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EcoPlus ECO-66 Submersible Hydroponic/Aquarium Pump

I'm using this pump on a flood and drain hydroponic system. This pump is working against a 12 inch rise and my return easily allows this thing to run wide open with no problems! It's been running strong for over a month on a timer, 1/2 hr runs every 2 1/2 hours 5 times a day. Solid buy with no problems, cheap and sufficient!

At first I wasn't sure, if this small pump could handle the job. It's the power source for a beautiful Dolphin Fountain, that I bought for My late Wife. I am happy to say, that it has exceeded all expectations, and would recommend it to anyone.

Thanks Amazon"

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Jardin Aquarium Fish Tank Air Stone Plastic Plant Décor, Fuchsia Blue

I didn't expect much due to the price but it's a very nice plant with tons of bubbles. Bright and colorful and it sure puts out a lot of bubbles. I like to change up the tank and having the bubbles right in the plant is a nice change.

I did remove some of the taller branches, otherwise this is a nice looking addition to my tank. Make sure you rinse it first. The branches are pretty stiff and don't seem to be leaning, but I've only had it in the tank for a few days. I am not using the air stone feature, but I did test it.

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BiOrb 105L Aquarium with LED, Black

The Biorb 105L (28 gallon) has ONLY 3 LED White Lights and 1 Blue LED Night Light.

IF this tank had even slightly adequate lighting for live plants then I'd probably rate it a 5. I intend to retrofit the lighting somehow and am unsure what is going to end up working.

Lighting ISSUES aside... I LOVE the way this tank looks having set it up with lots of drift wood and Java Moss (I really NEED to supplement the lighting soon for the live plants) I have set it up with a platy, 1 molly, 1 white cloud (5 more soon), 7 varied danios, a male betta, 5 bamboo shrimp, 11 glass shrimp and I intend to add some dwarf flame gouramis and maybe a few killifish after some research (because the Betta is related) on if they will work.

I have added copious amounts of cycled rocks & ornaments as well as cycling & balancing chemicals and continue to recheck the water for toxic buildup and do water changes ALL because I have over stocked this tank too soon. Hopefully with constant attention it will be fine.

LASTLY & IMPORTANTLY... Check the tank for imperfections BEFORE you set it up!!! I found some micro cracks & ripples after I set it up and am keeping an eye on them to make sure everything remains stable.

Basically & suggest that you do NOT jump in as fast as I have unless you have some depth of previous experience.

My reviews re never long, this aquRIUM LOOKS GREAT. tHE ONLY DRAW BACK IN MY OPIONION IS THE FILTRATION, i HAD TO PUT IN ANOTHER FILTER IN THE AQUARIUM TO HELP THE Original..Thats all sorry for the capitalization issue, I am not going back to fix..

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Marina Girl Theme Betta Fish Aquarium Bonus Pack

My daughter turned four and wanted her own pet to take care of and wanted a "princess" tank. The Disney ones were garish and expensive. This is the perfect tank for a betta and easy to clean. I don't think it is too small for this type of fish at all. Great price for all that was included in the box too.

I have been wanting one of these but saw it in the store for a lot more. Made very well and very stylish. Order it, you wont be disapointed.

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I wouldn't use this for any fish but it was great for my little Marimo before it started to get a little bigger. I also used one to hold my little ghost shrimp before putting in the 5 gal tank after I was sure it wouldn't give any diseases or anything. That's about all I used this little thing for.

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This tank is way too small and cruel. Do some research if you don't believe me. This is just mean!

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Marina Hang-On Breeding Box, Medium

I bought a couple of theses after buying some of the large ones. I find these excellent for mt small "shell dweller" fry. It's just as good and as easy to use s the large. I don't think I would want anything smaller though. This is as small as I would want.

Going to try and make a tiny refugium for my 10 gallon salt tank with this breeder small enough to not take up too much space but big enough to put some small algae rock and a few pods in there lets see what happens so far so good

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Looks nice, works and inexpensive.

Choice of having a bottom separator for fish fry to be separated from the adult.

