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I'm certainly not an expert but guppies are about the smallest fish that you can keep, the males certainly don't get bigger then tetras so i'm pretty sure you'd be fine with a "school" like that. As far as agression, my guppies chase each other around and flash at each other, but they don't...

My brother just got done doing a 5 or so trimming and seperating of his java ferns and i can tell you from experience you can do very little wrong. To give you an example, in my tank now, i have an about 2 inch root that came off one of the plants that is sprouting leaves! so even roots can...

While i don't have the experience in salt water to comment, but i always thought the problem with salt was the start-up cost and water parameters. Start-up isn't more then a planted tank, but the skimmer and lighting will cost more then the basics on a non-planted freshwater. The...

Thanks for responding, if it dosen't help i will look for that. I haven't heard anything from my parents and they put the stuff in a few days ago, so i'll take a look and see if it's worse on Christmas in a few days here, so i'll have an update at the very least.

Thanks for the reply, as far as your questions. I don't think the water changes are up to my standards, but on the flip side, the first group of otto's that he got a month ago or so are still alive, and from my personal experience they are pretty fragile guys so i can't imagine the water is too...

I was visiting my parents today after graduation and they have what looks like a fungus on there mollys and guppies in their tanks. I meant to get a picture while i was over there, but i forgot. They have alot of fish in their 30g, 2 black mollies, 2 red swordtails, 2 platies, a couple of...

Albino generally = ACF, i.e large african clawed frogs. As far as i'm aware, there isn't an albino dwarf frog, i.e. the one's you could keep in your tank. So no, you can't add one, he will grow to 4 or 5 inches and eat most everything if it's a he, and if it's a she...well it will grow to god...

I don't know the brand name, or even if it wasn't some local thing, but there is a LFS around here that had a 10g setup that had a pink hood, pink edging to the tank, and a pink metal stand. I don't think it was very expensive, but i don't know why you wanted such a little tank, maybe for size...

I finally have a little time to think more about the final setup of my 29g tank. My planning has really centered around a couple of fish, 2 black skirt tetra's, a common pleco, and a albino cory that i got for free in various ways Currently in the tank are.. -5 Aenus Cories (3 "bronze", 2...

Well, i was going to do a minor drip-aclimate type things by adding a bit to the water over about an hour, but about 15 min into it, and about 2 little cups full one of the tetra's decided that he didn't want to be in the tuperware thingy i had him in and jumped into the tank. Luckly he jumped...

Ok so i went and picked up the tank today and boy was i in for a suprise. This tank is probably a 10g, maybe a bit bigger, hard to say it's one of those built in hood things so it's not a type i'm familiar with. The tank had no heater....yeah. It has a built in undergravel filter, which i'm...

I did a little searching around today during my lunch break and i think the pet store up here where i work will take them if i can't find one closer to home that will. I was looking at them in this particular store and i know they get big, he had one, might not be the same sub-species or...

I have a habit of browsing the local Craigslist, like anyone with even the minor case of MTS that i have should do, and i stumbled across a little tank for 15$. What originally attracted me to it, was that it came with a stand, and not a crappy iron stand, but a real wood, 2 shelf thing. after...

I have an about 5 year old ACF and he's now in a sand tank. I had him with some larger pebbles but i was having some algea and detris problems because of buildup in the crap in the gravel, so i switched to sand. I'm going with a relatively thin layer of sand, an inch or less, and it seems to...

While I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, my vertebrate anatomy background makes me feel that he's correct with the fingernail analogy, especially with "fancy" guppies with large non-muscular tail fins. I'm drawing this conclusion from my knowledge of fish evolution and terminology not...

This might be a good time for me to clear this up, but i thought that silicon dosen't bond well with acrylic/plexiglass? I was under the impression that you needed acrylic glue and it can be somewhat of a pain with bubbles and such in larger aplications. If your just making a tube in the tank...

Ok seems to be the consensus so far, before i go home for the night, that it's a better safe then sorry, but still should be tried. I think i'm gonna go with the cheap sponge thing because it's probably cheaper then a sponge from a store like i've been seeing for a few filters, and because it...

I've decided to put my frog in my 29g tank thats been empty for a few months here. (after the disaster of putting some soon-to-be-flushed fish into an aparently not cycled tank) ACF's have a habit of eating substrate and i'm tired of the crap that gets in his current to-large-to-eat gravel so i...

Been meaning to ask about this on here for about a week, but school just started, a little over a week ago i "rescued" a school of Silver-tipped tetras from my brothers tank. Suficive to say, his tank was apparently too small (15g, but more importantly he bought a bunch of other tetras) and...

To emphasize what was said above, there is no such thing as an Albino DWARF frog. A lot of pet stores will sell African Clawed frogs when they are really little as the dwarf ones. You can tell the difference best by their hands, the dwarf frogs aren't as "pointy" as the Clawed ones. Here's...

Meh i had to give up on this idea, i went back yesterday and relized they we'rent what i posted at all...they are like some generic brand...and only 1g.. Beyond that, they only had one left this morning and it was pretty beat-up, so i was worried that it would be broken. But the responses are...

Yeah generaly speaking i know thats the case, but i'm not certain if my brother would even setup a larger tank. He lives in a fairly small apartment and is pretty picky. Beyond that, even a cheap kit for a 10g tank costs 50+ these days (especially if you want a good light + filter) i'm not...

Ok, on my lunch break i was zooming around and i found a petco around here. I don't normaly like petco, but i had 2 hours to kill and thought i'd go in and compare prices on stuff. This petco was actually pretty good, while they have fish a bit to crowded, and have some saltwater fish in too...

See now, after doing a bit of research again here i'm getting conflicted responses about that one. Most sites say a temp range of about 68-75 degrees, which is slightly warmer then room temperature (depending on what you keep your house at). But alot of sites and things don't even recoment a...

Yeah i know..in fact..it's kind of a morbid tale seeing as how it just happened a few hours ago... but! What finally prompted me to euthanize the goldfish was what happened a little after i got home. I had already started to think about it and other options when i look in the tank, and my...