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Can anyone help me ID my eartheater? When I got him a few months ago, I thought it was a jurupari. But now, don't think so. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Long story - I'll try to keep it short: I posted well over a year ago about spending a fortune on angelfish, and trying to introduce more (eventually in my 55gallon tank). In the interim, the one that was such problem was finally put in his place by a pair of fully-grown angels (both male as...

Have had intermittent battles with BBA over the almost two years. Usually it's cleared up by regular dosing of excel. Also, it sometimes rears its head when I get complacent with water changes. But in this case, it's a little different- I swapped fish from two tanks, actually lowering the...

It's been a while since my last post- I've just been super busy. That being said- we had some excitement in our 29g tank lately. That tank overgrows very easily, and is back in need of thinning. It is stocked with several varieties of plants and the following fish: 1 medium angelfish 5...

Thanks to the generosity of a board member, I got in a bunch of new plants. To make way, I have pulled a lot from my 55g tank. I have two small priority mail flat rate boxes packed and ready to address and send. Box 1: stuffed full of Water Wysteria. This has been super healthy. Box will be...

My new GH & KH test kit came in today... and boy were my eyes opened! TAP WATER: GH = 1 degree KH = 1 degree (17.9 ppm or less) 29g TANK: GH = 6 degrees (107.4ppm) KH = 5 degrees (89.5ppm) 55g TANK: GH = 21 degrees (off the chart included in the kit) - I tested 2X to be sure! KH = 6 degrees...

So, the tank is a standard 55g, Odysea 3-bulbe T5 HO fixture. CO2 setup is a 20lb bottle, Hydor Regulator and glass bubble counter, and a Hydor Turbo Co2 Diffuser (apparently they don't sell/market them here in the US - I got mine as part of a package deal from an individual). Anyway - if I...

A buddy of mine who recently got back in to freshwater aquariums (in the last 8 months or so), and who I have finally put on the right track as far as plants are concerned has a problem related to pH. He has a 20g long at home that he has a fairly fine gravel bottom to, fake driftwood, and some...

Well- a pair of assassin snails have been tied up for almost 4 days. We're just laying in sand in essentially the same spot until this morning. Now on glass and moving- still "locked up"... I've had assassins tie up before... Indeed had a "hatch" of them in our other tank (about 5 new...

Hadn't even thought of posting these pictures, but stumbled back across them and, since I hadn't found an ID yet, thought I would throw them on here and see what you kind folks could ponder through... I went to Guatemala on mission trips in Summer of 2005 and 2006. After that first trip...

Ok. So this tank has been to Hades and is finally on its way back. The "history": This tank has been VERY heavily planted for a while now (there are pictures floating in a few threads here of it). Then we saw death of our young veil angelfish by camallanus worms. Tried two different...

So- at what point does a planted tank cross into "heavily planted? Does this qualify?

His pair of angelfish have always had a voracious appetite. Two weeks ago, I noticed one of the two was not eating as well, although the tankmate seemed unaffected. But in the last couple of days, they both have essentially stopped eating. Here is the kicker- about the time of the first...

So when the more mature leaves on my amazons began to look like this, I cut back all that were looked rough, added some more root tabs (they were due anyway). Now the formerly non-shredded leaves are looking bad, and while there are beautiful green newer-growth leaves coming on and all the...

K- major trimming this evening. I have several stems of Ludwigia Ripens, another batch Water Sprite, and a hefty bit of Water Wisteria. Descriptions/Prices as follows: Ludwigia: one portion = 2-3 stems at least 10 inches long each. As much as I can safely stuff in a small flat-rate box: $12...

Water Sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides) Decent portions at $3 each. Shipping for whatever I can safely stuff in a small priority flat rate box will be $6. I don't know if I can fit more than 3 portions in the small flat rate box, so I will give a dollar discount for each additional...

So I stumbled on a deal on a bit of baby tears a couple of weeks ago. Oddly enough, in contrast to how I normally see it (usually in pots), this was attached to a bit of volcanic rock. I'm puzzled as the best way to get this rooted in my sand. I'm leery of "ripping" I from the rock it is on. I...

Back when we set up the 29G, I wondered (and may have even posted here) about the confusion over the pH of the water in the tank. I had been noticing that the Apple Snails' shells were eroding away - yet the pH was testing rather high. I thought that odd. At the time, the Aquarium water was...

OK - I posted a couple of months back about the opportunity to purchase a Hdor CO2 Green NRG Advanced setup. I finally rubbed enough nickels together to make the buy today and ended up with a couple of surprises: #1 - Tank is empty (main tank valve was wide-open). #2 - no instruction manual of...

Ok- in the last few days, the little white "things" showed up on my driftwood. The driftwood was collected from a stream several months ago, spent well over a month "aging" in the hot summer sun in the back if my truck (100+ degrees every day). When we set up this tank a month ago, I boiled...

We really want to have a group of angelfish in the 55g tank. Currently we have one (see picture). In the previous tank (29g) he was a thug- got worse when the tank go so overgrown with plants. He knocked off two previous angelfish tankmates in that tank (both were slightly smaller). I have...

I found a used AquaClear 200/50 on the cheap in good shape. BUT it doesn't have any media with it (not that I would want someone's used media anyway). Having never owned an AquaClear, I'm looking for some advice on setting it up for one of my aquariums (freshwater, heavily planted). I know...

Have read various posts and threads here and elsewhere with hints, bits, and pieces about lighting that includes actinics over freshwater planted tanks, but no definitive answers- Just ordered a 48" T5 HO that has three tubes- 2 10k and one actinic. Having seen similar lights before, I like the...

Well, some know that we had been hoping to upgrade to a larger tank from our 29g tank. Budgetary reality, and several deals that fell through left us with nothing. Then along comes a Craigslist ad last week- for a 55g tank that the owner had for their fat-tail gecko. The tank just wouldn't...

I've been rather busy, and had hoped to have a new/bigger tank by now (best laid plans...). So I thing things are a bit overgrown... Also- I have a java fern that has looked absolutely terrible for months--- but I haven't been willing to get rid of it. See picture to see why- it is the most...