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Male bettas don't play well with most other fish. It depends a lot on it's personality though so if it isn't super aggressive sometimes you can have snails or dull colored Corydoras etc. but it isn't usually recommended. Females are generally less aggressive and can sometimes even be part of a...

Just curious, do you guys have any good methods to prevent the baby shrimp from getting sucked up when you're siphoning your tanks?

Alright :) thanks. I mostly just wanted to make sure that at two weeks in there is still in a possibility of not being fully adjusted to the new tank. I've mostly had fish and snails before this and they're usually pretty settled in by the first week or week and a half.

Normal water as in ammonia at 0ppm, nitrite at 0ppm, and nitrate at under 20ppm. The pH hangs at about 8.0, which is a bit high for these shrimp, but many people have had no problem with it as long as it stays constant instead of fluctuating which it might if I try to lower it. I've only heard...

Not totally sure how old this yellow rcs is. I didn't even think my shrimp had bread yet until I saw this little guy... The shrimp in front is about an inch long.

I added 11 yellow rcs that I ordered online to my 5gal about two weeks ago, and two of them have died. The tank has been running for about two months, and is also home to some ramshorn snails and MTS. The water parameters are normal (high pH but I'd rather it be constant than mess with trying...

Thanks, and thanks for all the advice too

Yeah.... He just died a little while ago :'(

Yeah... I don't think Peanut's going to make it :/ he looked way better a few days ago, but now he's back on the ground gasping, his body is yellowing, and I can see dark splotches in his gills :'(

Figured out the fuzz :P it's no big deal and my snails love eating it... My betta is getting worse though :( same activity as before but now he's losing all his color and sometimes looks mostly brown/yellow... I think after the maracyn 2 treatment I'll just keep doing salt bathes, focus on...

I removed all the leaves with fuzz...

Sorry the picture isn't very clear, it wouldn't come out for some reason...

I can't tell if the betta seems any better than yesterday, but something weird is going on in my tank... The water is cloudy (which the instructions in the maracyn two said may happen) but my java fern has bits if white fuzz on it now o.O could this be the medicine, or is it a different problem?

That's such a cool idea! :D

What is that little tree-looking plant? It's awesome! :)