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Does anyone have any experience with putting quartz crystals in your planted tanks? I know that there is research on how it purifies the water... Just want to wait a couple weeks with the Fluval before putting anything live (other than plants) in there, to make sure the plants are well...

Meh. I broke down and bought a Fluval Spec III for my office space. Now I'm just sitting here looking at it, trying to figure out what to put in there. Since it does come with an LED light, I thought I'd ask the peanut gallery if that would still be considered "low-light" or would I be able to...

My 5.5G Walstad planted is doing great so far. I picked up 12 RCS from one of the fish specific stores in my area. Lucky enough, they just bought a bunch of shrimp the day I was looking for them! I got a deal by taking the whole tank. I might want to pick up the Yellow Neo's too, as long as...

Ohhh man. Okay. I decided to try building a planted tank for my 5.5 G, as it was just sitting around, and having a successful planted tank was a goal for me! I decided the Walstad method was the way to, and that I would use play sand as the top substrate. I, like most people, greatly...

Alright, a while ago... I had a project going there I wanted to do a vase or a bowl of plants and add a couple ghost shrimp. Well, that only lasted a couple days... unfortunately, it must have got too cold in my apartment for the shrimpies :( Also, I think I may have done it wrong. I have a few...

Hi, I was just curious if anyone has ever tried to help with fish conservation or restoration with species in their local area? I've recently run across this idea and it has piqued some interest in me. For starters, I have emailed my state's DNR representatives and asked them for...

In an earlier post I made, I asked you guys about small planted "bowls" to house a couple small animals. Well, I had set up a small terrarium instead but now since have torn that down - it must have got too "cold" for summery type plants in the open air. Tonight I decided to pick up a couple...

I have a tiger barb, one of the 3 in the group I've taken in. She came in with a gimpy couple of fins which made it hard for her to swim properly, so she wasn't doing the best to begin with. Recently I noticed that her fins look to be chewed on, little pieces taken out... then today I saw that...

Alrighty, I couldn't help myself. I went to a country fair and saw a bunch of people carrying around common goldfish in bags. I told my boyfriend, okay... I'm going to give at least ONE of these little guys a chance to live in a big tank. So I ended up wasting 3 dollars on the game before...

Well, I'm considering a new project. We just got a nice little stand, put it right next to the big tank and it looks a little bare. Definitely needs something green there! I was thinking about a terrarium of some sort, but now I'm thinking it might be nice to set up a small planted tank there...

I decided to take some pics to show some of the fish I got from my grandpa, as well as some new ones. Many of them have damaged fins or bodies, or look old and decrepit. Not sure if it was damage from when they lived in his tank, or just wear and tear. First here's a shot of the tank I got...

Alright, I wanted to introduce fish very slowly into my tank, even though it's already been cycled. But my grandfather basically told me I had to take them all at once because he was taking his tank down that day, and didn't really care much for the risk. The fish have been in the tank for most...

Alright, as I said in my introduction I'm doing a fishless cycle to ready a tank for fish existing in another tank (it's old an beat up, wanted something new with a stand). Ive been running the process for a week now, and I'm happy to see some results finally, though far from over. But I've...

Hello, my name is Heather, I'm in college majoring in graphic design, graduating next year. Currently own fish, a leopard gecko, and my boyfriend's corgi, who really rather own us ;) I decided to join a forum to learn more about fish keeping, and this one seemed the most fun. I work at a...