Recent content by mvrck

If it's a 20 long you'd probably be safe with a Flag Fish to help combat the algae. But honestly I'd just reduce the time your lights are on. Break it up into two smaller shifts seems to help a ton. One three hour stint, one five hour one when you'll be viewing the tank the most.

Cory, you host the forums now right? If you have access to the code, you could pretty easily slide in a bit of rotating javascript to pull in the images and keep the quality up.

Haha. He's just all "Really? That just happened?"

It pretty much is. Officially it is Microbe-Lift Bloom and Grow. I got it at a going out of business sale for like $5 a bag on the last day a place down in Burien was open like a year and a half ago, the day before I first went to the Co-op, actually. It's kiln fired clay, so it's basically...

So Bob the Shrimp kept glaring at me. He and his constituents weren't happy with the current tank setup. It was serviceable to be sure. But the filter too up way too much space, the terrain was incredibly flat and uninteresting, there was a lack of top cover, and a general lack of open...

Re: Gift card deal at petco - Dollar a gallon sale starts th Just stopped by the Petco in Northgate. They did not start the $1 per gallon sale today. I don't know if it is going on at other locations.

Try me. Thought so.

Whoops, didn't think about that. Copied it from a private forum and didn't think. Fixed it.

I'd like you to meet Bob: Bob cares not. I purchased Bob from Cory almost a year ago. He happily went into our 55 gallon glass tank with 11 of his friends. They had a grand old time, partying, nomming yummy food, and so forth. Then, a few months later, the dark days arrived when we got...

And now I am sad seeing pictures of him. =( I'm glad he's doing well with you Donna, it was heartbreaking to have to give him up, but it's better for him overall.

So apparently our Dwarf Gourami's are breeding (not planned, so just right in our 100 gallon). I went to do a water change this evening, and noticed him building a bubble nest. After a bit of watching, I see him and a female mate, eggs are released, and he went around scooping them up, as I've...

I don't think so. We just upgraded our tank last night, and we had a massive amount of black worms in our substrate and plant roots (some of them were huge as well). It's been the better part of a month since we added any, and I always thought the fish got most of them. Clearly I was quite wrong.

Re: Office tank fish ideas?? Shorty, if you want something "bigger" and fun to watch in the shrimp category, I heartily recommend picking up either a Bamboo or African Filter shrimp. The Africans especially seem to not need a ton of space. We have a pair, and they basically claimed a piece...

Dissolved Oxygen.

Snail hitchhikers are always funny. Though you have to be careful who you catch a ride with. I wound up with free Malaysian trumpet snails in my tank because one of our African Fan shrimp grabbed him while being scooped out of the tank at the LFS. He held on through the whole ride home, and...