Why Is My Fish Tank So Cloudy

Most importantly, choose your livestock and identify their needs before buying a fixture. Too many aquarists buy lighting to fit a tank size without consideration of the living guests.

Options for dcor in large aquaria are limited only by ones imagination. A wide variety of natural and synthetic materials can be used to construct attractive and effective habitats for the aquarium residents. Natural substrates like rock, gravel and s

Artificial substrates like plastic, fiberglass and resins are lightweight but inefficient in many ways for a lack of porosity (limiting their ability to become significantly biological in time). Enlisting the minds and resources of a good aquarium society can be quite helpful for perspective from experienced and well-traveled aquarists. Some public aqua

Plainly these are very successful systems with many, many types of life (albeit necessarily in miniature) flourishing in them. There are actually dozens of different species of hard and soft corals here, as well as zoanthids and corallimorphs, Starfishes, even an occasional fish! All in peak condition and beautiful coloring (various images as listed below).

Filtration: Consists of a Skilter 250 on each tank. These hang on the back power filters have been modified to greatly bolster their efficiency. A wooden airstone is fitted down the contact chamber of each and a bag of phosphate remover and Chemipure has been placed in the back as

A properly decorated tank with plenty of hiding places and caves allows the fish to "feel at home," so they dont fight and stress each other to the point of killing one another.

The behavior patterns and aggressiveness of various fish is also a factor that can limit how many fish can be kept together. Keeping fish together that are unevenly matched in aggressive tendencies usually leads to a tank with one or

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There are several other filtering "efforts" that secondarily, tertiarily serve as adjuncts to biological filtration. Youll get a glimpse of most of them in the nest two sections on physical/mechanical, and chemical filtration methods.

Mini-Aquariums
College classes are beginning, but that doesn't mean you have to give up on pets just because you live in a dorm or small apartment. Mini-aquariums can be....

Corydoras in the aquarium

corydoras

Corydoras aeneus

The large corydoras family contains at least 120 different species, and a lot of these are widel.

microbubbles
hi everyone, i notice that sometimes my power head shoots out microbubbles...anyone know why, it looks like it burps and shoots them out. Also will too much flow at the surface cause microbubbles. My skimmer cause a little bit of bubbles but t.