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Ok ill cut out the flake food, and cut down how often i feed. Do those snails lay eggs? Because i got 2 snails (forgot what kind) but they lay eggs all over my driftwood and i hate the way it looks. Ill also pck up some sae's, i have otos but they dont really go around te cabomba or water...

I've been noticing more and more algae popping up in my 36 gallon over the last couple weeks. I knew I had some Staghorn, but this one im a little stumped on and not so sure what it is. Its growing all over my Cabomba and Water Sprite, the Cabomba has completely stopped in growth due to pretty...

Ok I wont feed them. I got a couple of pictures of the fish. I can't really get a clear enough shot, but you can sort of see it in one of the pictures. Its right above the feeler arm in one of the pictures (second image), earlier it was sort of tan, now it seems more dark brown/black, but still...

Ok. Not even pea's? Because i baught some frozen ones incase it it was constipation. Right now im not getting a good pic of him, im going to try again in a few mins, hopefully he moves. I dont really wanna stress him out by making him move, since he is still kind of breathing hard.

Ok give me a little bit to try and get a picture for you. I wanna make sure dosing my big tank is ABSOLUTELY nessessary. The thread looking thing was coming out of his bottom. It was very thin (like thread), sort of tan/white in color and about an inch long. Hope this helps So far it seems the...

Well this morning i found him on his side with a long string hanging out of him... like thread? so i ran to the store n baught a hospital tank and some tetra parasite guard. Really hope this works. What are the odds that my main tank is infected with this? Should i risk dosing the whole tank or...

I'm having an issue with a new Dwarf Gourami that I just got yesterday. I didn't QT him before adding him to the tank since I don't have another tank to put new fish in. His symptoms are: Stringy poo (whitish, some solid parts, and empty parts.. like sausage links all connected with 1 or 2...

Thanks for the suggestions. The first 3 i could understand since my tank wasnt fully cycled, i thought it was but i had a hiccup which i believed led to the death of the first 2. Then when the tank was definately cycled and stable ifigured i could add 3 more (making 4 total) thought they would...

I have oto`s in my 36 gallon now, 2 of them. I love them, awesome fish. Its just something about cories that i love too. There look, how they dig into the sand for food, alot of times when friends see my tanks there like, "wow what are those little guys" and point at the cories. I like that...

I'm at a loss. I can't seem to keep these little guys to save my life. Type: Melini Corydoras Tank: They started dying in the my 10 gallon, I've been through a total of 6 started off with 3, then 2 died, got 3 more, 2 died in the 10 gallon tank, then I move the last 2 to the 36 gallon after it...

They love the Swords lol 1 On my Amazon Sword 1 On my Red Melon Sword

1 angelfish 8 black skirt tetra (got them before knowing they are bad fin nippers, surprisingly they leave the angel alone :) ) 2 mollies 3 danios (2 zebra/1 glofish) 2 melini cories (others died, fragile little things) 2 oto's (these guys ROCK) 2 snails diy co2/4x 18w 6500k...

I actually tested this out myself. To see if cories enjoyed sand or gravel better. So I made my 10 gallon a half and half tank, pretty much half sand half gravel. The sand I use is Petco Aquarium Sand (white) which is a little coarse, but not sharp and its also bigger then pool sand/play sand...

Np glad to help. Goodluck with your cycle! :)

If the fish was like a danio or a guppy, something small, I couldnt see that driving the ammonia up to an almost unreadable level. Now if it was something a little bit bigger, maybe an angel or some type of cichlid, definately. With the new bioload (2 new fish) and a dead fish on top of that, i...

Ok well since your saying ammonia was 0 with .25-1 NitrItes/NitrAtes 20ish looks to me like your nearly cycled, as long as the nitrAtes coming out of your tap isn't high. Have you noticed any dead fish (counted them)? Changed the filter? Rotting plants? Any reason why the ammonia may have...

Maybe i've misread but, how are you cycling your tank? Pure ammonia? fish in? what size tank? how long has it been running?

So my fishless cycle is nearly complete. I took all my fish out a few weeks ago to change the substrate and just decited to go ahead with the fishless cycle. I've been in NitrIte part of the stage for about 2 1/2 weeks, and I noticed about a week ago that the NitrItes were just so high, to the...

Ok, i just wasnt sure because i know with the nitrIte, when the water instantly turned purple, i would wait 5 mins then my water would be greyish/bluegreenish, which i knew meant that the levels were so high that it actually confused the test. Even though the color of the tube nearly matched...

Thanks for that idea, I think im going to try that. I put a couple plants in the tank already, but all I have is sand for substrate, and a couple root tabs, but I'm wondering if that will be enough. So I think im going to use a ceramic pot. Ok cool. I'm going to do a little more research on...

Nice tank! I like the density, thats the way i plan to have mine.

i've read about that to, adding plants then being able to stock right away (slowly of course). So for example, your 40 gallon. How did you start with that tank, how many plants/fish/substrate/filter?

Thanks, well im assuming the tube is turning red after adding drops from the first bottle because of nitrItes. I can't really think of another reason other than the nitrItes are so high that its affecting the nitrAte test somehow. I think my cycle stalled, i've read that when nitrItes are that...

Ok, so ive been doing... add 5ml tank water to tube->add drops #1->invert 5 times->shake bottle 2 vigorously->add drops from #2->shake tube vigorously. If im not mistaking thats how the instructions described it... so the instructions in the book are incorrect?

Right now im cycling my 36 gallon (fishless) I started off adding to 4ppm of ammonia, about a week and a half ago the ammonia started to disappear, so I continued to dose to 4 ppm. As of today I started to dose to around 2-3ppm, in hopes of getting some nitrates going. So my NitrItes have been...