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Do you run into the issue of the curvature making it difficult to see your fish, ie the same reason I no longer own a bowfront aquarium.

Really like the endlers

From a past post there is some information. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/effect-of-hard-water-on-soft-water-fish.464894/

Half thumb up. The siphon component is good and the hose that it comes with, I have a 50' hose, is top notch and quite flexible when it needs to be. I don't use the water filler component, I have to pay for water and I have a septic system which doesn't like a lot of extra water so I don't use...

If you want an easy going dog you should not get an Australian Shepherd. Our latest dog is one and though he is very sweet and very capable puppy he has been the most challenging puppy of the breeds we have had (borzoi, shelties, poodles, and goldens). Ours, don't really know how...

Looks beautiful. How long does it take to develop a new hybrid strain. I would have thought it would take years not months.

I have used Quick Start for a couple of my tanks in the past. It seems to work, but I also always have plants as well so that confuses the situation as well.

My angels always go through a minor behavior change when I do a water exchange. Often the water exchange triggers breeding behaviors, with all my clutches of fry, is that the right word, from eggs laid within 48 hours of a water change. Right now I would keep an eye on the angels but likely...

Looks like a bacterial or fungal growth. It appears to be growing on the plants, substrate likely anything with a biofilm on it. It could be the result of high nitrates. If I am correct short of sterilizing the tank I don't think there will be a way to kill it off other than removing its food...

Edibles?

Nice tank, curious what are the containers on the top for, they seem to be plumbed for some reason.

Interesting article, I will have to read it better this evening. A couple of my angels have half red eyes, and I would swear if they are not happy it is not as bright.

Great tanks. Lots of work but its not work if you enjoy it.

SDg are granites which is not the rocks you have. The other, Sy, is quite an interesting mix with turbidic rocks, rocks formed from sediments that have flowed, mixed and partially sorted after their initial deposition in the water. Could fit with the rocks you have, dirty sandstone looking...

I now have only a 75 and a 20 long. Would love to have a super large tank like your 400 plus tanks, but even a 180 would be nice. How much time due you spend a week maintaining. For me its about 45 minutes a week for the 75 and 1.5 hours for the 20 because I have to mix water with it and...

There is still what appears to be iron staining on the rocks, and they appear sedentary but I wouldn't bet the farm on that statement. I don't think I can ID the rocks without some concept of what to expect in the area, and I don't know the basics of the general geology in Australia, other than...

Found a brief paper on acid runoff from mine tailings here. https://uwaterloo.ca/wat-on-earth/news/acid-mine-drainage-past-presentfuture#:~:text=The%20generation%20of%20acid%20mine%20drainage%20%28AMD%29%20and,these%20materials%20are%20exposed%20to%20atmospheric%20oxygen%20%28O2%29.

I have done a lot of fresh water snorkeling and have seen similar bottom conditions before, just not common. Does not look fake to me, other than the sand might have been added some time in the past.

Your rocks look like they have some iron staining in them, suggesting they are not simply dolomite (magnesium carbonate). If there are any sulphide minerals in them on exposure to moisture they will release acid. This is one of the major sources of acid runoff from mine tailings. Most of the...

I use the Seachem root tabs but nothing else. I am not very consistent with dosing, likely every 6 months. I find the longer you leave the plants alone the better they grow.

I agree with @MaloK. For the price we should get microscopes, if we are serious about caring for our fish. I use a 10-80 dissecting scope for a number of fish related tasks, examining substrates, protozoans in the tank etc, and find it very useful. I am thinking of getting a compound scope...

https://www.int-res.com/articles/ab2021/30/b030p069.pdf This one is found local to me but could not find reference to it being located in the US.

https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1060 The link shows that this is an invasive species that can actually cause fouling of equipment. Quotes from Link: Means of Introduction: Possibly introduced by aquarium release (Mills et al., 1993), or through ballast water exchange...

You might be able to get them from a biological supply but I doubt it. I only remember a prof of mine discussing a few hydrozoan from fresh water and telling use he found some near Victoria BC, not the hydras we are familiar with.

I have 3 nicrew lights that are all about 4 or 5 years old, they are still working well. The power to the lights is low voltage DC so I don't worry too much about them being waterproof. I have dropped a couple of them in the water and even though they were in the water they still lit. Took...

Was not thinking about the hydras but more about some of the other groups such as. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craspedacusta_sowerbii...

Are there not some freshwater hydrozoans. You would have to have a magnifying glass to make them out.

The hillstream loaches look like a beautiful fish. I always wanted to have a native stickleback tank. We have a number of nearby water systems with stickleback species that have evolved from the threespine sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Unfortunately they are hard to feed, some are...

As you mentioned you might have a location near an outside wall that is more appropriate. If you took your plywood and put some boards on edge under it then you can distribute that weight over a larger area. In reality a 30 gallon tank is not a large tank, a floor should be able to support it...

Your idea about the plywood underneath would work but most of the force would still still occur near the points where the legs sit on the plywood because the plywood flexes as well over time, I wouldn't know the exact amount. So if it is just the feet sinking into the flooring smaller pads will...

The stand does look woobly. The legs would be OK for a cement floor but will indent just about anything else. If it were my setup and I felt the stand was strong enough I would simply place two sections of 2X4 wide face down on the floor and place the stand on those to help distribute the...

Before anyone can suggest fish one needs to know what your source water is like. If you have hard water and high pH then you would likely want to start with fish that do well in that sort of water, guppies, some african cichlids, etc. I you have soft water and lower pH you might want to start...

I would lower the nutrients first, keeping to about 15ppm of nitrates at most. Then I would look at the lighting, though I try to change only one thing at a time. I don't use CO2 but even with nitrates at 10 ppm and 8 hours of about 100 par lighting, I remove about 1 gallon of plant material...

I am pretty sure I have the same setup. If so they come with a light that mounts right into the canopy cover, mine with 2 rows of leds contained in 2 separate glass tubes. In my case I had to make a new cover for the tank, but because of the shape of the tank I had to cut it out of lexan...

Green fuzz algae is usually caused an excess nutrient or light issue though I don't have any experience with CO2. 12 hours of artificial light in my tanks is too much light ( I use 9 to 10 hours) but might be appropriate for your system. I also get green algae as a phase when establishing a...

Happiness is just a bucket of critters :) Thanks for bringing the video to my attention.

Power outs are common in the winter here, I don't worry if it is under 2 days without power. I keep the tanks at 25 degrees normally and they have dropped to 19/20 degrees. One caveat is that we have a secondary heating source of natural gas fireplace in the same room as the tanks, without...

I have read many accounts about how to euthanize fish. But from personal observations the quickest methods seem to cause the least additional distress to the fish. In addition, one of the documents provided above one mentions 3 pathways to euthanize the animals, one is physical disruption of...

Kind of feels like I have seen tanks that look like that in the past.