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Hi all. Gosh, it’s been a while. Pretty sure having two kids takes three times as much time as one kid. But slowly slowly I’ve been accumulating the parts pieces and motivation to replace my 6 gallon Fluval Edge tank that was in the bedroom with a 20 gallon that I traded for some plants with...

So I have been watching the youtube channel, "journey to the microcosmos" which is all about microorganisms and has some really neat photography, and I saw the latest episode was about hydras https://youtu.be/jnD_YitEk5M Since they pop up in our aquariums from time to time (and indeed, an...

I got a gift card to the LFS for my birthday, so I decided to branch out from the South American fish I have generally always kept and got what I think is a male/female pair.

So I’ve had this guy for a year and a half or so now, it came with a bunch of Rummynose Tetras. At the time I got it, it looked basically the same, though it’s bulked up a little. It’s a bit longer than the rummynose, but definitely a bigger build. There’s not really much color to it at all...

If you're going to drill a tank for a drain and a return, would you drill them on opposite ends of the tank so the flow goes straight across, or next to each other with the return shooting away from the drain to sort of create a current that goes all around the tank like a vortex?

I've been thinking recently about setting up some sort of small RCS shrimp breeding project because they are so hard to come by in my area. I have some old equipment from a decommissioned tank (a nice stand and a sump filter), some space in the house, and even permission from my wife, so now I...

Got a quick question here. As long as what it's sitting on is flat, strong, and level, can the ends of a tank overhang its support by a few inches? I'm specifically thinking about smaller tanks in the 10-20 gallon range.

After thinking they had all been dead for months, I had an amano shrimp just suddenly reappear. I don't know where he was hiding!

Or Amanoir?

First, the tank: 45 gallons (36Lx12Wx23D), fluval c4 HOB filter, planted, driftwood, AqAdvisor at current stock levels puts it at 185% filtration capacity and 75% stocked (small tetras, cory cats and otos). While there is nothing wrong with the current setup, I would like to get another filter...

I just planted some Ludwigia repens two days ago, and tonight when I was changing the water I found this leaf floating around: Now looking at the plants there are a few other leaves (still attached) like this. The fish in the tank are Head and Taillight Tetras, Panda Corys, and Otos. I...

So I have a 6 gallon Fluval Edge tank that I'm going to be setting up soon for my shrimp ("soon" as in tomorrow or the next day, when the plants I ordered come in). I was planning on Crypt undulata, Anubias, maybe try the Star repens though I think I might not have enough light for it, if not it...

I just bought a Fluval Edge 6 gallon tank to upgrade my shrimp. I know that they are fine at my 66-70 degree F room temperature, but I was thinking that if I wanted to get some nano fish at some point it would be a good idea to get a heater for the tank. I have an Eheim Jager 25 watt heater...

I have an Anubias nana "wavy leaf" that has been in my aquarium for a couple months now. It's been making lots of new growth, but in the past couple weeks one of the old leaves turned yellow and fell off, and then another leaf also started turning yellow. This evening when I looked at it it...

I think it's just a pond snail, but would like confirmation from you more experienced people. It was maybe right about a centimeter long (maybe a little less), and I saw it just after I saw a little clutch of eggs stuck to the glass down by the substrate. I know I got a few hitchhikers with...

So I have 4 RCS, but one of them has a lighter/opaque stripe down it's back: Is this some sort of color morph? I've had them for almost 3 weeks now and that's how it's looked the whole time. Kinda neat looking, like it's a race shrimp with a "go fast" stripe.

I bought 4 Red Cherry Shrimp about 2 weeks ago, and one, who I think is young mother because she's quite a bit smaller than the other females, was berried. Now she's hiding in the Java Moss most of the time and when she comes out there are definitely less eggs on her tail, but I can't tell...

I have the much - lauded API master freshwater test kit. My pH is right in that happy range where if I use the low end pH test I max it out but the high end pH test is very difficult to tell the difference between the bottom three possibilities. I would like to be able to measure my pH more...

So my planted 45 gallon aquarium has been running for..about six weeks now (fish-in cycled and a bottle of safestart, it's been very stable from the start so I think I lucked out with the bottled bacteria--at least judging by the horror stories I hear on the internet), but my 8 mostly aggressive...

I have a pretty new tank (45 gallon with live plants, Finnex Planted+ about 20" above the substrate surface, running about 3 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the late afternoon/evening) that I'm starting to experience algae in (I think it's the brown diatom stuff, but I'm hardly an algae...

One of my Head and Tail Light Tetras had a very red internal organ (not familiar enough with fish anatomy to be able to tell you much more than that, but on his tank mates it is silver) when I got home from work today (the fish on the left): The fish seems to be otherwise healthy (for now...

I have a 45 gallon tank with a 36" Finnex Planted+ that's sitting on the glass lid about 20" above the top of the substrate. I know that Finnex hasn't released real data on the Planted+, so I was wondering what you guys with more experience in planted tanks think this would qualify me for. I...

I went to Utah last week and on a hike came across a weird layer in the sandstone that had tons of what I think is agate (disclosure: I took geology as a freshman in college so that was only almost a decade ago...). I picked up a pocketfull of some really neat ones that I think I'm going to put...