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You also want to "fry-proof" your filter so there is no chance they get sucked up into it when they start swimming in the main part of your tank. Nylon socks are supposed to work well, a sponge would work too

Do not clean your tank this way. If your tank has never had a water change then it probably has some very high levels of waste. You may think this means you must give them brand new sparkly clean water right away, but this could kill your fish. IF your tank has high levels of ammonia, nitrite...

Firstly, the Clown Loach and the Rainbow Shark can both get quite big, you may want to reconsider what fish you are getting, the loach alone can get to be 10-12. Now then, I keep mollies, and my female has fry every 3-4 months, so try to make sure that you will have good homes for these fish...

I can't really tell if it is a molly, platy, or a female swordtail, but quite honestly it doesn't really matter. All three are closely related, and guppies as well, and all 4 species can interbreed. This has been done in the commercial fish market to poduce "Guppy tail" Mollies. The only thing...

It really depends on the fish you are trying to breed, some fish are more "parental" than other fish. I'm not sure how neons raise their fry or take care of thier eggs (if at all) so you should probably look this up online. You also need to look up what conditions your kind of fish will spawn...

I lost a marbled hatchet because it jumped out of my tank (I have a pretty secure full hood, but there's an opening for the HOB) and I never found the poor bugger :(

Nothing new, Tetra Pro Crisps, Tropical Flakes, and some Wardley's flakes (sp?) My dad may or may not have fed some powdered betta food when the fry were small, but I don't know. I'm going to change the sponge soon anyway, it's gotta be full of snails by now

It's not bacteria or algea, I'm used to the rusty color from that, but my sponge turned the color of the word red in my first post, and it will not rinse out at all. The only meds I have are MelaFix and PrimaFix (and some ICH meds which I haven't used since I put this sponge in). Other stuff...

For some reason the sponge in my AC 150 turned RED over the summer. Has anyone had this happen before?

Cost is my main reason for not getting a ten gallon, that and I only plan on adding about 3 more fish and ghost shrimp, then MAYBE seeing if I can find a nice healthy betta to take over the QT tank. Also I live on campus and they have a rule of ten gallons per person (getting around that by...

After I move back to my dorm and make sure my ten gallon is settled (babies and loach taken to the LFS and tank in good condition) I want to add some new fish (most likely one of the varieties of "blue-eyes" rainbowfish), and being sick of always having to treat my whole tank for ICH, I want to...

I have an AC 150 on my ten gal Only thing about an AC is that sometimes the impeller blades and motor get gunked up and stop, so you probably want to clean it when you clean the filter media

I have an AC 150 on my ten gal Only thing about an AC is that sometimes the impeller blades and motor get gunked up and stop, so you probably want to clean it when you clean the filter media

I wouldn't be suprised if they were damaged by someone who didn't have a clue what they were doing, last month I was at a WalMart in NY and I saw that there were two chiclids in a tank with mollies and I told teh person working there that the fish were in the wrong tanks b/c of water conditions...

Mine turned off while my dad was watching my tank, he went and bought a whisper *groans*, you just have to keep the motor clean....I probably should have warned him about that, would have saved him 20 bucks