Recent content by ruskoinabiscuit

wow that's quite the setup, and pretty damn impressive. I don't have room for the extra equipment atm unfortunately. That would have to be a future solution for me once I can get a house, but where I live there isn't a home for under 1million... I know a few engineers that live in my apartment...

I could use math to know how much I took out and calculate how much is going back in If I remove 3 five gallon buckets that's 15 gallons going back in. If it's easy I can do more and have little to no evaporation. If going from the bucket to the tank, pumps would be required.

I want to build a simple system for water changes. I'm just done with filling up 5 gallon buckets and dumping into the tank. Doing this on a 55g is just too much work for me atm, full time job - toddler - arthritis - it just sucks. I want to use my gravel tube to empty into the buckets - and...

Hi all, when I got my plants I noticed ich on my fish, so I had no choice but to raise the temps to 87f for two weeks. After that was gone I lowered to 74f. About 3 weeks have passed since then and in that time I have experienced very little to no plant growth and they are now covered in...

That may be a good idea if you do it carefully - yeah our water is really hard.