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wow, was surprised to see an alert in my email from here :) To be honest, I can't remember much, but the tank I had the blue gourami in never ended up with the cherry shrimp. I did get some for a different tank though. If memory serves the gourami ended up getting a bad parasite and died.

the actual housing for the lights power supply browned and cracked. Now, a splash of water can easily get inside where the electronics are. Purchasing a replacement means buying a whole new lid, as that comes as part of the lid assembly. I've been kicking around a number of DIY ideas, but I...

A few months back my aquarium hood light died. I've got a marineland eclipse 12 tank, all contained, decent aquarium but not very flexible. I replaced the light temporarily with a shop light clamped on the side of the tank with a CFL. Quickly realized the CFL was too large when the tank turned...

Assuming you get new media, there isn't any issue with using a canister filter in a freshwater tank that used to run in a saltwater, right?

OK, finally, I have my lights. Starting out, I bought some small leds used for car accent lighting. Each unit came with a total of six leds, but was designed to be cut in half and used as a pair of units with three each. Right after I bought them, I realized they were a lower output style of...

I'm doing an experiment with LED lights for accent/fill in lighting for a tank. I recently bought some small waterproof LED arrays off ebay. I will have six lights, each with 3 LEDs. There will be two green, two white and two blue. The best power description I found was 12VDC. There is no...

OK, I know there's a lot of really technical information out there, but in short, do you need special LEDs to use with plants, or will pretty much any LED light provide healthy light for plants?

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?184147-Simple-DIY-rock-wall-and-cave-for-5-gallon-hex&highlight= here's a link to the build thread

This depends on how ambitious your project is, but it may work for you. Years ago, I built a rock wall with caves using safe silicone and decorative river rocks. Go to dollar stores and craft stores and look for decorative rocks. They usually sell them in little plastic mesh bags. They're...

Ok, so a month or two back, I woke up to find my 20 gallon tank spewing it's contents onto the floor. A quick drain and relocation effort saved the fish, thankfully, but things weren't necessarily done...right. Just fast. I had a used 12 gallon marineland eclipse tank stored away that I had...

Yeah, that was a poorly thought out purchase back when I was getting into the hobby. I had hoped to convince the wife to allow a tank upgrade, which kind of, umm, got sunk the other day. I'd been pondering passing him off to someone with a larger tank for a while, so this made the opportunity...

naw, it's going to be somebody's terrarium/planter now. Luckily, I had a small acrylic tank in the attic that I could dig out eventually. I found it getting ready for work one morning, so I had to do a quick drain and relocate to five gallon bucket job. That evening I did a second relocate to...

So I wake up the other morning to the sound of an abnormally loud splashing from the filter. Of course, a seam had split and the tank had dumped about 4-5 gallons on the floor overnight. Acrylic tanks are looking better and better.

it sure is! It makes a dandy quasi sponge filter with the airstone and lots of java moss covering it.

I think I made it a little too sturdy, without thought of future cleaning or airstone replacement. One of these days.....

A few years ago, I made this post: http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?184147-Simple-DIY-rock-wall-and-cave-for-5-gallon-hex&highlight= Now that my rock wall has become grown over with java moss, I seem to have a "natural" sponge type filter. The airstone creates a nice...

I've had them about a year. They maybe weren't the darkest red, but were pretty good. Some still are, many are not. There seem to be an awful lot of clear or barely red ones now that seem large enough to be darker, but maybe I just have a large batch of the lighter gender at the moment. I...

Once a day feeding is better, maybe only once every other day. Too much food can cause some animals to boom, like snails, but it seems to be the opposite for shrimp. They may just be old. They're kicking off in little bits because they're old enough to die. The struggle of molting may be...

I have what appears to be a lot of adult red cherry shrimp that are clear. Could this be a breeding issue? I've had them for about a year, so could the genes just be getting a little thin?

Hence the usage of the word "typically." Since you had to ask what kind of loach it was in the same post, we'll both have to assume that broad stroaks are the only kind that apply in the face of no information.