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Hi everyone, I know this is a Fish Tank forum so the thing I want to buy is a little out of the ordinary for here, but I figured I'd come to my trusty fish friends first! :) I'm looking for a new home for my crested gecko. The 60g hex paludarium project is a bust. Ideally I'd like an...

I'm going to be setting up another tank soon and I wanted to get some advice / opinions on stocking options and compatibility. The tank is going to be a 30g planted tank that I am inheriting from my friend's mom. She doesn't have too many live plants in there now, but I plan to fix that ;) And...

Well, my 20g is stabilized now (WOOHOO!) Aside from the very sad loss of one of my female bettas, everyone, including the newly added Otos, is doing extremely well, and the plants look great! The crypt spiralis is alway pearling like mad when I come home from work! Anyways, now that we're...

Sooooo I'm excited because my roommate told me today that she would help me install some blue and some red LEDs in the hood of my 20g! (i'm sure she'd help me do it for the 5g also!) The topic of LEDs came up today for various reasons, and it turns out she has loads of them at work and I asked...

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum to post this in, if not please feel free to move it! :) Thanks! Ok so I was perusing craigslist for available fish tanks to see what was out there and I see an ad for a free 10g, well i've been wanting another small tank to use as a hospital/QT...

Funds are a bit low at the moment, and I need to get a new bed before I can get another tank, BUT I figured i'd toss my idea out there and start gathering feedback and ideas as to whether this is possible.... My thought is to make a tank with local (i live in the Albany region of NY)...

I have 2 tanks, a 5g and a 20g. The 5g has natural colored aquarium gravel, a Red Sea nano filter, planted with purple cabomba, wisteria, crypt wendtii and an Anubias. For fish it has 1 Male Betta and 2 otos. There's also a piece of driftwood which I believe is the pH lowering culprit. The tank...

I was perusing the internet looking for possible new lighting options for my 20g tank, and I came across this little filter Canister Filters: Rapids Mini Canister Filter at Drs. Foster and Smith and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with them and whether they would recommend it? And...

So I've been thinking about trying a carpet plant in my 20g aquarium. It's a 20g High with only 15 watts of T8 (or T5?....i'll double check when i get home) fluorescent lighting over it. It's ~16" high, so I imagine not a TON of that light hits the bottom. HOWEVER i do have excellent growth of...

I was doing my bi-weekly water change on my well established 20g tank and decided it had been a while since I did water parameter checks so i figured I'd do them. The ammonia, nitrIte and nitrAte were all normal (0, 0, 10-15) but the pH was unusually low, it was 6.0. I never recalled my pH being...

Well, I recently posted about fungus on the eyes of 2 of my fish, they have been QT'd and are doing well. I noticed that they had stringy white poop but thought it was from not eating very much while their fungus was being cured. This morning as I was leaving for work though I noticed one of my...

Hello hello, I'm sure there are many a thread on fungus and the best way to cure it and I will do research tomorrow, right now it is late though and i just have one quick question. I have a female platy with some fungus on her eye. I noticed it a few days ago, but i know on of the best ways to...

My boyfriend is getting a 100g tank (i'll post more about that elsewhere when I have more time) but in the mean time i have a quick question. He really likes the look of a large school of Neons or Cardinals etc. I was just wondering whether these are compatible with a Pictus cat or if there is...

Recently some of my crypt leaves have been "melting"....it tends to be the older growth leaves...is this just something that happens to them? The melting starts in a circular spot and seems to spread, and it spreads into a melted mess of leaf in 1-2 days. should i just keep pruning them out? add...

About 6months ago I decided it was time to take my 20 gallon out of the plastic and into the planted realm. I decided I wanted to make the tank look a little more sophisticated and figured I could either purchase all new silk and plastic plants, or spend the money on live plants, something I'd...

Ok, so here's the story...before my 20 gallon went haywire and i lost a fair few fish (i have since revamped, re-cycled and heavily planted it) I had a "mixed school" of tetras, I had 3 neons, 3 cardinals and 3 glowlights that would all school together. They were some of the first fish I put in...

My 5 Gallon Planted Journal :) Well, I've posted about my 5 gallon before, but those were questions when I was getting started, I figured I'd consolidate the pictures and things into one place and document my journey of my first planted tank! (Well, first tank that i started from scratch with...

I have another quick question...how do you QT an algae eater that's picky about eating algae tabs? Anyone have a good way to QT otos? Should I do it for less time? Supplement with lettuce/cucumber in addition to the algae wafers? Any and all thoughts would be appreciated! As always, thanks...

Hi everyone, quick question, I'm thinking about putting a pair of otos and/or panda (dwarf) cories in my 5 gallon planted tank that currently houses 1 male Betta. The tank seems pretty well balance so far, the plants are growing like mad, but there's not a ton algae so I was wondering if either...

Ok, So my new 5 gallon planted is doing GREAT so far, I can't BELIEVE how much growth I've seen since I set it up! The purple Cabomba is already trying to take over the tank, and the Wisteria is fighting back! AND the two large red crypts in the back have shot out new leaves! And the green crypt...

Well, I have a fair few questions, I'll try to make them brief and clear, please stick with me! :) I've become interested in adding a couple bamboo shrimp to my zoo as i've become rather fascinated by these very cool little critters to, they seemed really cool from discussions and then I saw...

Sorry to be asking SO MANY questions, but, well I want to do this right :) So I have 2 questions at the moment: The first is I'm worried about water flow in the tank, as suggested I'm not using a filter relying on the plants to do most of the filtration for me, I have a small bubble wall in...

My 20 gallon tank has now been completely switched over from plastic plants to live plants EXCEPT there are 2 plastic plants that i have in the top corner of my tank that I hesitate to remove because some of my fish enjoy hiding in them. I don't mind them SO much, but i'd prefer live plants so...

Hi Everyone, I've tried searching this forum for more information on Silent Cycling but have only found tidbits here and there, so I was wondering if anyone could give me more information on Silent Cycling :) I set up a 5.5 gallon tank with quite a few plants a couple days ago and I was...

So, I finally got plants for my little 5.5 gallon and have put them in. THe aquascaping isn't QUITE perfect yet, but we'll get there. I have a 14 (or 16?) watt light so I'm seeing how i do with low-med light plants, instead of just low light plants like in my 20 gallon. Anyway, I have a couple...