Recent content by rbell831

Thanks so much! I will keep it trimmed down since it is getting so long and try some floating plants. It seems to only be growing on my center wood piece and not attaching to my live plants, so that's good. I just really enjoy the way it looks and my fish seem to enjoy it.

Hello! I have a 38 gallon bowfront and have had it set up and running since December. I have several live plants and fish and it's thriving pretty well. I have had green hair algae growing on my centerpiece wood decoration and no where else. It really actually looks pretty cook and my fish...

Today I brought home a rainbow shark (Epalzeorhynchos frenatum). He's in a 20 gallon tank with 2 cory cats, 4 platys, 1 dalmation molly, 2 guppies, and 1 tetra. He's doing great and has established his territory in a cave we provided. I need advice on what and when to feed him. The rest of my...

Thanks for the response! Looks like my nitrate is barely 5. Is that bad? And also, the water has a greenish tint to it, and I have some old yellowish algae (I think?) on my white gravel. Is there a way to fix that? I keep the light on from 7am to about 8pm. Thanks for any help!

I have an aqueon 20 gallon hexagon tank with an aqueon quietflow 50 gallon filter. The tank has been set up since a week before Christmas, and I've had fish in it since New Years eve. I have one cory cat (I know they're not supposed to be alone, but I'm hesitant to add fish due to cloudy...

So I have a 20 gallon hexagon aqueon tank that had an aqueon quiet flow 20 filter, I have 4 platys, 1 molly, and 2 cory cats. I bought an aqueon quiet flow 50 today and it's ready to go, but I have heard that I shouldn't discard the old cartridge from my other filter. This is a fairly new...

I started my tank about a week before Christmas, and I added five Platys on New Years Eve and two Cory Cats on January 3rd. My first thread on here was on Pleco advice and was told that if I was looking for cleaning fish to get Cory Cats, so I did. They're all doing great, but my tank was...

Hello!! I am pretty new to the whole aquarium/fresh water fish thing, but my kids and I wanted a nice tank for Christmas, so that's what we got! I have a 20g aqueon hexagon tank. The water cycled for about 3 weeks, and on New Years Eve I put in five platys. They seem to be doing well so far, but...

I cycled it for about a week without fish, took a water sample to a local store called aquatic environments, they tested it and said I could put some tetras in, so I put four in. They died within 24 hours, but I think it could've been because my kids were flipping the switch that shuts off the...

Hello!! I am pretty new to the whole aquarium/fresh water fish thing, but my kids and I wanted a nice tank for Christmas, so that's what we got! I have a 20g aqueon hexagon tank. The water cycled for about 3 weeks, and on New Years Eve I put in five platys. They seem to be doing well so far...