Recent content by mikey11

replace your media only when absolutely necessary, i have had foam sponges in my HOB filters and cannister filters last 3-4 YEARS!....i have had air powered sponge filters last 20 years!! every few weeks is rediculous, it will do more harm then good also, never replace ALL of the media in your...

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using glue was your mistake, i dont see the point in doing that, i just use a few pieces of scotch tape at each end

i think you are worrying way too much

why bother buying a stand and re-enforcing it? you are better off just to build your own, i have had hundreds of tanks in my time, i have never bought a stand, i build my own...and they are much better then anything you can buy

Red Tail Shark is among the worst community tank members out there, Best kept with a tank full of african cichlids......and even then, if your going to have one.....ONLY HAVE ONE!

i use a single eheim jagger in a 100 gallon tank....it does fine, and that tank is located in a very cool basement, if your tank is located in a semi-warm location, the one eheim may be enough

feed them live baby brine shrimp and they will gobble it down like a kid to candy......

a lot of people think keeping fish in an aquarium is cruel in general, regardless of how big the tank is, its not a natural environment, keeping fish in an aquarium is really the equivalent of you living your entire life in your bedroom with no tv or electronics or anything to do, and twice a...

it "should" be fine, when you can its always best to place an aquarium against a load bearing wall, also place the tank so it runs perpendicular to the floor beams, not parallel to them

just leave the heater unplugged and stop worrying about it, putting cold water in to lower the temp is worse for the fish

depends on how big the tank is, but they can easily get to 12 inches

definitely preggo

i have been breeding all kinds of tropical fish for over 20 years.....the first thing i tell people who want to start breeding fish is that you can not look at your fry as pets, you have to look at them as inventory, and you have to have no heart when it comes to culling, and you must cull them...

4 max....but that would be without any other fish in the tank