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Happy day, Each day I make amazing strides towards realizing the goal of having a modest little fish room. Each night at 3:23am I wake up in agony, mostly because of someone's sharp elbows reminding me not to snore. Its kinda weird, really. It seems that each snort, snore, grunt or heavy...

Happy day...I like ordering online as the options are usually much better than my LFS. I like aquabid.com a lot, and Sachs Aquaculture has some neat local stuff. You could also ask your LFS if they would order you some fish. A benefit of that is that it keeps their doors open, and when you...

Happy day...what the hell is the matter with you, Wills? Can't you see that I am already struggling under the weight of my addiction? For god sakes, man, I have clients expecting me to be working! Hmm...but I will give them the illusion that I am working, which is fair because they give me...

Happy day EYP, Yeah, that's a bit of an issue for us victims, isn't it. I was just looking for Stiphodon stuff and then next thing you know, BAM, the site just sort of *****-slapped the time right out of my life. Then I saw their YT videos and time went BAM again.

Happy day, So as I start torturing myself about my upcoming projects, I came across https://biotopeaquariumproject.com/ and I was wondering if any of you were members. If so, is the site for scientists or can a lummox like me pick a place on the planet, see the critters and then source the...

Happy day...this is good to know. I always make sure to huff the paint before I apply it to make sure it is fresh. Somewhere along the way I learned that fresh paint is much more likely to stay attached than older paint.

Happy day! In May I am going to start construction on my most ambitious aquarium project since 1989, when I opened an aquarium store inside a department store in Columbia, MD. I am going to be remodeling The Haven (I really don't understand why my wife insists on calling it my playroom, but...

Happy day...so how did that bit of conversation so? Did you look meaningfully at your parents and say with a penetrating stare..."So...if you won't let me put in a fish tank, maaaayyybe I'll go buy a new rifle."

Happy day...I too love the UNS tanks and have 2 so far. I was wondering how this build turned out. I am interested in building a river tank that features stiphodon and am collecting ideas now.

Happy day...I think you need to throw the bastards out :-)

Happy day...a friend in MD has a 4-foot deep pond and he keeps crayfish (not dwarf) in his with his koi and fancy golds. As long as it has a few piles of rocks to move between, it should be fine. Carp are filthy fish, so ammonia buildup is something to consider.

Happy day...I think it is a Politiobraineo Feastio and it is globally indigenous in the water supplies of buildings inhabited by politicians.

Happy day..I am sorry for your loss and hope that a happy memory can lessen the grief you feel this day. By chance did you do a water change and not dechlorinate?

Happy day...I am no where near as smart as @Colin_T but I agree that the lower ph will corrode the snail shells over time. But 10 gallon tanks are cheap and easy to come by so re-homing the snails is easy to do (notice how slick that was...in sales lingo, I used a presumed close to set the...

Happy day...my old big Whisper has finally gave its last breath and shuffled off this mortal coil. So old and noisy it became that I put it into a small cooler to muffle the sound, but time just ran out. I came across https://fishlab.com/aquarium-air-pump/ and what I liked about this was that...

Happy day, I stumbled on their site not too long ago and I am glad to have found your post. Do you feel that you received good value for the price? I can't help but commend you on resisting the urge to chew on those stems. Its a good thing they put a warning label on it. Now that it has...

Happy day, So I stumbled on this area of the forums and wanted to comment on the app noted below. I found a few videos from Bentley Pascoe on YT, who did an in-depth review of various lighting settings () that Fluval has. A video he released last year for the 3.0 Nano had a full 10-point...

Happy day...in these most interesting times, it is important to be good to one another, be you a stranger waiting to become a friend or otherwise. $8 postage is a smalI price to pay for the pleasure of smiles, the squeals of childish joy and a permanent happy story to tell about how there was...

Happy day...I agree that the 5 gallon is too small for the cory cats. Depending on how you plant it, amano shrimp could help with the cleaning, or even a dwarf crayfish.

