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This tool is very helpful when calculating how many watts of total heating you need for your tank. This is an advanced tool that accounts for ambient room temperature as well as tank size. |
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Aquarium Substrate Quantity Calculator This handy tool will tell you how many pounds of substrate to purchase to get a specified substrate thickness for any size aquarium. |
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We have added an aquarium fish profile database to our website. Species are added daily to the aquarium fish database. |
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Have you purchased a used aquarium and never really knew your capacity? Planning on building a custom aquarium and want to know how big it needs to be to hold 300 gallons? Our Aquarium Capacity Calculator can tell you the gallon capacity of your aquarium |
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Hexagonal Aquarium Capacity Calculator If you have a hexagonal aquarium, try this calculator to compute your hex tank volume. |
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Aquarium Fish Quantity Estimator Wondering how many aquarium fish you can fit in a given tank size? Use our handy tool to determine how many 6 inch cichlids you could fit into your 125 gallon tank or how many guppies you could fit in your 29 gallon tank. |
Article excerpt: Plecos, Loricariids, are not coprophagous scavengers. That is a fancy way of saying that they do not eat or clean up fish poop. Rather the opposite, they are prolific poop generators. If a scavenger of fish poop is what you want, a Scat is the only one I know. But they get rather large and like brackish conditions.
Spawning "Ancistrus dolichopterus" Bristle Nose Pleco
Article excerpt: Bristlenose catfish are best known in the aquarium hobby for the great job they do in keeping the aquarium free of algae. They spend much of their time working over glass, rocks, or any other solid surface in the aquarium. They go along devouring all of the algae in an aquarium by "sucking" it from the surfaces with their special mouths. They are in many aquarists' opinions best known in performing this job.
Article excerpt: I've done a lot of reading on fishless cycling. The majority of the articles have been formula only; add this, do that, etc. Many are extremely scientific while others are more matter of fact. I tried to combine all of these readings into a guide that I could work with.
Spawning Nannostomus beckfordi (Golden Pencil Fish)
Article excerpt: Nannostomus beckfordi is a timid fish that is found in Guyana, the lower Rio Negro, and the central Amazon. They are a freshwater fish found in schools that will hide for most of the day if given the chance. For this reason they should be kept in schools in aquariums rather than alone.
Article excerpt: A budding hobbyist walks into a pet store and peruses the rows of tanks. He is drawn to a tank filled with 2 inch fish having a green color with red blotches and a cool eyespot or two. The fish all rush to the front of the tank, watching his every move.
Making a Baby Brine Shrimp Hatchery
Article excerpt: Two lengths of airline were then attached to a four gang valve with two valves closed and two open completely. The gang valve was then hooked to an air pump with another piece of tubing. Two brass nuts were slide onto each piece of airline tubing and then an airstone was attached to each. The brass nuts serve as weights to hold the stones down at the bottom.
Article excerpt: DIY (Do It Yourself) CO2 has been a growing trend among aquatic plant hobbyists who are trying to save a few bucks. There are many recipes out there, mostly containing sugar, yeast, and water, with maybe some baking soda. Some are better than others, but most of the time, hobbyists end up having to make new bottles every week or two.
Making a Baby Brine Shrimp Hatchery
Diy Fish Food Projects
Diy Aquarium Chemistry
Aquascaping an African Cichlid Aquarium
Diy Decoration Projects
DIY Yeast Generated CO2 Injector
Diy Aquarium Chemistry
A Primer on General Aquarium Design
Diy Aquarium - Other
DIY Overflow Using Only PVC Pipe
Diy Overflow Projects
Tropical Fish Articles
Spawning "Ancistrus dolichopterus" Bristle Nose Pleco
Fish Breeding Articles
Beginner Articles
Spawning Nannostomus beckfordi (Golden Pencil Fish)
Fish Breeding Articles
New World Cichlid Articles
Not All Aquarium Fish Come From a Pet Shop
Native Fish Articles
Red Coral Platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
Livebearers
White Tail Acei (Pseudotropheus sp. Acei Ngara)
African Cichlids, Lake Malawi
White Cloud Mountain Minnow (Tanichthys albonubes)
Cyprinids
Black Emperor Tetra (Nematobrycon palmeri)
Characins (Tetras)
Penguin Tetra (Thayeria boehlkei)
Characins (Tetras)
Black Phantom Tetra (Hyphessobrycon megalopterus)
Characins (Tetras)