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now this product help me alot beacause now my prego ffish dont have to worry about being attacked by other fish in the tank it also needs and air pump and does have the slots for the babies t drop through

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the only reason that i gave this a four instead of a 5 if because its a bit noisy and thats about it.its really easy to set up even a 12 year can do it although u need a strong pump if u want to have the bubbles on the breeder box and your air stone (if u have one)

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Fluval Polyresin Aquarium Ornament - Rock Outcrop

So, this rock was for a little fluval aquarium with guppies. It was shipped loose in a box with quite a few other Amazon purchases, and arrived with one of the peaks completely broken off. So, I'm left with a portion with two peaks, and one lonely peak that I might add to another aquarium. I have to turn the broken side to the back, but luckily no one has noticed with a well-placed plant. It does get compliments. Shame on Amazon for their crappy packaging, as everything I ordered was loose in a large box to rattle around and bump against everything else. I would return, but I hate a hassle (hence ordering from Amazon to begin with).

I recently added one of these Fluval rock outcrop ornaments to a Mr. Aqua 7.5 gallon rimless cube aquarium, that I am using as a ghost shrimp tank. I planted some Java Fern around this ornament for realism and it looks very nice.

My ghost shrimp like to climb up on it and use the ornament for a vantage point in the aquarium.

I recommend it for anyone looking for a realistic outcrop formation.

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love the looks of this rock, very solid and made well. Soaked in water before using it in tank. no problems with it or fish once it was in my tank. I bought two of these and one larger one so I could make different looks to the tank by flipping it around and grouping it differently.

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This piece of wood is smaller than you might realize by looking at the picture, however it is a nice looking piece of drift wood. My husband bought it for our children's little 10 gallon tank and it would be the right size. Unfortunately, this wood has yet to make into our tank. After we received it in the mail it was sitting on the counter prior to being put in the fish tank. I noticed it had a sticker on the wood so I read what it said as I removed it. The sticker stated that this wood was the ideal addition to home aquariums however due to some of the unique properties of the wood it would need to be soaked for "a few days" to allow the color to leach out. It stated that if you do not do this your fish tank water might be discolored. I was relieved that I read the sticker prior to my husband tossing it into the tank. I pulled out a large salad bowl, filled it with water and dropped the wood in. I was shocked the next morning to find the wood caused the water to turn the color of tea. I thought that was probably all the color that was going to leach out but just in case I emptied the bowl out and filled it with fresh water. After a week of changing the water every day I was beginning to think that the unique properties of this wood were such that it would cause my fish to be obscured. After a month the wood is still leaching color, at this point it is no longer a dark tea color however it is still turning the water a color I do not wish for my fish tank to be.

Beware when purchasing this product. If you have a lot of time and do not mind the wait this wood looks very nice. For those of you who have children or husbands who want instant gratification this product is not for you.

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Como 2 Pcs Ceramic Base w Green Plants Fish Tank Decoration 10.2"

This order was for my new fish tank, and they both look good sitting at the bottom. The plants have some kinks in them, but with a little work they straighten up. Two thumbs up!

Petco Dark Blue Aquarium Gravel, 5 lbs.

The color on these rocks was bright and the exact blue I wanted. I was using them to fill the bottom of planters for a decorative touch and to absorb some of the water. Worked like a charm!

The dye is not permanent. While rinsing, I noticed that my fingers turned blue. The water it did not show much color change. I had placed the gravel in a colander and that in a white bowl to catch the fines. After ~30 min in water the dye still rubs off and the bowl is stained blue. Will this harm fish? If this is normal a short comment in the description could have covered my concern.

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Nice mix of blue. My betta looks great with it. You can easily rinse out fecises unlike most gravel that would go down and clog the drain.

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i got the rest of my pebbles and they are beautiful in my fish bowl. there was a small misunderstanding which was cleared up easily:)

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Aquarium Fish Tank Silicone Sea Anemone Artificial Coral Ornament SH220S pu

This has nice authentic detail, but has a strong unpleasant odor. Don't think I would put it in an aquarium with live fish I was just using for a model for science class had nice oral disk detail.

