I have been told that if you let salt water algae completely dry out then get it wet again that it will come right off.

We'll see.

I tell ya DE, im quite jealous. Although all im interested in is the tank itself, but thats one beautiful setup. Congrats!

yeah, that jacket is pretty gay.

He wears anything that is free but I couldn't ask for a better friend. One of those guys that will not only help you kill your enemy but will also help you dig the hole.

Summertime it's free t-shirts with the sleeves cut off, spring and fall he will put hand me down flannel shirts over the free t-shirts.

He must have gotten the shirt he is wearing in the picture as a birthday gift from his parents.

Reminds me of a friend of mine... the guy is so cheap his rear end squeeks when he walks. but yet he has thousands in his bank account...

Hell I knew he wasn't skinny enough to be DE!

Kind of looks like a jacket Burt Reynolds would have
worn in the movie Hooper!

LMAO !!! I can't wait to tell him that !!

Anyways, now that all the silliness is away, there are a lot of websites out there now. 2 of the ones I visit and help out with as well as get help with is Fish Geeks! and The Planted Tank

Both are good in their own right. Fish Geeks has alot of helpful people on there with good knowledge about freshwater tanks and diseases.

The Planted Tank is of course highly focused to having lots of plants and how to keep them alive.

I only have one site for Saltwater, but it's focus is mainly on how to maintain reef tanks and has some very good calculators for building your own tanks. The website Garf is very good for that purpose. Enjoy!

I am a member of Oscarfish and MonsterFishKeepers.

PS. The job of the bio wheels is not to add Oxygen to the water.

Oscar fish is a good site. I used to hang out there a lot but haven't been much since I got rid of my fish. There are some killer set ups in their photo galleries.

LOL, just had to jack with you. One of my bad habits is taking everything literaly.

Look familiar?

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The job of the bio wheel is add more oxygen to the water after it's coming out of the filter, AND it's also a place that houses the good bacteria that helps break down ammonia.

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Surface aggitation is where you get most all of your oxygen transfer.
The good bacteria (Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter) on the bio wheel actually "convert" the ammonia first to nitrite then to nitrate.

I'm a fish geek.

Did i say that? Oh well, it still is partly true. The bio wheel adds agitation to the surface water which does add oxygen. So it's partly true!?

We had two oscars and hated those peckerheads, you couldn't feed them without one jumping out of the tank to get to a piece of freeze dried shrimp.

LOL I had one jump out of the tank one night! Same thing happened to my room mate. I woke up to this smacking sound on the floor. Turned the lights on and there was Gary flopping around. When I put him back in I swear he had the most dumbfounded look on his face.
I put a book on the top of the tank after that.

They went nuts in the tank every time I went to the freezer and pulled the freeze dried shrimp out.
Most of the time it was my fault showing people what they did when you opened the lid and held a piece above the tank, of course that was most all party nights when I did it.

Good lids/covers are a must for Oscars.

Why, do they get out of the garbage cans?

They sure are grouchy aren't they.....