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Heather Ideus - 12/17/00 16:41:05
My Email:hmideus@aol.com

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Great site! I recieved a wonderful gift (a new aquarium)and am out trying to figure out the best way to get started. You site is wonderful. I love the pictures. Maybe in a few years when I have a bit more experience I will be able to take advantage of your advice to begin building something as beautiful!

Paul Cimins - 12/14/00 02:10:24
My Email:pmcimins@optonline.net

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I love your website very well done. It is helping me with my setup i have a 75 gallon tank trying to do the plant thing without breaking the bank.This site has been a help so far keep up the good work!

Krystal - 11/30/00 02:32:53
My Email:krystalrose@mediaone.net
From: MA

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Hi! Just a note to let you know how much I enjoyed going through your site. I have just started a 30 gal small community aquarium. Still trying to learn everything about setting it up properly. So put the coffee on I'll be visiting a lot! LOL! Great site! br>
Ben Chell - 11/22/00 20:47:32
My Email:benchell@london.com
From: California

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I like your site im going out today to fix up my tank I hade salt water with an eel and a salt water cat fish, to hard to keep up and costy for a 15 yr old hope this works out. :)

Jack Sutor - 11/21/00 22:29:53
My Email:nimble@ispchannel.com
From: Hendersonville N.C.

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This is truly my favorite plant site. I have been in the hobby for about thirty years and am just now starting to go with co2 and undergravel cabels. Your site and willingness to share your knowledge needs to be commended!!! Keep up the good work!!

a - 11/17/00 22:03:57

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Amano would be proud. An extremely beautiful tank

Marta Majdan - 11/12/00 03:58:00
My Email:marta_majdan@hms.harvard.edu
From: Boston

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Hello Hoa, I wanted to congratulate you on this great web page! Not only are your pictures amazing (maybe you could include a few words on aqaurium photography somewhere in your page!), but the text is also very informative and interesting! I put you in my favorites so I can check in frequently! Marta

Deep-C Dan - 11/08/00 19:56:25
My Email:danola@excite.com
From: Salinas Califonia

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WOW! Enjoyed your site, because it was quick loading and offered lots of ideas with plenty of reasons to support the ideas so I could decide which ideas I will use and the ones I will not need. Your info did not leave me will lots of secondary questions f r which I would have to hunt down the answers for elsewhere. Thanks for all your work to provide such a site.

Linda Davis - 10/24/00 14:43:10
My Email:jackiecat@att.net
From: Colorado

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Hi, just had to leave you a note to say how much I like your website. I'm just starting out and have found enormous amounts of useful information here on your site. Thanks for putting it together. (:

Cathy Richter - 10/17/00 02:28:31
My Email:CathysPlanet@aol.com
From: Philadelphia, PA

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I'm a beginner and a little overwhelmed. But your site is great. The tanks are stunning. I am simply trying to keep 3 goldfish alive and thriving this winter, then back to the pond in the spring. Tank (55 gal) has been running for a month, fish put in just over a week ago. I can't get the nitrites under control (5 ppm) after 2 partial water changes. No ammonia present which confuses me. If you have any advise, please let me know. Thanks. Cathy

jeff - 10/16/00 01:01:00
My Email:jtgoalie31
From: st.louis, mo.

Comments:
excellent info and updates

robert - 09/13/00 19:57:36
My URL:http://home.freeuk.net/rmacdonald
My Email:robert@toughcookie.co.uk

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Great site!! I like your photos. When I get my tank it is going to be shop-bought as it is my first.

don - 09/10/00 18:51:49
From: rochester,ny

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stopped by for a visit about to start setting up my second tank debating between 75 or 100 gal tropical freshwater thanks for the info

don - 09/10/00 18:49:41

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Patrick Marshall - 09/03/00 01:12:35
My URL:http://www.networksplus.net/maxmush/mudminnow.html
My Email:maxmush@networksplus.net
From: Topeka, KS

Comments:
Cool site

Joe Anderson - 08/30/00 19:55:18
My URL:http://www.aquaticlounge.aquariumplants.cx
My Email:the_submariner@hotmail.com
From: Oklahoma

Comments:
Always has been one of my favorite sites. Keep up the *great* work. If and when I put my links page back together, I'll def link to this page! BTW. love to see more photos of your tanks. Joe

J. Mike Hossom - 08/19/00 02:38:37
My URL:http://hossom.homestead.com
My Email:micahel.hossom@ceridian.com
From: Columbia, MD

Comments:
Great site! I found all of the lighting info that I was looking for. I will drop you a line and let you know what balasts and bulb combo that I use. Thanks.

