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I feel very bad making this post, but I hope you all know where I am coming from: My mom has a large 55 gal tank that has been running for some time. There are only 5 fish in it: a small-medium goldfish one lonely neon a cooley loach a small pleco a medium chinese algae eater The tank is a...

One more thing...should I worry about feeding him too many? They are so tiny, it's hard to judge how many is too much. I try not to give him too much flake food, but with this I don't know.

Okay, thanks everyone! I guess it's not wise to try to keep them alive past babyhood. I try not to eat potato chips, and neither shall my fish! :D So, the hatchery thing I got is basically a black box that you put the egg mixture into with water, with a little hole in the top where you put a...

I got brine shrimp kit to see if I could hatch them and feed them to my betta. They hatched alright, and I poured them in his tank and he set about gobbling them up. The only thing is there were about a million of them. I don't see how he will eat them all. How long do brine shrimp live in...

That's everyone for the help so far with my betta, and he thanks you immensely as well. I have a few questions still, so I thought I'd lump them together here. :-) 1. About temperature. It's getting chilly here in the Northeast. It's in the low 40s tonight. I set my temp in my apartment at...

Have you seen those little overhead lights that clip on to the top of a fish bowl so you can see the fish better? Are they any good? How would they effect an otherwise happy betta? Would he mind the bright light overhead?

Okay, so I should get another cory. Can I get a speckled one or one with a different coloring or should I get one just like him? I hope that works, b/c if not then I'll have 3 fish runnin wild in my tank! They are cool little fish though, so I don't mind having a pair of them. :-) The thing...

I mentioned this to the girl at the fish store because someone here told me that, and she said no, they would be fine on their own. She said she had one alone in her tank at home. I've had corys alone before, but in bigger tanks. Does that make a difference? This is so confusing. It seems like...

I got 2 fish for my 5 gallon tank, a dwarf gourami and a cory catfish. I bought them two days ago and they have been swimming up and down frantically since I got them. I've had corys before in other tanks, and they spent most of their time swimming around the bottom looking for stuff to eat...

So....even if a display is labeled "african dwarf frog" it is possible that it is something different? This is disheartening. The local Petsmart has dwarf frogs, or so says the label on the tank.

I just put a single dwarf gourami in my 5 gal tank, and there are real plants in there. So....if he feels happy, he's gonna trash the place? :D I'd be thrilled if he was content enough to make a nest, but from your pic it looks like he makes a big mess! Mine could be a female for all I know...

Some people here have mentioned having frogs in their tanks. A friend of mine has a long finned danio (rescued from oblivion) and an african frog in a 3 gallon tank and there is no problem. I was told today that frogs will kill fish if they can. I figured this to be true if it was a big frog and...

My betta started blowing bubbles the other day, but he didn't seem to know what he was doing. He was just putting them here and there and then staring at them funny. Today I came home from work and he had a big frothy pile of bubbles in one corner of the bowl. Is this a bubble nest or is there...

How do you find a good store though? (I assume 'lfs" means fish store but what does it stand for?") I went to three stores today to buy plants. The first one, a major chain store, had plants that were rotting and thrown together in a a big lump in the plants "display tank". The second one...

It's at my mom's home now, so I don't have ready access to it. I'd hate to put any of that gravel in the little tank anyway. I have nice natural gravel in the new tank and the 55 gal has blue gravel now. Wish I could have the 55 gal in my apartment, I'm just afraid a disaster might occur and...