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Buy the best skimmer that you can afford in the beginning.

Select a model that is likely to require no more maintenance than you can reliably commit to. Easy to clean and adjust.

Clean interior skimmer neck and any air-injecting apparatus frequently! Weekly or more frequently for neck and cup cleanings to improve skimmate production.

Proper installation is crucial for success! Surface extraction and static water levels are critical. No open sump applications!

Strive to collect a full cup of dark skimmate daily from any aquarium system. Low nutrient systems are far less common than poorly adjusted, designed, or in

In fact, it is a good general rule of thumb to not add anything to your aquarium unless you understand exactly what it will do to the water quality, what benefit you expect from the product, and what the long-term implications are for its use.

Use of Chemical Filtration Media

An excellent means of nutrient control and export is to utilize some form of chemical filtration in your system. There are many different products on the market that are formulated to remove everything from ammonia to phosphat

Monitor the temperature of your aquarium carefully until you get the ice replacement times down to a science to maintain a stable temperature.

Close the shades on windows in the room. Even indirect sunlight will raise the room temperature by a degree or two and every little bit helps. You can also reduce the amount of time the aquarium lights are on. The tank lights contribute greatly to higher water temperatures. Dont leave the lights off all the time though. Thats bad for your fish too! If you have a freshwater planted aquarium, which requires at lea

DIY Aquarium Cave
This tidbit I recieved in the mail today was too good not to share. Mark Shoemaker and Esther Baum wrote these great 10 step do it yourself instructions for creating an....

Fish on a plane
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060822_venomous_fish.html.

Need help with DIY Moonlights
I'm looking for ideas to put moonlights in my 30 gallon Eclipse system hood. Where you guys get your Moonlights from, I check Canadian Tire & HD, they don't have it and BA and e-bay costing a lot. Any ideas how to make them or places to get them from.

Angel fish

angel fish

Angel Fish Pterophyllum altum (back) & scalare (front)

After keeping and breeding Angel fish for a couple of years I decided.