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hi everyone, so i recently stocked my empty tank with 5 ember tetras and a very small (he'll probably grow a tiny bit more) dwarf honey gourami. i plan on adding a few more ember tetras as well. unfortunately, what seems to be happening is that my fish are always hiding in the back of the tank...

hi! so that title is confusing, but i will explain! ;) my 10 gallon is empty and i've decided that i want to start fresh with a community-ish tank! here's my stock that i'm sure about •school of 8-12 ember tetras AND •1 centerpiece fish my question is about the centerpiece fish. the options...

hey everyone! so i've decided that i want to start fresh with my 10 gallon tank! after much thought, i think the general idea of what i want is one centerpiece fish and a school of 5-7 small schooling fish. i know there are many different options to this. what i'm basically asking for is for...

hey everyone! i'm taking a break from studying for my final exams to write this post ;) so i have an empty cycled 10 gallon freshwater tank, and i was wondering what i could put into it. i'll make lists of what i definitely don't want and what i've been considering below. thanks in advance to...

someone please help me i'm freaking out. i was gone for two days and all of my pets were under the care of my father and sister. well i came home to my favorite fish, my betta zeus, lying not moving next to the filter and gasping. i immediately put him in a 1 gallon hospital bowl and checked him...

hey everyone! i had a question about my fairly new dt betta, pax. when i received him, he was pure pearly white, which definitely stood out to me. but now, after little more than a week, he is starting to get quite a few gray scales on both sides of his body, and a grayish splotch on his anal...

hey everyone! so i have a bit of an issue. i recently acquired a beautiful delta tail betta, but he was not planned at all. i had to take him because he would have been flushed by someone who did not want him. FLUSHED!!!!!! ridiculous people! he's gorgeous too! anyways, i was like "i'll take...

hi! :) okay, so i'm posting another thing here just to ask what everyone's ideas are for an empty (well, soon to be empty) 10 gallon tank. there are a few fish i do not want in there. here are the fish i DON'T want to keep, mostly due to experience: •livebearers •tetras •gouramis some fish i...

hey guys!!! so, i will have an empty 10 gallon tank pretty soon, and i am really really stuck between two options: a betta sorority (all female bettas) or a pair of dwarf puffers. i was originally leaning towards a betta sorority because bettas are my all-time favorite fish, and i've always...

hey everyone, i need some help. so i just realized that my betta fish was doing something that sounds like "flashing." he swims back and forth and back and forth every day against the aquarium glass, and it's almost like he's itching his body against it. what i don't understand is why he's doing...

hello! so i've got some bad news. just as my one betta, zeus, looked as if he was starting to heal a bit from his fin rot, i've found that my other betta, apollo, is showing very early signs of fin rot! :( i don't understand this! my parameters are perfect, i've tested them so many times with...

hello! so i had a strange question :) i have two of these little one gallon bowls lying around, i got them for free for my bettas (obviously way too small but i felt bad not accepting, lol) so i was wondering if there was anything cool to do with them, like plant-wise? if anyone had an idea of...

hello! so i'm pretty sure my betta, zeus, has fin rot. :( i've been changing the water more frequently and using betta fix, but it's not helping as much as i'd hoped. i was wondering if anybody has had any experience with betta fin rot where they cleared it up pretty fast, and if so please let...

hi guys! so i've recently found that my betta Zeus is *i think* biting his own tail. ugh, so frustrating! i think it's more of boredom since he is in my bedroom all day with no one in there while i'm at school. i don't believe it could be stress because i tested the water with an API Freshwater...

SOMEONE PLEASE READ! hello everyone! i need help! :( so i have been struggling to figure out what happened to my betta, Zeus's, tail. it got worse over the past couple of days, and he currently resembles a crowntail betta! that's his tail currently :( i've always had luck with Bettafix in the...

hi everyone! so i recently moved both of my bettas into new (cycled and tested with API Freshwater Master Test Kit:)) 5 gallon tanks! they looove all of the extra space! however, today i noticed that Zeus's tail is torn! i don't know what caused it, if it was the filter or a decoration, but i...

PLEASE HELP, i have an urgent problem! ? my favorite molly, a male gold dust lyretail, seems to have whirling disease!!! i have no idea how because he was fine yesterday! i read that i should QT him right away or it will affect all of my other fish! i have him in a separate bowl right now, but i...

hello everyone! so i recently purchased five gallon tanks for my bettas, and had a question about cycling them. so i ordered an API Freshwater Master Test Kit which will be here on thursday, and i heard that a good technique for cycling would be doing the 'fish food' method. i have read that it...

hello everyone! so i recently purchased two 5.5 gallon tanks for my two bettas. i have a limited budget on the equipment, so i got a kit that includes a filter and lighting, but no heater. i have two heaters, but they are for 2-5 gallons. my question is, would they still work in my 5.5's? i just...

hi everyone! so it's official, i'm upgrading both of my betta fish to five gallon tanks!! :) i'm so excited, and they're going to be soo happy! i had a few questions with the setup: •some people recommended ghost shrimp as a tank mate for my bettas. if i were to get ghost shrimp, are live...

hi everyone! first off, i just want to thank everyone in advance who reads this because it is probably going to be long! thanks soo much! :D ok so, i currently have my two betta fish, Zeus and Apollo, each in a 1 gallon tank. i know this is small, but i was given these tanks by a friend who had...

hi everyone! so as some of you may know, i was going to my lfs last night to look for another betta fish! i found one that i just fell in love with :) i named him Apollo. he's a really calm halfmoon betta (compared to Zeus, my crazy red vieltail who's in my icon picture thingy) so i was...

One "slow&quot ; betta and one crazy one? (WHOA, that title is not what i meant to put??? does it look weird for everyone else?) hi everyone! so as some of you may know, i was going to my lfs last night to look for another betta fish! i found one that i just...

PLEASE HELP!!! :( hello everyone, i have a super urgent problem: my baby betta seems to have a bent spine!!!! he was laying on the bottom all day today, and i looked at him and his spine is all crooked!!! what does this mean, and will i lose him???? i don't know what to do!! please help :( i...

PLEASE READ: hi!! :) so i'm completely new to mollies, and i have just about no idea what gender any of these mollies are. they aren't all in the same tank, they are in different ones at the moment :) also, i fear that a few of them may be pregnant! and i've never bred fish before, so im super...