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My favorite stands are cement blocks and 2x8 boards. I got a 55 with a factory wood stand, I thew it out, it was made of sawdust... most all the stands I've seen in the store were the same.

Leave it alone and use it as a plenum It's funny, people that never vacuum that are afraid of ugf. mum in the substrate isn't any worse than mum under a ugf. I think of it as dirt for my plants. It's also funny, the rumor that plants won't grow on a ugf

I had good luck with guppies until the other night when I woke up and seen one of my fat girls slaughtering shrimp... she killed them all... was body parts every where...

Show me a river with a perfect fine sand bottom. Ripples runs and holes In over 40 years I've never seen a barb lost to gavel

Feed a lot less food, they can only increase with a food supply My Africans love snails, I use a net to scrape them up to the top and a toothbrush to get them off the glass into the net. They don't make it to the bottom dumping them in with the africans

You know what a cattle feed lot looks like? How pork is raised, egg laying chickens or chicken houses. Puppies....... It's funny how tree huggers give fish feeling and emotions

If an organism is eating, growing, putting on weight then it's thriving Ever fish a over stocked pond? You catch big headed fish with small bodies

my ten gallon cherry shrimp aquarium. Plants, are all trimmings out of my 55 Water, it's wet Lights, medium on for 7 hours a day Ferts, pps pro Maintenance, just like all my others. Pic, taken today

There are very few old large fish in nature, most all fry are born to be food. Mother nature is a B

Water don't cost much here

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I'm not sure if you have two males, one subdominant and not colored up.

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