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Laguna Pond Skimmer Fish Net with 24-Inch Telescopic Handle

Laguna Pond Skimmer Fish Net with 24-Inch Telescopic HandleThoroughly cleans my tank, on the bottom and floating debris. I put it under the sink to rinse it out, and it cleans with little effort.

Haven't really had a chance to use it yet, but quality looks good and I presume it will work fine for this purpose.

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I'm using this item as an additional filter to rid my jacuzzi of leaves and things that fall into it when I'm in it. It works well for this purpose.

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Pennplax Lost City of Atlantis Large Replica Aquarium Decor

Pennplax Lost City of Atlantis Large Replica Aquarium DecorIT ADDED TO THE TOWN IN THE AQUARIUM...LOOKS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE THAT SEES IT LOVES THE LOOK AND THE FISH SEEM TO REALLY APPRECIATE IT

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Jardin Simulated Pointed Leaves Aquarium Plastic Plant, 8.3-Inch, Purple/Blue

Jardin Simulated Pointed Leaves Aquarium Plastic Plant, 8.3-Inch, Purple/BlueI just received it so I have not seen this color combination yet in a tank. However, this plant is full and should look real nice.

This company give you a full plant and quality is fantatic. This pointed leaf plant always looks good in green so it should look real nice.

U.P. Aqua Triangle Fish Net

U.P. Aqua Triangle Fish NetThis net is a bit on the smallish size... suitable for tetras and barbs, fish an inch or maybe two. I expected something a bit larger. On the positive side, it looks well made, the telesoping feature was very useful in my 70 gallon tank, and the triangular shape is good for snagging fish that hide in corners. For the price paid (about $10) I'm not dissapointed, but I wouldn't spend any more on this product.

Como Ball Shape Green Plastic Plants Decoration for Aquarium Fish Tank

Como Ball Shape Green Plastic Plants Decoration for Aquarium Fish Tanksometimes it has a hard time staying at the bottom of the aquarium but other than that looks pretty nice.

These are nice & prettier to look at than the real ones. They look really great in my tank. =]

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Instant Baby Brine Shrimp 20 g

Instant Baby Brine Shrimp 20 gIf you can't be bothered to hatch your own brine shrimp, this is an excellent alternative. Its an excellent food for baby fish and smaller adults. I like it for tanks that have lots of babies and adults. The food scatters broadly and floats around in the water instead of staying at the top or falling to the bottom. The advantage of this is that it allows everyone (except for maybe bottom feeders) a good chance to get at the food. Since the adults have to work so hard to eat a lot, the babies get a chance at the food. Everyone gets very happy, much happier than brine shrimp flakes. While expensive, if one isn't wasteful, it does last quite awhile.

I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to feed baby brine shrimp without having to hatch them.

I had 12 juvenile fish shipped to me a little younger than normal. They arrived in great shape, but would not accept any of the fry food I had on hand. I contacted the breeder and found out the fish were still eating baby brine shrimp. I didn't want to go to the trouble of hatching my own so I decided to give this product a try.

The fish immediately began eating this food! It's been about three weeks now, and they are all healthy and growing well. I have been able to successfully introduce them to other foods during this time, but I continue to feed them the baby brine shrimp as part of their regular diet.

While the bottle may be small, the food goes a long way. I currently have eight tanks with fish, and I have fed the baby brine shrimp to all my fish as a treat. They love it! It stays suspended in the water column for a long time so all the fish have a chance to get some. This is especially important for the fry in my large tanks with lots of other fish. While the larger fish are kept busy trying to eat a million tiny bites, the fry are able to eat undisturbed.

I will definitely buy this again and recommend it to anyone with fry, juvenile fish, or small fish. It's also good for adult community fish as a much enjoyed treat. There's enough in the bottle to feed the whole crew! If you enjoy feeding frozen foods to your fish, you'll really enjoy feeding this to your fish!

