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Over 7 years the blue gravel has slowly turned colors and now looks rather bad, we were thinking of going to a small/medium mix natural colored pebble substrate since we basically have redone everything else in the tank. To add to this most the redesign was because we have/had a pretty bad BBA...

Any precautions I should take when replacing my substrate? It's in a 40G tank that's been established for about 7 years. I know there is a ton of bacteria in the substrate so I am tempted to believe I should do this in phases, maybe do half at a time, or take it slower? I figured someone here...

They can also be escape artists, I had one get out and unfortunately I found it dried out on the other side of the living room. It traveled pretty far! They won't eat fry, as others have said they only eat what they catch in the water column.

Thanks for the advice, short of Excel I don't think I would put any chemicals in my tank. This tank is not planted and I have no plans to make it a planted tank, which makes it all the more odd why and how BBA even got in to the tank. I need to run to my local fish shop today, ill see if...

Seems my 40G tank has a growth of BBA, its found its way over the fake plants, the decorations, on the driftwood, and I see a few very small stragglers near the silicone on in the tank. I have Flourish Excel from another tank, should I dose the whole tank or spot dose? I figure I'll take out...

My nuggets tend to eat anything they can get their little suckers on. Pigs, the whole lot of them!! lol. I feed mainly flake, and Hikari algae tabs. My nuggets go nuts over lettuce, and cucumbers (take the seeds out).

What are your water parameters, as in ammo, nitrite, and nitrate readings? Sounds like either a parasite of some sort, or the fish is bloated. I feed my fish peas every now and then to help combat bloating, something I learned from a member here. Might want to make sure the caps lock key is...

the 9:30 am to 11:30 am i am there on the weekends, but usually gone on weekdays. The 3:30-10:30 its either my kids or myself (or both later on) that are home during those hours. While at times I make an effort to turn off the switch manually if I am stepping out I usually just let the timer...

I personally like having the lights on. They turn on from 9:30am-11:30am, then they are on again from 3:30pm until 10:30pm. A total of 9 hours. I have had some algae issues, but I keep up on scrubbing the tank glass as well as keeping up on making sure the substrate stays clean. Less light...

I bought these as Amano shrimp however I think they have well exceeded the size that Amano shrimp actually get. I could be wrong though :) Looking for some advice here on what the heck these are. The seem to be eating the algae around the tank, they scavenge and hog shrimp pellets and other...

Well, I came home today and she had passed on. From what i heard she went nuts again hit her head a few times on the canopy and then crashed to the bottom of the tank. I really have no clue what happened as i was at work, but I've seen the behavior described first hand. I did another water...

Sometimes its just bad livestock from the LFS's dealer too. I bought 6 Cardinal Tetras this weekend, of the 6 3 have died. My water parameters are pristine so I knew i could rule that out. I'm off to get 2 replaced tomorrow, this time ill be armed with my test results so I don't end up...

There is a new store 10k sq. feet off of power inn rd. It's owned by the O st. guys. O st disappointed me when I went in there this past weekend. There were multiple tanks with dead fish in them. They also had Amano shrimp labeled incorrectly. O st used to be a pretty good place, but like...

she looks normal, but is really skittish of people. She will zoom around and around actually bumping in to the glass and hitting the gravel when you come too close to the part of the tank she is in. Eating, well i tend to leave her alone since i doubt she eats when shes scurrying all around...

I have a older Australian rainbow, she normally will eat up a storm, sometimes actually jumping at the food as im putting it in. Over the past 2 weeks ive been doing maintenance to the tank she is in. Mainly i took out a large centerpiece decoration so that i could clean it, along with taking...