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About a month ago I bought a fiddler crab from a local pet store and I have to say these guys are pretty interesting. Here's a video of him doing his "dance": http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6642864066850030000 What the pet store told me, however, was that fiddler crabs can do fine in...

Just bought some young amano shrimp...What an awesome addition they're making! Anyways, I heard that they are prone to getting stuck in intake filters. I currently have some neons, panda corys, an african dwarf frog, and these new shrimp in the 10g tank. They're about 1-1.5" long. I have an...

So I read that cories love shrimp pellets, so I bought some of those Omega brand ones that are supposed to be high quality. They look small in the bottle but get almost twice as big as they sink to the bottom of the tank. My cories didn't have a very good start...I found them at my local...

Just noticed a new small crack in my Eclipse 6g right smack in the center of the bow front. The tank is only 2 weeks old. It's small crack about 3 or 4 mm long, but it seems to be inside the acrylic -- I can't feel it on either side. Are acrylic cracks prone to spreading like glass? It's at a...

I recently started a tank with a school of 10 tetras (using Bio-Spira). It didn't cycle within 24hrs, but it's done something. Nitrites have been fluxing from .3ppm to .8ppm but amonia has been below .25ppm. The first PWC I did was about 40% -- probably a bit too much for the first time. I have...

I'm the new owner of 10 neon tetras -- they're fun little buggers to watch! I've been trying to abide by the "what they can eat in 2 mins" rule but its been tough trying to find the right amount of food. Half the time the flakes (which are rather large) end up getting caught in the filter...