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EXCELLENT BUY!GREAT EXPERIENCE.GREAT PRODUCT!

MY SEAHORSES LOVE'EM. I WILL DEFINITELY BUY IT AGAIN.GOOD PRICE. THEY ARE REALLY FRESH. IT ARRIVED REALLY FAST.

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I loved the product you are not suposed to try and hatch it as someone else posted on a review. You just get an 1/8 of a teaspoon or so and scatter them in the water, the fish readily eat them and as someone else stated they stay suspended and scatter around the tank, allowing all occupants to eat. My babies became little pigs and got bellies on them.

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I have a nonprofit org. where I collect and refurbish aquariums and put them in schools and nursery's. I also stock the aquariums I install with fish and monitor them (clean, water change, check fish for sickness) for the first year of installation. To cut down on my cost I now breed the fish I am using and they (the fish) loooooove this product. It does not cloud the tank and it's perfect for my fish fry.

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Coralife 10000K T-5 High Output Fluorescent Lamp

Coralife 80404 10000K T-5 High Output Fluorescent Lamp, 31-WattWe recently orded 2 sets of bulbs. One set from another company was not packaged well and came to us completely broken. However, this MarineandReef's packaging was superb! It was packaged with brown paper to keep them from rattling around and the bulbs were also wrapped in bubble wrap. I have already ordered two more bulbs from them (to replace the other broken ones).

This is a great bulb for the T-5 light fixture. The light is bright and the corals look buestiful under them.

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TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE.....The item is not even close to 36". It's only 33" and not to mention, way to small to even fit into the strip light itself. Now I have to deal with returning this and waiting for a refund. I thought maybe I'd save some money but it turns out, I'm wasting not only money but also my time with this. First ever bad experience with purchasing online from any site.

Note to the seller: Do us all a favor and edit your original post to say it's only 33" and that it will NOT fit into a 36" strip light.

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Jardin Plastic Frame Net Fry Hatchery Breeder for Aquarium, White

Jardin Plastic Frame Net Fry Hatchery Breeder for Aquarium, WhiteIt was pretty easy to assemble, the netting goes right over everything except the sucker parts. the sucker parts though you have to really push to get them on, then when you get them on you have to press them onto the tank really well or else the hatchery will sink and your frog might get in and eat all your baby fish... then when its time to get out the remaining survivors of the frog attack its really difficult because the suckers wont detatch. Overall though, its a pretty good product and if you lower your water level a little then you'll be fine.

Aqueon Tap Water Conditioner

Aqueon 06005 Tap Water Conditioner, 16-OunceI hate to say it, but some of these reviews just leave me shaking my head (no, this didn't kill your fish, and no, the review area of amazon isn't for reviewing a certain seller's packing method).

Anyways, I figured I should review this since the current review score on Amazon is really messed up right now. This product is great, I've used it now for a few years in all of my aquariums with all different types of fish.

Just to note, I've had several different bottles of the Aqueon conditioner, and I've used it in several different tanks (so no, I don't think I got some fluke bottle that for some reason worked better than what others stated).

My 50 gal cichlid tank does well with this product.

My 30 gal cichlid tank does well with this product.

My 20 gal community tank does well with this product.

My 10 gal betta tank does well with ths product.

My 5 gal guppy tank does well with this product.

(I've also had various betta tanks and whatnot over the past few years, and my sister has used this for both brackish and salt water tanks).

Anyways, I've tried this and other conditioners; I personally don't care for the Tetra conditioner, but I do think most of them work fairly well no matter the brand. However, using this conditioner, I've never had cloudy water, I've never head unusual death rates (most of my fish are several years old at this point, many living longer than average life expectancy). So, I don't think you can go wrong with this product; it may be slightly more in cost than the cheapest products out there, but it does work.

