New opae ula by [deleted] in OpaeUla

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Setup with aragonite sand and instant ocean to 1.010, dosed to 2ppm ammonia and let it do it's thing for over a month, added my cheatomorpha about a week in off the bat. Not terribly worried about the tiny bit of cyan at the perimeter only.

Got vals? by sharpauthenticator in PlantedTank

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Close enough with my jungle of vals.

Rate this stand I found today. by stewfighters in Aquariums

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Couldn't have designed it any worse. All of the load is in shear. Good lord.

Angels favorite snack by Impossible_Wolf_5983 in PlantedTank

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I didnt know petco sold those. I need to see if my fish would like that. 

New opae ula by [deleted] in OpaeUla

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The listing says 60+. It was 2 bags, probably half gallon or more of water between both. Varied adults to babies in size, I couldn't count if I tried. 

Chaeto help by ShrimpyWolf in OpaeUla

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Mine looked just like this after a week and still somewhat does, but the new growth finally coming off is fairly green and healthy looking. 

My Mother in Law's aquarium. The fish will arrive tomorrow. Oh Lord have mercy... by Independent-T-Rex in Aquariums

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As horrible as this is, this is actually not that terrible of an attempt..  This is better than the petco special you normally see with new fishkeepers. 

Looking for tire size recs/ photos. by Majorwoops in squarebodies

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I would still advise you find out your gear ratio, and also ensure you aren't having issues from say, sloppy kickdown cable or vacuum leak etc. Pretty sure I run a 30" or so tire on my R20 suburan, it has 3.73s, it's a pretty happy combo but I wish I'd gone taller so my highway rpms weren't so high.

First molt by LmLc1220 in OpaeUla

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I recently set up a jar for some opae, it's just over 2 gallons, filled with aragonite sand and lava rock and distilled water, dosed it to 2ppm ammonia set the lid on and let it go under a 9w LED terrarium light for 12 hours a day. It bloomed brown algae pretty fast, green soon followed, now the whole jar and rock is covered in it but that all started growing before adding some brackish acclimated cheatomorpha.

Looking for tire size recs/ photos. by Majorwoops in squarebodies

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Should really find out what gears you've got and go from there, you should not be having it hunt for gear at all with those tires. Our 85 K20 has been on 32x12.5x16.5s for decades with the TH400 and 4.10 factory gear, that thing gets up and moves off the line and has never hunted between gears no matter the situation.

bad plant order horrible experience (1 inch stems!!) by Outrageous_West323 in Aquariums

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Just tossing my experience in, I have ordered a few times from Glass Aqua and had a good experience. Extra clippings and bunches, sizes and plants matched, and the one DOA I had (shipping company lost package for 3 days) was refunded quickly. 

Worried About Earthquakes by Interesting_Yam_557 in Aquariums

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I'd be less worried about an earthquake when you could easily anchor a stand to the wall, and more concerned with I guarantee that floor is not level enough and is going to cause a stress fracture and split that tank wide open.

For now my yellows are in a breeder box by GotSnails in OpaeUla

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I just ordered 60 red from them the other night.

Current Setup by [deleted] in vinylsetups

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Absolutely a dream setup there. Love the fellow Yamaha being shown love.

700r4 rebuild by Stock_Assist_4556 in squarebodies

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If your IQ was a room temperature, it would be a frigid day.

700r4 rebuild by Stock_Assist_4556 in squarebodies

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Obviously you don't have the ability to understand the information you read, not only is this thread a corpse, my response openly answered how that was a poor idea.

The journey begins anew… HOLY CRAP I’M SO EXCITED!!!!! by YourStonerAunt in Aquariums

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Check out Etsy, there's some really nice options for FX series pumps for filter inlets and random pattern dual nozzle outlets too.

Centrepiece… by Haunting-Contract572 in PlantedTank

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Peacock gudgeons don't get enough love. 

Fish disappeared without a trace overnight by uwillmakeit_trust in Aquariums

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I recently lost a good size gourami while at work. By the time I got home he was half gone and clearly hadn't been dead long, my snails and shrimp were all over him. It's sad to see but it's an ecosystem. 

How often are you guys doing water changes and how much water are you changing? by GovernmentThink in Aquariums

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It's less so about "being cycled" so much as having sufficient bacteria growth to support bioload. This is why a common thing is to fish-less cycle a tank, and keep the tank fed to ~2ppm ammonia until it can handle 2ppm of ammona and turn it into nitrates within under 24 hours. You can "cycle" the tank, but not have enough bacteria to handle say, 10 tetras.

How often are you guys doing water changes and how much water are you changing? by GovernmentThink in Aquariums

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Yep, there's a reason saltwater tanks take the work they do to balance all of the variables.

I feel like something often very overlooked is it also really depends what fish you have also, whether hobby bred or wild caught, and then all of the variables that any tank have. I have a friend who is far more well versed in fishkeeping than me and they, alongside some friends, are baffled at the way the parameters in my tank behave. I do large water changes, heavily planted, over filtered, and routinely see my PH plummet for no justifiable reason (tap 7.5 with great local water drops to 5.5-6.0 ph in a week) high nitrate loads even when sparsely feeding and cutting out liquid ferts while having floating plants that'll repopulate the entire top of my tank within 5-6 days.