Happy day...you said..."moved to another tank. After these guys pass..." which makes me wonder...to what sort of tank are they being moved? It sure sounds like they are being moved to The Tank. That said, we have very hard water where I live and I keep blue dreams. To increase the chance of...

Happy day....I've used gorilla and loctite brands of glue before, but in the end, I just found that using a bit of dark green thread worked as well. When I was mucking around with anubis, I found that half of the plants I glued simply broke off at the base. There was also that unfortunate...

Happy day...another fun thing you can do is to stick them together using toothpicks. You can have Marimo Men, Marimo Pyramids or Marimo Sacrificial Alters, although the latter might be frowned upon by certain species as being far too suggestive.

Happy day...another way to rid them more quickly than finger-picking would be to take a 1/4 cucumber cut lengthwise, scoop out the seeds and drop it to the bottom. You can old it in place with a wooden skewer jammed into the substrate at a slight angle. The snails should flock to it and after...

Happy day...I agree with the whistler. As an alternative, you could also do coconut fiber. I've not yet had a an issue where the bottom of the glass was damaged as far as I know because...well...its covered up most of the time, right?

Happy day....a school of Anableps or, failing that, an Australian shepherd.

You'd really have to be curious enough to Google it, and then one would see why it fits with the danio personality :-) There is an elegance to using mono for lighting. I have your package ready....its a bit different. There's definitely java fern and red root floaters plus some sort of...

Happy day...that's a badass tank! I love the Dagoba swamp look of the roots hanging down. What kind of foul brew is to the left of the tank in the suspiciously leering bottle? And what is the plant with the pink and green leaves? Do you have light above it? I saw a YT where a guy took...

Happy day...that is a beautiful tank. As I've written about a few times, I have two small tanks using the Walstad method. The first tank became know as the Bedroom Pond Feature after four weeks, and then the plants kicked into high gear, the amano shrimp went to work and the oto knocked out...

Happy day...we are...a house divided. But my son and I were thrilled that Harbaugh was re-signed, and noted that it is at a relatively low buy-out to give them flexibility. We do not wish for people to become unemployed.

Happy day, ***WARNING....this post may have words and ideas deemed cringe-worthy, politically incorrect or socially inappropriate given the current lens at which we view words today. If you are likely to be...what did the kid call it...triggered...yeah...triggered...then you should skip this...

Happy day EYP...how gross was that? Why would it be white inside? That guy is definitely far more handy than I will ever be. I think those were the feeder ghost shrimp and they were certainly chowing on everything in dumped in there. You know...you probably have some amazing native species...

Happy day EYP...do you happen to know how it would do in a Walstad method tank (no filter no pump)? And while I can move the adult snails out, what might I do with the pea puffer afterwards? Or because I have hundreds of snails, I won't have to cope with this for a while and the tank that was...

Happy day...in the past few weeks since I posted this, a lot has changed. Firstly, I am now reasonably certain that they are not bladder/pond snails, but mystery snails. Secondly, and of more interest, there are now hundreds. Whereas the MTS have die offs...do mystery snails? Or do they keep...

Happy day, I am one of those annoying types. I use organic dirt and in a 5g have a gravel cap and in a 10g I used Eco-complete. Both are under 10 months old and seem fine so far. My 125 has larger gravel only and no rooted plants...just java fern and anubis and a messload of floaters, also...

Happy day EYP...yeah, good old Loomster. He released a new video yesterday. That dude inspired two tanks of mine and I am pondering converting another to Walstad.

Happy day...time for the toothbrush trick. Place the toohbrush in the tank with the bristles on the rock. Gently twist your wrist as you move along the rock, which will rotate the toothbrush and wind the algae around it. When done, place it in spouse or child's toothbrush holder and prepare...

Happy day...in another life I did the mosquito larve thing in the house. I know I posted about that earlier, but man, it caused all sorts of ruckus when they stopped being larve, let me tell you. A few years ago I tried the ant thing. I thought I was pretty crafty in luring the ants into a...