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Hah, no, other than the 3 GBRs I have: 1 Siamese algae eater (only non-SA fish I plan to put in the tank) 12 Black Skirt Tetras 2 Red Eye Tetras 8 Neon Tetras 2 Fancy Guppies I'm going to hold off on new fish for 2 weeks because next friday the LFS will have just gotten in a new shipment so...

I'm single and I travel heavily for work. I'm generally gone Sunday night through Thursday but if I decide to go somewhere over the weekend I'll even be away a couple weeks in a row. Since I'm gone so much, even when I am home, I'm just not in the habit of feeding my fish. It doesn't help...

So I added some koi angels last month to my 120g. I'm not sure what went wrong but they all died. My tank is pretty well established and grossly under stocked at the moment. All I can think of is that after I added them I then thought I'd do a water change and filter maintenance. Maybe not...

I have to say that black skirts that are healthy are just vibrant fish. They definitely have a brilliant pearlescence. They school really well too. When I got them to cycle the tank they were pretty drab looking but they've really become a fish I'm very happy to keep in there. Golden barbs...

I think it also depends on how threatened they feel. My tetras often are dispersed throughout my 120 but then they'll suddenly all group themselves together. I assume that its often a result of movement from me triggering it. My neons especially spread out more than the other fish which...

Hey everyone! Been a while. I've been traveling almost every week for work this year which has made my 120g project very slow. Which, actually is probably for the best. I started off early this year (like...February :P) setting the tank up with some black skirts and red eyes. I'm sorry to...

Thanks. I'm pretty worried about the tank while I'm gone. I started the tank on Monday and got a call Wednesday that I'd be gone. I'm actually hoping it gets delayed a week. We'll see.

I tried One & Only this week when I started up my tank and it worked as advertised. I tried one of the others once before and it didn't do anything that I could tell.

yeah that's no good. But I also don't want to just throw fish in the tank because that's even more disastrous . I'll figure something out I guess.

Regardless of when I can continue stocking...here's my current plan: Tetras: 15 Black Skirts 14 Red Eyes (I got all I could ;) ) 10 Diamond 10 Cories (species doesn't matter much...I'll get whichever I find) 2 or 3 Angels 3 or 4 Rams Problem here is this still leaves me like half stocked. I...

They pretty much stay out of the light right now but they've been getting a bit less timid. I do find that when the moon lights are on they do come out :) Go figure... My ammonia levels were at 0 this morning. I need to test Nitrites but I'd say that Dr. Tim's One and Only did its job. I...

Well since I'll only be home a couple days a week, I don't really want to deal with weekly trimmings right now ;) I have no doubt that in time I will get plants in there but not yet. I'd also like to, with the plants, get an R/O setup because my water is horrible here in Florida. I think I...

That's beautiful! Worth it.

I'm running the Fluval FX5 on my tank and I was wondering what the optimal setup was as far as the media trays. I'm not happy with the clarity of my and I was wondering if I should run with the polishing pad in one of the trays all the time and then bio media in the other two. What do you all...