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I love when natural light hits the tank. The colors are amazing.

#german blue ram

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#made with tumblr #gif

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Untitled by MarkoArqua Red Sea

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Picked up a new female Betta today. She is still showing her stress stripes from her trip home. Any suggestions for a name?

#female betta

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Picked up some new driftwood - time to redo the 75!!

#planted tanks #awesome driftwood

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photos by octavio aburto off the coast of mexico. (click pic for specifics)

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JULY 21, 2016 - 203/266 MR. LITTLE GUY

For the past 20 years, during the summer, children have left notes in an ash tree on the south side of Lake Harriet. There is a small door at the base of the tree, with a tiny lion’s head knocker, and kids can open the door and leave their letters inside. Those letters are for the Lake Harriet Elf, known officially as Mr. Little Guy. The elf, who’s first name is Thorn, responds to everyone who writes him, which turns out to be about 1500 letters per year. 

The kids ask him all kinds of things, like how tall he is (taller than his younger brother, but shorter than his older), and what food he likes to eat (minnow pizza). No one has ever seen Mr. Little Guy, but that doesn’t stop the kids from writing to him. And when he write back, Thorn signs every letter, “I believe in you.”

It’s nice to know there’s someone that believes in all of us.

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“Oregon Reef”

Probably the best reef aquascape I’ve ever seen. Probably one of my favorite tanks ever. So natural, very well done.

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Sheer awesomeness. The underside of a big wave.

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A turtle at Heron Island, Australia by laurencebate A very relaxed and happy turtle :)

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Last week was the first birthday of my 20 gallon long! This is a look back at it’s first year. The wood and rocks are still in there, somewhere..

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Clown Pleco ~ Cardinal Tetra photo bomb

#clown pleco

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Just look at this doofus. Sir Lancelotl just loves his bubbles

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Handsome otos. Surely the puffers will behave themselves around such dapper beings.

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Group photo

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In light of the recent water hardness discussions here is a map of the APPROXIMATE hardness levels in the US. You should tailor your fishkeeping to the water you have. It will make your experience much more pleasant. The source has a table that converts these values to PPM which is a much more common unit of measure.  This link from the USGS also gives an alkalinity map for the US.