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^ Good thinking lynda I didn't think about plants :/

You have 0 nitrates? This could be an indicator your tank isn't fully cycled. Are you using a liquid test kit?

What are the parameters of the tank? (Ammo/nirtrite/nitrate) is it possible something has gotten into the water?

Your two year old tries to get the fish to play his new game on your smart phone, and the fish gather around cause they know kid= feeding time :) You invented a specific shaky shaky song to shake up the nitrate bottle, and sing it even when your kid isn't around

When every night you lay down to go to sleep, you think of how you would arrange a new tank and end up awake for hours planning the perfect placement of everything.

Ahahahaha.....the poop worked. I told her noone wanted to eat with fish pooping in a bowl at the table! She said ewwww you're right, colored marbles it is.

My cherries try to nip my tetras if they come in "their" territory, but leave my bigger fish alone.

I don't want to take her head completely off! :) rofl

I think if I can't convince her to not do it at all i'll try them in the tank, if that doesn't work i'll talk to my lfs see if they'll adopt them. I did try slapping her in the head, you know the "mark harmon", didn't seem to knock any sense into her though.

Yeah I have a 20 long but it has guppies in it.

I think we're looking at 7 bettas, I recently bought a 125g, the occupants will be: 1 irridecent shark 1 silver dollar 3 rosy tetras (mistaken identity on my bfs part) 3 roberti/ornate tetras 2 cherry barbs 4 aggassizzi (sp?) Cory cats 1 pleco 5 madagascar rainbow fish (maybe) Could I still add...

I don't like the idea of "borrowing" them either. I want her to have what she wants on "her day", but not at the expense of living things. Does anyone have any info on female bettas in a community tank?

But then where would they go afterwards? I can't have anymore tanks, maybe if they were all female bettas could they go in my tank? I still am worried about the sunflowers.

Well the dog and cat could find their own way out ;)

My sister is getting married and her idea for a center piece is, a small vase/bowl with a sunflower in it, rocks at the bottom, and a betta or goldfish?!?!? Of course the fish lover in me burst out and voiced my opinion. So now I am way too eccentric and why did I have to ruin everything? Maybe...

When your hubby gets jealous and says "why don't you ask your fishy friends online?"

Marineland actually makes aquarium silicone, you can pick it up at your lfs I don't know about the stuff at home depot. Just a warning that stuff smells god awful. We just had to replace the plastic trim/bracing on our tank and let me tell you went straight past contact high right to headache.

I guess everyone is different, but seeing as how I am a smoker, I always scrub my hands and fingernails before putting them in the the tank or feeding my fish. Afterwards I just wash however much skin went into the water. Someone once told me bar soap has no sulfates (or sulfites?) so it rinses...

I am so brain dead some days I swear, I can just run the new filter on my 55g until I get the 125 set up duh!

I heard a plastic putty knife works to scrape the algae, I'll probably end up using a mild bleach solution to clean/disinfect the tank. My biggest thing is I am putting my old hob filter on and adding a new one, I dunno if this would be an instantly cycled tank or not.

Is the tank cycled? Did you recently add any new fish? Is the tank freshwater or brackish?

You used 5 tablespoons per gallon? Are there any white spots on the fish, or anythiing noticeable that would make it scratch?

You're doing fish in cycles? They can take longer than fishless because you have to keep the toxins down low enough not to hurt the fish. Also what kind of test kits are you using IMO/E the strips are very inaccurate, its best to go with the API master test kit. If you are showing nitrates your...

So I just purchased a used 125g tank, the guy emptied it today and it has quite a bit of algae and used for salt water. My questions are: How do I clean up the algae good? Is there anything special I need to clean it with since it was used for saltwater? I am upgrading my 55g, transferring over...

Also was wondering about firebirds, I'd like to have a good color combo too you know?