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I appreciate your responce. I do care for fish, pets, objects to a degree, but no where near the same level as a human life. It was not my intent to imply that people that are upset over loosing a pet have their priorities in life askew either. My point was that everyone has a different...

A.i.m., I hope I am getting to your question in my responce. In theory, Having a larger volume of filter media would make little difference over having a smaller media volume provided you have a consistant source of nitrogen nutrients entering the system. Just like fish, you tank has a...

I know I am new here, and I don't mean to try to insult anyone or hurt anyone's feelings at all. To me, they are just fish. I have been a little upset when a fish died, but on the same level if I lost a screwdriver or allen wrench. Yes they are living organisms, and should not be abused, but...

How big do you think that tank is? Around 900 Gallons or so? I'm planning to have a large tank built as I figure out how to do it.

Do you mean population of an individual species, or on a more generic scale, like squid and size of different species? Or more like how Orca's seem to have 2-3 subspecies? Don't know. Yes, perhaps the best illustrations to my knowledge are volcanic vents at extreme temps, and the cold...

Thanks Lateral Line, I have been looking around and found some similar things. Campbell Scientific makes data loggers that can set off an alarm in their software. It looks like I could have this trigger a switch to turn on, or off heaters. I haven't seen the programming but I should be able...

Printer paper would work, probably will not catch on fire. Would produce a diffuse light. Remember Farenheit 451? 451F is the flashpoint of paper. A few thin strips of aluminum foil would work as well. Think small 1" by 20" long strip or two to reduce downward light. Just lay on the top of...

Hi all, I have a few heater related questions. When I had lager tropical tanks, I would usually run with the single largest heater I could, but often that was enough and I had to use two heaters due to tank volume. This worked fine and dandy, but it ended up being that one heater was doing...

Wow, There seem to be many young ones here. I'm in my late 20's.

HCl will not burn your skin in low concentrations. Diluted enough it is actually very mild, and pretreating your water and testing for pH eleminates risk to fish. It is the same as adding salt to your tank while getting pH dropping benefits. CO2 will work to a point. You are adding carbonic...

No, Hydrochloric isn't toxic. You would want to dilute it a bunch. At a low dilution of HCl and a high pH you normally end up with extra salt in your tank. Using natural methods to reduce pH work well too.

Making your own would not be hard. Most any strong acid will work well for your needs. HCl, (hydrochloric, muratic) would be one of the easiest, and would drop the pH fast and raise the salinity a little. You could aslo use phosphoric or nitric acid as well, these will add nutrients into your...

1. Always had an interest in fish keeping. Started in my early years around ten. When in undergrad I ran a fish lab, breed thousands upon thousands of zebra fish. Appeals to my OC/D, lots of things to mess with. 2. First tank that was totally under my control was when I was around 13 or...

This scenario happened to a buddy of mine when we were deployed last year. He had a friend checking in on his fish daily, and they had a power outage in the middle of winter. He lost all but two of his cichlids. There isn't any cheap tricks to this. You could get a back up power source, or...

All, I'm in the planning stage to have a larger sized custom tank built. The general idea is that this tank will be a permenant fixture in my house. I'll throw in a brief list of my generic plans, as it will help answer the questions I have. Generic Plans: This is going to be a larger L or...

I used to have a pile of Clown loaches, they do better in groups. Clown loaches like to play together in groups. Your loach is probably trying to follow a playmate around, while the rtbs is probably freaking out. Probably doesn't help the shark that Clown Loaches are good swimmers. Mine...

Hi all, I'm new here. I'm getting back into fish keeping after about 7-8 years off. I've been doing work for Uncle Sam that has kept me deploying all over for a bit. Currently I have no tanks running, but the plan is to have a custom tank built into my house. Anyone know of good places to...