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I bought a male and female white/silver molly the other day and the male is huge. He resembles a molly but his tail fin is longer and less fan shaped and his dorsal fin is HUGE and looks more like a horses mane (grows all down his back like a dwarf gourami and stops where his tail fin starts)...

I smelled something burning and went over to my tank was looking in the tank and there was glass everywhere so I looked up and the heater was shattered and there was a brown cloud around it like there was dirt inside and I dont know what to do or if it's going to hurt the fish!

I visit all my local pet stores just about every day (a lot of money and NO life or friends lol) and just recently all of them suddenly had these black ghost knife fish. They live in a little tube and they look really cool. I read through a few sites and as usual they're conflicting info about...

I have a full bubble strip across the back of my 72g, and 2 rocks that have airstones in them plus the filters waterfall. Is this too much? You can see the thousands of tiny bubbles all through the tank and I was wondering if this could be bad for the fish.

All my fish have been settled in for a few weeks now and I've been thinking of getting a few more fish. Nothing too aggressive or more than 4 inches full grown. What I have now: 4 Mollies (2 black 2 dalmatian) 4 Wag Platys 2 Angels (small) 2 Swordtails 11 Neon/Card Tetras I was looking at...

I was cleaning under my 55g today and found a sticker saying 72 bowfront stand. What an excellent surprise! Here it is about 90% complete. The decor and fish are all finished I just need to fix the tubing fiasco so that the bubbles come out of both rocks again aswell as the bubbletube across the...

My dad says my arm being in the tank will make the fish sick (skin oils etc). So do I take the fish out? Do I take the decorations out in order to vacuum properly?

I got two females yesterday so my two males would have company. Two of them even are doing this mirror image swimming thing, like trained dolphins or something. It really does look like their dancing, and they do it often. Is this something normal like playing or possibly some kind of mating...

Two days ago I transfered the fish from my 10g to my 55g. Yesterday I counted them and there were 3 Neons instead of 4 so I figured that one was just hiding, after all the tank is 5X bigger than what their used to. But today she's still missing. I took out the decor rocks and plants and searched...

I have a 55g tank with a matching hood. It was used and the light dosen't turn on. How can I tell whether I need a new bulb or even a new hood? Everything else that came with the tank worked fine but I don't want to just assume it's the bulb and have to go buy a new hood anyway. Also how do you...

I went to my LFS yesterday to pick up some hardware for my 55g, the same one I've been going to for 17 years. The owner noticed the upgrade and asked what I had in the new tank. I told him that there wasn't anything in it yet because I wanted to follow the directions and cycle it properly, so...

I got an Aquaclear 500 (or maybe it's 300 it's hard to read) for my 55g and it's very very loud. My friend was very excited about it and only said good things. I have an Aqueon on my 10g and it's super quiet and does an excellent job. Are they just loud starting out? Or will this go on forever...

I want to do this completely correct this time. I just bought a used 55g tank (was previously used to breed paranahs for 3 years) to rehome my 2 angels, 2 black mollies, 2 swordtails, 2 platys, 4 neons and a pleco out of my 10g. Should I keep the neon purple and green gravel? Or is that...

For all the people worried about my angelfish and pleco I just bought a 55g tank so they can all be happy. Kinda sad about ditching my 10g though... it's my first real aquarium. I had hundreds of those clear plastic kritter carriers... and after being here awhile I realize I'm about the...

I have two angelfish, one is solid goldish white with a black spot right before her tail. The other is silver with dark black stripes. I've noticed that his stripes come and go leaving him almost completely solid silver sometimes. Is this because he's mad or hungry or some other mood? The...

Everything's been going great for a few weeks now. The water conditions in my 10g are perfect (I check every other day for temp, ammonia, pH, nitrates, etc) I even do partial water changes with only store bought spring water. All my fish are shiny and active, I count them twice a day cause...

I have a male and female Swordtail, they're both completely solid orange. I noticed today that the bottom of the male's has a perfect black line all along the 'sword' part from the tip to the base of his tail. It wasn't there before, I even went through the thousands of pictures I've taken and...

I have a tank full of Neons Platys Mollies and Swordtails... and 2 Angels. I've never kept Angels before, I know they're supposed to be aggressive but I'm afraid that they're not eating due to the fact they run whenever another fish comes near them. The fish are just heading towards the food...

I don't know whether this would be considered sick or not, he dosen't seem sick. I have a Black Molly who wiggles his whole body to swim because his tail fin dosen't fan out, it just hangs there. He keeps up fine with his girlfriend and eats normally, thus why I say he dosen't seem sick. I'm...

I've been sitting and stairing at my two black mollys for some time, trying to figure out what gender they are. (never knew you could tell) Read up on the whole fan fin vs spike tube fin thing and looked at several pictures. But both of my fish (while swimming) look like they have a spike...

I just stocked 5 Neon Tetras in my 10g today and for 4 hours they were fine and getting on well with my other fish (2 guppies, 2 black mollies, a beta, and a pleco). All the water conditions are perfect as well. But 4 hours after getting them one of them started doing that straight up swimming...