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I measured again, and my aquarium is actually 19 inches deep, not 24 :)

Hi, all! I have a few questions concerning lighting for a 26-gallon bow-front aquarium that’s 24 inches deep. I’ve been using 18-inch fluorescent bulbs made for aquariums, but they’ve been quite a hassle. So far, I’ve had three or four burn out on me (old age for two of them, but the others more...

Hi, all! Recently I’ve been thinking about adding some fish to my two (empty but running and cycled) aquariums. One is a 10 gal. I call my Peaceful Nursery, and the other is a 26 gal. bow-front that I hope will one day be my lesser Community Tank. (My dream one will be extra long to house a...

Oh, haha. I just looked up ‘miniature ramshorn snail’ and came up with ‘Planorbis arnoldi’. Pretty sure this is what I have. Seems like it’s even more likely to overrun an aquarium :(

Picture!

Hi, all! I have another question about my snail, and figured I should probably use the existing thread to address it instead of making a new one? Anyway, as we established, I have a cute little ramshorn snail. What I think is weird though is that it almost always carries its shell horizontally...

Just had a thought, is there any way to tell what color this snail is going to be or do I have to wait for it to get bigger and just see? It’s brownish, clearish right now with some darker stripes on the other side. Does that mean it will be brown as an adult?

Aww, they’re so pretty! Maybe I’ll buy some someday!

Hmmm, okay, makes sense. I guess I’ll make it it’s own little aquarium or put it in my 10-gal until it starts laying eggs and then see if anybody wants to buy/be gifted a very rapidly reproducing snail! [emoji23] My tanks have so much algae even if I didn’t feed them at all, a whole colony would...

Ooops, disregards the second photo... I have no idea how that ended up there. I don’t even own a saltwater aquarium! Lol

So, I recently purchased some plants online, and they came with a single baby snail!! :D I know that’s an unusual thing to get exited about, but I’ve actually been wanting to buy a snail for one of my aquariums. What I don’t want, however, is a tank-overrun! About a year ago I got a single acute...

I'm currently working on renovating one of my aquariums, and I have some nice lava rocks that I want to fashion into a cave. The only problem is that I can't figure out what the best bonding agent would be for such a project. I'm looking for something that sets relatively quickly, doesn't cost a...

I'm switching my freshwater community to a bigger tank in my house. The new tank had highish nitrates (50-60 ppm), so I did a sixty percent water change and filled it back up with treated water (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates). So theoretically, nitrates should now be down to about 20-30...

Thanks for replying, Autumn! I posted this a few weeks ago, so now my ghosties have hatched and are out of their free-swimming stage. It seems like things worked out pretty well for the fry, although I think I must have lost several (that or they're hiding REALLY well!) because I can't count...

My amanos are bossy bullies, and they'll take advantage of weak or sick fish. Any time anything dies in my community tank during the night, a macabre scene awaits me in the morning. :( I'm not sure if the amonos kill the fish or just start eating it after it dies. However, I have my suspicions...