Kank - 08/13/00 22:46:44
My URL:http://web.qx.net/kank
My Email:brookshires@qx.net
From: Winchester, Kentucky, USA

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Hello, Hoa. I see you around on the aquaria groups on usenet every once in awhile, but I thought I'd let you know that I've been visiting the site for some time now and always like to check back for reference or to look for updates. You've got a lot of seful info here because you do a great job of explaining what you've done to have a successful planted tank rather than simply repeat the stuff found at the seemingly countless other aquaria sites. I especially like your comments of various fish and plan s and what they are doing in your tank. This provides a first-hand view of the inhabitants rather than just an atlas description (not that those are bad). I also like the fact that you list the books that you think are some of the best. With the many t tles available, it's good to hear recommendations from someone that has seen and read lots of them. One way or another, I seem to now own nearly every book you recommend. I currently have one 38-gal tank that is becoming heavily planted with DIY CO2, 72w lighting, hang-on-side filter. The tank sat sparsely planted (java fern, moss) with the factory lighting for 3 years, but now I'm trying to make it what I always wanted i to be. Yours is one of the most useful aquaria pages in my bookmarks (I've got lots). Congrats on a great site and I'll see ya 'round the discussion groups. -Kank (Robert Brookshire)

Eugene Blackman - 08/13/00 15:05:24
My URL:http://www.archerfish.net (not posted yet)
My Email:eugene_blackman@yahoo.com.au
From: Adelaide, South Australia

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About me: I am 27, I study web design at college. I work 2 jobs: Fish shop on Sundays, Indoor Snow Ski Instructor on Saturdays. About fish: Well I love fish, I've kept tropical fish for nearly 2 years. I am always trying to learn as much about them as I can, and share that info with beginners. I am a member of the South Australian Native Fish Society, which is a conservationist/ho by group. When I work at the LFS on weekends and almost always spend my pay before I get out the door! I have 2 planted 30" tanks. One is a sort of 'Amazon biotope', it has various schools of tetras, Bolivian Rams & Checkerboard Dwarf's, Bristlenose & som Swordtails (yes, they are good at surface skimming aren't they!) The other tank has many Australian & New Guinea Natives, Rainbows, Gudgeons, Hardyheads, Gobies, Pygmy Perch. This tank has the most plants & I been trying to get my DIY CO2 working, but y ur site has fixed all that! Your site: Well, what can I say? Simply excellent. Thankyou so much for taking the time and effort to produce such a great site. I regard your recommendations as gospel. I will put your yeast CO2 advice to good use until I can afford to buy the other type that you've listed. And by the looks of things I need to start buying some of those great books. Thanks again, Eugene

Loh Koah Fong - 08/08/00 01:43:59
My URL:http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/kfloh/
My Email:kfloh@ntu.edu.sg
From: Singapore

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One of the best aquatic sites I have come across. And know what? I have found all my questions (DIY-CO2 + Eheim filter, Plants + Clown Loaches) answered here. Thank you!

Sergio - 07/29/00 16:14:25
My URL:http://www.infinito.it/utenti/serbas
My Email:serbas@infinito.it
From: Italy

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Congratulations! It's a great site.

David - 07/23/00 03:15:19
My Email:dpalchak@pol.net
From: California

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Amazing site!! Thanks for creating it. I'm attempting to interest my children (10 and 12 year young girls) in an aquarium. I'm at the early stage of trying to clean the white scum off the glass. It's soaking in vineger now. I may try the muriatic aci as suggested at other web sites next. It's remarkably resistant to the razor blade. My main point is that you've made a wonderful site and should be proud of it. Congratulations! David

Dave Greenhalgh - 07/21/00 18:10:46
My URL:http://www.disabilityfilms.co.uk
My Email:dave@disabilityfilms.co.uk
From: U.K.

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I'm a total beginner. My son has just set up for me a 19 gallon tank (Hagen). And of course I turned to the Web for help and it turned up trumps. Many thanks for your site. Dave

paul - 07/21/00 04:16:08
My URL:http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3538
My Email:tropicalfish01@hotmail.com
From: Australia

Comments:
Great site you have here,if you get the chance drop by mine. I also have my own webring, please feel free to join also would you like to swap links.

Kent Ickler - 07/19/00 05:04:01
My Email:kenteth@hotmail.com
From: South Dakota

Comments:
Awesome website. Extremely useful! Get it featured at thekrib.com. definately. good job.

