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My daughter brought home for Christmas break seven mollies from her college dorm room and put them in our aquarium. These mollies had been reproducing in her dorm room tank during the first semester, and she and her roommate were up to 40-something fish. Anyway, my daughter said that a...

Four years ago, I planted our new aquarium with species that were supposed to have low light requirements, since the tank is in a location where it gets almost no direct sunlight. Over the years, all of them have died out -- except one (photo attached). I don't remember what variety this...

The vendor says the biological filter rings should be replaced annually. But isn't the whole idea for them to get covered in miasmic gunk? Would they ever stop working and need to be replaced by new rings? Last year, I replaced half the rings and left the other half. What do you experts do...

I'm helping my 9-year-old son establish and maintain a 28-gallon freshwater, planted tank. He had a year-old angel fish that he previously kept in a one-gallon tank, and along with him we introduced six neon tetras and four glass catfish. We also put in several ghost shrimp but they...

I recently bought a used Nanocube 28g tank for my son to take his hobby to the next level. For the past year, he'd been keeping one angelfish in a 1g tank, which he had long since outgrown. I didn't realize when I got it that the Nanocube is for a saltwater reef aquarium. However, I didn't...