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You found a FIELD of bamboo in Virginia???

I hope you had fun in Vegas! Right now my 37 gal is at a standstill. I've been searching forever for some blue kerri tetras to fill it out, but I can't find them anywhere :( It's hard to find fish for my tank because it has a lot of water movement and it's lower temp. I'm glad you liked the...

Wayne how are your RCS coming? One of mine is pregnant! I saw her doing that weird thing where she kicks her legs, and saw some orange eggs inside her. I don't know if she can have unfertilized eggs. Right now I'm pretty sure all my tetras will eat any eggs she lays, but it's pretty exciting...

I haven't gotten into SW yet. (Too expensive.)

Anytime! It was great talking to you two, but I have to hit the hay. Goodnight!

OK Azalea Aquariums was the place with the mean employees and owners. Their selection seemed ok, but again the prices were scary.

I saw some horrible places in Richmond when I made the trip. I wish I could remember the names. I went to two places that were really really cramped. In one of them they had a gigantic pleco in this very small tank. The poor thing could not even turn around. In another the employees were...

No, not at all. The closest one around that is semi passable is that Care A Lot in NN. The Petsmart people here mean well, but they are very uninformed. One employee is super nice and helpful though.

No, I'm not that patient, haha. I ended up dumping the whole tank out (horrible, I know) and scrubbing the glass and replacing all the ornaments and gravel. I didn't replace the filter, but I didn't have any fish in there at the time anyway so it worked out. I'm still paranoid that the pond...

I'm in Williamsburg, BTW.

Same here!! It's nice to find Hampton Roads fish enthusiasts. I was feeling a little lonely here for a while.

http://fish-tank-filters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/snails-in-fish-tank-pond-snail.jpg This is what it looks like

No, they are rounded. I have the Malasian Trumpet Snails in the other tank, but they don't reproduce as often as these pond ones. I can never see their eggs, and every time I fish one out of the tank it has inevitably been crushed by my attempts to get it out, which means its egg sac has been...

Are they still open? I think when I tried to call their phone number, I got that no longer in service message.

I have planted tanks but I'm no expert. I just bought some of those plants that come in tubes at Petsmart. So far I have some Kyoto (sp?) grass, some anubias, and some other ones that I don't recall the names of. I also have some watersprite that I bought from Animal Jungle. My betta loves...

Yeah, they are in the middlemost tropical fish aisle in the small tanks. But I think boycotting is admirable, especially after all of our negative experiences. Let me know how the aquabid route goes. I've bought five fish off aquabid sellers and haven't had a bad experience yet.

Deckape - Animal Jungle has them, but they are RIDICULOUSLY expensive. I think it was $6/shrimp. I bought four, and one died immediately when I brought them home.

I was disgusted the other day. I showed up asking for assassin snails to control my pest snail problem in my tiny 5g tank. The FISH DEPARTMENT MANAGER (I think his name was Edward or Edgar) suggested that I buy a clown loach for my 5g. When I asked him if the loach would grow too big, he...

I've got a HUGE infestation of those awful pond snails. I've tried many things and they just seem to keep coming back. I've heard that assassin snails eat the pond snails, and that sounds awesome. If you live in the Hampton Roads area, I can meet you at a fish store in the area and pay you...

They were rinsed off, not boiled or vinegar tested. I bought them from PetCo so chances are they are just cheap. Does anyone know a place I can purchase good rocks for the aquarium? I definitely need them to keep my 6 hillstreams happy.

I bought some black smooth rocks at Petco after I read that my Hillstream loaches enjoy sitting on rocks. (I live in an urban area with no streams. I suppose I could have gone rock hunting but oh well.) I have just noticed something odd going on with one of the rocks. It looks like it's...

Huh, I guess that's a lot better than injections. Now that I think about it, it would be pretty impractical to inject every single fish. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, but I do admit they are pretty fascinating to watch. I learned my lesson not to hang on to that tiny tank though...

I had three glofish in my old 5 gallon tank. They seemed fine, until I examined one closely and found that it had gotten misshapen. I researched glofish and found out that their colors are not naturally occurring. A company injects each fish (which starts out as a zebra danio) with a type of...

Hi everyone! I'm Vanessa and I only recently became an aquarium hobbyist in the past year. Right now I have a new 37 gallon marineland tank that currently houses 4 reticulated hillstream loaches, 5 pristella tetras, 2 butterfly hillstream loaches, 6 RCS and probably a billion MTS. Later on I...

I haven't found any other LFS in the Hampton Roads area that even comes close to rivaling Animal Jungle's selection, quality and customer service. I have only really had one negative experience there, when a young female employee gave me a blank look when I asked her to get me some pennywort...