I bought the book in 2002 and thought - "huh, this could be fun. I have dirt, I have a 15gal long fish tank, let's see how this turns out." So I have had this tank set up since 2003. It was quite the science experiment getting it settled but it was a great tank for about 15 years - no algae, the...

I'm currently using two PF75 HOB with Marineland pre-filter bio sponges , I was lucky and got a new canister filter. But my question is...since my tank has cycled I was wondering since I'm going to be removing one of my HOB (for now then both) would it be wise to take the sponge currently in use...

I want to try to make a small plant low-tech aquarium.

Started spreading the past couple of weeks. Aquarium was clean until this showed up.

I first got my ostrocods from a plant order hitchhiking on some frogbit. The population exploded in my patio pond. The ostrocods, along with some stowaway bladder snails, have been eating all dead plant tissue in the pond and they are keeping algae levels to near zero! I attribute the success of...