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I think I saw that pair of L333 at the babe's auction. They were definitely a pair. The wider head was the male. One sure way to tell is to provide plenty of caves and the one stays in the cave all the time is the male. L134 sexing is abit easier, once the male reaches 6cm, they will develop...

I think he is refering to L270 the chocolate Zebra. I personally prefer L250 and is considered one of the rarest pleco. Last time I saw someone selling them was two years ago for $4500 each.

I like the WordPress option for android. I setup the tanks as categories like you suggested. As for action reminder, I use the 'comment' to remind me what to do. Once the item is completed, I would enter another post.

At least you didnt soil your pants.

I also think the stand is abit overkill. Also, I dont like all that wood resting on the floor as they will get wet easy and hard to dry. I just finished phase-3 of my fishroom which consist of two wood stands (to save space) that would hold 12 20-gallon tanks. As to the answer on the...

How do you start the siphon each time you need to take water out?

The room is finished. I am currently working on setting up all the stands, only got 3 setup but not fully plumb. I need to build a wood stand to help safe space which is my next project. As for fish, I will be keeping balloon ram (working on balloon version of EBR), bulldog discus, Blood...

I was lucky enough to plan the basement fishroom from the ground up. The fishroom is 4" lower than the rest of the basement slab. This is to help contain the water in an unlikely event of a catastrophic failure (knock on wood). The floor drain will take care of the spill via a sump pump. I also...

If it is Hexamita, I would treat them with metronidazole at a dosage of 250mg per 10gal. Do at least a 50% water change and administer the 1st dose. Follows by another 50% water before adminstering a second dose in two days. After that, wait for two weeks and repeat the the entire treatment...

I have great success using Pimafix on acute fungal infections. Without going into too much details, I had repeated fungus infection in a tank for over 2 months. Polaris was able to stop the spreading of the infection every time.

That's the principle of water level. I have a slightly different design but works the same.

You can treat the fish in quarantine with CuSO4 at 0.2ppm to preempt any external parasites. For wild caught fish, it would also be good to dewormer them with Fenbendazole at 100mg/10gallon in the quarantine tank.

Some of those electronic ballast cost more than a new light fixture. I had a hard time finding T5 ballast anywhere. I dont understand why the store sells the T5 light fixture but not the ballast.

Nuking the hydra tank is like burning money. Carolina Biological Supply wants $10.75 for a small sample of living Hydra. I see $$$.

I use a Santa Fe Rx dehumidifier (rated for 2200 sqft) for my fishroom. The rule of thumb for humidity level is to try to keep it below 50%. The issue is not just in your conditioned space, moist air can travel up the inside of the interior walls and work their way to the attic (unconditioned...

Would it be cheaper to get a small pressurized tank and an adjustable pressure relief valve to discharge the RO water into a rain barrel? Where do you get a booster pump with transformer for $125? Most I see are several hundreds a piece and bring the line pressure up by 30psi.

I agree the ROI is not there for solar power even with the incentive factor into it. I just built a house and was looking into the solar option, ROI was in the 12-13 years around here and power company has the option to not want the extra 'juice' I generate. I would suggest you buy a UPS...

I use copper to get rid of any external parasites like ick and velvet. 0.2ppm conc. is all you need.

It is all to reduce the waste water amount. A typical RO unit has a rejection rate of 1 to 10. This mean for every 1 gallon of RO water you get, you have 10 gallons of waste water. The cost of waste water is an operating cost. To reduce the amount of waste water by as much as 80% an initial...

You should remove whatever you have added in the tank immediately as they obivously leeching something in the water and do a huge water change after that. The fish is definitely reacting to something in the water. To help the fish recover, you can add Pimafix and Melafix into the tank...