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I have a garden in my back yard and in the last two years my wife and I could not give it the time it needed and both years it was overtaken by weeds. Now I want to get rid of the garden and extend the lawn to that area. My wife wants to try again stating that it is a good selling point if we ever decide to sell the house in the near future (which at times was/is a possibility).

I want to know if gardens in general are something that homebuyers look for or if they act as a deterrent for those who don’t have time for a garden either?

So I bought a nice colorful glass birdbath last year and within a few weeks it was covered in algae. Is there a home remedy or product that will prevent algae growth with out being dangerous to birds?

I don’t know that white stuff is but I have tried CLR and other build up removers cannot get the glass clean. So I all I know is for sure is that it is not calcium or lime.

I currently have a 55 US gallon tank, with 20ish assorted tetras, mostly neons. I have 2 hanging filters on the tank(Used to be a cichlid tank) and i am considering switching to a pair of Sponge filters. My reasoning is because have lost ~10 tetras to the hanging filters intake. Please provide me your thoughts.

PS. here is a vid of my other tank, its a 150 planted community tank. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zT2an1UD0c

What are the Pros and Cons of each?

I new to home theater systems and I would like to know what my choices are and what should be considered when evaluating sound systems.

I have a HO T5 nova extreme light for my tank and it doesn't always turn on when I flip the switch. It seems like I have to flip the switch, wait ~10 seconds and if it doesn't turn on I flip the switch off and on again and then it seems to work. I have the light on a timer for my planted tank and it is frustrating when I come home from work and the light hasn't been on all day. Outside of getting a new light what are my options of fixing the light?

I have 2 Spotted African Leaf Fish ~5" long in a 150 gallon planted tank. I bought them when they were about 1-2” long. With time they have grown and their diet turned to eating all my gold/black/neon tetras about 2 months ago and now I am looking for some better tank mates that won’t end up as food. They haven't bothered any of my bottom feeders yet. From what I hear is they wont go after bottom feeders, but I'm not convinced. I really like these guys and am considering getting a few more, but that is only if I can find tank mates that they won’t eat.

Currently in my 150 gallon planted tank I have

8 large Buenos Aires Tetras

1 Gold Gourami

2 Pearl Gourami

3 Amazon Rainbow tetras (I think that’s their name)

3 Emperor Tetras

1 Rainbow Shark

1 Angel

6 large Serpe Tetras

5-10 assorted danios that are slowly "disappearing"

2 Cory Cats

1 Golden Algae eater

1 Clown loach-planning on getting more of these

2 Botias

1 Leporinus fasciatus

Thanks

I know the rule for the probowl are different than the normal NFL rules, I am just wondering what some the big rule changes are.

So I'm apartment sitting for a friend of mine, and he has a 75g saltwater aquarium. I noticed today that one of his hermit crabs was out of its shell. It seemed to carrying a fair amount dark brown eggs. Is there a chance that the crab is "pregnant" or and if so what are the chances of the offspring being viable.

I have been to the EPA's website, and a bunch others. I understand that they set levels that must be met, but i don't know how those national levels that they set affect the individual ethanol producer. I am a graduate student, I've been doing the research it just seems like i am missing the step from what the levels are, to how they are implemented.

Thanks

Im doing a report on a Ethanol Producing yeast and I am having trouble finding any sites that deal with regulation on the matter. Any type of information would be helpful. Thanks

I know the basics of using rooting hormone and grafting, but im not sure which one or any I should do.

I use apple safari, IE8 and google chrome, for web browsers. they all seemed to be great but lately apple safari has been a lot longer to load pages compared to the other two, some times it is comparable and other times, maby most times, it takes 2x as long.

Im looking for a yes or no.

Im just wondering how many people knew this?

See link. http://beyondjane.com/shopping/beauty-products/mak...

I have a very old aluminum canoe and when i went to the lake yesterday i discovered that there was a hole in the bottom of it. The hole is about half the diameter of of a pencil? I would like to fix it myself if possible, but i know aluminum is very hard to work with. Is there anything i can do that wont cost more than buying a new canoe?

I have a friend who has a small zoo (~350 animals) and has been having troubles staying afloat due to large feed bills. Does anyone have any ideas for a fundraiser.