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I don't care how the stand looks, as long as its sturdy... Here's the link to the actual cabinet...The rating is the same..110kg... I have taken out the legs, so the base is flat...and I am taking out the shelves and will make them stand vertically, so that there will be some support.... but whether they will be enough is the question.... magicker cabinet

James, I already have this dresser (well, one very similar to this..) and I don't want to spend a fortune buying a stand for the 60G. The cabinet that I have is a MAGICKER model from IKEA .(It's been discontinued now..) The max load is surely a cause for concern...

I am looking for opinions as to whether I can use an IKEA cabinet which as a stand for a 60G. It's an all glass tank, so its pretty heavy. The cabinet is made of particle board and has a flat top and a flat bottom, so it will distribute the weight evenly on the floor. The cabinet is bigger than the tank, (tank length = 36" and cabinet length = 51"). The cabinet kind of looks like this, with 2 middle centre braces. The shelves can be taken out and I was thinking of pulling out the shelves and instead of keeping the shelves horizontally, to keep them as vertically, so that they act as pillars. possible_stand I am planning to keep the tank on this for a max of a year, not any longer. Any warnings from the pros will be diligently heeded. :bow: Raj

If I am not mistaken, those white dots are snail eggs. I have those on my driftwood too. Best natural way to rid snails is what Jason said."keep a piece of lettuce or zucchini, and overnight, they will be covered with snails".. I was gone for a month, so no water changes were done and when I came back, there were snails everywhere. I pull them out whenever I can see one close to the surface, otherwise, I drop in a piece of zucchini at night, and in the morning, it gets covered with snails, so I just pull it out and throw the snails away.... Natural way is the best, and staying away from chemicals is always preferable.(IMO) :thumbs: Raj

The friend who was in charge doesn't care too much about pets, so I shouldn't have asked him....But he had said that He would look after the tanks, hence he was in charge.. I was pretty mad with him for quite a while. He didn't care too much about the fish, and since he saw that the tank still had some water, he thought that the fishes would be fine.. I don't think he realised that the dry running filters are a fire hazard... although its a pretty hard thing not to realise that... Urban_cowboy: Sorry to hear about your loss.. It was very very careless to leave a bedsheet into the tank and not notice that.. Thats a very bad way to lose water and fish from the tank. When I leave for a couple of days, I usually starve my fish, and they do fine.... which reminds me to bring up this point... I had an automatic feeder over my 33G, the one that lost half of its water..When I came back, the feeder was empty, and I don't know for how many days it was running empty. I reckon it must have been close to 5 or 6 days if not more... Maybe a reason for not losing any fish is no fish waste, as they were not being fed. I feed my fish twice in a day, and sometimes when I am away, they stay one day without food and they do fine..However, from this experience, it looks like that they can go more days without food... Thanks to everybody who piped in with their comments... Raj.

So, I was on holidays and had asked a friend to look after my tanks. All I had asked him to do was to remove the duckweed from the top and to add water to the tank, when the water level dropped. When I came back after 2 weeks, both the filters were running dry and the water level had dropped to half the tank. :boom: I was really lucky not to have a fire going in my apartment as that would have been disastrous.. The 33G is an open top, so there is lot of evaporation. It was also absolutely covered with a thick mat of duckweed, so much that no light was going into the tank. I thought I had lost all my fish, so, after unplugging the filters, I removed the duckweed and took stock of my stock.. To my surprise, almost all my fish were alive. The tank is heavily planted, so that must have been helpful. The fish also went without food for 5 or 6 days, but they were still alive !!!!!!! Looks like when you don't take care of them too much, they tend to stay fine or I might be plain lucky..... Next were the filters, which I thought had burnt out... I have a HOB Magnum 250 and losing it would have really hurt my wallet. I added some water, cleaned the interiors and voila...it sprang back into life... . I think it was a big letoff this time... but I was wondering, whether there were enough good bacteria to sustain my tank, so that I wouldn't need a filter ? The tank is a 33G with close to 40 rasboras and cardinals and neons... Maybe not, just that I am lucky.... Raj.

You can get healthy fishes in Nature's Corner Store. Lot of AA members also buy from there. And $2/ neon is a cheap price.. if you can, get cardinals. They are more beautiful than the neons (IMO) and they are resistant to the fatal neon tetra disease. I have a school of neons and lot of them have the fatal NTD. Usually neons go for 3.99 each at the LFS, so $2 is a cheap price.. Maybe if you order more, the price can come down. jumbo neon and neon is just the difference in size...I presume... Raj.

I had a good laugh yesterday... I wonder if he even knows what a patent is.. and I don't think he has any patents pending.. Its just ridiculous..he isin't adding any chemicals, and he boasts that the water will be soft, pH will be low...

