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For foam, you can just buy a can of the Great Stuff insulation foam and make your own. I would use care with the florist foam, does it get saturated with water? You don't want that. For hardscape, I found this along a trail behind my house: It is some kind of shrub which died long ago. What...

I did watch the video. With the massive overload of info these day, you really need to look at multiple sources to find a consensus. And the consensus does not support your views on Tiger Barbs being killers. You are also speculating to support your position ie: Cory's 800 gallon tank at...

The 800 gallon tank was moved to Cory's house. Most likely, they sold the tiger barbs, after all they are an aquarium store which sells fish. I got 10 Tiger Barbs, no problems. They are quite tame compared to the Odessa Barbs in my tank.

It is alot of fish, I would target around 20. A male Strawberry Peacock will be 6" (15cm), these are big fish. So for the Peacocks, are you buying adult males? That's the problem with dimorphic fish when buying juveniles, you may end up with all females. I have 9 Odessa barbs in my tank, only...

But they are not Oscars. There is alot of info on overstocking Mbuna and Peacocks on the web. The guy who cuts my hair has an overstocked Mbuna tank, it seems to work.

Amazon sells patience in a bag for $1.99, might be a wise investment :rolleyes: I would wait a few weeks and let the tank mature. Water changes is the only way to get rid of the nitrates which may quickly kill any coral you put in the tank.

It should not hurt the fish, it's just bacteria. The issue with doing it this way, you have no idea if the bacteria in the bottle is still alive. What you should have done, add the bacteria in a bottle and ammonia before adding fish. Now you can easily test ammonia levels, if they go drop to...

Thanks, I should have read your post before I added my comments.

I agree 100%, dose it with ammonia to 3ppm. If the bacteria in a bottle worked, the ammonia munching bacteria will slowly start producing nitrites which may be quickly consumed by the nitrite munching bacteria. When I cycled my tank with bacteria in a bottle and ammonia, I never got any...

The API quick start is nitrifying bacteria in a bottle, he may already have the bacteria colonies established in the tank. . So he may not see a rise in nitrites as it is being quickly consumed. I would dose it twice with ammonia before buying any fish.

Both are from the Cichlid family from Lake Malawi, Mbuna are territorial rock dwelling, Peacocks are more open water. These are not community fish. plan on a species tank. I believe Peacocks are dimophic ie: only the males have bright colors. Many Mbuna are not. Lake Malawi has few plants, I...

If I was to start a reef tank.. I would start by understanding corals and what is feasible for a beginner in a nano tank. And can I afford them if I have a tight budget. I personally like the Youtube videos from Bulk Reef Supply such as: I would use dry live rock. Basically this is coral...

A typical path for internet venture, start a non-profit version and when its gains large enough followers, sell it to someone who wants to commercialize it. I believe IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) started from the Usenet group, rec.movies. Amazon bought it for $55 million in 1998

There is another company called Tru Vue, they are a factory direct manufacture. They started making acrylic aquariums around 1980, we had them in the aquarium store I worked at during college. I believe you can customized the aquarium if you wanted thicker acrylic for example. Give them a try.

Very cool and creative! Please keep us posted.

The ability to adapt is a primary force in evolution, species that require very specific environments tend to go extinct. One should not assume that a freshwater species requires the specific water condition of its native habitat, it may be able to adapt and thrive in other environments. One...

Yes, RO will remove the majority of the minerals in the water. I don't know this answer but do you really need RO unit for a fish only saltwater tank?

Understood. The thought of drill a hole in a tank intimidated me. Turns out it was quite easy but still. it was a bit scary. For skimmers, I think vertical separation is key. If both (intake and return line) are on the top of the tank, you may just get strong surface currents and the lower...

I have an overflow box/skimmer which I put in the middle of the tank. My return lines (2) are only a few inches from the overflow box but they are near the bottom of the tank. Have you thought about drilling holes in the tank and use thru hull fittings?

This one says it is waterproof which is a big plus, most LED light require a glass lid. Personally I don't like the LED lights exposed like shown below: Seeing the LED lights is a distraction., I just want the tank to be illuminated. So you may be able to install the LED lights inside your old...

Google is your friend. I don't bother asking the LFS employees, just google in the store and read up.

She does have 2 new Assassin snails. The tank is 10+ years old and she did not change the hardscape, she just bought new fish. She has clean it up a couple times and it keeps coming back. So something is growing in the tank, fungus?

She has cleaned the tank multi times, she also has white spots on some of the rocks. So I don't think it is debris.

This is my sister's plant, she has a 5 gallon tank. I don't have any water parameter, she does not have a test kit. This is an old tank , it has been running for 10 years plus. She had some fish die of old age. The last remaining fish was quite lonely so she bought 3 gold white clouds, 3 red...

Most hobbyist support LFS, they are becoming rare these days. I don't watch Cory's video nor have I bought anything from them but I wish we had a store like that in my area.

Most are directed to people new to the hobby. I like Girl Talk Fish, she quite smart (Master degree in Engineering) and now tries to limit videos to 5 minutes. She works for co-op

They move it to his house. One Simple Mistake Almost Broke this $15,000 Aquarium.

You do have a valid point, I did see this type of failure on you tube, somehow the frame cracked in a 150+ gallon tank and it was a steady stream coming out of the tank. If home, you can save the fish. Then you have these failures where the front plate glass cracks and the tanks drains in a...

I scratch my brand new 75 gallon glass tank, I wish it was acrylic when trying to buff it out. After about 2-3 hours of buffing, I got it to a point where you can't see it but it is still there. I wanted an acrylic tank but had to compromise. A 75 gallon acrylic is ~$700-800, an ADA is over...

Tempered (toughened) glass is 4 times stronger than regular glass, I think stronger is better. You cannot drill tempered glass which is an issue with overflow boxes. Indeed tempered glass will shatter into small little pieces which are safer to handle compared to the large knife like shard when...

For houses with a foundation/basement (not slab construction). Typically the floor joist used for the second floor would be the same as they used for the first floor, they would be able to handle the same load. The critical issue would be the load bearing walls. The first floor would be...

That's a big tank :rolleyes: I used to have a 50 gallon breeder, 36"x18"x19" tall, I always liked that tank. It has 18 depth which give you room to put big rocks/driftwood in the middle of the tank allowing the fish to swim around things but it's not too big. I am starting to appreciate...