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I have a tank for small Tetras. I have only Ember Tetras (Hyphessobrycon amandae) and Green Neon Tetras (Paracheirodon simulans). My LFS has some Jellybean Tetras (Lepidarchus adonis) right now; I have never seen or had them. I am tempted. Does anyone have any experience with these? Are...

Here is a "planting" I made with some dwarf Sagetaria, a Rush gleaned from my garden and a plantlet of Windlov Java Fern floating. The substrate is black onyx sand with a little bit of laterite; no snails, fish, shrimp or any filtration. The container is actually a very flat tulip vase, only...

Please forgive a :n00b: question. I think I know, but I have to ask. I am setting up a very small tank as a quarantine tank for 4 new fish I want. I have taken the well used filter out of my Betta tank and placed it in the new set-up. Can I assume the tank is "instantly cycled" and will be...

After a 20 years absence, I have a new 10 gallon fairly heavily planted tank. While cycling I had the lights on (26 watts CFL, 5800ºK) for 12 hours. Of course, I got an algae bloom. :splat: I learned my ways and reduced my lighting to 8 hours, and I started using Excel Flourish. The algae...

I am considering adding a few of these to my 10 gallon tank. It seems that I read that this "Neon" stays smaller than the regular Neon or the Cardinal Tetra, and that of the three, the Cardinal is the largest. But I can't find the reference anywhere, and I have looked for a few days now. Do...

OK, so I am sorry if this has been covered before. There are so many threads on snails... I have set up a new tank and don't want snails! I also have a very small tank I can set up as a 'quarantine" tank, just for plants. What can I put in the water that will kill all snails and eggs? How...

My local fish store (I will not mention the name, but the largest and best in the Portland, Oregon metro area) has a plant labeled as "Lilaeopsis nova 'mini'". This is not the normal sized Lilaeopsis novae-zelandiae or any other microsword I have seen, but something new that is only about an...

I was encouraged to present a Photo Journal of my new tank, so here goes. I am returning to aquariums after about 20 years. I used to have a 55, a 29 and a 20L aquarium. After a heater got stick in the "on" position and I lost my breeding pair of Discus, I lost interest, and as fish died in...

Hi everyone, I have had aquariums most of my life, never anything over a 55 gallon, in which I had a breeding pair of Discus. Mostly I did community tanks. I lost the Discus tank a couple of decades ago when the heater got stuck in the "on" position, parboiling my Discus. :bawl: I became so...