DID YOU KNOW THAT...

[SGypsyMermaid]

by keeping a big pile of porous rocks in your tank, you get an added benefit of nitrate removal? deep inside the rock, anaerobic bacteria break down the nitrates into free oxygen and nitrogen which bubble up and out of the tank.

[SGypsyMermaid]

you could be electrocuted if you stick your hand into a tank where the heater has cracked, or a powerhead has an electric malfunction, or if the hood lights fall into the tank? please, please, please...disconnect the power to these fixtures before working in the tank.

[Rudy]

cccccaaaaaannnnnttttt tttalk rrrriiigggttt now beeeiiiing eeelllleeectricuted!


I got to go to bed.

[SGypsyMermaid]

wise guy! :twisted:

[Blue Mage]

Another way to reduce nitrates that I have come acrossed is by useing a deep sand bed, 4"+.

[SGypsyMermaid]

welcome, blue mage--i've also seen the thing about the deep sand bed--same principle.

[jnorris]

I had a heater break in a Marine tank once. cooked the fish and nearly got me in the process. You would think that they would do something about that.

[chennes]

[quote:d069e95cb2="jnorris"]You would think that they would do something about that.[/quote:d069e95cb2]
Like what? How did the heater break?

Chris

[jnorris]

Like a fuse or circut breaker or something...anything to avoid the toaster in the bathtub effect. Actually the salt started eating at the wires.

[Blue Mage]

Thanks for the welcome SGypsyMermaid

[SGypsyMermaid]

:D you're welcome, blue mage(mermaids are partial to wizards, ya know!)...i don't know that anything can be done to prevent electrical malfunctions in tank accessories--all the more reason to be careful. it's helpful if you have your light fixtures, heaters, and powerheads plugged into a GFI(ground fault interrupter). it will shut off the current in about a second if properly installed. you can get them in a hardware store, or some mail order fishkeeping catalogs. it's worth the investment for your safety.

[SGypsyMermaid]

did you know that there is another malawian "cleaner" fish besides pseudotropheus crabro(which picks parasites off of catfish)?---ad konigs reports in [u:ca7bf7326e]malawi cichlids in their natural habitat[/u:ca7bf7326e] that melanochromis parallelus eats fungus and parasites off the bodies of utaka and other non-mbuna!

[jonah]

Now that you've given away the answer to the October bonus question 1, what's the answer to question 2? I was guessing convicts since they're hard to keep from spawning. :D

[SGypsyMermaid]

:hide: i was hoping no one would notice--i just came across that tidbit while looking for something else, then i remembered the bonus questions--i don't know the answer to the second question, but remember we talked about the crabro picking parasites off of catfish in an earlier incarnation of the forum--so i didn't [i:2a48e1321f]really[/i:2a48e1321f] give it away. but cichlid jeans is probably going to kill me anyway. :hide:

[madgamer89]

cool info gypsy

[SGypsyMermaid]

why, thank you, jesse.(she blushes) :)