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plecos come in lots of patterns and will keep your tank sparkling clean! They are miracle workers. Some people complain that they are messy, but I "vacuum every week anyway so it doesn't make any difference. No more scraping the glass! No mor s rubbing the decorations! No more replacing plastic...

He's a beaut! Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

How so you get a sponge filter out of the tank to clean it without dripping a ton of filthy sludge off it? Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Python! Wonderful invention. Worth every penny. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

My husband bought me a turntable for Christmas so day before yesterday I put a record on. It was a little loud but not house rattling. The next day my ctenopoma was belly up. Do fish prefer silence to music? Can I play my LPs softly? Thanks. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

my clown loaches. They swim in crazy formations and patterns, at the front of the tank. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

try feeding the bloated one cooked skinned mashed peas. It acts like a laxative and helps if they pig out on bloodworms or brine shrimp. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Most reputable lfs will take them back. What I wonder is what they do with them. They have no way of knowing what kind of tank they came from. Anybody out there work at a LFS who can tell us? Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Take everything out and wash the tank with a strong salt solution. Then rinse rinse and rinse again. The rinse some more. Do the same thing with the gravel. It wouldn't hurt to let both the tank and the gravel dry out completely for a couple of months. You'll have to spread the gravel out and...

cories will dig caves, though usually they are in the back of the tank where the provide good cover. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I have one of those growing happily in a pot in my south facing window! Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

The barbs might nibble on the angels' fins. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Shark and beginner ignorance The shark is a black red-tailed shark. When I first became interested in having fish, I bought half a dozen books and knew pretty quickly there are no easy answers since even folks from universities had different opinions on various thing. I went to the five local...

looking for peace Today was water change day so I took all the furniture out of the 30 gallon and out the shark in his own ten gallon and the bigger lab in a ten gallon, leaving the ctenopoma and the angel and the juvenile lab in the 30 gallon. The angel is Very peaceful, so after I rehome the...

My angel hangs out in the front and when the clown loaches were in that tank, they'd have playtimes when they swam around like maniacs, but it didn't bother the angel at all.