Thanh Nguyen - 06/15/00 16:18:21
My Email:tdnqht@hotmail.com, tdnguyen1@notes.west.raytheon.com
From: Irvine

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Hi Hoa, My name Is Thanh, I am a beginner aquarist and I am in a process of setting up a 150 Gallons planted fish tank for the first time. I know nothing about tank setup and all the troubles you have to go through to have a good looking planted tank. I hope I do 't make the same mistakes as all beginners do. Your site is very nice and the notes are very helpful for beginners like myself. The setup I am going to have is 60X24X24 with an overflow filter box at one end on the right hand side (center only). Some people don't like the idea of an overflow because it reduces the CO2 level. I plan to use the CO2 tank setup just as you suggested. t could be a home brew CO2 or Co2 tank. The problem is I don't like to swap CO2 Tank for each refill.( My brother has a planted tank with the CO2 said that some places demanded that he trades in his tank. He has not find a place that would refill CO2 on is tank yet) Well, Thanks for all the good tips. All the explanations are quite clear and Very well done! Regards, Thanh Nguyen

wirya - 06/13/00 06:52:31
My Email:wirya@dnet.net.id
From: Indonesia

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I am very much impressed with all the details you give to your site as well as various links that are useful to us. Kindly update with the recent development of your tank. Thank you

Frances Vance - 06/07/00 15:09:24
My Email:fvance@premier1.net

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P.S. I found your site after entering "low light aquarium plants" in the msn search engine. You were the first site listed.

Frances Vance - 06/07/00 15:07:37
My Email:fvance@premier1.net
From: Acme, WA

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Fabulous site. Lots of great information. I got my 29 high tank at a garage sale, for myself and my dad (he is 70 and had been talking about the aquarium at his favorite tavern). My husband and mom could care less, but dad and I love it. I'm bookmarking this site to refer back to. Thank you for all of your time and effort. I especially appreciated the very clear drawings and instructions for the do it yourself CO2 and aquarium canopy. I love saving money, and I love a time-consuming project even more. I recently started a mosquito larvae brooder after reading on the newsgroups that mosquito larvae were an excellent food for aquarium fish. This was proven after I found some wigglers in a tank that I had allowed to fill with rain water on the deck. I ut a dozen or so wigglers in the tank and they were consumed in nano seconds.

Chwee Sek Foon - 06/04/00 16:22:02
My Email:luckychwee@edsamail.com.sg
From: Singapore

Comments:
I am very interested to setup a planted aquarium and currently I have rearing other tropical fishes. Can you teach me the setup procedures and equipments that I require and is it costly and time consuming to maintain a planted aquarium. How frequent do I have to change the water and will the water get cloudy with the fertiliser. Hope to hear from you and please send me a e-mail msg.

Nan - 05/31/00 22:56:57
My Email:nanskalove@hotmail.com
From: Atlanta

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Fabulous website. For myself, a newbie, your website is a helpful insite into what I have to look forward to in the years ahead. Thanks for your knowledge.

Raymond Wong - 05/31/00 02:17:44
My URL:http://welcome.to/myapisto
My Email:myapisto@hotmail.com
From: Surrey,B.C.

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Very nice website... lots of information...this is the website I visited when I started my planted aquarium.. but now i've tried to set-up a site ... nothing as nice as yours though..

Carmen Robinett - 05/29/00 17:18:57
My Email:ccr67Auclink4.berkeley.edu

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I really enjoyed your sight! It's very nicely set up. And your pictures are beautiful! I also have a particular interest in getting large clown loaches and plants to coexist, and it sounds like you have some growing clowns. I have a couple of anecdotal stories that I may post at the APD at some point. Basically, if you feed them at night with pellets and broken up algae tablets, they'll leave the plants alone for the most part. But if they should get bored (I don't think the behavior of my fat clowns s motivated by hunger), they'll have a field day ripping off small leaves and new growth. -Carmen

Michelle - 05/29/00 08:36:56
From: Hawaii

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You have a beautiful tank! Great job :)

Jim Bickler - 05/26/00 17:49:09
My Email:jbickler@hotmail.com
From: Mt and WA

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I have enjoyed your page. But I didn't see where it said the tank size or substrate info. I am in a small town that has a lowsey pet store. So I came here for some good info and found it. Than

Rusty - 05/23/00 23:34:58
My Email:jehanmd@nadoctors.net

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Wow! This sight is great! HI I have a 20 gallon long aquarium and am beginning to plant it. Your site gave me much more than any other sites around. You have the coolest aquarium and fish (plants are cool to.) You really have put a lot into your aquar um and this web site!

