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Hey all... Just found these things on a piece of driftwood. Hope you can see them in the picture. Their about 1/4" long, have a black base, and white featherlike fingers. Ideas? Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Hey all... So i have a 13 gallon established red cherry shrimp tank. TONS of shrimp. I'm thinking of adding a few guppies for some diversity. I have four small (but growing quickly) piranhas in another tank and want to use the shrimp and guppies as supplemental feeders. Looking today at my LFS...

Anyone in MD interested in trading some RCS? Just looking to improve my gene pool without packaging and shipping headaches. I can attach a pic or two after their next feeding if interested. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

So i went shopping for some low light plants yesterday. Had a few things in mind and ended up with some dwarf sag and crypt wendtii, along with a brazilian sword. Didnt know anything of the sword, but i figured what the heck, probably just like an amazon sword right? Wrong apparently. Appears...

Hey all. I have a 55 gallon thats been set up a couple months now. I want it to be heavily planted low tech. So far growth has been poor at best. Most of the plants have been transferred from another tank where they grew well. I have pfs substrate, 2x32w t8s right above surface on for 7 hrs/day...

So i was just checking out my rcs tank and noticed this horrible looking little bug. I thought at first it was a shrimplet, but upon further inspection it definitely was not. Did some "googling" and determined it was a damselfly larvae. Anyone else ever had them? Think theres only one or am i...

Just converted my 13 gallon planted tank to shrimp only. I have a pretty good outbreak of pond snails going and want to get it under control. Now that it is shrimp only i wont be feeding nearly as much as with fish. Will this reduced food supply cause the snails to dwindle? Or should i go for an...

Thought id put this out there for anyone like me who is a newbie to shrimp and had pregnancy questions. Took one day short of three weeks for my first berried female to give birth. All day she was curling her tail up tightly underneath her and flapping her swimmerettrs like crazy. Finally i saw...

I would like to remove all the fish( 9 green neon tetras) from my 13 gallon planted tank and make it shrimp only. It has standard black gravel and the fish poo buildup in the gravel really seems to be good for the plants. If i remove the fish, will i have to use more root tabs/liquid ferts? Will...

So apparently high levels of amm, nitrite and nitrate have no affect on snails?! Just found four of them in my planted cycling 55. I didnt do a great job cleaning the plants bc i figured any hitch hikers would be killed during the cycle. I was wrong. Any thoughts on getting rid of them? They're...

Watch the first 15-20 secs of this video and see if u see anything wrong. Parents of MH370 passengers keep hoping - YouTube Hopefully the link works... Im not the best at these things!

Im about 5 weeks into fishless cycling a 55 gallon tank using pure ammonia. The ammonia is being converted pretty quickly and my nitrites and nitrates are off the charts. Should i be doing pwcs to keep the nitrite levels down or is it better to leave them high.? I have only been adding small...

Im Fishless cycling a new 55 gallon freshwater and using that time to decide on my stocking. Heres my question, if i purchase lets say 15 new fish do i quarantine them? Brand new tank, so no other fish to consider getting sick. Is it less stressful to just introduce these fish into the new tank...

Started fishless cycle 3 days ago and just saw my first drop in ammonia( fell from 4 to 2ppm). I used filter media from my other tank to seed the new tank, so my question is this... Would it be beneficial to add more media now to introduce new bacteria to convert the nitrite? Are the bb that...

I have an outbreak of cyano in my 13 gallon planted tank. Im currntly setting up a 55 gallon as well. After the 55 cycles, can i move the fish from the 13 over or will they carry the cyano with them and infect the 55? I would like to treat the 13 without worrying about the fish or killing the...

Greenish blue algae that looks like a web on my water sprite and covers java fernleaves. What do you all think and what should i do?

Hi all... Sorry if this has been discussed a million times already. I tried searching for this topic but the search feature on this app leaves a lot to be desired. Anyway, i'll just ask. Im getting ready to set up my second aquarium, a 55 gallon. I have a 13 gallon already set up and some of...

Making my own hood for 29 gallon.... Anyone know of cheap led lighting solution? Not a planted tank, just something to see the fish. Thanks!

Anyone have experience with these canister filters. Im debating on one of these or two aquaclears. Any input? Pros/cons either way? For a new 55 gallon setup.

I have two questions: 1. I have two panda cories and they spend alot of time picking through my plants, almost like their eating or looking for food. Are they hungry? Do they eat algae or whatever might be on plants? 2. Kind of along the same lines, does anyone know a cleaner way to feed...

I've looked all over to try to figure out what kind of algae this is. It is brownish- red and completely covers the leaves of my wisteria. I rub it off the leaves during pwcs but it comes back pretty quick.

How hard(read expensive) to convert a 13 gallon freshwater planted to a simple saltwater tank? What extra equipment would i need?

Im a stay at home dad and have recently got into the fishkeeping game as a means of retaining my sanity. Have a 13 gallon planted up and running pretty well. Petco had their dollar/gallon sale so i picked up a 29 and a 55 gallon to do in the future. $ is a little tight since i stay home, so...

Hey everybody.... Set up a 13 gallon freshwater for my 2 year old twins as a christmas present. Now ive become obsessed with it and taken it over as my own( i still let them look at it but not too hard). Added some plants, cfl lighting, diy co2 and having alot of fun with it. Had a tank as a kid...