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I have a 46g bowfront currently stocked with a few low-light plants (sorry, can't remember names, although java fern is one of them) and fake plants. The plants are growing nicely but are covered w/brown algae. How does everyone keep their plants so GREEN?? So far, I've just used my fingers to...

I have a group of 6 cories that seem quite happy & normal except that for the last several days they have all decided they like to hang out in "mid-air":). It's almost like a school of glass catfish--they just hover there & wiggle. They don't seem stressed; they'll do this for awhile, then go...

Hi, I am close to finishing stocking a 46g bowfront. Currently have: 3 Yoyo loaches 6 loxozonomous cory cats 1 dwarf guarami I need a school for the middle of the tank...really not interested in tetras as I'd like something we've never had before. I'm looking at either gold or odessa barbs, 6...

I have 3 of these guys in my newly cycled 46g bowfront, along cories & a dwarf gourami. When I brought them home, they were playing together & hanging out w/the cats too. Now after about a week, it seems they're settling in...each hanging out in its own little "space" without too much...

My newly cycled tank is up and running well, and had as its first inhabitants a dwarf gourami and 3 yoyo loaches. Not positive on what else we'll be adding but I knew I wanted cories! The tank is currently maintained w/an 80 degree temp. Before going to the LFS, I tried to research which...

It seems I have been cycling forever! Actually about 4 weeks. I've been dosing the ammonia up to 4ppm every 24 hrs., it drops back to about .25 by the next day. The nitrites showed up maybe a week and a half ago but hover between 2-5ppm, and the nitrAtes have not yet risen above 5ppm. Aren't...

Hi all, I am currently in about week 2 or 3 of our first fishless cycle. We have had tanks before, but my husband always took care of them. He is not too keen on the idea of the fishless cycle, since he's anxious to get something in the tank! (plus it's something new:rolleyes:) So...we...