On a big tank with an overflow would it be better to use a very big reactor or to use multiple reactors?

I was checking out The Fish Place's plant selection and I noticed that they won't ship out to California due to state restrictions. Does anybody know what the deal is with this?

Hi all, I recently bought a plant with long stem and small round leaves attached to the stems from the bottom of the stem to the top. I'm sorry I don't have the name of the plant, but can provide pictures of it if that is desired to determine the answer to my question. This plant had all green...

Can any one tell me their experiences with a Carbo-Plus CO2 device? Does it work better than other CO2 setups? It looks fairly simple - but how is it for cost and reliability? I am using a CO2 tank and power reactor now and am wondering whether I should switch to the Carbo-Plus unit Thanks

I've set up a Yeast CO-2 system and have been toying with different ways of diffusing the gas into the tank. Last night I hooked the CO-2 line directly into the inlet of my canister filter. I was going to set up a powerhead and airstone as per a couple of websites but thought that the canister...

The East Coast Aquarium Society is holding a general meeting Sunday, May 16, 2004 between 2:30-4:30PM at the Keshen Goodman Public Library (330 Lacewood Drive) in Halifax, NS, Canada. Presentation topic: Betta Care by L.Godley. All are welcome to attend. For further details visit our...

Hi, Im looking for a 55 watt 5000k power compact bulb for my aquarium. I need the bulb w/ the square pin configuration. I can't find them anywhere! Ive got two burned out ones, but I dont remember where I got them. AHsupply only has the straight pin configuration. I really need to get some...

I think they were hungry ...

**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** I finally got it, I bought the one without the powerhead, which means it needs to be connected to the outlet of a canister filter or some sort to work. Anyway, I open the jar up, noticed there are two things, the filter bag, and the...

I've recently eliminated adding nitrate to my aquarium since my fish are growing bigger and there is enough supplied naturally. For my macros I used to add potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, and phosphate. Now I'm only adding potassium sulfate in double the quantity that I used to in order...

Anyone ever try to use a marine protein skimmer With fresh water to take duckweed out of planted (Duckweed infested) tank?? Would the babies get taken in?? Would mature fish get taken in??

A friend called me and wants some banana plants... I told him to not do it, but he was calling from the LFS, so when I told him no, I overheard the LFS girl say, they're not a bog plant, they're aquatic, they'll be just fine... I _did_ say they might be a bog plant, cuz everyone I've ever had,...

Well, to my suprise, the Aponogeton plants that I have always assumed were sterile hybrids might just have been successful at reproducing after almost two years. When feeding the fish today, I looked at one of the decaying flower stalks and saw the following, which I assume is a...

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In "A practical guide to choosing your aquarium plants", Peter Hiscock advocates letting one of the sponges in a canister filter clog up so as to allow for anaerobic bacteria to develop there, as a complement to the anaerobic bacteria which are (hopefully) building up in the substrate. For the...

How big do these usually get. This one hasn't stopped growing for the past 3 days. Its about 2 1/2 inches right now. http://www.crapehanger.com/flower.jpg

Is there a website out there with info and pictures of different kinds of algae in aquaria and how best to treat each kind? I seem remember something like this, but can't seem to find it. If there's not one, maybe someone here can help me. I've got a kind of green flim algae that covers my...

I was thinking about getting a Diatom Filter and got a little sidetracked by the H.O.T. Magnum which I guess comes with a Micron Cartridge that polishes the water. Considering the H.O.T. is priced rather low I was wondering what you guys thought of that as an alternative to a Diatom Filter right?

I had received messages from half a dozen people that the windows version of my Planted Aquarium Calculator crashed when they tried to start the calculator. A new version has been posted today (May 4th) which fixes the startup crash on non-US windows installations. If anyone is still having...

Has anybody had an experience ordering plants from www.aquabotanic.com .... ?