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...and they all lived! I have to admit I was nervous about that, but some people online said it would be alright. Since I have discus and GBR's, which are sensitive, I wasn't sure. Arrived home with quite a bit of nervousness...I wouldn't have been surprised if all were dead. Yet, I counted...

I was doing a water change just now, and was vacuuming the sand a bit. I went behind some driftwood and noticed one of my corie floating into the tube. I switched the valve right away so he didn't go through. Upon exiting, he floated limply into the water, dead. I'm not sure if he was dead...

Going on vacation starting Saturday for 8 days. I've seen a few people online saying it's acceptable to leave fish without food for that amount of time. So, to those who have asked in the past about what to do during vacation time, I'll keep you updated about the condition (or lack thereof)...

I've worn as a badge of pride that we've managed to keep all of our 6 German Blue Rams (GBR's) alive for the past 2 months. Since everybody has posted problems keeping them alive, and the store wouldn't even guarantee them at all, I used this as an example of how well we were doing. Well...

Do you buy any of your fish straight from the breeder?? That's how we bought our discus, and after doing that, there's absolutely no way I'd ever buy that particular type of fish from an LFS ever again. In fact, whenever we're in a fish store, I make it a point to look at the discus. Most...

The guy who started the thread about a night light got me thinking....my bedroom, where my aquarium is, is ridiculously dark at night. I keep it that way because I love pitch black rooms to sleep in. If I can see where I'm walking at night, there's too much light. Even during the day, it's...

The site I've seen most people use as a calculator of stocking is www.aqadvisor.com. Many seem to agree it's a pretty conservative estimator, and many people are going to run over 100 percent. So, have you had it calculate your stocking percentage?? If not, go ahead and try it. See what comes...

What's your position on aquarium decorations?? This doesn't include natural additions such as driftwood. I'm talking about things that are manufactured to be decorations. At first, we really wanted a lot of decorations. We were considering having 3 large ones in our 60 gallon. One on the...

This is the opposite of the other thread regarding what fish you've had and never would again. For whatever reason, there are probably fish we'd like to keep but haven't been able to yet because of conflicts with current fish or lack of space. My choice would be an arowana. Every time I see...

In short, which fish have you tried and refuse to ever get again?? Any? For me, it's angelfish. We were given 6 angelfish to start our aquarium off. They are the most ridiculously aggressive fish I've seen. All they did was fight. So the end game of the 6 angelfish was that 1 ended up...

Thought I'd post a pic of mine, since this is apparently the forum to do it. It's 60 gallons. We do fake plants, as I can't keep real ones alive very well. There is one real plant in there, it's at the left center. It has: 6 discus, all of which can be seen in this picture. 4 Boesemani...

Feeding is my favorite time of the day. The ordinary movements of the fish becomes frantic...even the discus move around a lot, and it's great to just watch. I make decisions on what to feed on a day by day, seat of my pants basis. My "rotation" is: Freeze dried bloodworms Frozen...

We have discus, German Blue Rams, Boesemani rainbows, and cory cats. We're about to go on a vacation for 8 days, and this is the first time we've went on one since we got our tank a few months ago. So, we're new to this. I went on another forum and was assured that it's typical, at least...

We originally had a Stealth Pro. We took it back due to the recall and got an Aqueon. They both have one thing in common though: They consistantly heated the water to 2-3 degrees colder than they were set to. We have thermometers on both sides of the tank...and the heater never goes up to...

We're going to get some discus this weekend. I've done quite a lot of research and I know everything I believe I need to know. Except, I have a question. A guy at our local fish store told my wife that an air stone is a must for a discus tank. I have never read that anywhere, and I'm not...

Our rather new Rena XP3 is having problems and we had to give up tonight after being unable to prime it back into working. We have a 60 gallon tank. Stocking is full, though I wouldn't say overstocked at this time. We're going to go at it tomorrow and try to fix it of course....but in the...

Is there any explanation why one of my angelfish is missing?? Here's why I post this.. I'm somewhat OCD about doing checks daily. I count the fish, look at them and make sure nothing is wrong. Last night, I did the count and one angelfish is missing. My tank isn't so heavily decorated that...

Do you keep any driftwood in your tank?? I'm contemplating putting some in there, as we do have a pleco, but am unsure if the other fish would really like it since points on it could be sharp and it could just be a general pain in the arse to swim around. The pleco seems fine as it is sucking...

I mentioned in another thread that we're keeping a few GBR's in our aquarium currently. We are not experienced aquariests, though we have done a ridiculous amount of reading about the fish that we put into our aquarium. We had to get our GBR's from a particular store because no other fish...

We've had our aquarium for a couple of months now...had some help with the cycle from an experienced aquariest....and now have what I would consider a "stocked" aquarium. I'm posting here to get thoughts on how good the mix is...and, more importantly, if I am over or understocked. So here is...