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Most of them have a favorite area near the back of the tank where they like to hang out but there is one loner who is usually anywhere but with the rest of them. They all like the cover from the hornwort.

Thanks. I added some hornwort from one of my other tanks a few days ago. It wasn't a big piece but that stuff grows really fast so it will be covering much of the top of the tank in no time and will still allow enough light for the other plants in the tank.

My wife is one of the people who would dump animals or not learn anything about how to care for them. Until she lived with me she thought fish in aquaiums only lived for about six months because thats all hers ever lived for. She has taken in a cat and a dog then got rid of both of them when...

I have used a few rocks from the yard in my tank. I would avoid sandstone because it can break down over time and porus rocks in general would be hard to clean.

I recently put 5 glass catfish in a tank with live plants and a single bulb floresent light. The catfish hide out near the bottom of the tank when the light is on but will swim around when it's off. If I don't ever have the light on the fish might be happier but the plants will eventually die...

Fish bowls and betta vases are still being sold too so there is bad conditions for fish in some stores and all the equipment a person needs to contionue keeping fish in bad conditions at home. Many people will keep fish in conditions like that and think if the fish lives for a few months that's...

I use a digital cooking thermometer. For my big tank I fill buckets with 3 gallons of cold water and then add a gallon of hot and it's usually witin a few degrees of the tank. If it's off I let it sit for several hours, my big tank is a goldfish tank and is usually at or just above room temp...

I have been having issues with the PH (8.4 today) of my tap water for a while and today I decided to check ammonia 1ppm nitrite 0ppm and nitrate 10ppm. I was really suprised by the ammonia. Both my tanks have 0ppm ammonia. I wanted to hear if anyone else is checking their tap water and if...

I just got home from spending three weeks with family and tested my water before doing water changes. The PH in my 10 gallon tank was 6.6 but my tap water is all the way up to 8.4. Ammonia 0ppm Nitrite 0ppm but my nitrate is 100+ so I need to do some water changes but I'm afraid to use my tap...

I tested my water a few nights ago and Ammonia was a little high in the tetra tank .25ppm. I did a water change yesterday and this morning all my fish were dead or dieing the only change I found was the ph is high. Could this be the cause. I have a 10 gallon tank that has had tetras in it for...

Ramshorn snails stay small but are able to breed asexually and the eggs are so small you can't see them. I found them in my tank just after buying new plants. My wife hates them but I don't mind them. Mystery snails do require both a male and female to breed but the female is able to store...

I have Java fern, hornwort, anubius nana and some type of crypt. The plants are all doing very well with no CO2. The lignting is nothing fancy just a single bulb for plant growth in the hood. I put in some liquid fertalizer once in a while but I don't think the plants even need it. I started...

I have ghost shimp, kuhli loaches and both ramshorn and mystery snails and everything gets along fine. You may have got some more aggressive kind of shrimp. The ramshorn snails were a hitch hiker on plants though so I wouldn't mind if something did eat a few of them.

H have mystery snails and ghost shrimp and they get along fine. If one of the shrimp dies the snails will eat the dead one but they leave the live ones alone. I have even seen the shrimp riding on the back of a snail before. I have a well planted aquarium with a lot of java fern and some...

I had a betta with corys, kuhli loaches, ghost shrimp and snails and everything got along. I don't know about the rest of the fish you were thinking about though.

Thanks for the advice. I just followed the instructions on the filter. It is an underpowered filter for the tank size. It's for a 3 gallon tank but when I had a larger filter it moved to much water and the betta didn't like it. There is not enough room in the filter for two pads though so...

Nitrates and Nitrites were both 0 and I'm not completly sure about amonia because my test strips have expired and are reading high but the read the same when testing plain tap water so I think the strips just went bad. I was doing 40% water changes about every two weeks but in the month before...

I have a 10 gallon tank and my betta recently died suddenly and everything else in the tank is fine. The water had turned a little brown and I think it was from not vacuming the gravel well when doing water changes but I tested the water and everything looked good. The betta had been in the tank...

I posted to say hello and ask about my betta that recently died a few days ago but my post never showed up so I'm trying again. Hello everyone I have a 10 gallon tank and my betta recently died suddenly everything else in the tank is fine. The water had turned a little brown and I think...