"This setup keeps time, and it works fine".... -roll-

I don't want to hijack this thread, but I am asking this question as this thread is the most appropriate place for this.. I live on the 3rd floor of a condo in downtown Edmonton and my building is more than 30 years old. I am thinking of putting a 60G tank (filled weight = 600 lbs) in my living room and I will have another 25G in the kitchen space. Reading this thread and the mentioned articles, I don't think the 60G will cause any problems, but if anyone has any words of caution/assurance, I will gladly heed them. Thanks in advance. Raj

I got styrofoam sheets from Home Depot for my DIY background. I think I got a 48x 12 piece for < $10. HD has all kinds of styrofoam sheets. Raj

welcome to AA... Thats a very nice tank you have there.. Vibrant plant growth and gorgeous colors on the rainbowfish. Raj

So sorry about your loss. It so devastating to lose a whole tank of fish...:cry: Maybe your bubble counter opened up and allowed the CO2 to flow unchecked. I control the CO2 by a pH meter, and if my pH meter fails, then I might have the same fate as yours too.

http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-pets-to-give-o...QQAdIdZ83443673 " I have 4 tetras that need a home today or else they are going you know where" Does this mean going to the LFS or the sewer ??? :shock:

Not only does it provide ECO CONCEPT of relaxation, but it also comes with "Freshwater Alive Water " - OOOOooooo! -roll- Wonder what that is.... I guess they mean the normal aquarium water that has some good bacteria in it.

I guess if you have a group of juveniles, you can keep 4 or 5. A group of angels always looks good, but 58G might be small for a group. I would think that a pair will be good enough considering the other fishes you have. The congo tetras and the SAE will grow to be quite big. I had put 2 pairs of angels in a 33G, thinking that each pair will stick to each half of the tank. Since they had already paired up, one pair viciously attacked the other pair, and I had to remove one pair promptly. From then on, I had only kept a single pair of angels in each tank.

Ohhh.. this is an even worse idea. I don't understand why people want to keep pets if they don't want to take proper care of them. Large aquariums are easier to keep, but they tout the idea that small surface areas are good. I guess as the dwelling places of humans dwindle in some parts of the world, so to do their pets'.

This is supposed to provide ECO CONCEPT of relaxation !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :boxed: http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-pets-accessori...QQAdIdZ83721831

So...the Soaps will affect water quality??? Can you rectify this problem by adding extra prime before you start watching? -roll- I never thought this will turn out into such a hilarious conversation. I was thinking that the fishes will get stressed due to the noise from the TV. I guess any sudden noise will spook them, but I guess they got used to the timing of the TV shows ....

Look at the position of the TV...wonder how much it stresses out the fishes... There is even a receiver box on top of the light canopy....

One of my neons has a very advanced stage of NTD ( curved spine and white lesions erupting from the body) . I was thinking that it got into a fight and had a deformity from birth, so I didn't pay close attention... Today I looked at the tank and saw another neon with a similar wound. The one with the most advanced state has its caudal fin down to its stump. I guess I won't be able to save the infected fish, so should I euthanize them ? I have 10 neons, and a few others have whitish edges around the caudal fins. Most likely they have also contracted the disease. I want to treat the less severly affected ones for tail and fin rot and hope that they will recover. I have blue emperor tetras and rasboras in that tank, and though they can catch the disease too, they seem to be doing fine... Thanks in advance for suggestions. Raj

I was just going to tell you to get the book from the Edmonton Public Library. I checked it out and its highly scientific. That used to be my bedside reading, and she explains in great detail about the intricacies of the planted ecosystem. Having an aquarium without a filter will be the ultimate triumph, because then the ecosystem is self sustaining. Thats more of a dream :P

Thanks to Deborah for starting the QT thread. I have ordered some WC cardinals from Spencer and I never gave the thought of quarantining them too much importance. Seeing the discussion in the other thread, now I see that I should do it. I have a 10G sitting empty, complete with a filter. If I take water and filter media from one of my main tanks and fill the 10G up, will I have a QT tank? Or I need to give the new tank some time to be cycled ? I don't think it needs to be cycled as I already have a source of bacteria from my established filters... Suggestions are eagerly awaited.. Raj.

That will depend on whether you will be keeping plants and also on the types of fish that will be kept. Some cichlids will dig in the substrate, so rounded pebbles are good for them. If you are keeping plants, then a loose gravel type substrate is recommended as sand sometimes gets too compact and prevents the plant's roots from spreading. Having said that, some plants will grow on any substrate and others don't need substrate at all. I use sand as the very first layer (almost 2" deep) and then a layer of flourite (1" deep), and then I have it topped off with black sand. I find the top layer of sand annoying as it shifts and also gets sucked up while vacuuming. One good thing about sand substrate is that uneaten food or mulm will stay on the top and can be siphoned off. With bigger pebbles, they tend to sink in the cracks. Normal play sand is inexpensive, but if you are looking for black sand, it is usually costly. Hope this helps Raj.

Jason, thanks for your idea. Firestorm, your mailbox is full. I wanted to ask this question to you yesterday, but the mail bounced, hence I asked in the forum. Now I am happy that I did. as I don't have to stress myself with adding peat filtered water to my tank. Raj