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...re complicated than that, but if you don't carefully consider things like growth habits, light requirements, substrates and all sorts of chemistry stuff, you probably did buy the wrong plants. Many of...
...een. No, it was THE best. It had a regular stainless steel frame, black putty sealer, white sand substrate and a heavy planting of  valesneria and hornwort. At least, t...
...tank itself. You don't want the people to focus on the background, just because it is red? 3. Choosing your substrate It is unlikely that your aquascape will look natural when you use pink, blue or b...
... of Flourite on the bottom of the aquarium. I want to use play sand from Toys R. Us or a hobby store for the substrate. My questions is how hard is this to keep clean? And will it work? I wanted a whi...
...ish store guy said it won't live in saltwater, LOL. He did give me a good idea for dealing with algae on the substrate though, I just stir the gavel (crushed shell) up until the algae is hidden under ...
I am trying to do a nice planted tank and and decided to use flourite for the substrate. One web site that I had looked at said not to rinse the flourite first, just put it in and add water. This crea
...m the top and recently cleaned a few days prior, it had around 40 or so cichlids in there, usual small black substrate,mixture of fake and real plants, imitation rocks with coloured downlights in them...
...aise? I have a bubble wand, a Penguin 125 HOB biowheel filter, and two pieces of drift wood in the tank. The substrate is plain old aquarium gravel that I bought at Petsmart. I have added The inhabita...
...First question. does lighting affect the biological filter? Here is why. I have a 29 gal tank, with gravel substrate, heater, HOB Aqua clear filter. I did a fishless cycle, where I went thought the ...
...rove their health. A co2 system seemed to be my best bet even though I hope to eventually add flourite to my substrate. Not wanting to spend 300 dollars on a fancy co2 system for such a small aquarium...
...n i can commit more time to my tanks. I have a nagging question though.. Why can't/don't you use sand as a substrate in a marine tank? I only seem to see crushed coral, or that other coarse white st...
...y a Tetratec AP200 air pump 48' bubble wall, plus 2 small air stones powered by an Elite 803 air pump Gravel substrate of various sized pebbles, depth varying from 2-3' Varoious plastic plants, rocks,...
Hi people, The lfs didn't have any sand, however, the local building supplies store did. Question: Is it safe to use sandbox sand that doesn't include salt (as stated on package) in an aquarium? Are
...nyone who owns either of these two filters please comment on the following? I want to be able to control a substrate heating cable and an Eheim 2328 themofilter from one thermostat unit. Can the the...
...ems to have a lot of benefits. Anyone using this now or familiar with it? Also, can a second layer of substrate go over this (i.e. play sand over the Flora Base)?...
Hi all, I have a 20 gal. fish only tank with crushed coral substrate. My ph runs consistently at 7.8. What is the best way to raise it up slowly so that my fish won't go into shock. I'm not crazy ab
...and set it up for salt water, however after I did the leak test I conditioned the water and stupidly pour my substrate into the water (20 lb of aragonite). Should I let the particles settle naturally ...
...that will dig around in the sand a bit and keep it clean for me. I know that I have seen tank using sand for substrate that have had algae growing on the sand and would like to avoid this if possible....
Some of the clay based substrates like Laterite are very good for plants, but they can be messy. Since they're basically compressed dirt, they're almost impossible to clean using the traditional bucke
...r 8 months break. Bought a 75 Gal tank, two eheims, etc etc etc. Dilemma is that I can't decide what kind of substrate to use. Gravel or sand. I used to keep crushed coral with africans, but have a fe...
...r the edge of the beach and thus a HUGE pile of tiles) Does anyone know if these would be any good for the substrate layer on the bottom of my tank or whether they might degrade into the water. I'...
Ok, I'm new at this...last tank I had was 45 years ago. Now I think I've jumped the gun. I have a 29 gal. tank with 'natural' gravel and I planted several varieties straight into the gravel. I just ha
.... Of course, if I do wait until after I move to restart the tank, I might just redo the whole thing with new substrate and rock placement. There was several parts of the current substrate that irked m...
...soever around the tank. As soon as the lights go out and things quiet down they come out and scavange on the substrate. Mine has gotten a little bolder and will come out right after feeding time if I ...
...unt of what seems to be brown algae. It is a rust color and looks like dust all over my live rock, glass and substrate. I've read that the best solution is having good circulation, frequent water chan...
Hi there: Do any of you think it would be possible to use tiny glass beads 1-2mm in the substrate? They would be inert, wouldn't they? Thanks,
...I use purified/filtered well water. Filter is a wet dry and a Magnum 350 canister, Magnum 250 for vaccumming substrate which is a crushed oyster shells 3' deep. I'm using Seachrem's Reef Fundamentals ...
In my new (1 month old) FOWLR set up, I put 30 lbs of LR and for a substrate, I put 40lbs of aragonite sand and 20 lbs of live sand. I can now see two distinct layers in the sand. A layer of white abo
...allon tank (cycled) with an undergravel and Hang-on-back style filter. I think I will use crushed coral as a substrate, because I already have a *ton* of it (I use it to maintain the pH in my freshwat...
...heir tanks for about 3-4 weeks. The rocks was transported and put in the new tank within 1 hour. With sand substrate, 3 air heads and a skimmer going. All parameters seems to be normal, except I do ...
While cycling my 29 gallon tank a couple of the zebra danios in my tank spawned and scattered eggs in the substrate. Much too my amazement the eggs hatched and now there are several fry swimming aroun
... Does anyone have any info on them - I was thinking of putting a pair in a small (10 litre) tank with a sand substrate and hooking it up to my pH 7.5, hard-ish system (several tanks sharing a sump - N...
...e fish that are very active and travel in schools. Very cool nest building behaviour by the mails in a sandy substrate. They thrive in a strong current and love to jump ( :( ) I seem to have caught 2 ...
...empting to set up an 29 gallon freshwater aquarium with live plants. I've read that a cable heater under the substrate helps significantly. Is this overstated or should I invest in one? I should add t...
...again- Firstly, I noticed that lately my neons and zebra danios are doing a new trick: when they touch the substrate with the mouth they do a sort of 'backflip' in a split second. There is an Ich ou...
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