18 36 Watt Aquarium Fluorescent Light

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

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

After setting up the tank, adding water, testing your gear and allowing it to run for a few days, such live material can be added to it.

"Old" Filter Media:

Another "pre-seeded" possibility is placing filter sponge, ceramic media, carbon, polyester/wool et al. from an up-and-running system in your new set-up. Such media can be easily transported damp from one tank to another. One proviso: Make sure the "donor" system has no r

There are many ways to achieve this mythical "high water quality". For folks fortunate by geography there are open systems, pumping new water from the sea and overflowing old to waste. For most all aquarists however, the sum total of what we do to preserve

They are by far, the filters most capable of producing and maintaining high water quality. Their costs of acquisition and operation are commensurate with the enhanced and stable environment they produce.

My Pitch on Installing Filters:

Do it now, as the next step in setting up your system. Thats right, Im encouraging you to fill the tank (and filters) up as is and fire the biological and mechanical

Reply to Need more fishy advice please

Photography is a still of life posted a reply:

Ok well i would agree with everyone here about the guppy being the hardiest fish you can buy, not much else will survive where these happy critters cant.

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phosphates too high
hello again- Well my 90 gallon predator/reef tank has been up in running for about 7 months. Everything is running smoothly so far- water parameters are nitrate > 20 ppm, nitrite 0ppm, ammonia 0 ppm, pH 8.2, salinity 1.025, but phosphates are way to high it's about 5 ppm. For the past two weeks....