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Mail Order Pet Supplies for smaller orders (prices a bit higher than in Pets and Ponds, but shipping is less than $7)

Pets and ponds for larger orders, when lower prices justify $15 shipping.

One way to save on Prime is to buy Seachem Safe instead. It is the same Prime, but in a dry form and is much more concentrated. One gram is all you need for 100 gallons. One 250 g bottle will take you a loooong way.

Rona and Home Depot sell daylight T8 (6500K) Works great for me.

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My short answer is - best solution for 80G is two canister filters, the bigger - the better, which you can buy economically from other hobbyists on this site. Eheim, Rena or Fluval - matters not a lot, really.

Interesting - what method do you use to get fish poop to garden?

Semi-automated delivery through directed synthetic piping, using gravitational forces. Otherwise known as hose syphoning.

Reducing permanent hardness is possible pretty much by RO only. You can reduce total hardness from 12-14 dH down to 6-7 dH by reducing temporary (carbonate) hardness from 6-7 KH to 1-2 KH by preliminary cooking water in a barrell with a mesured addition of acid (this is cheap) or sour salt and aging for a day under aeration.

...then I dump the buckets down the toilet.

This is a crime against plants. Fish water is the best fertilizer in the world.

Thanks for the advice; I have already placed two sponge filters, which have been running in other tanks, into their tank, but it did not occur to me to squeeze them. Will do.

Quite common in Asia, for some reason it is rare in the hobby. Sometimes they come as stowaways with other rasboras and barbs, so over a time I managed to collect a few from different places. One happened to be a female, so I was trying to breed them.

First attempt was unsuccessful - all eggs succumbed to fungus, but second time around I used methylene blue and now I have tons of fry, yay!

Infusoria culture in not yet ready, will try to raise them on surrogates.

One reliable protection against "cooking" your tank is to have a heater, which won't do it, even if it jams:

5 gal 25 watt

10 gal 50 watt

20 gal 50 watt

25 gal 75 watt

40 gal 100 watt

50 gal 150 watt

65 gal 200 watt

75 gal 250 watt

Nope. And do not plan to have any.

Just be aware that some limnophilas, especially in large quantities, may be toxic. I have a thicket of sessiflora, which looks beautiful, but I noticed that the fishes tend to stay away from that corner of the tank.

Two 300W heaters, even if constantly on, result in 14.4kWh / $1.3 per day or $39 per month in electricity costs. Factoring all admin costs you will end up with about $50. The cost of additional gas will be about half of that. Your monthly savings will be at about $25. Whether the effort is worth it - your call. Frankly, I would rather adjust thermostat and airflow registers to heat this room a bit better, so that your heaters took a break and left it at it.

Totally depends on what kind of fishes they have. Semipermeable membranes of freshwater fishes' cells are more "permeable" than of saltwater ones. As a result, osmosis gradually increases salinity of their fluids and over time inevitably affects their health in a negative way. How much - depends on dissolved salts concentration and the duration duration of the exposure.

Usually low light is not as much of an issue for floating plants. After all, they are closest to and direclly eposed to however little light you have.

All these temperature ranges are very relative. When I studies the subject of temperatures, pH, KH and dH in the natural habitat of my fishes, I finally came to a conclusion that all parameters vary wildly, the only thing that is constant is a slow speed of change.

For example you specified 23-25°C for blackline rasboras (Rasbora daniconius, I suppose). The research I have seen shows the temperatures in their habitat varying from 24 to 30°C within the same small stream and at the same time. The seasonal fluctuations widen the range even firther: from 22 to 32°C

Welcome! Fort Mac certainly has some limitations on supplies...just a heads up...

This is a disadvantage as well as an opportunity

Hello and welcome!

Seachem alkaline buffer will certainly do it.

Hello and welcome! By the way, fish keeping and woodworking go hand in hand - nothing looks better than a brightly lit tank on a custom made dark stand.

Hello and welcome!

Neither I do. But even if you order more for more than $100, pets and pond is not the best choice price wise.

petsandponds.com is good.. they sell cheaper than any stores that i know

Not according to my recent analysis.

Pets and Ponds will sell it for CAD 41.98 (including CAD 14.99 for the shipping)

Mail Order Pet Supplies will sell it for CAD 36.18 (including CAD 6.95 for the shipping)

PetCareRX will sell it for USD 36.98 (including USD 5.99 for shipping), but if you buy something else for USD 9 or more (to reach USD 40), shipping is free.

J&L Aquatics will sell it for CAD 33.84 (including 11.87 for shipping and handling)

Or simply go to nearest PetsMart - they usually sell it for about CAD 35.