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Finally managed to buy an $80 camera. just playing around with it. Haven't done any video posting yet so just giving it a try.

First time I noticed them in my tank just a few hrs ago while doing a WC. There seems to be a lot of them in my filter media chamber. My problem is I can't really manually clean/pick up each one of these snail (8' tank that I can't even get into). I also don't want to pull out all my media...

That should be fine. Atleast when you see some seriuos fighting it will be easy to separate them. Then try again later if you see improvement in their "relationship". They say as aros get older they become less agressive so who knows, aros that doesn't get along at an early age might get...

Somebody did the tankless gas water heater at MFK and if I remember corectly he also have aros in his tank. He used a magdrive to pump water from the FT to the tankless gas heater and the pump is controlled with water heater controler. The actual heated water goes into the tank. This is what...

Another way to keep down the water heating energy is having a lesser WC. It takes a lot of energy to heat up cold pipe water. So I guess the denitrator is a part of the energy saving plan. And ofcourse having styrofoam 3D background on the 3 sides of tank has been helping a lot in containing...

I guess my first step was getting rid of my bakki shower filter. Although it was very effective in keeping my nitrates low it just cools the water too much plus it creates too much moisture so I have to exhaust a lot of heated house air and keep dehumidifier running. I am planning to hook up a...

I guess I'll hold that idea of separating my discus water from my aro tank water but I'll try dropping the temp to 83-84 F. I have adult discus so hopefully they'll be OK with that temp. Heating a 900G + water (and keeping it at 86) is quite a bit of money. I am in the stage of refining my...

What is PA???:confused:

Yeah I know what you mean. When I was still growing those discus almost 2 years ago I have to do WC 50% twice a day on a 150 gal tank with 30 small discus. When I finished my 8' tank, equipped with what I consider a very effective filter system, I only have to do it 10% twice a week (6 aros...

Wow, I didn't think it ws going to be that bad. I guess 80 to 82 F would be the lowest you can keep them?

Nothing wrong with feeding SW or other live food. I would maybe do the same if I have only 1 aro as food cost then wouldn't be as bad.

I use to do about 10% WC every 2 weeks but now I have to do it more often, 10% every week. I feed beef heart to my discus and sometimes tetra bits. Aros gets any frozen food I can get cheap at superstore :D, beef heart, salmon, pork, chicken,smelt, pellets.... They never had any live foods...

Have you tried keeping your water at around 22? Just curious on how your aro behaved if you did.:)

What is the water temperature of your aro tank? Mine is about 86 F. I keep it high because I have discus with my aros (same water separate tank). I am planning on separating my discus water from my aro tank so that I can lower temp in my bigger tank to save electric. How low will you go on...

I haven't read anybody using MDF for fish tank. Personally I would not do it with that material for the "shabby" reason. MDF, like you said, is a weaker material, can not tolerate even the slightest water and more expensive than plywood. Specially,by the way you describe it, you won't be...

A little too risky for me to ship aro that size. It is more than 12hrs from bagging time to my tank. Unless he's OK with "payment upon live arrival :D." Do you guys put some kind of oxygen tablets or ammonia remover or something in the water when shipping fishes?

I'll just share my tank activity about 3 months ago. The alpha arotakes 2/3 of the tank and anyone who crosses it will be chased back to the 1/3 side of the tank. Then two aro(not the alpha aro) started to pair for about 2 weeks, dancing around and the male makes a lot of croacking sound. The...

once you get a pair try it out with just the two of them, but I wouldn't get rid of the others yet. Even if the pair is getting along well in their courting stage it can still change after the female have released the egg (or the courting ends). Two aro com does not mean it is a pair (male and...

I remember when I got my RTG's and they were still in the bag, there was 3 of them that are literally standing up, about 80 degrees from the ground. To confirm that it is just an environment adjustment thing observe your aro from far (and nobody near the tank) for a while with out him noticing...

YEP!! and I'm in Regina SK :D :D :D :eek: