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I have the yellow to green one, and I agree with one of the previous posts - I look for yellow and if I see any hint of green, it means trouble somewhere. I always use natural sunlight outside to check the colors, as incandecents can make it hard to tell what color any of the tests...

Currently a Stay-At-Home-Dad with no children. But hopefully, in the future, I plan to still be a Stay-At-Home-Dad with no children.

Thanks guys for the great comments! Shekoi, the tank is 72LX18WX20H. The room is about 13f along the wall the tank is on. 6f for the tank, around 2f for the wine rack, 3f for the doorway, and 2f for the partial wall. So really, the wall the tank is on is 8f. The wall that is at a right...

JosephMCorbett's planted 125g acrylic CURRENT HARDWARE (125): Tank, stand, lights: 1 125 gallon acrylic (72X18X20) 1 Black stand 1 Black canopy (ventilated with fan) 1 48“ Current-USA 520w Orbit Extreme hood w/4X130w PC bulbs and 4 Lunar LEDs 2 130w dual daylight 6700k/10000k PC bulbs 2...

Finally! You do not want to know what I had to go through to get the canopy. My LFS was kind enough to give me the canopy at their cost because of the 2 month delay. As promised, some pics. of the finished tank with canopy...I absolutely love it. My first thought with the tank being next to...

Looking for species profiles for invertabrates. Not sure what I have. My LFS listed the shrimp as "algae eating" shrimp??, the crab as "mini" crab, and the snail as "black" snail. Also, and I have heard of these, they just got in some "Bamboo" shrimp. I'd like to do some reading about them...

Sweet! That's it! Thanks alot Raskolnikov.

Just got a fish from my LFS. They said it is excellent at eating algae. They called it a "Fallawalla"(sp.?). It is about 4 inches long and looks like a Marine Pipefish. It's really thin and somewhat flat. It has a long snout, but the mouth is a sucker type and is located under the head, not...

I would have loved to return it. Money comes too hard to just throw it in the garbage. Pretty sure that by opening it, I voided warranty. After unscrewing the base, I used a flat-head screwdriver to pry it apart. (If anyone else wants to get the two pieces apart - just keep pulling, the...

Bought a Rena 400 after researching this forum. Most claim it's been a good, quiet pump. Ordered from BigAls @ around $45.00 - expensive for an air pump. As soon as I pluged it in, I noticed it is not silent. I don't see how such a big pump could be, but after reading what some people have...

I second that - "nothing cures HITH". I've kept Oscars before and they all had it. It would come and go. Sometimes the sores would be about the size of a pin head, and other times the size of a dime. Then, mysteriously, it would go away for as long as 6 months. It has been stated that one...

Sticky - POS. Suction cup - works. Digital - best.

Baking soda is commonly used in Marine tanks to drive the Ph up while doing the pre-mix for water changes, and also to drive up the Ph and add buffering capacity to the tank water.

I have 1 32w 6500k white light and 1 40w actnic blue light in an unplanted tank. blue: 7:00am-11:00pm white: 8:00am-7:00pm The two lights on together bring out some cool colors in the fish. The blue light only in the morning and in the evening is kind of for a dawn and dusk thing...

Most will tell you to wait. However, IMO, if you are buying your fish from Petco or Petsmart or the like, I would suggest getting them now and treating everyone with salt for a couple of weeks. When your done, your done. I have never bought a fish at Petco that didn't have or get Ich shortly...

How do you rinse your filter media if you suck your change water out with the Python and it goes down the drain? For the newbies, a tap water rinse of your filter will kill your bacteria. I bought a 50 foot Python and don't use it. I have to suck water out of the tank to rinse my filter media...

I went into my LFS today because I've heard that Ottos are good at eating the algae that grow on fake plants. The lady that runs the place told me that neither her or her partner were ever able to keep them alive, so they don't carry them. She went further to state that her customers can't...

Anyone had experience with them? Will these fish eat smaller fish when they get bigger? One of mine had a swollen belly hours after feeding - don't know what he could have been eating and was a little concerned for my Cories. However, the head count is still 5. Now to count the Tetras......

I have a Marble Sailfin Pleco and he is pale when he sleeps. He also goes pale when disturbed....mainly by me doing maintenance - water changes, etc.

According to Microsoft Money: Fish - General $202.46 Fish - 125 Setup $472.87 Total: $675.33 That's to the penny. Yamma Hamma.