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I was addressing pet store chains in general, using petco as an example. I bought a school of six albino cories from petco, and noticed that two were swimming upside down in the bag as I was walking towards the register. I asked the cashier if I coupd swap them out, or maybe get them for free...

A single male apisto could work with enough plants and regular water changes

Make everything your self if you have the know how, such as lights, filtration, heck, even your own tank. And don't waste money on petco fish. By the time you're done replacing all the diseased and dead fish, you'll have spent enough money to buy another tank or a canister filter.

I only ever recommend sand. Yeah, random crap (literally) sits on top and can be an eyesore, but look at it as a reminder to do water changes and break out the gravel vac. Also, since everything sits on top, you know when you got everything. Whereas with gravel detritus can be trapped and rot...

With some strategic aquascaping and the right choice of fish, you could easily make that tank look twice as big as it really is. A school of six emerald eye Rasboras, a male Badis Badis, and any shrimp of your choice would really look good in that tank. Plants are always recomended, for the...

Oh no worries, everyone here has asked the same questions at some point. Media is whatever is in the filter, like the cloth pouches, sponges, filter floss, all that stuff. Put an extra filter pouch in the i25 and let it run in the three gallon for a week, and then place the oldest filter pouches...

Firemouths are a good tank mate for RTBS. My buddy is currently housing them successfully and has been for the last year. The RTBS, Bruce, gets chased around by the Blood Parrots, more than it shows aggression to anything else. And please whatever you do, do not put more than one RTBS in the...

I'm not entirely familiar with that tank, but you could maybe try stuffing a sponge or some filter floss in the filter output. If that is not an option, or not sufficient enough, buy some kind of decoration that reaches the output, and redirects it throughout the tank rather than one spot

If you have any friends with fish tanks, ask for their old media and put it in the filters you're going to use. That'll help kickstart the cycle. I still recommend at least 3 weeks to fully cycle. Also, add at least four more of the same species Cory you have now, it'll make him much happier...

Oh I was agreeing with you! Haha and the fish were for an aquaponics project for a greenhouse class last year, so the pleco was for once purchased for its ability to produce waste. And my buddy got attached to it, so it's his problem now. I am making sure he is providing for it properly.

I have had two firemouths in a community before and they did fine. My buddy has them currently with two parrots, 8 red eye tetras, a common pleco, RTBS, and a syno, and there is no aggression at all.

So these are the lists I have come up with so far. Like I said, I won't even begin cycling for another month, and then another month for fish, so the lists are very open to change. 1x RTBS 2x Albino Firemouths 8x Denison Barbs 10x cories 4x ottos 1x angel 3x apistos 20x rummy nose 12x...

The dimensions are Width 12.5 Length 48 Height 19.5

Thank you very much Layzor, you gave me the exact answer I was hoping for. I think I am going to go with the community. And the acara is out for now. The only reason it was in the list was because I heard that the electric blues tend to be more tolerant. This tank isn't going to be set up for at...

My senior year in high school, me, my girlfriend, and my buddy did a aquaponics project for our greenhouse class. My teacher wanted us to do tilapia in a 300 gallon circular stock tub, but we wanted to do a little unorthodox aquaponics set up. We got a 100gal aquarium, stocked it with a couple...

So I'm a new member to the forum, but I've been using this forum and many others for research for quite awhile now. I recently purchased a 50g tank (my first acrylic) and I want to do something I haven't done yet. I want cichlids, but I'm not quite ready to give up all that tank space (also my...