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Hi everyone...Im just wondering if my rams are fighting or pre-mating. I know these are male and female because they have had fry before. The fry made it in the community tank for like 8-9 days before vanishing one night. I cant figure a reason they would start showing aggression at this...

Ok...thanks! I am full of questions...lol...always! Thanks for the input! ;-). Congrats on TOTM by the way! (See where learning to post photos has taken you?...lol). Your tank looks awesome!

Thank you! I was hoping you would lend your advice here...lol. So...to clarify...the micro and macro root tabs from aquariumplants.com aren't enough...I need the iron and phosphate ones specifically? Also....we have treated the brown algae with excel and it does go away. However...to try to...

We have ordered dry ferts to start dosing with...but as of right now...just the comprehensive and iron plus the root tabs. We got the root tabs from AquariumPlants.com...both the micro and macro varieties. The excel is added daily.

I forgot to mention that we only run the lights nine hours per day at this point. They have been this way for 4+ weeks but the brown was there when they were on 12 hours per day...there was just a lot of green algae as well. I was hoping turning the lights down would take care of both...

Hi everyone! It's been a crazy couple of months in my house with all the holidays and I started school...so I haven't been able to be online much. We are, however, having a problem in our planted tanks. There seems to be a brown algae growth on the leaves of our plants. They aren't diatoms...

Just yesterday I was at my brothers and he has a 220 gallon tank with a total of 7 gourami in assorted types. He has 3 blue, 2 gold, 1 dwarf and a huge snakeskin (7") and they all live together in apparent harmony. His tank needs tons of work...the hornwort is so overgrown there is hardly pace...

I doubt it's the cories nipping your guppy...I've never seen them nip anything ever. The more likely culprit is the other male guppy...I don't really know much about the peacock gudgeons...so I guess it could be them...but I'd put my money on the other male.

The ram in the photo at the beginning of this post is a female...if you are trying to make a pair you need a male...just thought I'd throw in my two cents. ;-)

Excel kills it...pretty fast too. I used a syringe to squirt it directly onto the branch and the white crud was dead and gone within a few hours. ;-). It will take a few days to get it all but at least I don't just have to just wait it out.

I wish someone could explain it for us...lol...it would help for me anyway to at least understand...hehehe.

Ok...so it's been a while...but allot has happened. ;-). I've been busy. We are all cycled and adding plants. I still need new lighting, but for now I'm working with what I've got. I won an eBay auction that I couldn't pass up on wide fin blue pearl angelfish...so the tank has new...

Huh...well...if I am understanding ich correctly...the little white spots we see are like little egg casings (for lack of the correct terminology) that hold more microscopic little ich. After x amount of days they release and the ich are free swimming looking for a new host fish to latch onto...

You could sell it on eBay or aqua bid. They charge up to $30 to ship some pieces...it's the people outside Cali that would pay it tho.

Hi there...so I was wondering if you ever found out what the white stuff on your manzanita was and did you get rid of it? We have added a branch and it has the white film over it...heavier on the lighter streaks in the wood than on the darker streaks. I remember you took it out and scrubbed it...