City Water

Will well water affect my tropical fish any differently than the city water I use now?

I live in the city and I am moving to the country real soon. I dont think it makes a difference, but I just want to be 100% sure. We will be using well water with a [...]

Garden Hose

Can you use a garden hose to fill up a fish tank?

Just wondering if it’s safe or not because it’d be much easier to fill up my tank with a garden hose than having to carry a bucket back and forth.

if your setting up a new tank yes other Wise you still need to use [...]

Water Supply

How harmful is the excess fluoride being dumped in Americas water supply?

What are the bad effects, any you may know. Also if you know any brands of water or other drinks that don’t use or have fluoride in them, please list them. Just anything you know about the situation or any opinion i’d like to [...]

Trailer Water

is it ok to start a boat engine when the boat is on the trailer and not in any water?

In all fairness to the posters above, they are thinking of lower units as well as closed sytems with raw water cooling.(heat exchangers) Now think out of the box folks……what about those boats that DO [...]

Fresh Tanks

There are many different ways you can set up an aquarium depending on what you would like to keep and what interests you most in the hobby. Accordingly hobbyists tend to put names on the different types of aquariums that can be set up because they have similar general requirements depending on the classification of [...]