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Your tap water has 40ppm nitrate? That's very high for tap water.

What does the word normal mean, and to whom does it apply? Are there degrees of normal and if so how does one gauge themself on that scale?

The Molasses Tsunami The Boston Tea Party is usually taught in American History 101, but less famous is the Boston Toffee-Apple Tsunami. On January 15, 1919, a 90-foot wide cast-iron tank carrying 2.5 million gallons of crude molasses for rum exploded, likely due to a sudden rise in temperature...

I am not sure what to think about this, when I read the part about the mayo floating ashore and the name "El Sinko de Mayo." I raised and eyebrow thinking to myself, "What!" But it made me laugh. Here's another interesting bit of history. The Napoleonic Rabbit War. After signing the Treaties...

There is a lot of selective breeding for desired traits throughout any number of species of animals owned, collected, and harvested for food clothes, etc. Cows have been selectively breed for better and more meat. Horses have been selectively bred for more speed to win races. What is right and...

The short bodied fish that is talked about in the video is very cruel, and I don't think doing this to fish would be very popular. I thought they were ugly fish.

Very interesting short video, I learned things that I had no idea about. Like did you know that its against the law to breed glofish and sell them. Glofish is a company in Singapore which genetically created these fish for use to check the toxicity of rivers and lakes. Glofish the company has...

Yep I am wrong, I looked it up again and found my mistake. Thanks Essjay :)

I am so sorry about your fish dying, but you should have used your old media and sponges because that is where the beneficial bacteria live. You could slowly over time replace the sponges, if you have more than one do this one sponge at a time. Are you familiar with cycling an aquarium and how...

Angels can be very aggressive, I have seen mine attack my Red-Eyed Tetras. But there are lots of plants in the tank and the teras are very fast.

My favorite plants are the ones that don't die.

The old media will help, but don't use the old water. Use good clean water. Beneficial bacteria do not live in the water column, and besides your old water is bad for your aquarium.

I don't need to worry about it because the largest I will ever go is a 75-gallon tank.

Did you install a new filter Sunday? Did you completely change the entire filter, the sponges, media, and everything? Because if you did replace the entire filter, you could have crashed your aquarium's cycle.

Looks like moneywort to me.

If you need to for reasons of ease and available then use a python water changer. But know that the phyton water changing system wastes a lot of water. Any water hose will work for re-filling an aquarium, but to empty the aquarium and clean the substrate then that is why most people use a...

The best way to cycle a new tank is by seeding the new filter media with old filter media from a previously cycled aquarium. There are some that believe you can get an instant cycle by doing so, but I take the more cautious route. It can take up to two weeks or a month for the new media to be...

You should always know two water parameters, your water source, and your aquarium water. If you have a low kh then that is bad news for snails are any other type of invertebrate that needs calcium for making shells. kh is the measure of free calcium in your water, so it would help to know the kh...

First, what are the water parameters of your water source? You will have to do more water changes than weekly, maybe every other day for a while. Do a massive water change to start with, around 70%. Then the next day do about 50%, and keep doing 50% every other day until the water parameters in...

If you feel like messing with it there is a way to calibrate the Eheim jager heater. I am not sure what type of Danioes and corys you have. You need to check temp for all your fish species and make sure they are temperature compatible. Common Danioes need cooler water than dwarf gourami. If you...

You would be better served by using liquid test kits. Strips are not as accurate. API Freshwater Master Test Kit GH & KH Test Kit At least you can compare the two different test kits results just to make sure.

I am confused about the ph of your water reading 6.8 when GH and KH are extremely high. Maybe I am wrong but there is a correlation of ph to GH and KH. Your water ph should read much higher than 6.8.

I had never heard of this species of snail until now. Wow these snails can grow up to 2 feet, now that's a big snail. Giant Triton Sea Snail is very beneficial to reef development because they eat the Crown-of-thorn starfish which eats coral. The article states that the pest Crown-of-thorn...

I figured these have standard hex nuts with slots and in case the plastic wing nuts do break then tools can be used. But until that happens the wing nuts make these very easy and convenient to use. I try and not to over-tighten causing undue stress on the plastic wing nuts.

Yep its a Sunsun, I have used hose clamps before but had not discovered the ones with the wing nuts until recently.

I was never in the military so I never met one. But chatting with a General would be interesting. :rofl:

I am not sure what that means or how it applies to the theme of Sgoosh's request.

Thank You. In the future when I set up a new canister filter, I will not use the plastic rings for holding the hose ends, instead, I will use these hose clamps.

Bristle Nose Plecos, here are a couple of pics, the best I can do for now. I will try and get better pics, but these guys are not picture-taking friendly. In the one pic I count seven babies, with one setting on the wood log. It is there but you have to look hard. Here is a pic of the parent...

Yesterday while attempting to take the hoses off my canister filter for cleaning, I had a problem. The long plastic rings that screw down holding the hoses, would not come off. Like the ones in this picture. I had to Dremel them off. cutting them in half. I went to a local O'Reilly's Auto Parts...

Yesterday I did a water change and caught a lot more of the pleco babies, plus the parents. I had to trim back the large plants away from the back glass to do so, but I got most of them. There are still a few left, but I am leaving them for now. I have the parents and all the babies in a...

I have good reasons as to why I will never own anything Apple. Starting with Apple's history from way back in the late seventies and early eighties. At that time computers for personal home use were in their time of infancy, there were only two companies producing pc's, Apple and IBM. Apple was...

I will give it a try, Thanks.

I did something similar to this, a trap I created out of a bottle. I cut the top off the bottle, dropped a piece of blanched cucumber inside. Turned the top piece of the bottle toward the inside and taped it back on. Turning the top of the bottle around and pointing it to the inside created a...

I have already tried that with blanched cucumber. I have to have lights on to see what I am doing, and the minute the lights come on they scatter. The little guys are very fast. Thanks for the idea :)