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Good call on the river rocks. They're pretty inert most of the time. My community tank has a few, and they've been great. Just make sure they're clean before adding them.

I've used apple cider vinegar before in a pinch, and it worked fine for me. Just make sure you rinse the rock really well after. My Betta didn't seem to mind, but I'd still be cautious with sensitive fish like your Angelfish.

Just snuck home from work and did a 30 gallon water change on the tank. Drained 30 gallons out, added 18 in. Waiting on the other tote to get up to temp, got a 50 watt heater and power head circulating 18 gallons in there. The temp on that one was 67 when I left, hoping it hits 77 by the time I get ...

I'm on well water, so I don't have to deal with chlorine.

Alright, let me clarify some things. Got a lot of questions and concerns about my tank, so I'll try to break it down.

Bought the tank off a classified ad, but it came with a brand new filter that was started up on March 25th, 2012. No donor media was used.

March 26th, I added sand substrate and ...

Just got a text from the girlfriend, she's missing my tank already. She just dropped off a new addition, a sunnygold cichlid, looks pretty different from the yellow one I got over the weekend.

I gotta say, that LFS was pretty unhelpful. Thanks for the heads up on the yellow ones, I was worried about 'em. The tank they had 'em in was pretty small, like 20 gallons, and it was packed with cichlids. I think there were a dozen or so in there, and 4 of those yellow ones, so I figured the ratio ...

Just got my fluval 306 in the mail on Friday, still trying to wrap my head around the in and out placement on my filters, got the fluval 306 and API nexx filter running right now.

The fluval 306 says it's 303 gph and the API nexx is 132 gph so with both running I'm at a 7.9 change over per hour ...

Went to another lfs this weekend, about an hour and a half away. They had some nice stuff, but I felt kinda rushed. Picked out some more lace rock and wanted to come back later, but the employee said he could bag up the fish for me and they'd be fine. Took his word for it, told him what I had in my ...

Hello,

I'm kinda diving into this hobby headfirst, having semi-retired from the car audio competition scene. I've always wanted a freshwater tank, and last weekend I picked up a 55-gallon one. Been doing a lot of reading in the beginners section, and it looks like I'm doing a lot wrong, lol.

My ...