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I found this beautiful driftwood, it is actually a root and step of a chopped plant which still had few small leaflets. So I got this home and now boiling before I let it dry fully. Are there any risks of keeping such a wood in my established tank?

Why are my micky mouse platies dull? Their fins are clamped and they are sitting on the floor of the tank :( Water parameters all good, Ammonia - 0 Nitrites - 0 Nitrates - 10~20 pH - 7.6 Temperature - 77 - 79 All other fishes seem to be doing good except these two. What can i do?

Hello people, I was thinking of adding a second internal filter (tetra whisper 10) for my 20 gallon topfin tank that has a Topfin 20 HOB filter. I am thinking of doing this because the Aquaadvice website says that my filtration capacity is 98% and my stocking level is 75%. I plan to add another...

Is the caribSea Aragonite sand good for plants? I know it raises the pH of the tank. I have a small 5 gallon waterfall tank which I am planning to add the above sand. Can I add live plants in it? It will be a freshwater tank. Thank you

Is it normal for the pristella tetra stomach to bulge a bit after eating the flakes? Does that indicate I am overfeeding them? Here is a photo just for your reference Thank you in advance. Is there any better way of adding right amount of food other than the normal "what fish can finish in...

Hello Folks, What is the ideal KH and GH for a new tank that has recently completed cycling and is housing 50% stocking of fish? Here is the tetra 6-in-1 strip results. So if you see my alkalinity is quite low. How do I fix that? What is its adverse effect on the fish? I did a PWC today to...

Help please!! Day-0: Fishless cycle completed. Ammo, nitrite both 0 Day-1: Added 6 Pristella tetras, 2 panda cory and I netrite. Ammo, nitrite both 0 Day-2: Added 4 platy. Ammo, nitrite both 0 Day-3: One of the platy died, ammo 0, nitrite 0.5ppm Worried!!! Why nitrites are back? All this...

Has anyone got the Coffee bean tetras? I just got a school of 6 coffee beans yesterday, thinking they were lemon tetra's but only to realize later that they are coffee bean but not lemon. Lemons as far as looked over internet, they have much broader body like the Phantoms and they have reddish...

Hello All, My 20 gallon planted tank is currently under cycling and I am almost at the end of the cycle where my nitrite is 0, nitrates are high but ammonia stays at 0.25ppm. And the reason I am assuming is the low pH. My pH falls to 6 from 7.5 (which is the value soon after topping up ammonia...

So its Week:2 Day:5 of my fishless cycling with tetra safe start. Topped up ammonia to 4ppm yesterday and here are todays results post 24 hours Ammonia: ~0.25ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate:~160ppm pH: 6 Here is the test results Did a 90% water change with Tetra Aquasafe as declorinator. And post...

Hello all, I was wondering if I can pick some roots/ stones from the near by woods that I can use to decor my new 20 gallon tank thats under cycling now? I know some of the wood and stone are not good for aquarium. So what do you say? Is it recommended?

Hello all, i have my 20 gallon under fishless cycling and I see my plant leaves seem like burnt out. My ammonia source is pure ammonia from Ace HW. I had a reading of 8ppm of ammonia for a day and ph was above 7. And then I did 10% water change after which ammo came down to 5ppm. Is there...

So basically, I buy my live plants from Petco and they usually have these plants in established tank and these plants are in small plastic pots with sponge used as a supporting medium. Do you think this is a good medium of getting the beneficial bacteria? Thanks in advance

My new 20G tank is currently under cycling and its been a week since the cycle started. I am using Tetra safe start and fish food for the process. Just today I noticed a small brown snail on my live plants. Probably came along with the plants. Should I let it be in? I was anyway planning to...

Hello All, My new 20g is under the cycling process now and the cycling method I am using is fishless cycling with TSS and live plants. Source of ammonia is fish food. It is almost a week now since the cycle started. The substrate I have is black quartz gravel. I have been doing research on...

Hello Guys, this is Pradeep from Nashua, NH in US. I have been a fish keeper since my childhood, although I wouldn't say I am expert but I have mostly kept fishes like Guppies, mollies, gold fishes, Koi, Pleco etc I recently got a 20 gallon topfin tank, currently under fishless cycling, a week...