Joel - 05/13/00 00:42:35
My URL:http://www6.ewebcity.com/hellfish/newt/
From: rec.plants.aquaria

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You have got a nice tank. I have a smaller similar setup (no oxygen pump, no carbon filter,...)

Mark Jeter - 05/12/00 20:53:44
My Email:jeterjm@gate.net
From: West Palm Beach, FL

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Your web site is very helpful. I used to get the same oxygen-bubbling plant growth without CO2 additions. I lived in central Texas, and the water, which most considered hard, but in which I could grow almost any species of plant, had a carbonate content that either yielded CO2 the plan s could use or helped keep a high CO2 content in the water. It was marvalouse and trouble-free. Made good coffee, too.

Mel Jameson - 05/07/00 21:38:13
My URL:http://Netscape
My Email:mel.jameson@sympatico.ca
From: Waterloo,Ontario,Canada.

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I have just started a new planted aquarium and i was looking for information on how to get started when i found your page and i must say it has helped me a great deal. Keep up the good work.

Jim Story - 02/06/00 17:57:19
My Email:jestory@citcom.net
From: Brevard, NC

Comments:
Hi, I was into tropical fish/plant aquariums many years ago. I am thinking about getting into the hobby again as I am now retired. Things appear to have changed substantially over the years. We used to buy a plant, stick it in the aquarium and hope it w uld grow. (not too many did!) My wife and I moved from San Diego in Dec. 97. Lived in SD since 1942. I found your site most informative. Your tanks are very beautiful. Noted your reference to "Fountains", I used to buy quite often from them. Are they still on University Ave? We will be in SD in early March, would you entertain a visit? I would like to see your aquariums in person. Thanks Jim

G Campbell - 02/03/00 02:56:44
My Email:gcampbel@win.bright.net

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Good info. Your tanks look very nice. CO2 ideas are good. Do you ever see copies of "The Optimum Aquarium" anywhere?

John Muhlbach - 02/03/00 01:15:24
My Email:jhmbach@yahoo.com

Comments:
A beautiful tank and a great site.I currently have a 125 gallon South American River tank setup.I'm in the process of upgrading my lighting system because the 160 watts in basic shoplight fixtures don't cut it.I'm thinking about investing in a power compa t system but there is also the vho type lighting.My tank is centered around a pair of angle fish,with a group of 25 cardinal tetras,6 bleeding hearts,6 emperor tetras,2 female rams,6 plecos,and 3 silver hatchets.There are 3 sword plants and a couple anubi s.Hopefully with the more intense lighting my tank will someday look as good as yours.Keep up the great work. John

Neal - 01/28/00 05:27:42
My URL:http://tropicalfish.org/coast
My Email:erhu@pacbell.net
From: Anaheim,CA

Comments:
Very nice site! I have been building planted tanks for about a year now and really enjoy the added dimension live plants bring to the fishkeeping hobby. If you ever come to the Anaheim, CA area please drop me and email and I will show you some really great locations to buy stock. -Neal

Steven Galloway - 01/21/00 03:49:55
My Email:stlega@efn.org
From: Eugene, OR

Comments:
very nice site. My main interest is live bearers,[twin bar gold platies, red playies,and some odds and ends{ghost shrimp, alge shimp, coolie looches, and Otocinclus}]. In the process of trying a new system I thought of. I don't know if any one has tried i yet. If successful, I'll write about it. Steve G. P.S. I also love angle fish, but I don't have room for them yet. I would like to have at least a 100 gallon tank to put them in. I don't like to over crowd my fish.

Rachael - 01/08/00 06:23:41
My Email:luv_muffin19@hotmail.com
From: Canada

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I am looking for a site that will give me some ideas of how to build an aquarium,nothing too pricy, but something nice.. I plan to make one with fish and turtles and lizards... I saw the perfect one at the pet store.... Thanks.. sincerely, Rachael

Kim B. - 01/05/00 14:47:26
My Email:mrsb@iwon.com
From: Cross Hill, SC

Comments:
This is a GREAT site! Full of very useful information. I currently have set up 2 ten gallon and one 5 gallon tanks. I recieved a 55 gallon tank for Christmas so I'm surfing the net picking up useful information (on planted tanks especially) and I got lots of good stuff from your site. Keep up the great work! Kim

Tin Dang - 01/03/00 03:58:46
My Email:tdang@houston.rr.com
From: Houston,TX

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Nice setup you got there. I was in this hobby for quite a long time back and starting it again due to my kids' interest in tropical fish. I think I will build my light canopy using your design if you don't mind. Keep up the good work. T.

