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There is a shop here in Dallas that has some of the best looking in wall mounted tanks I've ever seen. It's www.dallasnorthaquarium.com but I dont think they have pics of the tanks on the site yet. They used darker colored walls with a picture frame mounted around the facade of the tank...

Check out Big Als online ( www.bigalsonline.com ) and look for part 5670 it's the RUGF adapter kit for marineland powerheads.

I have been debating the same time, although on a larger scale. I was wondering what effects those house scale water purifiers/softeners have on water you might use in a tank. Does it remove all the chlorine/chloramine?

does this mean if I dont leave the canopy down when done with water changes my girlfriend will fall in and be mad at me?

The biowheel increases the O2 contact with the water surface. This is the reason that the bacterial cultures are so much more effective. Unfortunately this also increases the amount of gas exchange which can occur between the water and air, and in that process CO2 escapes the water and is...

Here's a plant I consider great for starting off tanks. It's called Foxtail. Specifically Green Foxtail. It grows so abundantly taht I actually have it in Mbuna tanks and they cant nibble it to death faster than it grows. Drawback, frequent pruning. I use this plant especially when...

Depending on the amount of substrate it's going to be about 6-8 inches between light and bottom of the tank. I dont think i'd have the space for that AH retrofit kit inside the hood. but the ballast idea would work on the outside. I'm going to try it with the normal light but a new bulb and...

160 degrees. hurm. that's almost warm enough for a discus tank.. right? Oh no wait.. that's almost hot enough to COOK discus. my bad :) :D

The tank comes with an f6 T% bulb of the "daylight" variety. In theory that's 6 watts of CF level flourescent over a 3 gallon tank I should be fine. I was just wondering if anybody had found a hopped up lighting solution for it.

I have a couple eclipse system 3 tanks with the hoods and filters sitting around colelcting dust. I was hoping to bring one up here to my office to have a nice tank on my desk. I was wondering if there are any known lighting retrofit and or upgrade kits so I can keep a slightly wider range...

You can do better than cool white. I think there are 4' "sunlight" or "plant" or "full spectrum" lights at most hardware stores that are still MUCH less expensive. As in maybe $6 a pop and will probably give you a better light temp and spectrum. Cool white bulbs aren't the best for growing...

I hope they arent illegal, she has mentioned wanting to set up a tank for one. do something like a viquarium, with some ladn space for a frog or two and one of those in the water.

I have 17 cardinals in a 100 gallon where they are some of the biggest fish in there, and I get to see them swim in formation. it's what makes them so attractive to me.

Yeah, and she also doesnt complain that every weekends errnads include stopping by at least two LFS's. Yay team me !

I have a lovely pair of green severums in a tank who have paired up and spawned a few times now. Before I was assuming other fish were getting to the eggs and that's why i never saw any fry. They lay a large area of gold colored eggs. Some turn whitish, I assume these ar ethe ones that...

My girlfriend said she used to keep one of these when she was younger in an aquarium. I have never heard of it. Any ideas on what normal species name might eb associated with this? Has anybody heard of these?

Soup and Nuts? heh It's downright difficult to do well. But if you search on the web in the last few years there was a big research project done by a university in florida on how to get them to spawn more readily and produce better offspring.

Hurm... THat's a good idea with the "overclocking" of the bulbs. I might have to give that a go. I saw some 55 watt cf "replacement" bulbs meant to fit into standard sockets mentioned on another post here, I believe it was http://www.fullspectrumsolutions.com/Fluorescent.htm that I was also...

See, The fullspectrumsolutions one there lists a CF "replacement bulb" which puts out 55 watts of CF lights. With that I'd only need about 6 bulbs to hit my goal of around 3wpg. Many of the others though just say 19 or 23 watts which really isnt what i can use. ALso, the...

The stand plans are from www.garf.org. THe canopy plans i'm doing ad lib as I go along. WHen done I hope to supply information to garf with euqations and such and maybe they'll add my plan in thier DIY section. The most "radical " thing in my design is for a dual hinged top/front...