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I've got a 13 gallon 'LED' tank at the office that I've had for two years. For about a month, the inhabitants were a 2yo Neon Tettra, Cosmic Blue GloFish Tetra, a male Betta. I've been trying to add a set of guppies (4 female and 1 male), but they keep dying on me. Not all at once. Usually...

There is some sort of yellow growth on my air tubing and parts of my heater. It is easy to wipe off, and comes off in flakes. What is this stuff?... and will it go away? I just migrated a betta from an old 1.5g tank to a new 13g tank. Pretty much everything is new except for the anuba...

I'm interested in building a whiskey barrel pond that would include an air stone to power a filter. But the position of the barrel is going to be far from the house, and the air pump is only rated for indoors. I figure I can build a long air tube out of mostly 1/2 PVC pipe. That way, I won't...

I have a Marineland Corner 5 tank at my office. It's been cycled for over two years. Primary occupants are a pair of male guppies and some MTS. It's planted mainly with Water Sprite but a few small anuba tossed in as well in a very fine sand substrait. The tank has an air stone and a 10 watt...

I'm looking for an education after a few posts like the following:

I have a 10g Tank lit with a 15W 5000K standard compact flouresent bulb. I've got some water sprite that just isn't growing the way it is in a 5g with a 10W 6500K cfl. So I need to find a way to increase the light levels in the 10g without spending $$$. The closest thing I've found is those...

I've had 6 Amono shrimp in a 20 gallon tank with a gold fish and a pair of roseys. The gold fish has never really paid much attention to the shrimp, and they generally hide in crevises around the filter where it's impossible for the gold to reach them. This has been the setup for about 6...

If you don't want to bother running your filter with carbon, you can make ultra-cheap replacement filters for you Marineland Eclipse filters. While I'm not sure about other sizes, for the Z filter used in the System 3, Corner 5, and Hex 5, just do the following: Buy a Marinelane Rite-Size...

Now I understand how some of the MTS had been getting on inside the outflow of my Eclipse corner 5. I'm looking at an MTS right now that he's managed to get his foot pad caught in the surfact tension, so he's just floating around on the surface of the water.

So I was talking to a PetSmart employee this afternoon about some difficulties I'm having with a betta sorority. At one point, we got around to talking about air stones, and this employee tried to convince me that the air pump is putting out PURE oxygen because it's MAKING the oxygen. She even...

I tried asking in unhealthy fish, but not getting any response. The short of it... I had a Rosy Red Goldfish that I removed from the goldfish community tank and placed him in a 1/2 gallon vase at bed time. The vase was filled with tap water at about the same temperature as the tank, added two...

Dead Rosy Red I had a Rosy Red that was being a bully and had to get taken out of the tank. The only thing I had on hand was a large vase (1/2 to 1 gallon in size) that I filled with tap water that was about the same temperature as the tank, added two drops of Prime, chased down the fish and...

I started my first fish tank about 4 months ago with a common and a rosy red minnow in a 10 gallon tank. As the common grew, I decided it was time to upgrade to a larger tank, so they got moved up to some 20 gallon digs. About that same time, I learned that rosys are schooling fish and that...

One of the (almost) miricle animals you can use for a cleanup crew is nerit snails. They are not too big, most fish leave them alone, they don't eat your plants (unless they are dead), they eat several forms of alge, and in fresh water, they can't reproduce and take over your tank (they...

From what I've read, nerite snails seem to be miricle snails for a host of situations. The seem to be too big for goldfish and similar snail eaters, they generally can not reproduce in freshwater, so they can't take over the tank, and they don't eat plants. It seems their only negatives is...

I'm trying to identify some snails. In this case, the snails in question are all trumpit snails. The question is are they Malysian Trumpet Snails or something else. I started with some free snails I got from a Pets Supply Plus. I got a hand full of what I'm pretty certain are MTS because...

I brought up some questions regarding the use of the Python "No Spill" for during PWC over in this thread: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f12/pwc-question-112877-3.html As I do not own a Python at this time, I can not attempt to verify my suspicions, and I'd like to see if some Python...

I have twice today seen a while long string attatched to the end of a piece of poop in our fish tank. When I remove the poop with a stick, the string stays stretched out as long as part of it is in the water. I just moved our 4-6 month old common gold fish from a 10 gallon tank to a 20 gallon...

I'm having problems with Diatoms in two fish tanks. Both are relatively new. Here's the details. The first one was setup in late November. As soon as it finished cycling, I started getting diatoms. When I researched the issue back then, I learned I had diatoms. From what I could find in...

Can blood worms survive the freezing process? I was cleaning some of the debrie from the bottom of my 5 gallon betta tank (the 6 amano shrimp are making a mess of the bottom of the tank). After finding some pond snails that hitched a ride on some plants, I've been on the lookout for any more...

I'm currently upgrading my 10 gallon tank with a common and rosie to a 20 gallon. My primary filter will be a Fluval 2, but I also have a Fluval 1 that I could suppliment with. Would it be too much to add a comet to the mix?

Any new ideas on some plants that stand a chance with a common goldfish in the tank? I'm about to upgrade the 10gallon to a 20 gallon. The primary resident is a common goldfish. The currently tank has anuba, wisteria, and valisneria. The anuba and wisteria have faired very well. The val...

For the last two days, when I've approached our goldfish tank, Geoffery, our common goldfish, has been found squeezed between the side of the tanks and the plants near the bottom of the tank absolutely motionless. Both times I've seen him like this, I've wondered if he were dead (he didn't even...

I just finished cycling and stocking a 5 gallon tank. It has a betta and six amano shrimp. The substrait is ultra-fine white sand and I have a piece of drift wood that makes a cave. During the day, all the shrimp hide out in the drift wood cave. But all over the floor of my tank are little...

OK, so I learne the hard way why you are supposed to rinse out build-up in your filter with "old" tank water from a PWC. The bucket I normally drain into for PWC was being used for something else, so I just put the drainage tube directly in the bathtub. But the filter also needed rinsing...