Homemade Fishtank

A basic plenum may be created by suspending egg crate material or under gravel filter plates above the aquarium bottom, using inert supports such as PVC pipe. If egg crate is used, it is covered with nylon screening over which the deep gravel bed is placed. The actual materials, including what grade of gravel or sand is used, vary depending on what literature you read, but usually coarse live sand, fine coral gravel, or a combination of both are used. One technique is to use 2" of live sand on the bottom,

.. use Silicone). There are a myriad of options to choose amongst, doing with solvent density, color... and possibly the use of a primer. I strongly encourage (along with good, square cuts and new/er, clean pipe and fittings) the use of "landscape" PVC solvent... like the green viscous kind/s or best "Christys Red Hot Blue Glue"... which works well even in wet, dirty (under tank) environments.

I am forever telling folks to "work from the fixed end" in doing plumbing work... after carefully measuring, cutting, laying out the parts and cut pipe, to thread, solvent all from the most fixed point (like a wall or a pump or a tank...) on out. Use pap

The male will tend the spawn until the fry become free swimming, and then he should be removed too.

The males of honey gourami have beautiful bright orange-yellow color. The females are plain, have slightly shaded brownish orange body with a silvery fluorescent glow. They prefer aquariums with some thickly planted areas and with some open swimming areas. They usually eat anything you provide them with. These fish are moderately easy to breed, though a little more difficult than the dwarf gourami. For a pair, prepare a 40-liter aquarium

homemade fishtank

Dutch/Wet-Dry/Trickle Filtration: Next

During the late seventies, up through the 1980s and continuing with refinements, the modified sewage treatment technology was/has been/is a great leap forward in improving and maintaining better water quality. To a large degree, these units not only herald, but brought on the mini-reef revolution in aquarium keeping.

Such systems employ a wet and dry area above a separate sump to promote the activity of nitrifying microbes, outside of the disturbances of the main tank. The trickled outflow is well-ox

rlin-Style Filtration: Live Rock & Protein Skimming

Either take the above prototypical wet-dry systems media out entirely or start with a bare tank, add a large quantity of cured live rock to aforesaid wet-dry sump or gravel-less tank, toss in an efficient protein skimmer and you have the essence of a Berlin-Style filtered set-up. Further commonalities of such arrangement

Black Neon Tetra
Few things are as eye-catching as a large school of shimmering tetras. If you already have a school of Neon or Rummy Nose Tetras, consider adding Black Neons....

Common Cichlid Diseases
Like all fish kept in tanks, Cichlids are prone to disease. The artificial environment and closed system are the perfect breeding grounds for pathogens and parasites. Of course, wild fish get diseases, but these go unseen by everyone but fishe.

Brain versus Hammer
I recently moved the brain a little to close to the Hammer and caught this pic at night, 1st time I ever seen the brain put out the stingers since I got him 3 years ago..

LUMENARC Mini
Will two refectors be good on a 72" long tank 150gal. Or three. Anyone know the light spread. 400 watt 20k xms. Thanks.