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There’s this popular misconception in the fish keeping hobby that if you buy a 40g breeder tank, then you have 40 gallons of water. While … Read more

So you read the spec sheet and buy a tray. Fifty gallons it says. Fill ‘er up, right? But your pump isnt really moving any … Read more

What does this mean? To most aquarists, the size of a tank as listed in the ad means just that… The absolute size of that … Read more

Sometimes it’s a sinking feeling, your aquarium tank weigh more than you’d expect. Most commonly, this occurs when you’re trying to measure amount of water … Read more

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve filled up a tank, made sure everything looked good from the front, and turned around for five … Read more

So you have a twenty gallon tank. You get some nice looking rock to make it look good, throw in some black sand up to … Read more

Fill up a forty gallon breeder with some saltwater. Stack rock in there to make a landscape. Pick up your alkalinity supplement and notice you … Read more

Water is heavy. When a typical 75g tank is fully loaded with rock, gravel, and water it weigh almost nine-hundred pounds. That’s like having two … Read more

Move a fish tank one time, and you discover that a fish tank is not furniture. A fish tank is architecture. The first time someone … Read more

A structure engineer, meet piece of furniture. A piece of furniture, meet three hundred gallons of water. That’s what happens in your house when you … Read more