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I have four SunSun HW404B filters, and one Fluval 306. I bought the Fluval first, and you can tell which ones I liked better. However. One of them... naturally the one in my office, is getting louder. Substantially louder -- from almost dead silent, to now being audible over my computer...

Small (30G) shrimp tank with about 10 red cherry shrimp. It is a fairly new setup. At the first shrimp's release of eggs (not sure if just before or just after, they were hiding) I decided I had too course of a filter cover and replaced it. Four or five small shrimp eventually showed up, the...

I decided to turn a quarantine tank into a Red Cherry Shimp tank, so there are 5 adults in there (3 female + 2 males) and they are doing fine, one female is all berried and likely to release in a few days. I had a community tank with baby plecos, and surprisingly all were being eaten by (top...

There is a bit of story here. I caught three very small minnows in a freshwater pond. Here is a photo at the time of two of them. After some quarantine, I threw them into a large tank with hungry fish like angels and congos, expecting them to be lunch, but all three survived. One ended up...

OK, not literal mothballs of course but.... I think I'm "done" for a while with new plants and fish and such. I have a 30G tank going I used for quarantine, nice big canister filter, etc. If I decide to put it up on a shelf for a while and not use it, what's the best way to handle the...

Tank #2 (220G) had several plecos, they have babies periodicially, and usually 0-2 survive, so I have a few more. No big deal, big tank. Tank #1 (45) had one lonely female, so I moved in a male and a breeding cave. I saw nothing much happening, but looked last night and it is FILLED with...

I caught some minnows in a lake in Florida (Lakes Park, Ft. Myers). I have them in a QT to see how they develop, and get rid of whatever bad stuff they are carrying, but I am not sure what any of them are. I've seen the Florida fish ID guide but it is for adult fish, and I struggle with the...

I tried again, caught wild ghost shrimp, and over night every one died. The last time was here: Old Thread This time I started with a new clean tank, sterilized with chlorine and rinsed and dried thoroughly. Brand new filter, brand new media, brand new hoses and fittings. Nothing from the...

I have a pair of angels that spawned in a community tank the day before I planned to change water, and they did so on the intake pipe near the top. I doubt the fry can survive, but this is a very peaceful tank -- just three tetras, two SAE and a pleco. So maybe. But I planned to change water...

I bought 8 SAE from a local small LFS. I first did a lot of reading to make sure I (thought) I could recognize them, and think they are real SAE. And they behaved like it, and are doing fine - tank just plain clean of staghorn and hair algae of various sorts, and almost all BBA (didn't have...

I use RODI water, and have three tanks (220G, 45G, and 30G). I do not have any permanent water storage, so when I need water changes I have a temporary tank (65G) I pull down and set outside, and two 44G trash cans, and one dolly. All this means I am continually pumping water from one...

Has anyone every tried collapsible rain barrels for water storage? I have a 55g and 65g plastic tank now I use when staging water, and found the 55g has some kind of contamination issue so am disposing of it. And I really have VERY little storage room to keep these when not in use; I want to...

I'm getting very slow growth of something on rocks in two different tanks, I think two different things. Both are growing very slowly, are very low to the rock surface, and do not appear to be (at least in similar form) on any plants or other surfaces. Both are apparently immune to lots of...

Did a regen on my 3 purigen packets last weekend. Interesting. When it was time to soak in Prime, the instructions did not say how much, just how much per cup -- so I used one cup per bag. Which took half a medium sized bottle of prime. Which was kind of pricey, well, compared to chlorine...

I have a 30G quarantine tank cycling. This raises a question. I have no immediate plans for what will go into it, though I can probably predict a bit in advance. I want to keep the biofilter healthy and at adequate capacity. I realize it will scale up and down a bit fairly quickly, but I...

In a largish freshwater tank this morning I saw a pile of round spherical translucent... I assume eggs. Was busy, so came back in an hour or so with a camera and they were gone. Well, after a bit of searching... moved. Now it is possible they moved in the current, but I found them over 18"...

So I'm battling a case of camallanus worms, but that's a whole different story. It does, however, make me wonder if I could be making better use of the UV light in the filter. My guess is that it's a cheap bulk not bright in UV-C. Not sure, but they don't charge much for the addition, so...

We have a very healthy and happy appearing albino BN pleco, who is in a community tank with other plecos, all of whom are happy and some (not sure exactly who) is breeding and having babies. This (only) albino has something very regular and red in his vent. This doesn't look like parasites --...

The general advice I see is to replace the carbon block every 6 months, however, these are definitely usage based filter, and (a) it's hard to know how much usage I have, and (b) on the original filters I have no idea what they are rated for. Telling if they are clogged is easy - I have...

I caught a bunch of MTS locally, and added to a good sized tank with the goal of aerating the substrate a bit, fully expecting a population explosion. I don't know exactly how many, maybe a dozen. Example below just to confirm what I added. I added them on 10/6. They were all good size...

I don't even know where to put this, as I have no idea what it is. It could have been on the driftwood since I put it in the tank, and be something non-aquatic. But it was right near the glass and neither my wife nor I had seen it before. I have a bunch of old photos of the stump but none...

As I understand it UV bulbs do not last long. Not sure what "long" is though. I also understand that $10 bulbs (which this approximately is) are usually not any good, regardless. And I suspect the flow rate past it is too high regardless. Is all that correct? Is there any point in...

I have a relatively new 220G tank, and we bought 5 plecos. They all look young. Four look about the same color as in this photo, one is an albino a bit bigger. None (none!) have the bristles on the nose, which I presume means they are juveniles or females. The tank has no good caves. I...

I've got a 45G freshwater planted tank that has been in place since May, fully cycled, lightly stocked. I had two red serpae tetra in there from the beginning, later made it 5, and added 5 congo tetra and two un-mated angels, plus a cleanup crew of 10 or so ghost shrimp, a raphael catfish and...

Ok, I am NOT set up to raise angels. Much sooner than I expected, two of our angels paired off and started spawning. The first couple they ate, but realized this week they were apparently successful. Here's the proud mother overlooking her leaf. She's not completely faithful, she will...