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I have a 10 gallon freshwater tank with some tetras, a small algae eater, and a julii catfish. I had gotten a plant from a friend's tank a few months ago, which I believe to be some type of Ludwigia? I started to use Flourish Excel in my tank and within a day, all of my plants were "melting" -...

I got the plant from a friend's tank about 6 months ago so since I didn't purchase them myself, I'm not too positive what type of plant it is? But it looks like some sort of ludwigia maybe? It's the plants on the right side of the tank when you're looking at the photo I posted. (sorry, I know...

I cleaned everything off as best I could and then spot treated the fake decorations before I put them back into the tank. Since then, I have been adding the Excel to the tank daily. Question about that - can using too much of that be harmful to the live plants in the tank? For some reason, the...

There's actually not much algae on the live plants themselves, it's mostly overtaking the fake bamboo plant and the rock cave at this point. So I guess that's good news because hopefully that means it will take less time to clear this all up. When I scrub the decorations with a toothbrush it...

I have attached a photo of my tank so you can see how many plants are in there - not too many.. just the big bunch on the right side of the tank, and then the banana plant in the front. Everything else is fake. As you can see, I also have a bubbler in the middle of the tank to help with water...

It is a full spectrum fluorescent bulb (whatever came with the hood - I had a better bulb at one point but it died). I will cut the infected leaves off, but how should I treat the decorations in the tank? (I have a rock cave in there and also a tall plastic bamboo decoration). I've never really...

Hmm, I looked that up and it does seem to look like that.. I read something about overdosing with Flourish Excel but that can harm the fish so I would rather find another solution :(

This has been growing in my tank for a while now, but I'm not sure what it is? It doesn't wipe off - I have even tried using a toothbrush to scrape it off, but that doesn't work either.. it's almost like whatever it is, it is gripping onto everything. It is definitely multiplying and is now...

This has been growing in my tank for a while now, but I'm not sure what it is? It doesn't wipe off - I have even tried using a toothbrush to scrape it off, but that doesn't work either.. it's almost like whatever it is, it is gripping onto everything. It is definitely multiplying and is now...

Well I heard at one point that it is good to have an algae eater in your tank whether you have a ton of algae present or not.. I think they are a good fish to have and since having him doesn't make my tank overstocked, I'm not stressing out too much over the fact that he may not be able to help...

I have a betta fish and he lives in a minibow and it works wonderfully for him! There is plenty of room for him to swim around in and the tank is a nice shape and allows for lots of room to put plants or other decorations in there. The filter hardly moves the water around and he has gotten used...

Are they like the catfish in that they do most of their eating at night time when the other fish are sleeping?

It's not the stock bulb.. I forget the kind of bulb that came with the tank but I replaced it with what I'm assuming is a 17W (the hood has a sticker on the back that says to use 17W bulbs) fluorescent bulb so that it would be more of a white looking light rather than the yellowish tint that the...

I have a fluorescent bulb and it turns on around 2pm and shuts off around 11pm. Water temp stays around 80 degrees F.

I have a 10gal tank and it has been established for quite some time now. I added an anubias plant (attached to a piece of driftwood) and a java fern (attached to a rock) last week. When I bought the plants, they were nice and green and very healthy looking. However, over the past week the leaves...