Hey guys, my name is Paul from North Carolina. I am new to the site. I found it by stumbling upon Dustin's youtube channel and I was like "hey im going to give this site a shot." Anyway, I have a 25g planted tank with pressurized co2, t5ho, the whole 9 yards. I am looking for my next move on the tank. I have an amazon sword as my center piece but it is out growing the tank and is taking over. So in its place I am really considering several medium sized rocks I will cover with Riccia…

Pond Algae Control And  Keeping An Algae Free Fish Pond

Algae bloom is made up of microscopic planktonic suspended algae (also known as phytoplankton - approx 4 microns in diameter).

Suspended algae are plant life and just like plants they flourish during the summer months when conditions are ideal: more sunlight, warmer water temperatures and higher levels of nutrients.

Pigments (chlorophyll, fucoxanthin and carotenoids) in the algae (green water) absorb light energy…

So before I start this worked for me. Im not saying it will work for you or that this is the right/best way to do it just read it and take what you will from it :

This morning when the lights in my tank came on a tube burst in to my tank (EPIC FAIL) Glass and tube chemicals everywhere! So this post is about what I did.

So first thing I did was to switch off everything! and remove filters right away.

Then I caught all my fish and Inverts and got them in at a holding tank…

One of the questions I'm most often asked to give advice on is the baffling phenomenon of cloudy water. There is no single answer, because there is no single cause. However based on the color and circumstances under which cloudy water appears, it usually can be pinpointed to a couple of basic causes.



White or Grayish Water

• Gravel Residue - If the water is cloudy immediately, or within an hour or two of filling the tank, it's probably due to…

Face it; the guilt eats away at you. You've brought home yet another molly and another molly swirls carelessly in the toilet going to that big aquarium in the sky. Is it your fault? In my findings... yes, it probably is.

Don't get me wrong, fish die just like the rest of us. Sometimes a fishes days are just numbered, but if you're seeing a trend in the belly-up category, something needs to change.

The following is a an informative measure of common ways…

So I set up 14 gallon hex tank. I have put my guppies and shrimp in it to breed. 2 male guppies Orange leopard and orange neon and 2 female orange neon and yellow leopard. I also added 3 cherry shrimp. Planted it with something I bought at Pets Unlimited not sure of the name but I will check. I have a small internal filter from walmart in it. I had to put a pantyhose toe over the filter intake to protect the babies from getting sucked in. It's a pain as it keep getting plugged and I need to…

Macro Solution

33g Potassium Nitrate (KNO3)

7.2g Potassium Phosphate (KH2PO4)

Dosing

250ml Water5ml of Macro solution per 50 litres of water

2.5ml of Trace solution per 50 litres of water

368 litres Aquarium

368L/ 50L = 7

 = 7 lots of 50L

   = 7 x 5ml = 36ml of macro to treat 368…

Angelfish is the name of a popular aquarium fish native to slow flowing rivers and streams in South America. Its scientific name is Pterophyllum scalare, and Angelfish is therefore often called Scalare. When you set up an aquarium for your Scalare, you should try to make the aquarium resemble the natural environment for a wild Scalare. The slow flowing rivers and streams in South America where wild Scalare is found are typically densely grown with algae and aquatic plants. You Scalare will…

Aqurium 48"x18"x26"

Light: 6x T5 39w  (6hrs) 

Fertiliser: Diy fry ferts:  40ml Marcos x2 weekly , 20ml Trace x2 weekly and x2 caps of Seachem Iron

Co2: None

Sunstarte: Bonsai Moler clay, Osmocote,Clay…

Added some more plants and on Saturday added six neon tetras.  Been keeping track of the ammonia and nitrite since and has not budged off 0ppm.  I think the cycling of the tank prior to adding fish did it's job.  I have posted a new video in my videos.  Take a look how the moss is growing on the driftwood.

Tom C

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Went to the LFS today and got some java moss and riccia moss.  Tied it to the branches of the driftwood tree with the java moss on the bottom and the riccia on top.  Will post again after the moss starts to grow.…

Tank has   been set up since 1-13.  It is going through a natural cycle.  No fish just some plants and drift wood.  On the 16th it looks like the ammonia spiked at 4ppm then started dropping. On the 18th the nitrite got to 5ppm and stayed there through the 23rd.  Now today the 25th it is down to about .25ppm and the nitrate looks like it is starting to climb.  I am waiting til this weekend then I will check it again and see where it is at.  If nitrite is down to 0ppm I am thinking about…

I am just getting  back into the Tropical Fish Tank hobby.  I have just set up the tank and planted it.  I did not do the dirt method.  Had I found this site prior to getting it set up I would have.  I am now waiting for the nitrogen cycle to get through then I will start adding fish.  Not sure yet what I will have for fish.  Has to be small and not a lot of them though because of being only 10gal.

Tom C…

Since my wisteria grows extremely fast, i got to the point where i had no where to put the wisteria that i was trimming, so i decided to buy another 10 gallon tank and I DIRTED IT.!!! i bought a bag of organic choice potting mix, no clay though. I also put a thin layer of gravel and a layer of the MIcrolift. The lighting is the same though. I have about 20 ghost shrimp, a small goldfish, and a betta. the plants: i have some wisteria in it (not a lot) i have 2 amazon swords that i got from…

So, i finally got my tank to a point where i actually like it.  Its a 10 gallon aquarium.

as far as plants go, there are: its a wisteria, amazon swords, java fern, ludwigia.

The fish consist of: an African knife fish, red tail shark, 4 angelfish, bolivian ram cichlid, powder blue gourami, betta, rubberlip pleco, and a african butterfly fish.  I know its extremely overstocked, but they are all still babies and will all be moved to an bigger aquarium later. 

With the…

Step 1

I looked at what the problem was in my tank, and researched how I could fix it. In my case it was the pea gravel not holding the dirt, making the  water column yellow in color and leaving a brown sludge on the glass and leaves of the tank. 

I only had three solutions, the first was to go buy more pea gravel which, would most likely not match the original gravel. The second was to do crap-loads of water changes weekly and…

We all know by now CO2 makes our plants grow like crazy, but how??? Carbon dioxide (CO2) is 100% essential in plant growth whether they be on land or under water.  CO2 is present in all of our aquariums whether you have a CO2 producing system in place or not, it is present no matter what due to water surface absorption from the air you and I breath. So here’s how it works, following the light reaction in a plants chloroplast, witch generated small amounts of ATP and the high energy electron…

Sometime in 2012, I am going to need your help.

See this space?  This is the retreat in our house.  I call it my reading room.  There's nothing in there but a couch and a coffee table.  

I want to put a tank here.  A big glorious, "ooooo and ahhhhh" worthy tank.

I made my husband remeasure the space. (I got 87" when I measured) It is apparently 93" long…

the 46g bowfront has been up and running for about 6 months now. the tank has been doing really well.

at one point i had the lights going for 14 hours a day, got really great growth.

recently i have thined everything down and rescaped the whole tank so lights will only be on a few hours

a day for about a week.

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