Aquarium Calculator

Whether it’s too little or just way too loud, pumps is where most of us go wrong in our fish tanks. You want healthy livestock … Read more

If you’ve shopped for pumps or looked at pump boxes, you’ve likely noticed large numbers listed as flow rates. These numbers imply your tank will … Read more

When you look at the aquarium, you see the flow from return nozzle. You chose a pump rated for high capacity, so it looks like … Read more

That aquarium pump probably had great specs on the box. They said it would pushes lots of water at very good flow rates. It was … Read more

So there you are with that bucket in your hands as the water vanishes down the drain. Forty gallons, the number’s imprinted on the box; … Read more

The tank might be rated at a thousand gallons an hour but the return line pushes only half that amount of water. The problem isn’t … Read more

Gravity brings that water down to your sump when the pump turn off. And there you sit… watching your display tank’s water go down. It’s … Read more

Cracking Glass A cracked glass bottom isn’t something delicate; no sir. It only takes a couple seconds of catastrophic failure because someone forgot that water … Read more

When most folks construct an acrylic aquarium they are trying to create a seamless, clean appearance. They envision a piece of glass looking like a … Read more

When you first try to pick up a piece of acrylic to build your own aquarium, it’s a shock. You’re thinking it will be light, … Read more