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Everything was going fine, until... I tried to clean out my filter media so the filter would work better instead of buying a new one AND I did a deep clean on the gravel. I now have cloudy water for the first time ever. Yesterday I read that was a no-no ( doing both of those together)...

After going from cycling the tank with one lone bluegill, to around 20 tropical fish ( platys, neon tetras and corys) I'm wanting to make sure I do not: 1. overfeed them. 2. underfeed the corys I see some of the flakes make it to the bottom, but I'm not sure it's enough for 4 corys. today I...

Well, he may be racist. ;) I've got 4 males and 6 females, but the only female my male Mickey Platy is interested in is the one other Mickey. Will he not breed with the sunburst or wags? Should I get rid of him to make the ratio better? The female Mickey obviously has a headache, but he's still...

After reading about so many folks' horrible experiences with cycling their tanks, I thought I'd share the way I did it. Now, this isn't going to be for everyone, but I promise you it's the easiest cycle you'll ever experience - unless mine was just a fluke, in which case, forget you ever read...

Well, I've learned a few lessons in addition to general aquarium stuff: 1. Bream are mean, nasty little snots. 2. Although seen together in the wild, put two of them together in a 20 gal tank and they are not happy. The bigger one will ALWAYS bully the smaller fish until it dies. 3. They eat...

....trying to swim out of the aquarium? Right now, two days in - they are spending about 40% of their time "feeling out" the corners. I'm not too worried about it, and I'm not sure the same time frame will apply for these bream as it would for tank-bred fish...but anyone have an idea of how long...

They're adjusting quickly to their new home I think. Lots of exploring today and much calmer than day 1. OK, so that may be the same fish, but you get the idea. It's going to take me some time to tell them apart I think. :)

I told myself I knew what I was doing. LOL Last night I acquired three tiny pumpkinseed bream for my native aquarium. They were naturally a little freaked out by the experience, even though we tried to explain to them that they would no longer have to fear being eaten by a bass. Apparently...

Name the coolest (non-animal) thing you've ever seen in an aquarium. I have 25 pounds of pebbles, 20 gallons of water, 25 or so smooth black stones - but the tank needs something to give it come character. I'm going to add a fake plant maybe or a rock "bridge" so the fish have somewhere to...

So I'm going to run a native fish aquarium - probably just a couple of bluegill and the occasional crayfish which I expect the gills to take care of sooner or later. Anyway, I'm reading all about cycling and that sort of thing here and elsewhere and the chlorine problem, etc. Since I'll be...

Hello fellow fish-heads. :) I'm a bit of a contrast I suppose - a fly fisherman who also likes to play fish-keeper. My last aquarium was 20 years ago and I had no idea what I was doing. Despite that, I kept a couple of native fish for almost a year, until we had to move and sell the tank along...