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Love the goby, the light, the coral and even the starfish! Looking good!

How's the tank doing?

A Nylon will work well.

My cycle is finished!!! Nitrates are high, ammonia and trites are finally zero. We are doing water changes, and once the nitrates are down we can put the Betta in? There's nothing else to do to cycle right?

Looks like I have some thinking to do on whether or not to keep him or rehome him. Thank you all for giving your advice!

What are the red plants in this tank?

I like it. I think it looks beautiful and I'd feel relaxed watching it. What do you have in it as far as your fish? How big is the tank?

The local fish store guy said it's an orange marmalade although he doesn't have any black spots or marks like ones I've seen online. I've looked online and seen that the "red zebra" cichlid looks very similar, even though it isn't red. It said captive ones look more orange than red. Lake...

I love that Coraline algae on your rock! It really makes that coral "pop". Keep testing your water. Be prepared to do water changes if the ammonia or nitrites start to spike. My dream is still to have a saltwater tank. One day I will have one... one day!

Well hopefully this attaches right. This is a week ago after we added the plants, lights, driftwood and lace rock. It's a lot cloudier today.

My daughter 10 gallon aquarium project! Fish out cycle and planning for this to be a Betta tank for her Betta and hoping we can add a few community fish. This will also be a planted tank.

Update: so ammonia is gone now, nitrites spiked to 5+ and now seem to be coming down slowly, and nitrates are so high it's crazy. Ph is good at 7.4. So do I leave the tank alone and let it do it's thing, or should I do a water change? I feel like leaving it alone should be fine, but I...

Hello! My daughter is in the process of setting up a 10 gallon tank (with a fluval 5-20gal HOB filter) for her betta who currently lives in a 1 or 2 gallon tank. We just got an LED plant light for it today. The cycle is going good I think- we started it at the end of January. We used a...

That's a good way to do it. Very little clouding and faster than how we did it. When my daughter put her substrate in, she rinsed it in a bucket really well then scooped it into a cup and lowered the cup into the tank and poured the sand/gravel mix directly onto the bottom of the tank. It...

I was keeping him by himself because I didn't want him fighting with other fish. I'd say he's a good 4 inches, if I added more fish I'm guessing it'd be best to add ones near the same size as he is? Do you think he will get bigger or is he about full grown? I've had him for probably 2-3...

I cleaned the tank tonight, it was due. Did a 4 gallon pwc. I added some carbon to the filter. Klaus seems to like the new arrangement. He's swimming around checking out his new layout. I do think he needs a different tank footprint, but until I get a new tank to fit him better this will...

Thanks for the ideas! He is able to go in a circle as it is, but it is less than interesting to look at. I used to have a 55 gal tank but I had to downsize and now regret that I gave it away. What size tank would you suggest for a single cichlid? Maybe I can look into getting him a new tank.

Here are some photos.

I'm just wondering if anyone can suggest how I can make my tank better. It's a 35 or 40 gal hexagon tank with one plant (anubias) some large rocks, pool filter sand substrate and an orange cichlid. There is also a mystery snail and some Malaysian trumpet snails. I have a fluval HOB filter...

It's a beautiful tank. I think your plan for a few more plants is nice. That filter will meet an early end if you don't fix the intake tube depth! Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

A small school of long fin danios. I have some long fin leopard danios in my 35 gallon and they are lovely and very active. I'm not an expert on stocking but you could maybe do 5 danios and 3 cories with some zebra nerite snails. The nerite snails lay eggs but the eggs need salt water to...

In regards to your tank, it is looking marvelous! With the rock and plants in you can move the heater down and it will be hidden. Also, as far as the filter intake tube, I believe you can take that center valve piece off, remove the bottom portion of the tube and put the intake pipe cover...

After I looked at it again, what if you swap the large rock and driftwood' places? The rock by the plant makes that side of the tank look "heavy", if that makes any sense. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

That little tank has so much potential! First off, I'd change the background. I really like a plain black background. It makes the actual things in the tank pop! It would be cool if you could get a handful or so of small white/tan stones to place around the bottom in little piles. I agree...