Recent content by Smaug21

I'm certainly not an expert but guppies are about the smallest fish that you can keep, the males certainly don't get bigger then tetras so i'm pretty sure you'd be fine with a "school" like that. As far as agression, my guppies chase each other around and flash at each other, but they don't...

My brother just got done doing a 5 or so trimming and seperating of his java ferns and i can tell you from experience you can do very little wrong. To give you an example, in my tank now, i have an about 2 inch root that came off one of the plants that is sprouting leaves! so even roots can...

While i don't have the experience in salt water to comment, but i always thought the problem with salt was the start-up cost and water parameters. Start-up isn't more then a planted tank, but the skimmer and lighting will cost more then the basics on a non-planted freshwater. The...

Thanks for responding, if it dosen't help i will look for that. I haven't heard anything from my parents and they put the stuff in a few days ago, so i'll take a look and see if it's worse on Christmas in a few days here, so i'll have an update at the very least.

Thanks for the reply, as far as your questions. I don't think the water changes are up to my standards, but on the flip side, the first group of otto's that he got a month ago or so are still alive, and from my personal experience they are pretty fragile guys so i can't imagine the water is too...

I was visiting my parents today after graduation and they have what looks like a fungus on there mollys and guppies in their tanks. I meant to get a picture while i was over there, but i forgot. They have alot of fish in their 30g, 2 black mollies, 2 red swordtails, 2 platies, a couple of...

Albino generally = ACF, i.e large african clawed frogs. As far as i'm aware, there isn't an albino dwarf frog, i.e. the one's you could keep in your tank. So no, you can't add one, he will grow to 4 or 5 inches and eat most everything if it's a he, and if it's a she...well it will grow to god...

I don't know the brand name, or even if it wasn't some local thing, but there is a LFS around here that had a 10g setup that had a pink hood, pink edging to the tank, and a pink metal stand. I don't think it was very expensive, but i don't know why you wanted such a little tank, maybe for size...

I finally have a little time to think more about the final setup of my 29g tank. My planning has really centered around a couple of fish, 2 black skirt tetra's, a common pleco, and a albino cory that i got for free in various ways Currently in the tank are.. -5 Aenus Cories (3 "bronze", 2...

Well, i was going to do a minor drip-aclimate type things by adding a bit to the water over about an hour, but about 15 min into it, and about 2 little cups full one of the tetra's decided that he didn't want to be in the tuperware thingy i had him in and jumped into the tank. Luckly he jumped...

Ok so i went and picked up the tank today and boy was i in for a suprise. This tank is probably a 10g, maybe a bit bigger, hard to say it's one of those built in hood things so it's not a type i'm familiar with. The tank had no heater....yeah. It has a built in undergravel filter, which i'm...

I did a little searching around today during my lunch break and i think the pet store up here where i work will take them if i can't find one closer to home that will. I was looking at them in this particular store and i know they get big, he had one, might not be the same sub-species or...

I have a habit of browsing the local Craigslist, like anyone with even the minor case of MTS that i have should do, and i stumbled across a little tank for 15$. What originally attracted me to it, was that it came with a stand, and not a crappy iron stand, but a real wood, 2 shelf thing. after...

I have an about 5 year old ACF and he's now in a sand tank. I had him with some larger pebbles but i was having some algea and detris problems because of buildup in the crap in the gravel, so i switched to sand. I'm going with a relatively thin layer of sand, an inch or less, and it seems to...

While I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, my vertebrate anatomy background makes me feel that he's correct with the fingernail analogy, especially with "fancy" guppies with large non-muscular tail fins. I'm drawing this conclusion from my knowledge of fish evolution and terminology not...