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You said you just set up this 60 gallon recently. Is the media in your filter brand new and did you rinse it 1st?

I just used clear colour glue dots you can get at a craft store. Different sizes to choose from. I can’t see them from the front.

Hi. On a similar note, I got 2 powder blue gouramis, one is 1.5 old and the other about 6months. They are housed in a 45 gallon with 10 neon tetras, 4 albino cherry barbs, and 4 long fin danios and they just keep to themselves, or hang out together or play chase each other by sneaking up on the...

Red Alert!!! Get rid of it NOW!!!

Thanks for the info. I think I’ll stay away from Ammochips because I wouldn’t want to disrupt the cycle already established with my filter media. Do you agree with my thinking? Just use a product to assist with the end result of the process, that being nitrate

This is great to know. I’m sold. I’m executing a self reliant tank for 12 days while we go for vacation. With 2 auto feeders running on either side of the tank, I will pick this stuff up to help ‘reduce the accumulation of ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites’ during that time. I need all the help I...

If you can swing it, the gourami will love bug bites, .7-1mm size. GUARANTEED. If your a pet smart member (or what ever it is when they ask me for my phone number) you can get a small jar for $3.45 there abouts. I bought one last week.

There ya have it. Blue ram calls the shots so the gouramis have to fall in line. Good idea

Nice set up. Plants look great. Please keep us posted how it evolves and if the gouramis continue to get along.

Oh oh, try and get a female gourami

Thanks for the info!!!!

How long in quarantine and how long for the fins to fully recover?

Underground filters can also be referred to something called a plenum. I wish I laid one down before I aquascaped and filled my tank. Only good reviews about them, as per Dr Kevin Novak on you tube. Stress and water changes? Don’t move the siphon around to fast at the beginning. They will get...

Love a happy ending, and it’s reassuring to know that fish disease can be beat. Quarantine and melafix?

May I make a suggestion if they don’t get along. I have 2 powder blues I brought home together without knowing better. I stupidly thought they could use each other’s company.It was my 1st fish when I entered the hobby last year. Because they were both the same size none got bullied but they use...