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Alright so I have a pretty densely planted 28 gal, that has just been pretty much stripped of fish due to my friend starting her 55 gal and giving my pictus and upside down cats a better home. Anyway, I'm left with a trio of sword tails and one male betta. I was thinking of going with smaller...

So where do I start?? After four months of "maybe later" and "soon" I've given up on my dreams of a 150 gallon frontosa tank. For now. Anyhow I've chosen to focus on a completely new path in the aquarium hobby: nano reef keeping. My mom loves my freshwater tank but thinks its too dull to keep in...

Alright so I've gotten bored of my kribs( and my friend has been wanting a pair for ages). So I have decided to convert their tank to a fbn/fbt tank. I currently have a aquaclear 30 on the tank and plan on using it for the new enclosure. Has anyone ever made an extension for the intake? If so...

Well, I'm not going to say that I wasn't warned. My lone male convict went on a killing spree last night in my tank. :'( he killed all three of my bn plecs, an upside down catfish and two swordtails. This arrangement was only supposed to be for about a week or so to give me time to find him a...

Alright so, I just got news that I will in the near future, be able to set up a large (by my standards) aquarium of about 125-150 gallons. This will be my first REAL large tank and I am quite excited. So far I know that I am definitely going to be putting cichlids in this tank, and have narrowed...

Alright, so I'm not sure if this is in the right forum, I apologize if it isn't. Anyway, a few days ago I decided that I wanted to switch my white sand to black as I think it would look better. Now that I've found the substrate that I'm going to use (black crushed granite grit), I'm wondering...

Alright so today I picked up some juvie Bn plecos. They're about an inch long, still fry by any means. Anyway I would just like to say that these guys are troopers. The person who I got them from gave them to me in a glass jar. Long story short, whilst walking home the jar fell out of my bag and...

So earlier today my mom bought a Betta with the intent to keep it in a tiny Betta bowl. With my having two aquariums I couldn't let that happen. After putting him in my 20 gallon he looked so happy and I've never seen a Betta be so active. This got me thinking. How did the practice of keepin...

Alright so my mom bought a beautiful Betta today and wants to stick it in a bowl. I cannot stomach this as I have two running aquariums. So here are my options. Move my male convict to my 28 gallon and leave the BETTA with the fry. The 28 has kribs, pictus, and sword tails. Or put the Betta in...

Ok, so I would like to rescue some baby bn plecos (about an inch long) that my friend has and isn't taking care of properly. Right now I have room in my convict tank with a 3 in male convict and his fry. Would this be ok with them being so little? There are lots of nooks and crannies but I...

Alright so after a massive shop a thon in Fargo, redecorated my two aquariums. Now, I'm looking for some more plants to put in them and I'm not too sure what to get. In my 28 gal I just have some amazon sword along the back and some floating honwort. I would like to add some more plants as I...

Ok so I have a pair of 7 month old convict cichlids that have been caring for their first batch of fry. Everything had been going fine until today when I noticed the parents fighting. Now my male is caring for the fry by himself while the female floats in the corner looking ill. I'm quite...

Alright so I bought a trio of swordtails last week to add to my 25 gallon. The tank has been established for almost 2 years and the water parameters are all in check. Well the past couple of days I noticed that one of my female swordtails has started hanging around one spot of the tank and has...

So my friend just re set up her 25 gallon tank and asked me to help her stock the thing. She really wants Malawi cichlids even though I've told her that the tank is too small to house them properly in my opinion. I'm not really familiar with African cichlids as I tend to keep mostly south...