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Training your fish to feed from your hand or a net is a great way to ensure that you can easily catch them in the future if you ever need to treat them or transfer them to another aquarium. It's saved my buns more times than I can count. In regards to the leather, I have a large toadstool that...

No reference to pet stores in New Hampshire? Shocking! I'd like to mention my own stores (shameless self-promotion, I know) here in New Hampshire, the Claremont Pet Center and Lebanon Pet Center. We carry a very large selection of freshwater and marine fish and invertebrates, freshwater...

Sorry, but I'm going to have to correct you on this. A well-fed Snowflake will not go after other fish, nor will they harm immobile invertebrates (corals, clams, feather dusters, etc.) They will go after motile invertebrates like shrimp, but they will leave pretty much everything else alone...

I'll tell you what I tell 99% of the customers who come into my store looking for 'one a' them allergy eaters': No tank needs an algae eater. None. Ever. They're nice to have, but they're not a cure for algae problems. Now, I'm not saying that you should have zero algae if the tank is...

Don't forget that it will turn off every 24 hours for about two minutes, to allow and air that's been trapped inside to purge. Don't be surprised when it turns off on you tomorrow at the same time you turned it on today.

I would certainly break it down and set it up clean, then. Move the fry and the net back into the main aquarium while you do so, get it filled, treated with a water conditioner, and brought up to temperature before putting them in. What are you using for filtration on this tank? You cannot use...

Sand needs to be kept stirred once a week, however. If it's being kept turned over on a regular basis, you won't ever really find stuff getting down into it, and you can just siphon it off the surface. I try to leave one corner of the sand in the tank a little lower than the rest to facilitate...

I mean, if it comes down to the only thing they're doing wrong is not reading directions before using a test kit, and the other store doesn't have as healthy of stock or is a big chain store, definitely stay with the store you're using. Support local independently-owned businesses whenever...

Just scoop it out with a net. If this is a freshly set up aquarium (it should be; don't go putting fry into a dirty tank), then there won't be much mess.

I would remove the gravel and leave it bare-bottomed. Fry can become trapped between the pieces of gravel if the grains are big enough, and gravel just traps detritus and makes you life more difficult when it comes time to do water changes. Keep it bare-bottomed, and you can easily siphon off...

They'll thoroughly enjoy sifting through it and trying to find little tidbits in it. Finer gravel and sand work great for goldfish, provided that you do gravel vac/stir it up every week to prevent it from accumulating too much muck (especially with goldfish).

Might want to find another LFS, or at least inform them that they're using their tests wrong. If you don't give that bottle a hefty shake for 30 seconds each time you test, you're going to get skewed results.

Answer 1: If she's a younger fish, you can expect up to 15-20 fry. Once she stops dropping them in quick succession, she's probably done. If she hasn't given birth in the last minute or so, take her out of the breeding net; the loss of one or two late fry is less than the potential loss of the...

Hi everyone, my name is Mar, and I'm from New Hampshire. I've been in this hobby for almost 11 years now, with the same amount of time in the aquatics business. I've kept everything from the most basic freshwater fish, all the way up to full-blown reef tanks and everything in between...