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I currently live in a loft style apartment, and currently have a HOB filter on my 46 gallon tank. The splashing noise has finally driven me insane since you can hear it from anywhere in the apartment. So I have decided I needed something quiet, so I've been looking at the choice of canisters...

Have a 46gal bowfront and wanted to have a fun themed tank so I got a tiki hut and palm tree to rice out my tank. All was well and then I got diatoms again. (I had them bad from silica based pfs last time. I have since replaced the pfs with tahitian moon sand which will not leech. The only...

I previously had PFS sand in my 46 gal tank and after leaching and causing a diatom bloom I had a nasty algae outbreak. Ultimately I had to break the tank down and clean it out. Now that the sand has leached all the silica out I wanted to reuse it, but I found that getting all the algae off...

I have this dark green algae growth growing on my sand, if I let it go long enough it actually starts to clump my sand together not quite sure what it is. I also have some black beard algae (long black strands) growing from some of my fake plants. What is the dark green stuff and what can I do...

Well after scraping the front of my tank it seems like the diatom growth is slowing or done. Now instead I have on the tips of my 2 fake plants a black algae that is growing. It's small and it's the first day i've noticed it. After some research I think it may be Black Brush Algae. I'm going...

I've been doing my weekly WQ checks and this week my PH has increased by .4-.6. Previously my PH rested and was pretty stable at 7.6. Right now my PH is at 8.0-8.2, I have not added anything to the tank recently that could have possibly leeched and caused the PH to increase. The only new...

I am trying to learn some stuff about my glass catfish but haven't found many good resources. I know when they get sick they start losing transparency and start turning white but other than that I don't know much. I think my one cat ate a little too much last night, and his stomach is swollen...

So I woke up today to check out my tank and noticed a brownish growth on the glass and up near my intake to my filter. I did a little searching and I think it may be diatoms, since the only other thing it looks like it could be is a bacterial growth but I have good wq. 0 ammonia and nitrite and...

After adding my PFS substrate I haven't been able to get rid of some of the cloudiness. It's not horribly, but it is definitely noticeable. After doing some looking on here I found sometimes a filter being placed too low on the tank can constantly agitate the substrate and result in the water...

I posted earlier about my one cory coming down with something and it affecting his swim bladder. Well I ended up euthanizing him today after the filter ended up pulling some skin off him after he swam into the suction of the filter on accident. After all the cories I had purchased died off...

Here's the current setup, more plants coming soon. Probably some fake ones in the short run until I get enough for some good lighting and more experience: My Cory yet to be named, I'm thinking mufasa because he likes to perch on top of the waterfall kind of like Pride Rock haha He loves to...

My cory can't swim anywhere in the tank without doing a barrel roll so I think he has a SBD. What is the suggested course of treatment? I heard to try and give him a slightly cooked pea as that will help with any constipation he might have. One of my danios looked like she may have been pregnant...

Well I figure my cories will enjoy sand more than my current rock so my question is can I just add sand over the gravel substrate? Right now I have about 35 pounds of gravel, I was thinking about pushing some of it back toward the back and adding the gravel substrate to more of the front of the...

Read some of the threads in here already but I was curious what would work best in my tank: 46 gallon bow front, 40 watt fluorescent, top fin white aquarium gravel...

Cycling my 46 gallon bowfront, i'm on day 4 right now, yesterday I added a 3 oz bag of bio-spira because I had quite the bacteria bloom. Well about 20 hours later, the water quality from the naked eye has imrpoved a lot, but still remains somewhat hazy. So I picked up a AP freshwater master...

Just got my 46 gallon tank a few days ago, and added some fish to start cycling. More specifically, 4 zebra danios from my old 5 gallon hex tank and 6 julii corydoras. I'm going to use some of the gravel in a sack to help 'kickstart' the cycling process but I have also read a lot of people...

Just got my 46 gallon bow front tank a few days ago, moved up from my old 5 gallon hex tank. Just got into freshwater fish a few months back when my girlfriend got me a betta, which eventually spawned into the 46 gallon purchase. Just wanted to say hi, and expect a lot of questions from this...