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add a towel. drape a large towel or two over the tank. black out all the light.

i thought discus was one of those black water soft species that did need the low parameters. or is that just with those who want to breed them? i just want to them to swim around and not die.

if its after your corse mechanical filtration. you want the mechanical filtration to get finner as it travels through the filter, not corser. water to hit the corser filter sock then panty hose then the rest of yoru filtration. bio or chem. if you use puragin sock-pantyhose-puragin

anyone have suggestions on how to deal with ph and hardness in freshwater? i need to lower the ph to 6 and greatly lower the hardness if i remember correctly driftwood helps lower ph avoid reef sand for hardness anyone recommend chemicals to deal with the rest? or are there other "objects" that can be put in a tank to help regulate the ph and hardness? are there rocks that lower hardness? i know limestone etc raise it... or is the only option really jsut to buy water?

puragin is a synthetic bead. you can buy it at places like petsmart for 10$. its a bag of little white beads. it works like that blue filter floss on your filtration system except it picks up super super fine particles. the stuff it pics up contributes to the accumlation of detritus. if you decide to use it put in your filtration system like you would carbon or other media. make water pass through it and it will super filter your water. panty hose is another just simple cheap cheap filter media. the pores are so fine that it helps at collecting stuff out of the water colum before it settles down on the surface of your rocks etc increasing your detritus problem. the easiest way to use it is to take some and rubber band it on the output tubes in the tank. you will see that in a day or two it will be all sorts of nasty colors. that is just nastyness that has collected on the pantyhose. change it ever so often so that your flow is not hurt. that has always worked for me for never having detritus.

puragin is a miracle product. it is crazy awsome. you can pick it up from petsmart etc. i think it is the best product that seachem makes and probably the best 15$ that can be spent in the hobby. you can clean it, reuse it. it pics up soo much stuff that you didnt even know that was there.

the closest thing i have heard of was on the X1 the plane chuck yeager used, he had a problem with condensation on the windshield freezaing. he used a thin layer of soap and the water oil thing happened. but i dont know if that is the best idea for aquariums

just so i could learn somthin... what is ORP?

purigen is gods gift for this mess. put a bag of it in your filtration system. even if its a HOB aquaclear. get water passing through it and in about a week it will be black with the stuff it picked up. panty hose also works as a good fine filter. cut off a foot piece and wrap around all the outputs or whatnot and change every few days it will make a world of differene. (works well as bio media)

looks too thin to keep stuff happy. it looks baraly wide enough for fish to turn around

bubble algee is also known as sausage algea. it looks a little sausagey..

yes. conch eat snails as a big part of diet. why if you see oone eating in the ocean watch and you will sea an army of hermit crabs behind it trying just to fight over the shells that come out. tough realestate market.

DISCUS!! im setting up a discus tank for my aunt. Very intersted!

man that makes me want to kick out my room mate and start a tank just to keep that one clam!!

! i tried to watch that. but online the episodes are all messsed up. so many are missing or mislinked!!!

Im applying to universities in china. No reason really other than i have nothing holding me to austin and im still young enough to think flying to china to a university i know hardly anything about just for the fact that its dirt cheap... However the schools are oddly light for information. they seem to always tell me i will get more information when i show up. American universities will provide so much information because for americans thats how we are sold. apparently that is not much a standard. has anyone spent time living or studying china? any experiences would be enlighting. Im looking at schools in Changchun, Tianjin, and Shanghai.

wasnt here. from austin american statesman. totally blew me away someone would try to scam those. i could believe trying to scam movies or tv or electronic equipment. i could see scamming furniture. but a rare live animal like that? ill post his name whatnot after im done with the police.

well again i have these seahorses. someone offered to buy them and lo-and behold they send me a fake check. really?? who tries to scam for seahorses? like no resale value... these are going to be gone by wed. im either going to take them to sthe store or if someone anyone wants them let me know. if you can come by wed between 2-7 you can have it all. give me what you want. 50$ 20$ or free whatever. 512 809 2348 madison second time ive been attempted to be scammed for these horses.

ive got some HOB penguins. 5$? love to get these out of the house.

anyone interested in seahorses. 2 horses Lr ~20-30 lbs macro corals 100$ i just need this stuff gone.

the copper should have directions on it. but in laymans terms treat the fish for several days after the last syptom has disapeared. this way you are sure the dissease is killed. it should take mabye 2 weeks at least? the bottle shold have directions on it.

it still could be ick. could come in on the lr. move your fish to a little hospital tank, 10 gal or somthing like that. and treat him there. this way you can use copper and not kill your invertabrets. 10 gal is 10$ at petsmart. copper i think is 3.99?

sounds like ick. copper is the best thing for that. but i have never actually worked with it. someone who has may speak up.

check the sump. ive found fish down there that i didnt think it could get down there.