If your fish are dying, and you think it is due to this conditioner, I would urge you to re-analyze what the scenario is. Some people will have tap water that cannot be altered enough to be fish safe, even with conditioner, as there are several other particles to take into consideration (ph, iron and other metals being the most obvious concerns). Also, if you are concerned about high chlorine/metals in your water, it doesn't hurt to add more than the recommended dosage of the conditioner. I wouldn't go crazy and add half the bottle, but even so much as doubling the amount recommended shouldn't do any damage. It's a little hard to measure anyways, since the dosage is for 10 gal, but I don't know where people are getting 10 gal buckets at, I usually just use 5gal buckets for water change, and add what looks like a little over half of the 5ml dosage. You could add 5ml for every 2 buckets, but I like to add the conditioner first, then fill up the bucket so it gets nice and mixed with the water.

Anyways, my 2+ cents.

This is an excellent product and great price! I use this to add water to three different tanks so I needed a good qty of it and was able to find it through your site at a reasonable cost. Excellent!

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I've been using this stuff for over a year now and have never lost a fish by using it. The water stays crystal clear and causes no issues with my live plants either.

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Fish are all still alive after a year so it must work fine! I never have a hard time keeping the tank clean either so I know it must help with the hard water and mineral deposits we have here.

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I very disappointed in the packaging for this item. It was not sealed and most of the contents leaked out and onto other items in the box. So I paid for a wet box and very little product.

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All Glass Aquarium AAG29251 Overflow Accessory New Kit

All Glass Aquarium AAG29251 Overflow Accessory New KitI was very worried about buying this product. Everything has to be perfect for this product to work. The Aqueon product line of tanks are well designed. This accessory is worth the money. Do not go out to the hardware store and try to build your own version. I know have a beautiful Marine tank. The price is high, but the product is excellent.

very quite easy to put together only thing is I wish the bulkheads were not barbed but you can always buy new ones

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Great product, looks/functions almost as advertised. The connections on the bottom of the tank could be smaller, the ones that come with it are for 1 3/4 inch hose going to the filter (who uses a connection that big?) I had to jerry rig it and ended up just going with the equipment that came with my filter.

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These have far less problems over the add-on off the back overflows. I do highly recommend this product to any aquarist.

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Marina Style Deluxe Aquarium Kit

Marina Style 20 Deluxe Glass Aquarium Kit - 20 GallonsWe bought this as a first aquarium for our household. All of the parts included have worked great, and the instruction book has been really helpful, from the set-up to the adding of fish. The bottle of starter is only enough to treat the aquarium once though, so you might want to order a second bottle (the stuff that adds the beneficial bacteria) for water changes.

There is no heater included either, so if you want to do anything other than goldfish you'll need to buy one. They aren't very expensive, so it's not a big deal, but I wish I had realized that before.

Like other reviewers have stated my tank arrive completely shattered. One entire side of the tank glass was in tiny pieces. As others said the box was packed in a box much bigger and just a tiny bit of brown paper so I suspect it has rattled around quite a bit. When the package arrived I immediately requested a replacement online. This was a very easy process and took just a few minutes. The next day UPS arrived with a new tank and picked up the broken one (I am a Prime customer so I don't know if this is the case with non-prime members). Though this tank was packaged the exact same way it was completely intact. It was a bit frustrating to have to change the tanks out but it only set me back one day and about 5 minutes so I can't complain too much.

I really like the tank. I completely admit I know very little about fish tanks or fish in general. We have my daughter's 2 goldfish living in the tank (they were in a 3 gallon tank previously so they got quite an upgrade to 20 gallons) and do very little other than feeding and changing water. The filter seems to work fine for us, keeping the water nice and clean. We used the bacterial agent that came with the tank and have purchased more as it does seem to help keep the water clear. The instruction guide was nice to have because I knew nothing about fish and would have just set up the tank and thrown the fish in. Hopefully I have limited their suffering by learning a bit more about their care from this guide.