Coralife 05476 Square Pin Compact Fluorescent Lamp, 96-Watt, 10K

No sure what everyone says about it coming broken mine was packaged perfectly and came quicklu

My plants grown so well in it

I liked these bulbs, delivered as advertised and in great shape.

I have an older lighting fixture and since purchasing them years ago they are still holding up, and looking good. They have dimmed a little but hardly noticeable.

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I never saw whether this bulb worked. The first one arrived shattered. Cross-ship return. The second one arrived shattered. Cross-ship return. The third one didn't have any glass obviously broken, but the packaging was the same and the bulb never flickered or lit. Returned.

At the end of the day, Petco actually had better pricing for an equivalent bulb and shipped in MUCH BETTER packaging. So...try the bulb, but be ready to return it if you hear glass rattling when it arrives.

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Jardin Plastic Aquarium Fish Tank 2 Way Air Flow Control Valves, 6-Piece, White

These work perfectly. Sure, its not the perfect consistent valve but you work with it and its perfect. Holds its position great.

These attached easily and allow very precise control of the air volume. From other experiences, I know this to be difficult and I like these valves very much indeed.

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Coralife 05439 HQI Double Ended Metal Halide Lamp, 150-Watt, 14K

I bought a used MH light for my modified 29 gal BioCube and didn't know how old the bulb that came with it really was. I tried a Phoenix bulb which was VERY blue. My corals didn't seem to like it at all and my green bubble tip anemone was very unhappy. This Coral Life bulb is much better tolerated and it seems to provide the corals the light they like. Decent price but the packaging was not adequate at all. It came shipped in a small padded envelope. I would have thought a box would be better for a light bulb.

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Exotic Environments Pirates Cannon Bubbler Aquarium Ornament, 5-Inch by 4-Inch by 3-1/2-Inch

I got this product when first got my goldfish, Pickles. The product lasted longer than he did(swim bladder). So, I highly recommend this for your tank, especially if you have a pump and tube tying around your fish supplies that you never use.

love it but it's not making any bubble. my goldfishes also love it, wish it was doing its job,sure would have made my aquarium a lot more attractive

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I like tbe looks but they look small in my 55 gallon tank made it look bigger in pic.

And the price wad high for how small they where

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Tetra Fauna Viquarium

The description sounds great. We got it set up and running without much effort. However, there are some features we really don't like about it. One the filtration is so-so. Water can run UNDER that filter unit instead of through the filter cartridges. The water flow through the filter cartridges is VERY SLOW. It took much longer than I think it should have to get the water clear after adding our cleaned gravel.

What I consider a serious design flaw is my biggest gripe. We have fire belly toads in our setup. They can crawl through the space where the river bed exits the waterfall tower. And, since our tower has a manufacturing defect, there's a hole in the inside wall of the unit. One of our toads, of course, worked his way in to this hole (which is underwater, by the way) and couldn't get back out. We had to dismantle the ENTIRE thing to empty the water out of the base, pull it up, and retrieve the toad. What this meant was that we had to remove the other toads, scoop out all the waterbed gravel AND the course gravel from the land side which meant destroying our carefully built live-moss landscape. Then, as a two person-and-many-swear-word-job, everything had to be carefully put back into place (difficult because you can't let any gravel get under either piece or they don't work right), try and rebuild our mossy ground cover and re-plant our live plants, and then add back the toads plus more water.

Our fix to prevent this happening again was to place 4 cottonballs at the corners inside the tower unit to prevent toads from working their way into the tower again. So far so good, but I can't imagine what you'd do if you had a small amphibian!

Finally, even though the filtration base makes a really tight fit against the sides of the terrarium, all sorts of debris gets sucked up against the rubber seals I assume this means some water is also flowing beside the filter box instead of through it. Regardless, it's unsightly because there's this vertical line of debris right in the middle of the front of the terrarium glass that I can't reach to clean.

Also, there's no way to easily clean the gravel bed in the land area. I am interested to see if this proves to be a problem or not. The water portion is easy to clean you just siphon it like you would in an aquarium.

