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http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2016/05/30/killing-3-days-at-the-american-killifish-associations-2016-convention/ "The next day, May 28th, started with the fish sale. Entry to the fish sale room was based on the attendee’s registration number—the first to register gets #1 and last to...

In the course of another blog yesterday, I had this personal epiphany that it might be a cool thing to keep all of your botanicals in a separate aquarium (refugium) to provide many of the benefits (habitat enrichment, a substrate to cultivate biofilms, algae, and even invertebrates/aquatic...

Have you played with aquatic botanicals in your aquarium? Have you created an aquarium that features wood, leaves, and other botanicals, with minimum plants? Have you seen "the tint" imparted by these natural materials in your water? There is something alluring about hardscapes with aquatic...

Like a month ago, I replaced clay pellet substrate with pool filter sand in three of my established tanks. I pre-washed it. I think it was Ace brand. The quartz stuff. Each tank has about the same size layer of sand. Live plants. No CO2. PMDD ferts. Heated to around 78. Two have lighting, one...

After looking at a few threads on sick/injured fish in the past week I thought it might be cool to start some sticky topics on treatment and health care where members could share how they treat different ailments, etc. Some topics might be: Wound care Fungal infections Bacterial...

I'm not sure on the final gallon but I was thinking about building a plywood tank once we get a house sometime soon, the wife is looking for 3 bed 2bath....I'm just looking for a basement for this bad boy lol. The size would be 16' x 4' x 4' my first problem would be with that I would use 2...

Well great or not, here it is. So we're 'hosting' the ACA next year. I sure hope it's in DC proper for a number of strategic reasons (only one of them selfish), but wherever it is, what if some of CCA's more illustrious, talented and fanatic keepers were given the opportunity to set up display...

I have become enamored with Apistos and Rams, and I've been thinking about building a rack of display/show tanks that would let me keep numerous species, but without mixing species in a given tank (I had a bad experience trying to keep Apistogramma cacatuoides, A. macmasteri, and A. agasizzi...

ok so bill went out and bought a ton of scuba tanks and I had this brilliant... maybe not so brilliant idea, not sure. I can get scuba tanks filled with 100% o2 because I'm a diver etc. anyone ever use a scuba tank for co2 or just filling bags for shipping? I'm thinking filling a bag would be...

Not sure about using something like this, but I thought it would be easier to create and then discuss. What do you think about it?