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If you want something with high CEC, go for this: Moltan 7941 Montmorillonite Clay Absorbant, 40 lb Or the less desriable Oil Dri, available at Walmart. I highly recommend the safe t sorb. The Oil Dri is VERY VERY dusty and needs a TON of rinsing. Of course, if you don't mind it works...

If it falls apart, NO. Kitty Litter is usually used as the cap, not for the under layer. If you are using it thinking you will get iron from it, you wont. If you want iron, use RED pottery clay. NOT dyed. Make oscmocote root tabs with it. Just use the blasting sand. Or, use soil, make a...

:O All I have are apple snails, and I know what their clutches look like! What on earth could have laid that!

Hey guys, Was doing a water change today, and noticed this on the glass of my tank. What it is! I thought it was trapped bubbles at first, but when the water drained, it stayed and looks really weird. Inside Glass: Outside Glass: It doesn't appear to move, but is it something living?

Fungus growth seems to be spreading even with Furan-2 treatment and a salt dip. My frog is probably in so much pain right now I don't know what to do :(

As an update, my frog is in rough shape. Physically he looks terrible: almost all the skin on his face rotted and fell off, you can see several layers of skin down. One of his eyes I think was injured, and I'm now hes now blind in it. Its cloudy and ragged looking. The other side of his...

Hey all, I'm not sure what happen to my frog, but I think he tore his face up pretty bad trying to dig under a rock I had in there. I've since removed it. However, one side of his face is pretty mangled. Should I treat the water with some antibiotics? I have Erythromycin andFuran-2 at my...

Usually charcoal and plants do not mix. Charcoal is a chemical filter, which will take out any chemicals you may use, be that medications or some fertilizers.

Hey all, I wanted to get some current into my tank for my plants. I have a 25g tank, with 3 species of tetra (black skirt, bleeding heart, serpae), some cory paleatus, and a blue ram. I ordered a 240gph nano hydor koralia. Do you all think that this amount of current will be ok? I Had a...

Well my fears were true. It is columnaris. I woke this morning to see his lips being huge, white, and covered in fuzz. I immediately removed him from the main tank and put him in another container with some air. I treated the water and added some salt and copper safe for secondary...

I'm very concerned that its something like columnaris or a type of fungus. Hes not eating, hanging near the top of the tank (not like him). What should I do? Should I add some salt to my tank? I have Melafix as well. I can't really quarantine him to a hospital tank. I have extra tanks, but...

I'm hoping it's just a small injury as well. I just did around a 30% water change so hopefully he will be ok Is there a possibility it could be a fungus or other type of growth?

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I woke up this morning, fed my tank and noticed one of my rams had a white spot on his lip. This was NOT there last night during feeding. I took some pictures as best I could: Heres a before picture: What exactly is this? What should I do to treat it. Thank you!!!

I simply spread it around and removed any big pieces I saw. I didn't mineralized it.

Hello all, I've recently set up my first dirted tank. Here are some quick stats: Tank: 25 gallons 19" height Lighting: 2 dual bulb t5 fixtures Substrate: expert gardener potting mix capped with safe t sorb PH: 7.6 KH: 5d GH: 5d Now to the issues. I'm not seeing any new growths for the most...

My African Clawed Frog had been housed with my betta for a while until I got him his own tank. He's now in his own tank, but the betta tank was kept at 78F. Now, I moved him to the new tank, which was reaching up to 80F. So, I began cooling it with a fan, which has brought it down to around...

Well, he didn't make it. I never found out what he was suffering from, but he was in very poor condition when I got him. I kept the water parameters in a good range, and added some cuttlebone, but it didn't help. Today, I found him out of his shell :| My other snail is still perfectly fine...

You will never be 100% certain, but if it was me, I would take extra precautions and do everything suggested at least once. I like the idea of soaking it in water with double dechlor. Water is the key to removing toxins through dilution. Having the dechlor absorb into the rocks would make me...

Soon after writing this, I noticed he went from sitting near the water line to floating around for a while. Now he's back on the bottom but still closed up. I have a large piece of cuttlebone that's for parrots. What should I do with it?

Hey all, I was at the LFS, and saw a miserable looking blue mystery snail. His shell looks very brittle, and even may have chipped/broken off a piece on the front rim, since instead of being a smooth opening, it is jagged. He is a very pale/white blue color, and the normal black skin, but I...

Gravel vacuum once a week... Swirl the vacuum above the sand.

Get some driftwood, cholla wood and anything else for him to chew on that can double as decor.

Its the sand. You should have added all the sand, then filled the tank with as little disturbance as possible, using a dish or something like that to break the force of the water entering the tank. Its not a big deal though, it will settle. If you are REALLY worried, you can see if you can...

Yeah its being cycled, but I've seeded it with some filter squeezings. Cycled or not, I need to get the thing stable enough to do a fish-in cycle, because my ACF needs a place to live.