Remote Aquarium Heater

If your pond is less than 18 inches deep, the fish may freeze during a harsh winter. Check with your local pond supplier if you live in an area with harsh winters.
Some water gardeners with shallow ponds attempt to keep their koi and goldfish in kiddie pools or aquariums set up in a cool basement or garage. This is not recommended because of the extra stress involved in netting, transporting, and re-acclimating the fish to the new e

It does take time, patience in waiting for your tank to "cycle". That is to firmly establish sturdy populations of needed bacteria. You can speed up cycling, shortening the time youll need to wait, but its important to keep in mind that there is no substitute for patience to assure your tank is ready for livestock.

Live Rock, Sand:

Are materials that you can buy or borrow from an established aquarium. These come with their own re

See your local fish store, internet e-tailers for these materials. Theyre placed in your filter flow path to maximize removal. Once again, realized that this is again a "stop-gap" measure, that you need to find, solve the source of the bottle neck in your cycling.

Moving Livestock: Obviously a good, practical approach GIVEN you have room elsewhere in a fully-cycled, stable system. <

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Time Frame: May be zero, as in "instantly cycled", to a few (2-3) weeks generally.

"Used" Media, Substrates:

If you can be sure that a friend, friendly store has no standing issues with pests, parasites, you might utilize some of their "used" filter media, sand/gravel, and "muck" (the gunk that can be vacuumed out from the bottom) to establish nitrogen cycling. Such precious

.. Oh, and waiting a good hour before running water in newly solvented lines is about right in terms of curing time. Okay?

About Pump Fittings:

Most all pumps are fitted with MIPs and FIPs for their intakes/discharges... either male and/or female threaded openings to attach plumbing lines to. Now, listen/read very carefully hear. Im about to relate

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I am starting a new tank now. Scratched Glass
Most of us have run into this problem at one time or another. Care to share your experience with scratched glass? "Does any one know how to fill some scratches....

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Angel Fish Pterophyllum altum (back) & scalare (front)

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