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Thanks for this! I do like the idea of another school. Is there a specific type of fish you may recommend? Thanks!

Hi All! I recently upgraded from a 10gallon to a 34 gallon (80x40x40cm). Oh so much space all of a sudden! I currently have.. 1 dwarf gourami 16 ember tetras 3 amano shrimps 6 Otos (to come) Based on my current set up (image attached), do you guys reckon I should get another centre piece...

Thanks guys. Haha. No, I don’t feed my shrimps! There’s enough biofilm going around... maybe too much now . Lol

Hi Hannah! Firstly, don’t worry, fish in cycles can be humane if done right. I suggest you perhaps wanna get a bottle of Seachem prime as well. When the ammonia kicks in, Prime turns ammonia to ammonium. Which I believe is harmless to fish, at the same time, continues your cycle! Plus, it’s an...

Hey guys, My blue velvet just released a poop that’s like a few times its body length! Is this normal? Or is it sick? Or is he just part of a pooping competition.

Oh I found one! There are 2 shrimps in this photo. Spot them!

So I stayed up till 3am a couple of nights ago, turned on a dim light just to see if I could get to see a different aquarium activity at night. Whilst the fishes quietly float around or hide to rest.. man, the shrimps sure are active! I guess it helps that I left the leafy plants in front, so I...

HAHAHA. oh my gosh that's hilarious. Yes, so you see, I searched Seachem Prime in english, and it was 150USD. I got a local to help me source for it in mandarin, and I bought it at like 10USD or so? So i found my seachem supplier. but stuff like hikari, I could only find the food (which I use...

Oh my goodness, is that an amano shrimp devouring a blue velvet? Geez, i have blue velvets in my tank, but it's a small community (one i pregnant so i'm starting to see a couple of baby shrimps - that has managed to hide away from the dwarf gourami eating them). the algae is growing faster...

Thanks for the advice Autumnsky! Man, I'm so envious of the large availability of supplies! I moved to China 2 years ago, and I struggle to get supplies here (that is not locally made. Not that i don't trust the products, I just don't quite understand the instructions and not sure of what...

closed to 2 months now.. parameters are 0-0-10. I recently added a post about egg shells to tank that has caused my whole tank to go berserk. Was such a disaster. I think the stress might have caused their immune levels to go down and thus amplifying Gill flukes of some kind. I don’t quite know...

Guess you should leave your fishes in when you do your water change. It causes less stress. Are the eyes of the fish popping out more than it should as well? Before medicating, do check if your water parameters are good. If you can test it would be best =) helps eliminates some possibilities...

A while back my blue velvet shrimp got pregnant. I have almost zero hopes to see any shrimplets considering how my dwarf gourami enjoys picking on Java moss and plants. To my surprise, I found one a few days ago. And the past couple of days it went missing. I held a memorial for baby shrimp...

I have 1 dwarf gourami and 8 ember tetras in my 10 gallon. Alongside some blue velvet shrimps even. The dwarf gourami makes a nice centerpiece fish. Some may argue I’m pushing the limits a little... but I do check my water parameters daily (I know it’s obsessive, but it helps me sleep well as...

Hehe yes, there’s a photo now! And my goodness that IS huge. I’ll leave it to the pros here. Looks pregnant almost. Do monitor to see if it’s swimming fine.

Sick fishes are the most stressful, not being able to upload photos adds to the stress. I know, I’ve been there... There’s a paperclip icon (not on quick reply) and you can click it. It opens a new screen for you to upload photos. I do all of them on my iPhone so it’s much easier I guess. Give...

Good tip, though... you are tempting me to set up a shrimp tank now....

Hey Sara, do you leave it in your filter? Or just in the tank?

Hey guys, Thought I do a quick sharing about my experience on adding egg shells in tank. I read about this about adding egg shells for calcium in the tank to boost some hardness for the shells of nerite snails. Unfortunately it didn’t go too well. I had a nerite and it’s shell has cracked a...

I started with Seachem prime and stability which both worked for me =) I did fish-in, so it was really fervant water changes every 2-3 days to keep my ammonia levels manageable. also, the end goal is 0 ammonia and nitrites. waterweed (anacharis) is a great beginner plant and it grows fast, easy...

Help help! 3 days ago, I added a larger plant in my 10 gallon thinking it would be a nice hiding place for my dwarf gourami. I had it over a month. It was doing fine. All of a sudden I experienced a strange behavior change. It’s hiding a lot more than usual - it only comes out during feeding...

Sooo! I brought forward my water change. Had a small ammonia spike that went up to 0.2 and gourami was feeling grumpy. Here’s what happened.. 1. Noticed couple of shrimps under the rocks, didn’t know how to move them without potential squashing them. 2. Started draining the water slowly...

Lol. Thanks for the tip. Yes, and she has a crew of easily 4-5 along with her. In fact I just noticed a tiny shrimplet as well. All in the heater. It’s the safest place I guess. .... also cause you know. It’s so much cooler than THE ROCK I SPECIALLY PURCHASED THAT HAS A HIDING HOLE FOR SHRIMP...

Hey there, I’m laughing as I type this. I hope this bring some humour and I also hope a genius can help me solve this. So I have a heater near the top of the tank (I’m not worried about evaporation as I run an overflow sump, water levels are always high). Evaporation happens in the sump not...

Seems about right. Well at least that how it began for me. Besides it’s a small population for a bit amount of water. Which is a good thing for cycling! So give it time. . Check in another 2 days =) it will sure to appear eventually. Till then.. meditation works lol.