based on a very cheap design that is inherently unreliable (i.e., heaters that use a bimetal...

LOL, spoken like a Floridian. ;) Up here, when you're trying to keep a Discus tank at 84 in a room that may drop down to 60 at night, there's no such thing as "too much heat in the water".

Yea open tops look cool. But there are downsides. The obvious one is that you may lose an ocassional fish to jumping. The biggest is that there will be *lots* more evaporation. Of course this will drive more water replacements, but a potentially more serious problem is that all that...

BN Plecos love the stuff.

Maybe they're like our barn cats: we know we've been feeding them too much when the mouse population skyrockets. :o

I've had a bad diatom problem ("brown algae") with my 90 gallon discus tank. Usually in a new tank it settles down after awhile, but I think with the heavy water changes in this tank to keep the discus healthy (20% per day), it is always present. I've heard from other discus keepers on well...

Most cardinals are wild-caught and anything but hardy. Sterbais aren't the hardiest of the corys, either, in my opinion, although they are good for cases where the tanks needs to be kept warm for other species. The platies are hardy. I've found that zebra danios deserve their reputation for...

Aqueon's are 48.5x18.5 (dimensions of the frame).

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Just as well. That's fish's picture is next to the dictionary entry for the word "cull". If it was me I'd have euthanized it as soon as I got it.

Bushynose Plecos. Mine luv the stuff. ;)

Sand is a commodity item that's too heavy to ship long distances, so it tends to be locally sourced. That's why things like "play sand" will very considerably in differing parts of the country: in some places it'll be a nice beige color, in my area it's an ugly dark grey. It you can't find...

For running a heater, no it's not. Heaters use alot of power, and the batteries in those small UPS units they sell in in places like Office Depot don't have much capacity. Even one of the more-expensive UPS units in those stores won't have more than a 12AH capacity battery; a 100W heater would...

Sorry, but this engineer knows of know "proof" for your contention that this is the case, nor any recommendation from a manufacturer of a glass frame-supported tank that agrees with what you are saying. If you have some proof (e.g., written manufacturer recommendation with engineering data, or...

You're OK. As others have noted, the bottom surface of the center brace itself is raised, so that it never touches the surface it's sitting on, anyway. Look at the frame on the top of the tank: the bottom frame is the same piece of plastic, just turned upside down. Even on a stand from the...

Yep, it's fine. That sand is pretty much the same stuff that the tank itself is made of.

'might want to check the stand for any twist on the top.

I recently ordered a Blue Life USA Water Colors adhesive aquarium backfron from Doctors Foster and Smith. I didn't want to paint the tank, but I wanted something better than taping some colored cardboard in place. I ordered the 48"x30" piece for my 90 gallon. What arrived was a long skinny...

Hah! So says someone who lives in Texas. ;) I think the only homes in the U.S. kept within that sweltering temperature range are those in the Deep South, or those owned by the elderly. I'm in the Pacific Northwest. The air temperature inside when I got up this morning was 62 F. Nice...