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My favorite stands are cement blocks and 2x8 boards. I got a 55 with a factory wood stand, I thew it out, it was made of sawdust... most all the stands I've seen in the store were the same.

Leave it alone and use it as a plenum It's funny, people that never vacuum that are afraid of ugf. mum in the substrate isn't any worse than mum under a ugf. I think of it as dirt for my plants. It's also funny, the rumor that plants won't grow on a ugf

I had good luck with guppies until the other night when I woke up and seen one of my fat girls slaughtering shrimp... she killed them all... was body parts every where...

Show me a river with a perfect fine sand bottom. Ripples runs and holes In over 40 years I've never seen a barb lost to gavel

Feed a lot less food, they can only increase with a food supply My Africans love snails, I use a net to scrape them up to the top and a toothbrush to get them off the glass into the net. They don't make it to the bottom dumping them in with the africans

You know what a cattle feed lot looks like? How pork is raised, egg laying chickens or chicken houses. Puppies....... It's funny how tree huggers give fish feeling and emotions

If an organism is eating, growing, putting on weight then it's thriving Ever fish a over stocked pond? You catch big headed fish with small bodies

my ten gallon cherry shrimp aquarium. Plants, are all trimmings out of my 55 Water, it's wet Lights, medium on for 7 hours a day Ferts, pps pro Maintenance, just like all my others. Pic, taken today

There are very few old large fish in nature, most all fry are born to be food. Mother nature is a B

Water don't cost much here

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I'm not sure if you have two males, one subdominant and not colored up.

Bump...

Put your water into a white container just before a water change and tell me it doesnt have some color, I don't care how well a tank is taken care of, you might not see it through the front of a tank, but you will looking through from the long end If you want to try a uv it won't hurt a damn...

What really amazed me is 5 or 6 days into a water change when the water starts looking a little yellowish looking in from the end of the tank, running the uv in my can a day or two a week the fish will look like their still swimming in air.

Bryon... the bulb is enclose the fish can't even see it. They do clear up green water and make the water crystal clear.

It like the stuff that grows mushrooms, it's everywhere Mycelium

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Ps in a year and a half l have only used 4oz of the algae fx

Plants need love to... Before I had my first planted tank I didn't mind algae, kept the lights on 24 7, heck algae wasn't really a problem. I washed my plastic plants stirred and vacuumed the gravel and cleaned the glass. My planted tanks have seen it all... I spent good money for those...

I never was impressed with the flow of my 402b sunsun can, and it always sucked a little air, but then the primer button popped and stopped working and it started suckling so much air it stopped a couple times... After buying a ' penguin 350 to replace it I took it apart to see what had...

my yellow labs spawned! Hope my male was old enough to fertilize the eggs.

It's working, a great value 5w 5000k

I read that a lower wattage heater might be on more but cycle a lot less than a higher powered heater causing a lot less wear on the contacts

I've been making the switch to adjustable heaters to try to lower my electric bill a little bit, I'm heating a lot of water. Only my new bettas or my Africans need to be heated up to 78 or higher. Most all my tanks now are running 72-76

I've had 3 stick this year.... The hydor 50w I got in a used aquarium stuck, woke up around 3am after setting it up and the temp was well over 80. A tetra 50 had heated one over 90.... Found it during a wc. Oscar's 300 ebay heater was stuck on, but the element had a bad connection. I had...

mutt guppis are the coolest

They cost around thirty bucks at petco. Petsmart and petco will test it for free

Put the plants in now. They have beneficial bacteria on them that'll help cycle the tank.

A few nitrates isn't gonna kill you, hotdogs got them. Worrying about them might... It would be nice to have water out of the tap without nitrates. If it's good enough for us to eat or drink them, then it's good enough for the fish. Drawing the line, a person can go overboard, this is...

Ever eat a hotdog or bologna sandwich?