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If you want something with high CEC, go for this: Moltan 7941 Montmorillonite Clay Absorbant, 40 lb Or the less desriable Oil Dri, available at Walmart. I highly recommend the safe t sorb. The Oil Dri is VERY VERY dusty and needs a TON of rinsing. Of course, if you don't mind it works...

If it falls apart, NO. Kitty Litter is usually used as the cap, not for the under layer. If you are using it thinking you will get iron from it, you wont. If you want iron, use RED pottery clay. NOT dyed. Make oscmocote root tabs with it. Just use the blasting sand. Or, use soil, make a...

:O All I have are apple snails, and I know what their clutches look like! What on earth could have laid that!

Hey guys, Was doing a water change today, and noticed this on the glass of my tank. What it is! I thought it was trapped bubbles at first, but when the water drained, it stayed and looks really weird. Inside Glass: Outside Glass: It doesn't appear to move, but is it something living?

Fungus growth seems to be spreading even with Furan-2 treatment and a salt dip. My frog is probably in so much pain right now I don't know what to do :(

As an update, my frog is in rough shape. Physically he looks terrible: almost all the skin on his face rotted and fell off, you can see several layers of skin down. One of his eyes I think was injured, and I'm now hes now blind in it. Its cloudy and ragged looking. The other side of his...

Hey all, I'm not sure what happen to my frog, but I think he tore his face up pretty bad trying to dig under a rock I had in there. I've since removed it. However, one side of his face is pretty mangled. Should I treat the water with some antibiotics? I have Erythromycin andFuran-2 at my...

Usually charcoal and plants do not mix. Charcoal is a chemical filter, which will take out any chemicals you may use, be that medications or some fertilizers.

Hey all, I wanted to get some current into my tank for my plants. I have a 25g tank, with 3 species of tetra (black skirt, bleeding heart, serpae), some cory paleatus, and a blue ram. I ordered a 240gph nano hydor koralia. Do you all think that this amount of current will be ok? I Had a...

Well my fears were true. It is columnaris. I woke this morning to see his lips being huge, white, and covered in fuzz. I immediately removed him from the main tank and put him in another container with some air. I treated the water and added some salt and copper safe for secondary...

I'm very concerned that its something like columnaris or a type of fungus. Hes not eating, hanging near the top of the tank (not like him). What should I do? Should I add some salt to my tank? I have Melafix as well. I can't really quarantine him to a hospital tank. I have extra tanks, but...

I'm hoping it's just a small injury as well. I just did around a 30% water change so hopefully he will be ok Is there a possibility it could be a fungus or other type of growth?

Hard at work

I woke up this morning, fed my tank and noticed one of my rams had a white spot on his lip. This was NOT there last night during feeding. I took some pictures as best I could: Heres a before picture: What exactly is this? What should I do to treat it. Thank you!!!

I simply spread it around and removed any big pieces I saw. I didn't mineralized it.