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Thinking about setting up a new tank, but a little short on space. Any recommendations for stocking a 20-gallon long SE Asia biotope? Tank will be fairly densely planted, and will feature natural driftwood, looking for livestock suggestions...any ideas?

Came home from work yesterday and found this...

I finally have the extra cash to fill out my schools, but now I have a small concern: the fish in my tank are pretty much full-grown, and all the fish I see in my lfs are small juveniles...would there be any bullying issues for adding the smaller ones to the school? I know adding smaller...

I have a cardinal tetra with what looks like a pimple at the base of the anal fin...started as a raised red lump, but now it has turned white and I have no idea what it is...he's still behaving normally, he sticks with the school and is still eating well. He's in a 55 gallon Amazon biotope with...

Just added another HOB filter to my 55, now running two tetra Whisper 60's for a total of 660 gpm, my question is this...seeing as the tank is an Amazon Biotope, and most of the fish in the tank are most comfortable in soft, slightly acidic water, would it do any harm if I run one of the filters...

just got my centerpiece driftwood in, and I plan an revamping the tank to better emphasize it...and I've also noticed some barbel erosion on mo cory's, so I'm likely swapping my current pea gravel/laterite substrate for Flourite black sand...so my question is this: what would be the best way to...

My cory's were acting wierd this morning, and I believe I just figured out why...only problem is they're in a community tank, so I don't know how well they'll do...

looking to add a few pieces of driftwood to my Amazon biotope tank. Will need pics, as I'm really looking for specific shapes. Thanks in advance for any help.

Just got this guy, and I really like him :-)

As many of you know, I've been working on an Amazon biotope tank, and I've been having difficulty finding the correct plants. Most of them are biotope correct (Cabomba [green and purple], tropical hornwort[introduced], bacopa,anacharis, duckweed and swords), but I've been forced to add a few...

I really need to upgrade the lighting on my 55 gallon planted Amazon biotope, but seeing as it's winter in the northeast and I have to account for heating bills, my budget is very limited...so I was wondering if anyone has ever tried these, as they seem to put out a lot of light and are well...

looking to buy some bunched aquarium plants, specifically Myriophyllum, Ambulia, Cabomba, and Hornwort. None of the local shops carry these, and I don't really feel like paying $30 for shipping. any help would be appreciated...thanks in advance.

Just added 4 julii cory's to the tank on Thursday...they were drip acclimated and appeared to be doing fine for the first two days,but this morning I found one dead, and another is acting very lethargic and swimming with it's head down. My parameters are fine (0-0-20) and the other fish seem...

I have a cardinal tetra that has a few white spots on the dorsal and caudal fin, so I suspect ich, and the tank is stocked, planted and cycled, so I have fears about meds, but I've heard that raising the water temp to 86F for a few weeks should kill the ich parasites. Is this true? also, I've...

Looking for a few bunches of hornwort for a current tank project, as well as a few new API test tubes (with the 5ml line), I broke one of mine and can't seem to find a replacement.

what could cause a sudden ammonia rise in a cycled tank? I've been getting steady 0,0,10 readings for the last 2 weeks, but this morning I got a .5 ppm ammo reading? Just did a 70% pwc, have not added any fish in the last week, have been stocking slowly (3-4 fish per week), feeding lightly (a...

Been working on an Amazon Biotope aquarium, with live plants, and need to try to get my pH down between 6.5-6.8 (I'm currently at 7.6), what would your recommendations be, and seeing as there are already a few fish in it, I assume I'd have to add it gradually with pwc's, right?

I just added six more cardinals to my school, and four of them seem fine but two have white spots on their caudal and anal fins and are significantly lighter in color than the others...any ideas what it is and how to treat it without destroying my nitrogen cycle (I don't currently have a...

I've been testing my water daily, and have been getting a consistent .25 ppm ammo reading. Seeing as everything indicated the tank was cycled (nitrites were back down to zero and nitrates are between 10-20 ppm), i tested my tap water, a bottle of spring water and distilled water, and all of them...

My parameters were holding steady for about a week, 0 ppm ammo, 0 ppm nitrItes, 10-40 ppm nitrAtes, but after adding a few (3) fish, now I'm getting ammonia readings again (.25 to .5 ppm), is this a mini cycle or does my biological filter just need a bit to adapt to the increased bioload from...

Just added a trio of Oto's to my Amazon Biotope to keep algae in check, and have encountered a few issues: They have already removed what little algae I had, and will not touch the algae wafers... As soon as I turn the lights off, they begin chasing my Cardinals around the tank. Questions are...

I believe that my water is a little too hard and the pH is a little too high...I have had a small school of Cardinal Tetras in there for two weeks now and they seem to be doing fine, but I've read that without soft, acidic water their life expectancy is shortened. I've been thinking about adding...

Well, my cardinals have been in the aquarium for 3 days now, and I just performed a PWC. when I tested the water, my nitrites were at .5 ppm, and I've heard that cardinals are sensitive to nitrites, so what is the best way to bring them down?

Would this list be overstocked for a 55 gallon aquarium? I'm looking at the following: 6 Neon or Cardinal tetras (Cardinals are a little scarce around here...) 2 Bolivian Rams 6 Serpae Tetras 3 Angels 3 otocinclus cats 4 peppered cory's 5 Silver hatchets

Looking to set up an Amazon biotope planted aquarium in a 55 gallon aquarium I've had in the attic for the last few years, and I believe the stock lighting wouldn't be enough for sufficient plant growth. Is there anyone that sells a lighting upgrade that will fit the standard hood, or does...