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I've been super busy! I help a disabled friend with her cats M-W-F each week after work, sometimes spend Tuesday eve with my friend Jean at the barn with her horse Maverick and have my small faith...

For low maintenance, I would go with large schools of tetras. Easy to feed, no uneaten food to worry about. Rummynose, green neons or bloodfins and either congos or diamonds. That would be SOME...

Try Rachel O'Leary at msjinkzd.com. She's in PA.

I have a 29 gal with 11 diamond tetras, with only 1 male who rules the tank. If you keep them in a large enough group, with enough females, I think aggression should be minimal, just some chasing. ...

I agree, your tank looks great. Very nice job.

Be patient, your cycle is moving along as it should.

Excellent advice from Natalia. Below is a link to a great article about keeping soft water fish in hard water, you have many more options...

What RO unit do you have? If you're happy with the dGH of 4, don't mess with it. Forget the Equilibrium and use only the Seachem Acid & Alkaline Buffers to adjust and buffer your pH (you have to do...

With RO water you must re-mineralize to achieve a desired dGH and also adjust and buffer your pH. Reverse osmosis removes calcium and magnesium (dGH is 0) and changes your pH to a very unstable 7.0....

They are from the floral dept at Michael's. I used PVC pipe and drilled holes for the stems to go in (unfortunately this has not worked out as well as I had hoped). You can use rocks and stick them...

You new decor looks great and I like the colors you chose. Maybe add a couple of tall plants to hide the intake tube on the right (when looking into the tank from the front) and fill in the open...

They are handsome!

BTW, Matt is going to have a cow when he sees the length of your Gourami poop!!!!!!!

Your plants are artificial, yes? I have all artificial plants in my tanks. I really like the Aquatop brand plants and I also use silk and plastic plants from Michael's. Make sure you have plants...

No water problems, params are 0/0/5 with a weekly 80% PWC, pH 7.0, dGH 8, temp in summer 78. Water is clear as there are 2 layers of polyfil in each of 3 media baskets and my biomedia is clean, no...

Personally, I would forget the platies and add more neons & endlers. They look super in larger schools and with the cories and gourami it would be a really nice tank.

Which cories are you...

I would also add a lot more plants/decor in the 55 to break up the sight line. Your tank is pretty sparsely scaped and all the fish can easily each other. It also makes them more comfortable to have...

I appreciate the input. I really am used to the new silence in my living room, as all 3 tanks now have canisters, 2 SunSuns and a Rena Filstar XP-M, which is in the dual 29s cabinet with a SunSun...

The next time you need a canine friend for your Koi, make it a Frenchie. There are 2 videos.
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What about using a Danner 4 outlet air pump, with 4 jetlifter tubes, instead of the water pump? I was concerned that the heat from the pump would raise the water temp in the summer, but for the...

Both AC110s on my 75 gal died at the same time, so I took the SunSun canister and inline heater from one of my RO/DI water containers, stuffed all the biomedia from the ACs into it and voila,...

All 3 of my ACs died within 2 weeks. And being that my 75 gal is in my living room, I love the silent running of the SunSun canister. And I mean silent. The AC110s were very noisy right out of the...

Yea, Natalia & I are both "AC-less". For my 75 gal tank I think I am going to get the bigger SunSun canister, 525 gph, rated for 150 gal. The 264 gph (rated for 75 gal) model HW302 is doing a super...

Another forum member to meet? Way too cool!

Debin, if you can drive, that's what I'd do, especially if you plan on buying anything. Parking is free, get there early, before the expo opens, to...

Get out the kleenex, this story has a happy ending. I feed Merrick kibble to my cats.
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My Mr Betta also has a 10 gal all his own. He patrols the entire tank. A 2-1/2 gal is good for shrimp and nothing else.

If you have BB growing on the carbon you don't want to just throw it out, as you will be throwing away your cycle.

Remove a small amount of the carbon every 10 days, adding the biomedia to replace...