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The packaging on this item was horrible. It was shipped with absolutely no protection, not even packing paper. That's right ... just a glass aquarium (or what was left of it), with all the accessories thrown inside, in a box. No wonder it arrived shattered. I understand there is a risk when ordering breakable items online, but this was just careless. It was also dangerous to my children, who (excited about their new fish pet) were opening the package with me, until tiny glass shards started raining down and I had to shoo them away. This experience was a great reminder that some things are best purchased locally.

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I didn't rate this at 5 Stars because the box was really beat up that the actual aquarium was in. My aquarium didn't arrive shattered. I have it up and running right now and am really love it. The motor on the filter is super quiet and I had to look to see if it was even working. I love that there is a protective coating on the switch to turn the light on. The only thing I didn't like was that the aquarium glasses are not perfectly put together. I was scared about this until I looked online and saw that there is some shifting after the pieces of glass are glued together. I will update this if I have anything else to say. I have yet to add my plants, fish and shrimp. I am doing a bit of fishless cycling but the book says that I don't have to because it comes with beneficial bacteria. The book that it comes with is AMAZINGLY BENEFICIAL! This is a perfect starter aquarium because it comes with everything! I was worried about it arriving shattered and ordering online and it arrived fine. Will update with some pics after I get it all set up.

Update: Returning the product and don't recommend purchasing it. The lightbulb smells like it's burning the plastic. The filter doesn't do a great job because my aquarium is still cloudy from when I put the substrate in and it's now day 4. It seems that the non-perfect walls that I talked before shifted somewhat. I immediately emptied it because I thought it was going to start leaking. I'm returning it and I don't even know if it will make it back to Amazon in one piece since the packaging is horrible. I'm very unhappy with this product and don't advise others to make the same mistake of purchasing it. From pictures it looks great and it really does have the ability to be great. Packaging and cheap quality products are what make it junk.

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This tank was the best deal ever. got it quick and my fish love it. love the hood configuration as well as the filter. it is so quiet.

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Laguna PowerFlo High Efficiency Water Fall Filtration System, 5000-Gallon

Laguna PowerFlo High Efficiency Water Fall Filtration System, 5000-GallonI'm EXTREMELY happy with this purchase. Although it's only been a few weeks, this filter works GREAT! I've had my 2000 gal. pond for several years, and after using this filter it's the clearest it's ever been. The filter itself is extremely easy to clean, and the filter media rinses very quickly and easily! 15 minutes, zip,zap, and you're done. Plus the filter media catches stuff I didn't even know was IN the pond! This was one of the best purchases I've ever made! I've set mine up so that I now have 3 waterfalls.

I purchased the Laguna Powerflo High Efficiency Water Fall Filter System for my pond. The water was terrible. It started looking cleaner by the next day and is improving everyday. It is a great filter. I couldn't be happier. I might purchase another one to keep the pond looking great all year.

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Como Fish Tank Aquarium Green Plastic Grass Plants Decoration 6.7" High

Como Fish Tank Aquarium Green Plastic Grass Plants Decoration 6.7' HighThis plant is as advertised. Looks just like the picture. Six inches at its tallest spreads out nicely. Has a very realistic natural color, heavy base. Very nice product.

When I first saw this I was really disappointed in the construction and the look. But, the baby guppies need good cover to hide in so I thought I'd just try it before I packed it away for future emergency tank deco. Well, I was really surprised with how great it looks in the tank and it is tightly enough gathered that babies will really have good protection in it. The coloring is a nice blend that fits perfect with the rest of my deco. 4 stars only. Construction is a wonky.

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shipping was very fast, the product was as it was showed on the website. we are very pleased with this product, it looks very nice in our tank, thank you very much !

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This is a pretty nice decoration. It sinks to the bottom and stays there. I do have a problem with one of them not staying in the base notch.

My only complaint would be the base area is kind of sparse. And since I don't use substrate like sand or pebbles. It looks very artificial. but you should be fine if you do.

I have a turtle tank so I only use large river rocks.

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