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This may help ( or really hinder) those looking for basic information on fish for your tanks. Point your browser to http://www.google.com/squared and enter your search term as you normally would. Results are presented in a table format with columns titled “Item Name”, “Image”, “Description”, “Family”, “Class”, “Genus”, and you can add your own columns, […]

Asking: $1000 OBO
Up for sale is a complete 55 gallon Reef tank system. Including all the lighting, filters and other components you may need. I recently dismantled this system because I was moving and needed to downsize tanks. All components are working and in good condition. No livestock included. […]

I will check with friends and see what I can find, and no fish net stockings for the hubby, besides those would be horrible for holding crushed coral LOL.
I did a test today to see if the crushed coral did anything to the pH. I added 3 small handfulls to the […]

I don’t have any anacharis in the tank, I had a valisneria but I removed it when it melted from the flourish excel, it’s starting to regrow in another tank now. I have a couple of types of crypts, a type of Echinodorus (sword), and something I’m not sure what it is, […]

For the raising of KH only, you can use Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) and this site with a calculator. http://dataguru.org/misc/aquarium/calKH.asp
You should probably return the Flourish Trace, Potassium, Excel and Iron since the basic Flourish has all of these things… well not the CO2 from the Excel but since you have plants that would be […]

Nylon’s what are those? LOL I think I haven’t worn those since highschool or at least the last time I went to the bar, years and years ago LOL I will see what I can dig up, I added it to the tank for now as I didn’t have […]

I’ve never used crushed coral and I think it would depend on how big the pieces are, the volume of the water, where it’s put, etc.. The smaller the pieces, the more surface area of the crushed coral that would be exposed to the water. Are you putting in your filter or just […]

What is a UV Filtration Rod? I did a Google but nothing jumped out at me and I’ve never heard the term.
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)

Hi Lenny,
Thanks very much for sharing these lots of information.
Will bookmark this page so I can go back to it from time to time.
Regards,
Armand
________________________________ From: Lenny V. aka GoldLenny To: Ponds-Koi@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 7:20:08 AM Subject: RE: [Ponds-Koi] Newbie Here
I would start reading ALL of the articles/pages on this site:
http://www.colorado […]