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Ranging from 12 months to 6 months (depending on the species)

Hi all, I am curious if you can give me input on optimizing my tank for viewing. I have a mix of guppies, female bettas, cory cats (about 18 of them) and neon tetras in my 55 gallon tank. There are lots of places to hide (it is well planted) which makes the more skitterish fish (read: cories and...

In plain laymans terms (I've gone through the guppy breeding thing myself), you look at two things - both are on the rear underside of the stomach. Young males develop a special fin (previous post refered to it as a gonopodium). It looks like a long stick that floats backwards below/behind...

Bettas and Guppies : Since they are so friendly, I simply waggle my finger at the top of the tank and put a cup in and they swim into it. Cory catfish: I use a net and another stick - usually my glass cleaner - place the net standing straight on the corner between glass and gravel in between...

Also remember that water needs to be changed once a week (with dechlorinators added), I typically replace 1 gallon of water per week per betta, if the container is larger than a gallon, then its a partial change of water.

Hi, just asking your advice on what to do with this panda cory. It appears to have whitish fuzz (fungus?) growing on the bottom half of its left side flipper. He doesn't seem to be much disturbed by it, was browsing around the tank like normal and swimming without difficulty... but its a big...

I would recommend taking the plant out of the vase at least while he is sick (and consider doing this permanently), and like above - change at least 50 percent of the water every few days (make sure you de-chlorinate it first). If you haven't been feeding him (a myth among people who keep...

Does anyone with an eclipse have advice on how to keep the lights from heating the tank into the low 90's f after a few hours? I have an eclipse 5 corner tank with some live plants and a female betta.. Need to have a light on at least 8 hrs a day because of that.

Nick, you might want to think things over more. If you don't have the money to pay for getting your own bettas, then you may not have enough money to supply the items needed to keep them healthy. Are you going to beg for someone to send you another fishtank, light, gravel, filter, heater when...

I currently have 2 large angelfish who were bought while small, and are now big enough to eat the school of neons. The angelfish ignore the neons completely.

I had two red tailed sharks in a 55 gallon tank after bad advice at the lfs. The more dominant one would chase the smaller one in circles around the tank. After a week, the smaller one turned gray, and his tail turned yellow (loosing color).. he was also starting to get a mild case of fin...

Hi :) Green water sounds a lot like algae growth in the tank. How long do you leave the lights on? If you have the lights on for more than about 8-12 hours, the algae will start growing a lot. For some reason, the algae doesn't seem to respond as much to light in lower amounts. You might want...

Anyone know the temperature differential to expect with those temperature stickers? Right now, I have mine stuck on the outside of the glass on my tanks (is this correct?) .. Just wondering if I should assume that the temperature inside the tanks is 2 degrees higher or anything. Is there a...

My sister has downs syndrome .. I don't know of any good way to childproof the tank, if your brother has similar temperment. The best way would be to actually deter them from going near the tank - even getting close would be "off limits", in whichever way your family teaches him that. The...

For the past month, I've been trying to breed pandas in my 10 gal tank. Although unsuccessful (all of the eggs went fungusy) .. our frequent scans of the tank water have shown very very small specks - about 1/10th the size of a cory egg, or 1/10th of a millimeter. They are whitish colored...

do you salt your tank?(a common ich remedy)? I've heard that cories don't do well with salt. Other than that, don't know... filter pull shouldent be strong enough to pull a cory off the ground to it imo, unless oversized.

i have 1 male (and beautiful) betta, 2 angels, 3 serpae tetras, 2 black tetras, 3 neons, 3 ottos, 2 bronze corys, and 6 panda corys in there,... are there any warnings or recommended products to use?

Update: last night I saw one of my tetras brush the sand at bottom of tank - almost digging a gouge through it. And multiple tetras gills are bloody red. I'm thinking gill flukes. planning to dose the tank tonight with anti-parasite. :0

You mention that one of your fish dissapeared: If it died in the tank or filter, and was rotting in there, that would cause an extremely high level of ammonia - which is like acid to fishes.

They all seem to be OK - at least not exhibiting any symptoms for the past few days. I spent about 10 minutes looking them over and I can't see any worms or anything - so I hope they are doing well. Thinking about dosing the tank for parasites anyways though.

Naw, 05, or below.. I have about 5 plants in there and they suck all the nitrates out real fast.

It stopped flipping. All fish look normal. Still curious though, has anyone seen this? Is this the same as "flashing" ?

I have about 8 corys in my community 55g. All water params are good... nitrate 5, amm 0, nitrite 0, ph 7.2, gh 8 drops to green (middling for fw) one of my panda corys was "flipping" a week ago when I introduced it... swimming browsing the bottom like normal - but every so often jerking in a...

I've heard that it is bad to have salt in tanks with Cory catfish - .. may want to check the forums on that search.