I wanter to see my daugter's pet turtle on land for once and thought this waterfall/stream setup might entice him to come out of the pool. Setup was easy and unit has worked flawlessly for several months now.

I put his basking light right over one of the flat "rocks" that covers a filter. The turtle now comes out and basks laying on his rock something I had never seen him doing. Unexpectedly he also "plays" in the stream I think he is searching for food but its quite amusing to see him moving shells around with his head. If threatened by a noise or movement he uses the stream as a water slide to jet himself back down into his pool.

The water quality has been good I change out some every week but it has stayed clear and clean looking. The waterfall and stream have increased evaporation of water so I am adding more water then I used to.

Overall this new setup for our tutle has worked out very well. If a turtle can be said to look happy, then our turtle is happy. His behaviors seem much more natural and he acts more curious now.

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I bought this as an upgrade for the one that was in my tank. It is certainly an amazing upgrade!!! However, there absolutely no possible way that this is intended for use by frogs! I had to put a lot of time and money "frog proofing" this product before I even dare to put it in the tank. With a lot of hot glue and nylon screen, I finally was able to put it in the tank. It works wonders! I definitely suggest this product to people with pets over about 4 inches in diameter, or a turtle (I don't think the hard shell could squeeze through the 1.5 inch gaps)

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The best purchase I've made for my Chinese Water dragon. He loves it and takes his baths then comes back to dry land. Best investment I have made.

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Our next door neighbor recently moved out and somehow left his turtle behind. We found him (a Red Eared Slider)walking around in our back yard in late November.

Our 12 year old son was so excited and curious about this turtle that we had to adopt him. We named him "Toodie" and I must admit I fell in love with him too. Having had turtles and fish and all kinds of pets in the past but none now, I wanted to give him a good home and also teach my son how to properly care for and the importance of the "how to and whys" of making the proper habitat for reptiles. So, we started out with just a five gallon tank, filter, hood kit to see how "Toodie" would do and how our son would like caring for him. "Toodie" liked the 5 gallon aquarium but soon it was obvious that the tank was too small. So after a couple of hours of research on-line, we moved up to a 20 gallon "turtle-quarium" kit that included the proper lighting, basking area, filter, etc.

Then about a week later I asked a sales specialist at our local Petco store what I could do in order to make the turtle's tank as realistic as possible, making it part aqua and part land environment and he suggested the Tetra-Fauna Viquarium.

So I bought the Tetra-Fauna Viquarium as a family gift for Christmas. It is very well made and well designed. Fortunately, it is NOT made out of cheap plastic...it is made of a heavy clay type material which adds great realism to the unit. The way the clay is molded looks totally realistic, just as you may see a small river waterfall with rocks in a real jungle/tropical area. It fit perfectly in the corner of our 20 gallon tank and because the instructions are simple and well written, I had it set up and running within about 20 minutes. I have had this set up and running in our tank now for about 10 days and the built-in, hidden filtration system is quiet, effective and runs extremely well. The waterfall flow and realism is totally awesome and adds tremendous aesthetic realism, beauty and quality to the turtle's environmental safety and naturalism. Most importantly, "Toodie" just loves it! He climbs up on the top of the waterfall and slides down in to the water below and sometimes basks on top of either one of the two "towers" formed by the clay molding.

I think it was originally priced at over $100.00 but it is a great deal at a lower price here on Amazon.com. For the money, this is a totally worthwhile investment in your turtle's habitat and we have had numerous compliments on the tank by friends and family over the holidays!

The Viquarium unit also give you some design flexibility to your tank; it comes with a nice artificial plant fixtures that looks totally real and also a waterfall "extension" to lengthen the waterfall slide if you wish. The unit is also easy to clean and easy to change the filters. The unit uses two filters that are inexpensive to buy and replace through Amazon.com or your local pet store.

If you really want to care properly for your turtles or other reptiles/amphibians and have a delightfully beautiful addition to your home, get this totally unique and functional asset for your aquarium/terrarium habitat and you will not be disappointed.

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