irish - 12/30/99 22:26:07
My Email:darclancy@aol.com

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Daniel mok - 12/21/99 00:35:52
My Email:daniel.mok@dmgaps.com.sg
From: Singapore

Comments:
Simply impressive, with most of the information I need to start a planted aquarium Many thanks

Jack Sutor - 12/10/99 23:00:52
My Email:nimble@brinet.com

Comments:
Really love your sight, very informative and thought out. I have been keeping fish for 40 years and enjoy all parts of it. Since I moved from NY I cant find good plants localy. Keep up the good work. Jack (plantless in N.C.

Steve Nankivell - 12/10/99 02:56:04
My Email:snankive@mongoose-inc.com
From: USA

Comments:
Great informative site. I am just starting out putting together a freshwater aquarium, lost my first batch through ignorance so I am preparing myself before I sacrifice more to my stupidity. Your site has been very helpful

Ben Conaway - 12/03/99 01:15:45
My Email:becon@mindspring.com
From: Oswego, NY

Comments:
Awesome page

Steven Galloway - 12/01/99 01:16:43
My Email:stlega@efn.org
From: Eugene, Oregon

Comments:
Very nice, beautiful tank. I hope mine will look as good some day I'm new to computers, but I've kept fish for 40 years. I'm in the process of setting up a 10,and 55 gallon tanks. Got inspired buy a hang on the tank wet\dry filter I bought, to build a large {power o open top canister} filter. It will be the same length and higth of the tank it will service, and three or four inches deep{front to back}. It will be powered by a adjustible flow rate mini pump. The idea is to give the filter enough surface to use up as uch of the O2 and supply enough CO2 so I won't have to use an expensive CO2 bottle. I also plan to use an under gavel filter using a small air pump at a very slow rate, instead of heating cables. the air pump should provide enough O2 at night. For my subs ate, I plan to use flourite with fiber glass screening to keep it from falling though the filter plate slots. The return on the large outside filter will be below the surfice to keep as much of the CO2 in the water. I don't know if this will work as well s I hope, but I think it just might. I'll let you and every one else know when I get it set up and working. This is my first time I've written anyone. Let me know what you think, if you would like.

Aaron Glass - 11/15/99 05:14:26
My Email:afishy@gateway.net
From: USA

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Hoa, I just tapped into your website last week, I like it. Clean and straight forward. It is quite nice to see a hobbyist display what they have to the public. Thanks. Aaron

Mickey Stein - 11/11/99 19:11:36
My Email:yekkim@cts.com
From: San Diego

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Hoa, Just wanted to add my accolades about what a great site this is. I've only looked at the parts that I've needed so far but as a result have contructed a DIY co2 injection system, and a 55w HO fluorescent add on for my tank. Really appreciate your sharing your adventures in the fish trade with us - Mickey

Peter Arnfield - 10/28/99 11:34:13
My Email:peter.arnfield@dtcg.co.uk
From: Warwick in the UK

Comments:
I am very impresses with your site. It contains a lot of useful information and first hand experiences about planted tanks. I kept tropical fish for a couple of years in my teens, but after a 15+ year gap, I set up a 40g tank about 6 months ago and am experimenting with plants and how to beat algae. I've just upgraded my lights, and right now I'm in the process of switching o er from a UGF to an internal power filter, and am thinking about adding substrate nutrients and what types of plants I should try next. I had one observation on your site. On the page where you show a photograph of the plants and a numbered 'key' as to what the plants are, perhaps you could order/ number the bulleted list that follows where you describe your experiences with that type of plant. This would make it easier to cross check the description of experiences with the picture. Just a thought. Keep up the good work - I'll check back soon. Pete.

Dave Houghton - 10/21/99 04:20:04
My Email:dhoughton@earthlink.net
From: Austin, Tx

Comments:
Enjoyed your aquarium picture. Great information. How current is it? Like what I hear and read on your site. I am doing an aquarium. 55 gal. Fresh water. Currently cardinal tetras. Doing OK. Concentrating on plants. I need a little more light an I plan to add a CO2 arrangement. Haven't decided how just yet. Fish are fun. Plants are, too.

Chris C - 10/18/99 22:23:27
My Email:burgerdude@juno.com

Comments:
I love this site!! I have found so much useful information here. I'm in the process of seting up a 29 gal. planted aquarium, and have learned basically everything I've needed to know sofar from this website. Well done Hoa! Chris