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Sorry for the delay, it's had water for white some time. It's also been about a week and a half or so since I put fish and plants in. So far, there's 4 Honey Dwarf Gouramis, I believe there all males, but they're really too small at this point to know for sure, ranging from 1-1.5 cm. I would...

Thanks fresh. I usually like petco, their last plant order was one of the nicest I've ever seen, unfortunately they only come in once a month. I'll check there again for some crypts after the first. I've never had luck with those flat packs, though, but the tubes usually do well for me. Ill see...

It should be fun. LFS has or can get all the fish I want, should just be plants that needvordered. Do you know a good place to order live plants?

Here's another one for y'all to enjoy. I've decided I'd like to set up a small biotope for a flame dwarf gourami. It won't be a perfect biotope, but everything will be from South Asia. I dont know yet what "everything" entails, but I can say rhat I will most likely be using Crypts, Java...

That is a satisfactory answer. But the new scape looks nice! How long did it take to clear up?

So how do you rip out giant root structures and replant them without a giant sand and poopstorm?

Sorry I never got around to a few pictures. Here they are, and one of my new clown llevo just for fun.

Here's a few shots of my tank, the plants are doing well. I also came across a clown pleco today that I thougfht would be a nice addition. We'll see how he does with my bristlenose and plants, if he plays nice, he can stay!

40 gallon. I dose flourish once a week, excel three times, envy and propel twice. This seems to work really well, I saw an explosion of growth after I built up to those levels and the propel and envy have definitely helped everything to look their best. I'll get an updated picture when I get...

It doesn't look the best, but there are worse to my eyes. I'll be switching out to a finer grained sand. Part of it is that it's capped with a layer of gravel, I wish I hadn't done that. I do fertilize also, so I can't give all the credit to eco, but it has done well. I did notice a huge boost...

Casualty update: I can't count my tetras, they won't stay still, but I can't find a body for the one that looked rough this morning. I do hope he shook it off. (That was before and right after lights turned on though, so he could've just been faded from overnight). I did find an too cat, which...

I should add, after the bristlenose and first tetra, I did add carbon back in, maybe that was a bit premature. I will surely start a different media schedule in a few weeks after this (hopefully) settles down. The tetras don't bother me too much, I mean it sucks losing fish and I've never had...

To add a bit more, this is a 40 breeder with a tetra whisper ex45 filter, temperature around 79º, +-. There were aboutr 20-22 glowlight tetras, 15 black neon, 4 otocinclus, 2 bristlenose, a handful of ghost shrimp, 5 or 6 mystery snails and a few small nerites. Parameters have been stable for...

Over the last week, I've lost 5 fish and I'm sure there's one I'll find when I get home from work. Chronology: Wednesday last week, I added 2 seemingly healthy blue rams. One was dead between Thursday night and Friday afternoon. Nitrites tested 10 at the time, a couple hours later I was 0...

I did some research and came to the same conclusion. It seems as though there's a high mortality rate in the first week but if they make it that long, they will often be long lived. The 3rd one (replacement) has done well so far, as has the other original. I suppose only time will tell, but...

I like dwarf gouramis, celestial pearl danios and top cats or chain loaches, though a 5 gallon may be small for the loaches seeing as how they prefer to be in groups. Bettas would also do nicely with some smaller danios or tetras, but I mentioned the cp danios because they only get to an inch in...

I've had it in my Amazonian tank for several months now and it seems to work okay. I've got 20 lbs in a 40, capped with aboutr 40 lbs of gravel. Overall, I'm unhappy with my substrate, I'd like to replace it with a sand of some sort, but as far as growing goes, I've had no problems. Amazon...

Looks like a nice start. You've got a bit of room to play with in there!

One of the rams died sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. She was eating fine, no explanation. I bought another and everything had done well over the weekend until I found my male bristlenose and a glowlight dead last night. Again, no explanation. The bristlenose was just starting...

I added 2 more otos and 2 blue rams this morning. I'd still like a few more otos, but that's all they had. I'll see how the rams do and would like to get 2-3 more of those, too, but we'll see. They're still shy and kinda washed out from bringing them home, I'll get some better pictures when they...

I hope you're right. I kinda figured he'll figure it out when he gets hungry enough. Thanks a lot!

My wife is rather fond of him and has named him Bob. He's probably not going anywhere (sorry to argue!) Can you recommend a good food for him, though? He's not eaten since putting him in his own tank, we've tried bloodworms, ocean nutrition pellets, shrimp pellets, hikari bottoms feeder tablets...

Looking good!

Yes, pond snails were gone in a couple days and then he started picking on my bigger mystery snails. Two died, not from the attacks, but I think from the stress. You think only one in a 20 long? We've got the tank, but it needs a light and top so it'll probably be a month or two (in no hurry...

Thanks! We plan to set up a 20 long for him here soon (we had everything for a 10 gallon so we chose to do that for the time being). Would a pair be okay in a 20? We probably won't do anything bigger than that.