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Hi, all! I have a few questions concerning lighting for a 26-gallon bow-front aquarium that’s 24 inches deep. I’ve been using 18-inch fluorescent bulbs made for aquariums, but they’ve been quite a hassle. So far, I’ve had three or four burn out on me (old age for two of them, but the others more...

Hi, all! Recently I’ve been thinking about adding some fish to my two (empty but running and cycled) aquariums. One is a 10 gal. I call my Peaceful Nursery, and the other is a 26 gal. bow-front that I hope will one day be my lesser Community Tank. (My dream one will be extra long to house a...

So, I recently purchased some plants online, and they came with a single baby snail!! :D I know that’s an unusual thing to get exited about, but I’ve actually been wanting to buy a snail for one of my aquariums. What I don’t want, however, is a tank-overrun! About a year ago I got a single acute...

I'm currently working on renovating one of my aquariums, and I have some nice lava rocks that I want to fashion into a cave. The only problem is that I can't figure out what the best bonding agent would be for such a project. I'm looking for something that sets relatively quickly, doesn't cost a...

I'm switching my freshwater community to a bigger tank in my house. The new tank had highish nitrates (50-60 ppm), so I did a sixty percent water change and filled it back up with treated water (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates). So theoretically, nitrates should now be down to about 20-30...

I'm trying to aquascape a currently bare aquarium on a budget, and I'd like to use either blasting sand or pool filter sand. I tried play sand in one of my aquariums, but it's compacted and not working very well at all. So I thought before I bought anything, I'd THOROUGHLY research my options...

Hi, all! I'm considering getting a 5 gallon tank for my betta, Skeye because she didn't work out in my community tank with the other female bettas. Right now she's in a pitiful 2-2.5 gallon holding tank with a filter but no heater, and I want to get her out of there as quickly as possible! I'm...

Last night my two berried females' eggs hatched! Right now about fifteen healthy ghost fry are visible in my ten-gallon tank, on the walls and swimming (more like 'bobbing') in the water column. After I made sure there were no more eggs or fry on the mothers, I caught them and am now acclimating...

Several days ago, I noticed my longfin female betta, Skeye, was acting lethargic, and both eyes were swollen and cloudy. She has been in a 26 gal. tank with four other females, seven otos, and, seven ghost shrimp, and 3 amano shrimp. It has a heater, and I've had it as high as it will go (84°...

I recently started a female betta sorority in my 26 gal. tank, and one of my bettas (Skeye) has developed cloudy, protruding eyes. Some important background: the tank is fully cycled and has about 5-10 ppm nitrates, which I'm fine with because it's heavily planted. The aquarium recently came...

I have a heavily planted 26 gallon aquarium with 14 shrimp, 7 otos, and 6 small female bettas (I just started a sorority). Today I noticed white spots on my alpha betta, so I'm pretty sure my tank is infected with ick. To my knowledge, none of my other fish have ick, but I've read that it lives...

I recently bought a Mopani driftwood, and I've been boiling it to release some of the tannins before I put it in my tank. The only problem is I've been using unconditioned tap water, and I read somewhere that you should only boil it with conditioned water or RO (reverse osmosis) water. Right...

Does anyone here have experience with mosquito fern? I've been reading about it, and it seems like a really cool plant. :) I have tried growing duckweed and frogbit before, but one was too messy, and the other withered away because the filter kept pushing it under water. I'm wondering if...

I am looking for some good enriched black substrate for some of my aquarium plants. I'm not sure if I have enough money to cover the whole tank bottom, so I was thinking I could fill terracotta pots with said substrate and plant the plants inside. As I've never used any substrate other than...

I have a 26 gallon aquarium housing 8 otocinclus catfish, 8 ghost shrimp, and 3 amono shrimp. The tank is fully cycled, and I was wondering how many more small fish can live in it comfortably. Since most of my current residents hang out primarily on the bottom of the tank, I thought getting...