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I've kept freshwater aquariums since I was a child, so for around 30+ years, and have never been able to keep plants alive! I was talking to the guy at the lfs, and he says the glass between my fluorescent bulb and the water is likely blocking out 50% of the light. Has anyone tried just removing...

I have a fake plant in one of my tanks that all the fish love to swim through. My betta even sleeps in it every night. I'm trying to get more, but can't find them anywhere. It is made out of thread/string instead of plastic. It kind of looks like a baby bottle brush, except it is very, very...

I just had to euthanize a couple of fish for the first time. I've had this 25 gallon tank for five years, and had to move it into another room recently. For some reason, the move seems to have caused one of my black skirt tetras to become a ruthless killer. In a matter of days he killed 6 zebra...

I had to move my aquarium, and when I caught one of my glow light tetras, his bottom fins got caught in the net. We tried to untangle him for about ten minutes, but never could. I ended up just cutting around him, and now he's swimming around with a chunk of net about half as big as his body...

My AMAZING husband bought me a new 25 gallon tank with a stand and heater and filter for Valentine's day! Am I the luckiest woman on earth or what! Due to my busy schedule I probably won't be able to set it up for at least a month. The filter he bought is this...

Hi Peeps, Has anybody used regular filter floss in an HOB filter? I've stopped using carbon in my filters, and I thought filter floss would remove more particles than the preformed pads for the filters. If you use it, do you just pack it in there? Do you put it in something? Have you had any...

I got back into fish keeping last April, and the first fish I bought was a black molly, Mrs. Weasley. She died today, I'm sad :( I think it was old age, she was the biggest molly I had ever seen, she was about three inches long. Everyone else in the tank seems fine, so I don't think it was a...

This morning when I checked the tanks, I noticed one end of my heater has fallen off and is sitting on the bottom of the tank. It's just a rubber thing, I've always assumed it's just to protect the heater and doesn't really contribute to its operation. Should I try to reattach it, or is it not a...

Is anyone else having problems with the android app today? It's telling me "permission denied ".

I have loads of fluffy green algae in one of my tanks, but don't really want anymore fish. I heard that amano shrimp and trumpet snails like algae, so I headed over to the lfs (we bought some new puppy stuff too, for the new puppy...yay!) anywho...they gave me ten trumpet snails free. They had...

My daughter and I were looking at the fish. The tanks actually looked good for once, they must have cleaned out the dead fish recently! But lots of fish were misplaced, a zebra danio in with the giant danios, a guppy in with the goldfish. So my daughter gets the stool and the net and starts to...

I have grapes growing in my backyard and would like to use the dead pruned vines in my tank. I never use pesticides of any type in my yard. I am getting mixed messages from research on the internet. Has anyone here actually put grapevine in their tank, and what were your results???

So I want to have a spare tank for hospital/quarantine purposes. I already have a spare 10 gallon tank, I just need a heater and filter. I also have two established 10 gallon tanks that have been running for 5 and 2 years. I thought if I got the same type of filter for the hospital tank as my...

Which do you prefer?

Hi guys, On Monday night I bought two pretty yellow male guppies to go in my guppy\molly tank. This morning, one of the new guppies was acting sluggish, and when I came home from work just now, it was dead. The other one has developed a solid black color on half of its dorsal fin. Other than...

So I bought a bunch of what I assume is wisteria, basically because it was just $2.99. It was floating in a tank of all kinds of junk, but I matched it up to their tubes of plants, and I'm 90% sure it's wisteria. It is in a bunch, twist tied together, without any roots. There's about 5 or 6...

Has anyone ever put a mini spiral bulb in a basic aquarium hood, and how did it work out?

Walmart and Petco should not be allowed to sell fiddler crabs. At Walmart they're stocked on the shelf like a box of crackers, and left to die. They're in little plastic tubs, and the dead ones are right there with them. I guess they don't practice 'first in, first out'. At petco, they throw...

I just spent four and a half hours on my tanks, switching out the gravel and fish, and everything seems to have gone okay. My twenty gallon now has beautiful new black gravel, 7 black skirt tetras, 5 zebra danios and King Harald, my dwarf gourami. I had my worries about King Harald adapting...

Hi Everyone, Years ago, when I kept fish, I used under gravel filters, because that's what came in the aquarium kits that I bought. I remember them being easy to use, and mostly maintenance free. Now, I have got back into fish keeping, and I use either internal filters or HOB, again because that...

A friend of mine from work just brought over a FREE 27 gallon hex tank!!! I'm pretty excited about it. The only strings attached were the three black mollies (which I gave him 6 months ago) and 7 black skirt tetras. Oh, and 5 million little snails. I hope they all survive the move (well, not the...

Hello, I've got a 10 gallon with way too many fish in it. One adult black molly, six of her half grown babies (that I'm trying to pawn off on people :o) ) and four zebra tetras. Anyway, I was changing some of the water, and when I plugged the filter back in, it wouldn't start. It's definitely...

Hi Everyone, I posted my introductory post this morning, but then lost internet, so I couldn’t post my question. So I got a 10 gallon fish tank given to me on Apr. 9th. My family talked me into putting fish in it the next day. I know I shouldn’t have done it, and I’m paying the price now...

Hi! I found your site because I just recently started an aquarium and have had some things go wrong. I'm sure that's how plenty of people end up here! I will post my questions when I find the appropriate thread. I live in a tiny town in Illinois of 300 people. I've been married 21 years, have...