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Hah, no, other than the 3 GBRs I have: 1 Siamese algae eater (only non-SA fish I plan to put in the tank) 12 Black Skirt Tetras 2 Red Eye Tetras 8 Neon Tetras 2 Fancy Guppies I'm going to hold off on new fish for 2 weeks because next friday the LFS will have just gotten in a new shipment so...

I'm single and I travel heavily for work. I'm generally gone Sunday night through Thursday but if I decide to go somewhere over the weekend I'll even be away a couple weeks in a row. Since I'm gone so much, even when I am home, I'm just not in the habit of feeding my fish. It doesn't help...

So I added some koi angels last month to my 120g. I'm not sure what went wrong but they all died. My tank is pretty well established and grossly under stocked at the moment. All I can think of is that after I added them I then thought I'd do a water change and filter maintenance. Maybe not...

I have to say that black skirts that are healthy are just vibrant fish. They definitely have a brilliant pearlescence. They school really well too. When I got them to cycle the tank they were pretty drab looking but they've really become a fish I'm very happy to keep in there. Golden barbs...

I think it also depends on how threatened they feel. My tetras often are dispersed throughout my 120 but then they'll suddenly all group themselves together. I assume that its often a result of movement from me triggering it. My neons especially spread out more than the other fish which...

Hey everyone! Been a while. I've been traveling almost every week for work this year which has made my 120g project very slow. Which, actually is probably for the best. I started off early this year (like...February :P) setting the tank up with some black skirts and red eyes. I'm sorry to...

Thanks. I'm pretty worried about the tank while I'm gone. I started the tank on Monday and got a call Wednesday that I'd be gone. I'm actually hoping it gets delayed a week. We'll see.

I tried One & Only this week when I started up my tank and it worked as advertised. I tried one of the others once before and it didn't do anything that I could tell.

yeah that's no good. But I also don't want to just throw fish in the tank because that's even more disastrous . I'll figure something out I guess.

Regardless of when I can continue stocking...here's my current plan: Tetras: 15 Black Skirts 14 Red Eyes (I got all I could ;) ) 10 Diamond 10 Cories (species doesn't matter much...I'll get whichever I find) 2 or 3 Angels 3 or 4 Rams Problem here is this still leaves me like half stocked. I...

They pretty much stay out of the light right now but they've been getting a bit less timid. I do find that when the moon lights are on they do come out :) Go figure... My ammonia levels were at 0 this morning. I need to test Nitrites but I'd say that Dr. Tim's One and Only did its job. I...

Well since I'll only be home a couple days a week, I don't really want to deal with weekly trimmings right now ;) I have no doubt that in time I will get plants in there but not yet. I'd also like to, with the plants, get an R/O setup because my water is horrible here in Florida. I think I...

That's beautiful! Worth it.

I'm running the Fluval FX5 on my tank and I was wondering what the optimal setup was as far as the media trays. I'm not happy with the clarity of my and I was wondering if I should run with the polishing pad in one of the trays all the time and then bio media in the other two. What do you all...

So I've put in Dr. Tim's One and Only to help the cycle get started. I added a couple schools of tetras to provide the bioload. Everything seems to be good so far. I might have to do a water change tomorrow since the ammonia looked like it might be creeping up a bit. Fish have been in there...

Dr. Tim's is the same as Bio-Spira. That stuff has had too much success to be called "snake oil". There's no such thing as an instant cycle but if you have a tank full of fish already then it certainly can't hurt to put in the bacteria you need to eat some ammonia.

One and Only is one product (that's the one by Dr. Tim) but there are others. Call your LFS and ask if they have any cycling products. They're safe to use...they add the bacteria cultures that grow naturally in your tank. It helps speed the process up a bit. But again, with the bio-load you...

Tetras are usually pretty hardy. You have a pretty big load of fish in there is your other problem. Even if the tank finishing cycling the bio filter is going to have a hard time keeping up with so many fish. Mollies and guppies are pretty messy. The tetras and guppies together are probably...

Just for fun I set up the tank with moon light LEDs. I think I need 2 more to give more even lighting.

Hah, yeah, I've seen those at Petco

Well the last set up I had I had high output lights so I needed the CO2 for that setup. There was a period of time where it actually looked really good. My plants were all growing really fast. I will reconsider the planted tank but my LFS resources are pretty horrible where I am. I'll add...

Gotcha...well, I thought they looked real enough! I'll throw some more in to fill some of the back spaces but for now my budget isn't going to let me redo all the decorations again ;) With those plants do you still need to have a CO2 setup?

By more natural I assume you mean live plants? Because I looked for the most realistic fakes that I could find ;) My problem was I had the lighting I needed but I didn't have an adequate CO2 setup and once the CO2 ran out the algae exploded. This tank just has normal lighting on top so yeah...

Ok, these last few years of fish keeping have been very frustrating for me. First I set up a 55 gallon aquarium that I tried to do as a planted tank and really never got it going very well. I'd say I had about 6 months of a pretty nice aquarium before it pretty much collapsed. Last year I...