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i hope this is in the right forum i have a 20 gallon sump for my 55 and i would like to put some filter feeders in here. my water is around 74 -76 degrees F i have a few ghost shrimp in therre but is there anything that filters debree alittle faster. i also have acrawdad on the opposite side...

put a turtle in there haha mine cant get enough i breed them in a sep tank just for them they don tbreed fast enough. i dont know what copper does but it kills snails, also an algae killer will kill any snail in ther

if ammonia gets high or jumps up they are always the first to die. they are hardy until it comes to ammonia. that has happened to me. very interesting little creatures :)

no the weird thing is the cat acts like nothings there

i have an eclipse catfish with a gill hangin out and i cant figure it out. why or how. i have 2 and they like to wrestle but i dont see any damage to the outside so im confsed any advice

i would like some moss but the temps are too cold to ship right now :(

i have sand from lowes in my tank with my turtles and 2 catfish. i know hundereds of people that use sand from lowes or home depot. all you do is rinse the sand in a bucket out side. take a bucket fill it from 1/3 to 1/2 of full sand and stick a hose in to the bottom of the bucket and let it run...

get some kind of loach they devote their lives to eating snails and can find them at most fish stores. yoyo or dojo they have dwarf loaches that are smaller but idk how popular they are. this is in a 10 gallon right

okay so even if its tore apart will it grow back my turtles kinda mangled it

i was reading a book about plants and was reading that when or if a moss ball breaks up it can be put on a rock. but it didnt explain what it would do. at least not in words i understood. so i guess the question im asking is that if i put one of my tore up moss balls on a peice of driftwood...

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i have some driftwood and some anachris. i have heard of moss growing on driftwood without adding it to the tank is that possible? i have a life glo (k 6700 and 130 lux)< i have no idea what theat means? what are some good plants for this. i have guppies and bamboo shrimp in this 20 gallon what...

this will also help with you plant question.

i know you said that you know how to care for your turtle but this has alot of good information. if anything read the recommendations for enclosure. this is a great care sheet. ATP - Care Sheet: Western Painted

what kind of painted turtle

ok i understand i have read pages about freshwater fish thriving in brackish like breeding now i am not challenging yalls knowledge about fish. i am simply asking to learn. i may have read them on sites that are popular. but i DO NOT take information from one page when i do my research i always...

id love to hear more opinions

true but there are many fish that are sold as freshwater but are dominatly brackish ie pictus catfish ghost shrimp, even guppies are brackish

i have used tanks and maintianed them and have never used salt but i have read alot about it and read some contoversy between using it and not. what will salt do for the tank and its habitants. i have turtles, eclipse catfish and feeders in one tank and snails guppies and fries and 1 bamboo...

a 10 gallon tank is absolutlely way to small for a turtle of that size the rule of thumb for a turtle is 10 gallons per inch off carpace. 5 inch turtle 50 gallon tank. anything less is to small and causes skin problems eye problems and lots of others.

i feed the fry 2-3 times a day i have found that helps them grow and is recommended from my research

boiling the driftwood for about 20 minutes should helpp clean it out

baby brine shrimp are the best thing to feed fry (3 times a day) apple snails alage pellets, cucumber, dead fish theyll eat anything, cucumber will do great

females will have a black spot behind the belly(gravid spot) males will have a long staright finn between the the 2 anal fins males are more colorful then female