My 6th-grade nephew came to me and asked if I could help him run an experiment to test the impact of increasing water temperature on plant growth. (Because he wants to investigate climate change.) So I got him set up with some plastic containers, a cfl light, and some heaters and he's off. The bad n...

That's a period, not a question mark. Weirdest thing happened. In May, I lost ten fish out of my school of a dozen Espei's rasboras.* The two little survivors have been hanging on waiting for reinforcements when I get around to ordering some from Rachel. The other day I did a big old trim and, what ...

Bump. I'd like to use the par meter too. Who has it?

I was in for sure, with family, but with the rain I may not be able to persuade them.

Kris - I just sent gwapa $5 for this.

Alright, having heard the gospel and swiped a few powders from you, Ghazanfar, I'm going to give it a try. But first...a few questions. I like my autodosers, so I'm going to spread the dosing of the two macro solutions out evenly 7x per week, with the total volume of the dosage the same. For my 57 g...

Also, how cool is it that I've managed to get water to stay in my tank when it's upside down?

1) My show tank is high light, CO2, fertz, etc. The full tank shot I included below shows that some of my stems are growing crazily well. 2) On the other hand, some of my stems are not growing as well, and I'm getting some weird pinholes in my anubias and bucephelandra. 3) And the weirdest thing is ...

Any idea whether low iron/starfire is harder to drill than plain old "glass?" I want to set it on top of a cabinet that I did with a soapstone top so I could plumb straight down through it. I find that this makes for nice straight plumbing runs to a canister filter, inline heater, inline r...

I'm looking for a ~20 gallon rimless cube tank (a 16-18" cube). The only options I've found are... Mr. Aqua 25 gallon cube ($140/$200 for regular/low-iron) Aquamaxx 17 or 24gal, both low-iron $130/$160 I would have thought there were others, but Deep Blue, Mr. Aqua, and GLA don't seem to have o...