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I'm moving away from home to Santa Monica and am looking to start a new tank as my parents have grown to like the one i set up in our family room. i'm going to sell my tank to them so i can buy a new one. the old one is freshwater and i think i've pretty much got that one under control -...

hi guys, i'm about to move to LA and live in my own apartment for college. i have a 20 gallon freshwater planted tank going for about 2 years now and is VERY healthy and alive. well, i want to get into some reef and saltwater fish and was thinking about a 24 gallon aquapod with all of the...

hey everybody, ok, so i have a nice pond in my backyard that has many many many frogs and tadpoles in it. the tadpoles are growing legs now, and i was thinking about moving 2 or 3 into my 20 gallon fish tank stocked with live plants and a bunch of tetras. i keep the water around 78* and was...

hi everybody, i have had a planted 20 gallon tank set up for about 8 months now showing ammonia at 0, nitrates at 0 and nitrites at 0 around 78 degrees. i had about 5 cardinal tetras, 4 rummynosed tetras, and 10 glowlight tetras swimming around in my tank. we started loosing fish and thought...

hey everybody, i have a 6 gallon tank with 4 tiger barbs, a corry cat, a pleco, and an african cichlid. i do water changes about every 2 weeks but the nitrate never seems to rise at all. what could be causing this? ive tested it with the quick dip stuff, and also taken water samples to 2...

hey everybody, right now i have an albino corry, 2 tiger barbs, and a pleco in my 6 gallon tank. im thinking about some more tiger barbs, maybe like 3 more, but i want to know if there are some other cool agressive fish that i can get, maybe a shark??? just want some recomendations. thanks.

i have a 6 gallon eclipse system and the water temperature likes to chill at around 85*. the tank is right next to a window with about 70 degree air constantly moving through obove the tank. i have my heater set at 70 and its now unplugged. i have an incandescent light bulb, but i keep it on...

hey everybody, you might remember me from some posts i made a month ago regarding my 6 gallon eclipse system. well its almost cycled and i have had all my original fish die. so i went to teh lfs and bought an albino corry and 4 neon tetras. i would like to eventually plant my tank, but i hear...

hey guys, for my 6 gallon eclipse system would you guys reccomend fiddler crabs, bottom dwelling fish, or snails to clean up all the S#$% on the bottom of my tank? i think the fiddler crabs look sick and i def want one or two if you guys think theyre alright.

hey guys! im happy to say that i found a product out there called "cycle" that cycled my tank in 12 hours!!! after about 10 days of insane ammonia levels they are finally to normal and nitrites are good and all is awsome. but i think its time for more fishies!!! i have 2 platys and a molly...

hey guys, i just got a 6 gallon eclipse system up for about a week now. i have 3 regular sized small (bout 1.5 inches) mollies and platties and 21 babies. what do you guys think about sharks, i was at petco the other day, and i was looking at the like red tailed sharks or whatever. do you...

hey everybody, im just wondering how long my molly babies will take to get like to an inch and get some color. right now theyre like 1.5 cm and are either black or clear. and they came from a golden yellow gold dust molly. i want some color.

hey everybody, i have a 6 gallon tank with 4 small fish and 23 babies in it. one of my fishies has ich and i was told that raising the temp to 86*+ is one of the easiest ways to get rid of the disease. so i raised it to 88*F, and i need to know how much stress this temperature is going to put...

everybody, i have just noticed a problem with one of my fish. ive had my tank up for about 5 days now and on one of my fish (Ace) ive noticed a small piece of his tailfin missing and a whitespot on his right side, VERY SMALL white spot. i read something about ich and i think this might be what...

hey guys, once again, has anybody here tried Bio Spria??? i heard about it from somebody on these forums and i want to give it a try, but i want to know if it works. if i could finish the cycle in a week, that would be fricken insane. cuz i already have 27 fish in my 6 gallon tank. (many...

i have a new tank less than a week old, and i have 27 fishies in a 6 gal tank (many babies) and im worried about the ammonia levels becomming too high before the bacteria colony sets up. i got this stuff at petco that supposevly removes ammonia, chlorine, and chloramines, anybody know if this...

everybody, ive had my tank for 3 days now, in the first hour i had my 4 fish, one started having babies. so now i have 23 baby fishies all over my tank, but i only have regular fish food. how do i feed the babies and how fast will they polute a 6 gal tank?

howdy people, i just got my 6 gallon tank, and let the water circulate for about 3 days before i got my first fishes, i got 4 little dudes, because thats what petco told me to do, so i bought 3 mollies and a platty. well one of them had 23 little babies and so now i have 27 fish swimming...