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That's awesome. I'd love to see a photo of it. Sizable Java looks really nice in my opinion. 

About "Like" If I configured things correctly you should all now be seeing a new button on posts that allows you to "like" them.  New members can like up to 5 posts a day and regular members can like up to 20 a day. We might adjust these numbers as needed of course.    Poll Update Members can...

Welcome! Nice to have you here. 

I just like to make sure my heater isn't up against other equipment or decorations etc. I also usually lay mine horizontally near the bottom of the tank. Or in the case of my marine tank it's in the sump. 

Yes, it's an addiction.  I do believe PetCo also sells those sponge filters. Making your own might be a little tricky because they do use a sponge of a certain porosity so that the air flows properly and they are also non-toxic. 

Ah, I'm a Prime member so it's always 2 days shipping for me and since we have an Amazon warehouse here it's usually even faster. 

Just buying one, non-DYI is really affordable. Just a few dollars really. You can get sponge filters from Amazon for like $4 and then you just need an air pump. 

That's such a fish's fish if you know what I mean. A fine example of the order. 

Lovely. 

Welcome. Just so you know, we love pictures! 

I looked around the back end after I posted the above but there wasn't a setting that would take care of it. I'll just keep an eye out for an update to that plug-in but in the mean time...

Welcome to the forum. Cloudy water in the beginning is pretty normal. It doesn't happen to every tank but does happen often. It's generally caused by bacteria.    Before getting your fish please take a look at this...

I will look into timeout settings but there isn't an actual way to make this go away, just to prolong it. The reason being that the chat is an add-on and this represents a programmatic oversight on the part of the add-on author. The only way for it to get fixed is when the author updates his...

Right! I look at the one you have in your signature and I really like it. I think you have done a nice job and it's wonderful to look at then I see the ones posted above and I just wonder how human beings did them. 

Me too! It's incredible. Meaning I wish I had the skill...not that I wish you had the skill because you could read it that way too...ha!

Wow! Just...wow. There's more at the link below.      https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1212754432083921.1073741848.305004859525554&type=3 

I think anyone who has been keeping fish for even as short as 10 years has done fish-in cycles. I've been keeping fish since I was 5 years old (so...that's a long time ago) and there was no thought at all about any other way back then, not even a hint of it.    Now, we know better of course...

It is being fixed and should be gone soon!

This should be fixed. Clear your cache and see. This was found yesterday (maybe day before) and removed by the tech folks.

With a tank that size you might want to try some inverts and see how that goes. 

As a general rule when some people can get in and others can't it's usually something on the user's environment. When it's a problem with the site it usually is something lots of people notice.

To start just make sure the phone is accepting cookies from the site.

That sounds like it's not setting the cookie.

That is very odd. What does it do or not do specifically?

It's likely a combination depending on the species. Some it will be visible, others it will be electrosensory, and others it might be odor. 

I first noticed intelligence in my fish when I kept my first puffer. Due to their stereoscopic eyes it's easy to see them focus. Once I saw what he was focusing on I was able to attract the gaze and train him. 

Really, that's one of the main reasons forums like this exist to combat the bad information given to new fishkeepers. 

Though I certainly know that fish are smarter than is commonly thought by non-hobbyists this study demonstrates a cognitive level I had not expected. I think this could lead to new husbandry practices for reducing aggression in tanks. Granted this is one species, but it's likely to apply to...

Dwarf gourami are timid and often bullied. They are prone to getting their filaments nipped off and taking ill. In my experience there are three things you can try.   Alter the aquascape so that there are tall plants (or fake ones) that the gourami can hide in. If this doesn't work do one of the...

Welcome. 

Because it is likely that new fish keepers will continue to put fish in un-cycle tanks it's important that we have information on how to deal with that. Even though we all understand that it is not ideal it is a reality of the hobby.

For those of you who share a passion, as I do, for planted aquascapes this news will come as a shock and with sadness. I just learned that on August 4th, 2015 Takashi Amano died of complications from pneumonia. He was 61 years of age. His influence in the hobby simply cannot be underestimated.   

Yes, that's really what I liked about them they have a large fish feel about them.

I would much rather kill the bacteria in a small single tank than in my main display. One puts a single fish at risk while the other would put my entire livestock at risk. I can manage a small hospital tank without bacteria as a single fish will produce less ammonia and the smaller size would...

I have to agree with the practice of keeping filtration separate between the hospital tank and the main tank. We don't want pathogens or parasites to be transferred into the main tank. That said, I have only used a hospital tank on very rare occasions. And in those cases it was more for...

I third it! The rock design I have must be cemented. In the past I've just stacked and that was enough. But this tank will be unique.  Since I started this thread I guess I'm not technically hijacking it. Here's a preview.  

Thanks. Just checking. I want that calming effect in my study so I've got to get the tank set up soon! We're finally to a point with moving, and all that I feel I am organized enough to do it. It's a reef tank. The rocks are sitting on a sheet on my floor waiting to be cemented together and...

I'm setting up a 75 gallon up stairs at my house and I'm still worried about it being upstairs. Was yours upstairs for the entire 6 years?

Just out of curiosity, how long have you had the tank set up?