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Hi! I have a 20 gal high tank and just added some new fish - I thought my calculations were ok but now am pretty sure I am overstocked - and wondering what to do. I could move our existing tank so that I could set up a bigger tank in the same spot, but that would be 2 moves now (into the bucket...

We have a 20 gallon tank with 6 white cloud minnows, 3 emerald eye rasboras, and 1 cherry shrimp. The rasboras seem to miss out on the food (flakes) since they stay a bit lower. Maybe they are ok but we have only had them for 3 days and I don't know...also, we are feeding flakes but what...

Hi! I was wondering if people typically only rinse these or change them, and if so how often? We have a 20 gallon tank and do a weekly 25% change with plants, 6 white cloud minnows, 3 emerald eye rasboras, and 1 cherry shrimp. Thanks!

I was hoping that doing the fishless cycle would avoid fish dying (at least right away) -this is so sad. We had 6 White Cloud Mountain minnows and 1died yesterday, though it didn't look good in the bag. Now another is missing and had been looking fine - we checked under the rocks, in the filter...

Hi! We finally got our first fish - white cloud minnows today - 5 of them are exploring the tank but one is just hanging out on the driftwood and not moving much - attached two photos but they are kind of hard to see. I am not sure if it is just more stressed than the others or if it is laying...

Hi! We started the cycle on 5/20 with janitor ammonia (20 gallon tank). We have plants and a couple of pond snail stowaways. The first nitrites appeared on 6/18. The last week of tests have been (all API tests) 0 ppm ammonia (have been adding 1/4 tsp daily to bring to 2 ppm) 5 ppm (or more)...

Hi! We got 2 pieces of Malaysian driftwood for our 20 gallon tank and soaked both for 1 week - 1 sank and 1 didn't. We are going to try to boil the piece that didn't sink, and were also thinking we could try to hold it down in the tank with some tile - is porcelain tile OK to put in a tank? We...

Hi! We are just starting our aquarium adventure (still fishless cycling - ammonia levels just dropped yesterday from 2ppm to 1ppm so we added a little more - yay!), but I am trying to narrow down our options, and I was wondering if there was a good resource for the swimming level of different...

Hi - we have a new 20 gallon tank (our first tank), and just started the fishless cycle on Saturday (May 10). The ammonia levels are holding at 2ppm, and I know that once they drop we will want to add to keep the levels up so that the bacteria can survive, etc. However, we will gone for a few...