Pet Forum / Aquaria / Freshwater / January 2006

I've read about Jobes plant spikes, the one's with phosphorus ratio of
2 for ferns and palms.  The only one's I've found locally so far have a
ratio of 4, Jobe's spikes for houseplants:  13-4-5.  I have not tried
them, am wondering if there might be too much phosphorous, but need

I've been considering having a go at a biological filter/water feature using
nutrient hungry plants or mussels in a resin rapid leading into the main
pond. I was wondering if anyone had particular thoughts or opinions on this?
I've seen it done at a pond store & it looks ...

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Well, after ongoing long-term attrition, my remaining ADF is all by hisself.
Now I have to decide if he's better off by hisself, or if I should get him
more ADFs to hang out with?
Are there "territory" issues introducing ADFs into a tank with existing ADFs?

I bought this food last night at Wally Mart so that I could further
deversify my Piranha's diet.  They seem to love the stuff and are quite
aggressive towards it.  The feeding instructions say that the fish should be
fed 2-3 times daily as much as they can eat in a few minutes.  ...

My friend at the local fish store just gave me 12 very grungy ten gallon
aquariums.  Two of them I gave to the cab driver who helped me get them
home to my small 'studio' apartment.  He will be coming back later on
tonight to talk to me about him getting his very first fish, how to ...

I would like to remove my pond but I am worried about what will happen
to the frogs that spawn annually, can anyone give me some advice please

One thing that I really love is watching the fish wake up at lights on.
So try to find the time whenever possible to watch them. I find it
totally fascinating the differences in behaviour across species and
tanks and was wondering if it is peculiar to my fish or if others

This probably best belongs in a bird ng, but I don't know any so perhaps
there are some birders here.  Instead of a closed aquarium canopy, what
if a metal screened cage (a bird cage) were fitted on top of an open
aquarium.  This would keep the fish from jumping out.  Power wires ...

So Gill has this 130g tank and glass cover sitting on the floor until the
SO builds a stand and they figure out what they will do for lighting.  I
wouldn't mind having that problem :o).  As long as you're building the
stand from scratch, here are some ideas.

Hi everyone, new to the group.
I have a feeder goldfish, about 1.5" long, very healthy appetite and
energetic when it wants to be. Hey gotta start somewhere right? I
picked up a 3-gallon Marineland Eclipse 3 with the bio-wheel filter

we are doing some serious rearrangement of furniture, and one thing
that will have to move is my 37gal tank.
I know I'm supposed to empty the tank completely before moving it...
but the tank is heavily planted, lots of fast-moving loaches and

A scientist a built a large Algae 'reactor' for reducing C02 gases from
power plants. The large (at least 2') acrylic tubes were in the shape of a
triangle,with the hypotenuse facing the sun. He said they could reduce C02
emissions by 40% and use any excess Algae to produce ...

I am about to go away for 16 days and I was wondering if my 2ft tank
will be ok during this time without a water change. I set the tank up
about 4 months ago. I have:
1 X 2.5" Crayfish