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Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep a close eye on him.

Last night I quickly checked on my tank before I went to bed and I noticed one of my otocinclus' head what stuck inside the intake to my power filter! So i quickly got my net and pushed him out and he swam for a little bit before going to the top and just falling to the bottom of the tank. He...

nice fish :)

Keep an I on your red tail sharks, typically they become very territorial as they get older and if not given adequate space and a good hiding spot one might go after the other (been there done that). As long as they set up there own little territory Im assuming it should be okay.

I witnessed 4 of my guppies going at some BBA on one of my anubias and no matter how hard they tried they couldn't get it off. A couple minutes later they just gave up and moved on.

Problem with hydrogen peroxide is that I live in Canada and my local pharmacy does not carry it. So I am just going to go with a 1:19 bleach water solution and quickly dip the plants in and then rinse with water.

Yes thats what I plan on doing, except in a diluted bleach solution because I do not know where to find h202.

Alright thanks for the advice, gonna start doing that right away!

So basically you had your lights on at two different periods a day? Im gonna remove my old gravel and clean the **** out of the stuff, my worry is it wont be enough :( Im also adding driftwood which I know can also be attacked by the stuff.

Yes its thick and black and doesn't come off easy, I can see a couple spots on my crypt. The only way I can get the small pieces off my glass to is with a razor blade.

Im almost certain its brush algae, black like hairs that come to a point which is hard to remove, there isn't much on the glass but its taking over the anubias and I do not want an outbreak. I do 20% pwc every week. My oto's don't touch it either. I had read somewhere that it is caused by...

I am planning on doing a substrate change quite soon from regular gravel to flourite, and adding some mopani driftwood which I have been boiling for a couple days. Currently I have 1.5 w/g with a couple java ferns, jungle val, crypt wendtii, anubias nana, and anubias coffeefolia in my 20 gallon...

I bought 3 two weeks ago and tragically one did not make it, as oto's tend to die early, for reasons I do not know. But the other two are doing great and always eating. I am probably going to buy a couple more.

I also have some of these little guys, very fun to watch as they scoot around the tank looking for and eating algae.

I currently have a 20 gallon tank which is moderately planted and looking to switch my boring plain gravel to flourite. Is this okay to do, because I am not sure if I will be disturbing the biological bacteria in the tank that keeps everything in balance. If this is okay to do, is there...

I had the salt for a while actually never used it and I only used it because I had thought it would only be benificial since it said it reduces stress, etc. I only used it once just recently on my last water change and the directions are to use 1 tablespoon per 10 gal, and I have a 20gal and I...

I am planning on buying 3 or 4 oto's for my 20 gallon because I need a little algae clean up crew. I have 6 Guppies in there currently and I have some salt in it as I know guppies like salt. Are the oto's compatible in my tank?

If I were to get lets say 5 cherry barbs, would they nip a DG fins??

I cut mine across or on a diagnal, absolutely no problems with them at all.

I have a 20 Gallon Tall fish tank which only right now has a young rainbow shark which is going to be moved to a friends 55 gallon. I am planning on buying either 1 or a pair of dwarf gourami's and 3 corys. Any other ideas of what I should add, I know there is plenty out there, I just can't...

alright cool, I didn't know if I could add one to my tank, but I'm gonna go pick one up soon.

okay thanks for the tip

alright sounds good.

The plants are relatively new, and not many fish in the tank yet. The flash from the camera makes everything look a lot more orangy yellow.

I have a 20g tall tank (low light) and so far I have the following plants: - 1 Anubias Nana - 1 Anubias Coffeefolia - 3 Java Ferns - 1 Crypt Wendtii Red - 3 Small Bunches of Jungle Val My question is what other low light background plants could I put into my tank as the vals only cover a small...