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Ya there aren't to many small fish in there. To give you a perspective the clown loaches are around 12" that are swimming over the castexi ray. The gobies are doing great and have grown some but I'm use too big fish so it seems like very little to me. They are actually very easy to keep and are...

Just a quick vid I took from my iphone to send to Rudy which really doesn't focus on anything just thought some may people would like to look. It does show the tigerfish quickly. http://youtu.be/2jnECOyBKRQ Okay not sure on how to embed this?

I would agree with poured cement as i find a sand filter the only way to go with a big tank for first stage filtering it also means backwashing which means around 400+ galons to do so which means a big weight drop in your tank and alot of flexing in a wooden tank and makes it harder to seal. To...

There's alot of thoery on batman development and stillborn pups, some say water quality, genitics, temp, inbreeding but for me I believe lack of nutrution at the right stages is what causes it. But that being said for one week at that shcedule would not be an issue there.

Okay I hate kijijijjijijijiji so just pm me, and if lyders building you a tank I`m guessing it`s plywood and big or bigger than the one you have and what happened to downsizing and it takes up too much time. You got the bug back again didn`t you.

It's just chlorine to be removed but I have a 2200 gallon tank with a minimum of 400 gallons changed per day so I want a big barrel of whatever treament made up. Most my tank is automated and feeding is the only thing I really do now but I want to change from sediment and carbon drip to a dosing...

Ya just keep them both until they get too big and sell one to me cheap. I didn't actually look at these to close before seeing pictures of south american ones thinking not that cool but these are really neat. Keep me in mind when you ditch these Tim.

Great Job with the tank and overall design. I couldn't agree with you more about a tank looking small after awhile, a week or two is very quick though. I had plans for at least a 5000 gallon but our water is 4x what it use to be 6 months ago so that fell out of the question unless I move and can...

Thanks for the help on this. I tried to follow up further with some research on the web but everything was saying it would disapate shortly making it a bad choice for a dosing system. I guess I need to find out what they put in the prime to make it stable so I can add it to the safe.

You could have some issues on feeding depending on how many pups each ray is carrying. Which of course you can't tell but it will influence how quick and how big there hunger gets. I've had rays which are pregnant that after missing one day of feedings has attacked and ate fish that have never...

For anyone using dosing systems have you ever tried seachem safe? I'm just wondering if it's premade in a container how long does the safe stay at a useable level to treat a tank? At what concentration should I mix it at for dosing?

Took a crappy iPhone vid the other day so ill try and figure how to upload it here. Never did a vid before.

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You can use tile on the zavlar for the front then silcone to the tile

No sorry I haven't been able to get any time to clean the water and tank good enough to get any new shots. It's around 20" probably now and isn't skittish at all schooling with the barbs and clown loaches at times. Very mild mannered never nipping at anything as I feed shrimp once a day and it...

Congrats on the pups! Very nice

I'm guessing out of Calgary you would be looking at gas not electric tankless. Your effeciency would be based on the tankless efficiency versus your current tanks efficiency. There is a little delay if plumbed right into the tankless heater but you can run a heating loop through a water tank...

You may want to look at a rolling drum filter for mechanical and then a bio reactor for biological. Pool filters are good and easy but the pumps will take up alot more electricity than the ones you would use the other way. Also what will you be adding for water supply and drainage? With a tank...

With 4 2" returns you should be able to handle the flow from the hammerhead impeller no problem. You will need to remove the bulkhead filter first and repipe the piping in the overflow to get the maximun gravity fed flow. I will snap you a picture of how I piped the returns for quiet operation...

I didn't see check valves in the return to the tank so that would be the reason your sump overflows on a power outage but I wouldn't recommend check valves as they allways seem to clog up and fail anyways so I would add some fittings in the inside of the tank to raise the returns to just under...