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We love our crew of six panda cories. They do a good job of cleaning food that falls to the bottom.

We have six panda cories. Sometimes I have to stare just to make sure they are breathing and still alive. Love watching them when they are busy though!

I love our Nerite snails. I don't find the eggs to much of a problem and we have four of the snails in a 37 gallon. We also have ramshorns that came in on some live plants(ugh). I love our male honey gourami. We bought him and male blue flame gourami at the same time. Not to much...

Our African Clawed Frog got large and started eating fish in our tank. He got re-homed, escaped his tank, never to be seen again. I think their cat ate him and refused to admit to them he did it! :-)

I have a low tech planted tank. The Anubias are pretty happy and doing the best of any of my plants. I have some tied on to driftwood and some super glued onto rocks. I also have a couple varieties of crypts planted in gravel. They seem to be doing all right but are slow growers. I use...

We have six panda cories. They are rarely together in a group of six. They split up more into pairs or may three together. It is cool to see when all six shoal together though. We love them!

We had an African clawed frog get out of a small tank that had a lid. There was a small opening around the filter that he somehow got through. He jumped off the table and made it about 10 ft. before I found him covered in dustballs and pet hair. He lived through that adventure and has since been...

I am curious to hear if anyone has advice. We had some Ramshorns arrive in our tank via plants. I keep pulling them out as soon as I see them. We have Nerite snails so I do not want to put anything in the tank that will get them.

So I just needed to vent to others that will appreciate our problem. My daughter brought home an African frog last year from school. It is responsible for our enjoyable new hobby of fish (and frog) keeping. Well the frog was sold as a dwarf frog to the science teacher so that is what we...

We had to do a fish in cycle and had very good luck by following the ideas in the post below. I also made the investment in quality aquarium chemicals such as Prime and Stability. And as the others posted, water changes are important. Sorry you got bad advice...

This is what I am afraid of. We have panda cory cats in the tank and I fear the frog might actually be able to catch one. They get out of the way quickly I have noticed but if they are not paying attention, one might become dinner. I have always thought the frog cool. It came home from...

I have read that the frogs do this. I have never noticed it on ours.

We have a clawed African frog that we thought was a Dwarf frog. He is not a Dwarf frog in size. We have him in our 37 gallon community tank. He has eaten two of our Zebra Danios that were dying and slow moving, laying on the bottom. We were not sure about the first fish that went missing but...

A few months back I got a nice order of plants from Han Aquatic. He helped me pick out plants for a low tech tank. I had no idea what to order. Everything arrived great. A few did not survive but I blame that on tank conditions. Most of the plants from that order are thriving. My Anubis...

I will just add my advice to do planted from the beginning if you think that might be what you want at some point. We made a big investment in fake plants and fake decorations. Regrettable error. I have had good luck with low tech plant choices. Anubias and java fern have done the best. I...