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i have rocks on the bottom and all plastic plants are attached to heavy caves.

the bottom part of my filters are always getting gummed up every few days. i guess my oscars have big poop. my question is this: is it safe to do? i don't have any fish small enough to get sucked up by them and so far it seems to help. i'm just not sure if i could be damaging my filter. one is...

i have a 10" tiger oscar who is in a 55 by himself. the time has come for me to move on because he's outgrown it. this was my first fish so its sad. well actually i got him with the pleco thats in there with him which is about the same length. do i just bring them in to the store and ask for...

i ended up getting what the store told me was a stripped pictus. looks just like the spotted ones but they are stripped and get bigger. they had one in their display tank that was 8 inches. all the ones they are selling are 3-4 at the time. i was told it will eat smaller fish but all the fish...

that seems like a pretty good choice.

i've been trying to find a kind of catfish, like a pictus, that will grow large enough that it won't get eaten by an oscar. somthing in the 5-7 inch range. any suggestions?

its way to thick i put my hand behind and i cant even see it.

i had it looking good. i did about 4 50% changes back to back. it was almost clear. about 2 hours later it was really cloudy again. all the sand is raised up under where the filter is. my intake on the filter is about 4 inches from the sand. i give up on the sand. they had rocks in their old...

yea i rinsed it. i always rinse everything i put in there before. if it took you a day then i guess im not that worried. its getting noticably better. i can see the back of the tank now. before it was just solid brown water.

i got a new tank. i read some about oscars liking sand. i had small gravel before and never used sand. i added the sand and its taking forever to settle down. how long should this take? its been like 2.5 hours and the water is really murky. its probably fine but i guess it seems like and hour...

well the smallest oscar and the cichlid are dead. my guess is the cichlid killed the little oscar and the big oscar got fed up and killed the cichlid. this whole thing has got me in an extremely bad mood. the broke tank was one thing but the dead fish make me mad.

i really dont know much about filters. its got a foam pad a bag of carbon and a bag of rocks. im a beginner. im going to walmart and getting a 55 gallon they have there. its not as big but i figure i can put the 3 oscars and one pleco in there and leave the cichlid with the other pleco for now...

it was on a metal stand that was made for fishtanks. it was just the legs and supports, no cabinet. i moved it from hardwood floor onto the carpet and i think that was why it was so easy to tip over. im either going to get a full cabinet stand for the next big one i get or leave the current...

ok ive had 3 oscars and 1 parrot cichlid in a 75 gallon tank for about a month and a half. they were all smallish. 1 oscar is 2.5" the other 2 and the parrot are 1.5". i also had 2 pleco in there about 3". anyway i recently moved the tank and my roomate was playing with the dog and threw a ball...