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I purchased the Hydor Magic World background for a Harry Potter-themed aquarium (16 gal Aqueon bow front). The background is really nice, but I can't figure out how the gel that came with it is supposed to work. The directions on the bottle say "Follow accompanying directions carefully." Problem...

Hi everyone :) I purchased an all-inclusive Aqueon deluxe bow front 16 gallon aquarium kit. I have a 10 gallon aquarium that I'm finding to be just a tad bit too small after a couple of years. I'd like the fish to have more room. I also have a 37 gallon Marineland Eclipse 3 with a biowheel...

It's been a while since I've posted! I'm in the process of rebuilding my 40 gallon Marineland Eclipse (with biowheel) tank, which went neglected after a horrible algae invasion. The water eventually evaporated out of the tank and left lines of calcification all over the glass that I cannot get...

Hi everyone, I have typically gone to my LFS and purchased a handful of new fish and brought them home to my tank. I have had a lot of problems with my fish dying off though. I just lost my angelfish, which was a real bummer. I'm wondering what recommendations you have for stocking a tank...

I've had a number of powder blue dwarf gouramis -- I think they're absolutely beautiful fish. However, I've lost every single one, and before they died they all developed ulcers on their heads, above their eyes and down their snout. Anyone have any idea what's up with this? None of my other fish...

I have the API test kits for both GH and KH, but I cannot find the directions that came in the packages. I'm thinking I'm going to have to buy another set in order to get the directions on how to read the results; I can't find them online, although I've looked. According to the Water Hardness...

I'm wondering if nitrItes cause water cloudiness, even just a little bit. I've been struggling with cloudy water for a couple of weeks, but have been getting normal readings with the API. Well, this morning I got the following readings: .25 ammonia, 1.0 nitrItes, 10 nitrates, 7.2 pH. So I have a...

Hey all, I'm wondering how often I should change the floss/carbon/charcoal filter insert in my Marineland Eclipse 3 filtration system? It used to be that I didn't change it at all, after misunderstanding some info given on changing filters, but now it seems that the filter needs to be changed...

I cannot keep plecos alive in my tank for longer than two weeks. I bought two beautiful plecos on Black Friday -- they were a deep, dark brown color. Slowly their color faded and they became greyish-brown with spots. And then they both died within five days of one another. This is my third...

Hi all, I have built in filtration on my Marineland Eclipse 3 40 gallon tanks. The filtration is built into the hood and has both charcoal/floss filtration as well as a biowheel. Is there some way to incorporate additional filtration to this kind of set up? I've included a picture of the set up...

I think my female betta is about to lay eggs. She's very fat and because she's light colored I can tell that her belly is full of something, I'm assuming eggs. She's in the community tank with a male betta. I've heard that male bettas will kill the female after she lays eggs -- is this true? I...

I've noticed that my fish, when they die, seem to die in pairs. On Monday, both my cories died; I have no idea why. They had been fine up until that point and swimming and eating normally. I had a betta fish die a couple of months ago, and within a day the female betta had died as well. I've had...

My goldfish died a few days after I purchased two bags of Hikari goldfish pellets. I'm willing to send these for free to anyone who wants them. The pellets specifically are: Saki-Hikari Fancy Goldfish (Color Enhancing Diet) LINK Cost: $11.67 (Sinking pellets; baby sticks) Hikari Goldfish Gold...

Even though my snails all hatched at the same time, some of them are still very tiny (the size of a green pea) while some are much larger (just under the size of a "boulder" marble) . . . should I be concerned about this? The runts seem to be doing all right and I believe they are getting enough...

Hi guys, I haven't posted in a while - hope everyone is well! Anyway, I have about 25 snails that I've been growing in a ten gallon aquarium. About 10 days ago I added 8 of the largest snails to my large 40 gallon aquarium. I made sure to put them in a bag and float them in the water so there...

OMG, I found a very slow leak in my aquarium - I'm scared that the whole thing will give way and I'll have 40 gallons of water all over my living room floor and dead fish. The leak is super tiny - it's not even making a puddle. It's just a drop of water at the bottom rear of the tank. Should I...

So I have 31 baby snails that I will need to either put in my tank or rehome (LFS, I think). How many snails would be the most I should put in a 40 gallon tank? They're mystery snails and are now about the size of marbles. Are snails really useful for keeping algae away? I've heard both yes and...

How often do you all feed your fish, and when you do, how much do you feed them? How did you figure out how to feed them? I have a 40 gallon tank with 3 silver dollars, 2 moonlight gouramis, a honey gourami, an angelfish, a Mickey Mouse wag, a school of glowing neons and neon tetras, 2 albino...

I have a few spots of brown algae starting to grow in my tank, and earlier this week I had to clean off a bit of what looked to be blue-green algae. Should I just scrub the algae off with a scrubby pad and keep doing that, or will that make the problem worse? Will the filter catch the algae that...

My silver dollars are so silly - and they're pigs to boot. Whenever I drop bottom feeder tablets into the tank, the silver dollars immediately grab them up and start carrying them around the tank! I am very careful that my cories get enough to eat, fwiw. I took a couple of pics of the silver...

I finally finished cycling my 40 gallon tank and thought I would share pics of my fish in their new, larger digs. Camera used is a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX1 on the Motion/Anti-blur setting. 1. Albino Cories 2. Angelfish 3. Glowing Tetras 4. Golden Gourami I'm going to have to add more posts!

Do angelfish do well in pairs? I have one angelfish who is fairly good sized and semi-aggressive. He's (She's?) mostly pretty mellow, but occasionally charges around the tank. He/She doesn't nip fins or anything like that. I was thinking about getting a second angel, but I don't know if that's a...

I'm restocking a 40 gal tank. Well, I should say that I'm adding stock. I already have 4 coryadoras, 4 neon tetras, one betta fish, one angelfish, two moonlight gouramis, and one moonrise wag (platy). At Petsmart the other day I saw some silver dollars and thought that they are really pretty...

Can I get your thoughts on what occurs when there is a "mass" die-off of fish in a tank? We've been trucking along doing okay here, and then my big mystery snail died. Then my neon tetra. Then my African dwarf frog. This is within the last two days. Nothing's changed as far as I know...

So I have these baby snails in a 10 gallon aquarium. Basically, I'm tossing in algae tablets or freeze dried shrimp every few days and leaving the snail alone. They seem to be doing okay - they're cruising around the tank and eating. I don't have a filter on this aquarium and there's algae on...