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    Filters for 125g Question

    I had a love/hate relationship with my FX6. Loved how well it did, hated to clean it. I'd love to see the cleaning method that gets it clean in 5 minutes, I was clearly doing something wrong! I would take mine, drain the water into a rubbermaid container, toss all my media in the rubbermaid...
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    130 gal stocking with geo. Tapojas

    The leopards is an odd mix for this tank, but I assume you weren't trying to stay all SA?
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    Roekil sevs super slow growers?

    My SAs have always been hit and miss when it comes to growth rate, but I think that is common. I will have some that grow like a weed, others that grow pretty normal. This is my first one that I have had almost a year that just doesn't seem to be putting on size, my concern was exactly what...
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    Roekil sevs super slow growers?

    So, I picked up a rotkeil sev about this time last year and granted he was tiny, probably 1" maybe 1.25". He has been in similar water conditions for the last year or so always in decent sized tanks (125+) but he just doesn't seem to want to grow. At first he was super picky and only wanted...
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    ~~~LET'S SEE THOSE EARTHEATERS~~~

    I was tempted to order that, but looked WAY too black in the photos I kept finding online. Thanks for clarifying, I believe that made up my mind!
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    ~~~LET'S SEE THOSE EARTHEATERS~~~

    What substrate is that in the second picture?
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    Need help with unknown overflow system

    Those are Aqueon Megaflow overflows, but someone has modified the top opening. The top opening should also have the small slits like bottom does, but someone has cut them out to make that one large hole. Best bet would be like duanes said secure mesh over the hole to keep fish out of it and you...
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    Uaru Pair - Digging out a spot

    What are your tank parameters? I have a few I am growing out, but am expecting my pH to be much too high for them to breed in. Assuming I will have to slowly work on lowering it if I want them to breed.
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    Uaru grow out?

    I would suggest doing a grow out tank. Ideally you'd want to QT them and not add them directly to the tank anyways. I have 3 small Uaru in a 40 breeder growing out now, they would definitely have had issues competing for food initially in a tank with established fish. They took a few days to...
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    Fluval FX6 intake/output hose placement in tank

    So, I like to live by the KISS rule and the hillstream manifold seems overly complicated for what it accomplishes in the end. Especially if you are planning on doing substrate and decorations, imagine how painful that will be when something goes wrong and you have to troubleshoot it. I didn't...
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    Battery Backup

    This depends more on how much saturation you had before the power outage, but more importantly the stocking levels in the tank when the power outage happens. If you have large fish that are moderately stocked your oxygen levels will rapidly deplete. With the amount of money and time we invest...
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    Battery Backup

    What is your plan for storing your solar energy?
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    Battery Backup

    Because each battery backup is rated differently and has larger batteries, etc. it will come down to what your air pump runs wattage wise and how long you think you need it to run. My brand preferences have always been APC, Tripp Lite, Cyber Power. My first brand being APC 100%. Anything along...
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    Aquarium Filtration 101

    I'm gonna be honest, I can't tell if you are joking or not. If you aren't, let me start with this...You've got a silver aro, two goldfish in a 32 gallon tank with a powerhead? You've mentioned you're "poor asf", my suggestion is to take back the arowana asap to wherever you bought it from. If...
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    Raising Worms

    My yard gets treated for spiders and ants as well as the grass chemicals and fertilization. I have always been hesitant to feed worms from my ground for this reason. Not sure if those chemicals have any affect on the worms or not.
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    New guy making his intro

    Raw, or cooked? Raw, don't cook it. When you begin feeding your raw this type of food, don't cook it then either. Any fish? Get plain ole unseasoned cod from the grocery store. Wouldn't such a massive ammonia spike destroy any bb? No, that is the bacteria's job to break it down. If you were to...
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    New guy making his intro

    But work-in-progress photos are sometimes the best photos!
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    Blue lobster vs. Filter. Odds on survival?

    The sad truth is that a large portion of fish stores aren’t properly educated in all of their species (or even one sometimes) which ends up being a situation similar to yours where incompatible species are housed together simply because the shop either didn’t know or didn’t care and wanted to...
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    Cleansing container for aging water storage

    Appreciate it, but barrels aren’t the way I want to go. Will be much easier to fit one rectangular container in the corner it’s going. In other news, I did find some totes a little bit further out that we’re food grade and had been used to store cooking oil or malasses. Those sound safer...
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