Recent content by follicle

I setup a planted 10 gallon back in November. I started up the hobby again after downsizing from a 55 gallon planted tank. I followed all setup and cycling procedures to the tee. I insured I did hydrogen peroxide dips on all plants entering the tank and also insured that the substrate was washed...

Excellent! Very informative. Thanks!

Interesting! I've cycled a tank before but always just assumed the nitrates died off. Faulty assumption on my part. I plan on performing weekly water changes. I understand the nitrates might eventually fall a bit but is .5 ppm a safe amount of nitrates to begin introducing fish? Just want to...

Hello all, I've been cycling my 9 gal planted tank and just can't get the nitrates to disappear. It's been cycling for more than a month now. All else is going good. PH is good. Ammonium and nitrites have disappeared. Plant growth has been great. But for the past two weeks or so, nitrates are...

Lol. Actually, there's no picture. I just wanted to give a heads up because the story is a tad gross. My wife nearly got sick looking at it!

I had quite a lot of open space in my tank, so I added a Tiger Oscar a few months ago. He's grown about a half inch or so since we got him. I have a few other fish in the tank (African Knife Fish, Pleco, and a few Rosy Barbs). One of the Rosy Barbs has had a condition for quite some time...

Thanks for the advice! This is the route I'm looking to go (light to medium). I'll look into the plants you mentioned. Thanks for the input!

Greetings! I've been running my 55 gallon freshwater tank for close to five years now. When I inherited the tank, it contained only artificial plants. I would really like to move in a more natural direction and add some real plants to my tank. I have conducted research on lighting, CO2, etc...

Greetings. It's been a while since I've had issues with any of my fish, but I noticed this last night and thought I would post about it. I'm fairly certain I've seen this developing on my Dwarf Gourami for a while, but apparently it's gotten pretty bad. It's a spherical growth of what appears...

Greetings, I've had my 55 gallon freshwater aquarium for a while now and the hood has collected quite a collection of nasty dirt and crust that only returns a few days after cleaning it. I inherited the tank from my father, but he had it for several years before I received it. As of right now...

Not sure if this is common of Brown African Knife Fish or not, but I thought this was funny. My wife fed the fish tonight and put an alegea wafer in the tank for our Pleco. We have a total of three caves in our tank (the Knife Fish and the Pleco drift between these three caves). At one point, I...

Greetings. I have a 55 gal freshwater tank and I've been looking at changing the gravel for quite sometime. My late father owned the tank before me and I don't believe he ever performed water changes. I've been doing weekly water changes for the past few years and I think the gravel is just...

Greetings, I setup a five gallon tank about a week ago to save some small fish that were being threatened in my 55 gallon. I bought a cheap air pump to run a small air stone into the tank. The tank looks great, but the air pump is pretty noisy (as expected). I keep my 55 gallon air pump under...

Thanks for the replies. They really are great fish. I just wish you could see them better! Right now, they're at the very top of the tank and you have to squat down and look up to see them. Maybe they'll get a little more comfortable in a few days and move down a bit.

It's a 55 gallon. A few of them have dove down into the center of the tank a few times, but they didn't stay down there long. It's no big deal or anything. I just don't want the Butterfly Fish making a meal out of them.