Rena Aquarium Filter

Inert materials such as PVC pipe sections may be used to create hiding places for your fishes.

Setting Up and Using the Quarantine Tank

Setting up is a very simple process. Several days before the arrival of your new animals, fill the aquarium with water from your main system. Introduce the filter, plug in the heater, and youre ready to go. (Heres a tip: If you keep your filter sponge or other quarantine tank filter media in your main systems sump when the quarantine tank is not running, you will always have a filter that is fully colonized by beneficial bacteria at all times.)

Following a proper dip/

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Despite all their potential and actual pitfalls, metal halides are here to stay. They do produce great quantities of lumens, and a gorgeous shimmering appearance underwater. Used properly by themselves or in concert with fluorescents they are the closest mimics to better-than-natural lighting for captive systems. My three gripes with metal halides are 1) their inherent costs, 2) safety, efficacy of use concer

You need to evaluate whether a given skimmer will work at all and then you need to decide how much work you are willing to put into getting it to perform optimally.

Some of these objective concerns are:

Contact time (how long the bubbles are in contact with the solution)

The size and consistency of the bubbles produced (generally smaller is better, in this case)

The volume of bubbles produced

The ratio of air to water

Reply to Need more fishy advice please

Photography is a still of life posted a reply:

Ok well i would agree with everyone here about the guppy being the hardiest fish you can buy, not much else will sur.

Mud sump
Hi, my husband is starting a new 170 gal tank with a 100 gal mud sump for me. Is it ok to take maybe a third of the mud from my 50 gal mud sump and use it like a sourdough starter? How long would it take for it to cycle? Thanks.