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OH I KNOW, it's the platform that you're going to use to put the house jack in MIL's living room. Duh, so obvious. Jk jk I'm just messing :D

Makes sense on the double edged sword thing, plus the honey do list I'm sure... Ooh ooh, is this a stand for the 30g?!?

So cool to be handy :)

RAWR!!!! Definitely part pirhana :D

Kids can be so mean to each other, and 7th grade is not an easy time to move!!

So here's a dream I had last night: I had a dream that my toddler got so excited about the fish tank that he whacked his toy truck into the glass panel, and that was the end of that aquarium...

Ouch, I'm sorry you had that experience! I'm glad that the pasta dish did find an eager taker though! Having spent some time traveling in the US, I have concluded that different regions of this country are as varied in their cultures as different countries are in europe for instance. A swede...

Ok I looked up the stress zyme, and I'm not much wiser. It says it contains bacteria to "clean the tank" and API describes it as a "cleaner". The API cycling product is called API Quick Start, so I'm not sure if stress zyme contains small portions of nitrifying bacteria or not at all.

I think it's safe to assume that if you're using RO water your cycle may take forever to establish. Home RO systems usually achieve 99.9% purity,so there's a chance that you might have one bacterium that makes it into your tank, buuuut, I think you're better off with bacteria from a bottle :D...

Our water here isn't strange, just problematic. Our water source is surface water from the huron river (same water as what Flint, Michigan uses), which is incredibly polluted and has a ton of runoff from both agriculture and industry. I think our town tries to "ameliorate" it by mixing in water...

The carbon is the black powder stuff inside the cartridge. In this case, just make a neat cut on one edge and try to get as much of the powder out as possible. By the way, you don't need to keep buying the replacement cartridges, unless you need to run carbon in your filter for some reason (for...

To what @seangee said, did you test "fresh" tap water, or did you let it sit out for a day or two?

Aha, thanks!! It looked like in the first picture the stand and canopy were black and then they were grey in the second picture, so I was like "wait, did he manage to paint it with the fish still on there without killing anything?!" Lol.

What do you mean you're not putting the media back? Take carbon/zeolite out of the filter but you must put the other stuff back otherwise you risk crashing your cycle -> nitrite/ammonia spikes. If your tank is older than 6 months this is not as high if a risk, but until you have BB in your...

I think it depends where you live whether you are familiar with Jewish traditions or not. When I used to live on the east coast, I learned a lot about Jewish culture, but here in the Midwest I guess there aren't as many Jewish people so it's not as much of a melding of the cultures here.

I personally always advocate quarantine new inhabitants before they go into their tank. If you are worried about the gaps, you can always put saran wrap on top of the aquarium (leave enough room for the hob water flow) and then put your hood back on top of that. However, do not do this if you...

The way to clean a filter is this: 1) turn it off 2) take water out of your tank into a 5 gallon bucket or similar (usually, people clean their filter when doing a water change) 3) take the media out of your filter (sponges, bio balls, cartridges) and place into the 5 gallon bucket. 4) swish...

Nice work!! I love what you did with the stand and canopy! Can you describe the process you went through to move everything? Did you paint the stand and canopy after you had it set up in place, or what did you do with the fish in the interim? How long did everything take you?

Could it be fungal? It's interesting that it's symmetric to both sides of the body... Is the fish behaving normally otherwise? @essjay @Colin_T

:thumbs:? Seems to work. What does the "[]" button do, and why doesn't it work without it? Thanks @Fishmanic !!

Oh my goodness!! Congratulations!!! That is so very exciting! How do you think it got there? Were you able to find out the hardness of your tap water? I think there are a bunch of great fish that can go into your 200L tank, but like others have mentioned I want to make sure you get appropriate...

@Herpin Man I know you are into the terrestrial type of animals, I don't know if this is in your wheelhouse?

Hi, I am having an issue with the new editor when on my phone,the formatting and insert buttons on the top row of the editor are greyed out and I can't select any of them. For pictures, the "attach files" at the bottom of the editor works and is the workaround I use when adding pictures from my...

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Ahh man, I'm sorry :( what a rough day. Was that kind of day over here too (hubby work stuff which then of course affected me because, two people working from home simultaneously gets old real fast). I hope for everyone's sake that tomorrow is better!!

Haha, from what I understand challah does not use cardamom or cinnamon as spices?

Lol, still not challah, but thank you!

Made another few loaves tonight :) these came out better, the dough had a little less flour so it rose better this time and I got 4 loaves out of it. One did not make it into the picture because it got eaten :D

soooo colorful..... beautiful fish!!

AMAZING!!! your tank looks absolutely gorgeous!!! what plants do you have in there? are you doing anything fancy for the plants or are you low tech?

As long as your fish are not aggressive towards each other, I would keep them together. A cooler is a great idea, but if you do not have that you can buy totes. Walmart sells 45 gallon totes, which would be more than adequate to fit all the fish in the 55gal into (though, sloshing might become a...

It is certainly plausible that it could be the beginnings of ich. ich in general can be first treated with just increasing the temperature of the tank, some people combine that with salt as well. here are instructions for how to treat ich...

well! glad the glass didn't shatter from the force! I assume there is more surface area for the adhesive to be in contact with if you put the glass panel under the brace, correct?

whoa, that's pretty cool!!!

Thanks! Time will tell, I figure if I do a month or so of quarantine for each type of fish that I plan to add, then it'll be like 5 months before I need to think about that :D

thanks @essjay and @Deanasue for providing information that made up for my misguided musings on the topic :) also @Southern Fist hope all goes well moving forward with the new tetras :)

Yaayy! Glad your setback was not a major one!!

Watch your parameters for a week or so after switching out the substrate, there's a chance it disturbs the beneficial bacteria sufficiently to cause a mini cycle if you get unlucky. Otherwise, glad to hear your ram is doing better!!

Oh, interesting!!! I had no idea that it looked the same! Learn something new every day :) This is a scandinavian sweet bread with cardamom.

Oh and our stove is an absolute disgrace, in retrospect I should have cropped that a little....