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Hi folks, Here’s a picture of our Honey Gouromi, Harry. At least we think he’s a he. Can anyone tell for sure?

Thanks! I rinsed mine off in tap water too.

Thanks! I found a local shop that sells plant cultures.

Thanks! Will check them out.

I want to put some live plants in my aquarium to both help reduce nitrates and for aesthetics. Our daughter had a snail infestation after she added a plant to hers. I thought is was because it came from an unreputable shop but I’ve spoken to a couple of more reputable local shops and they’ve...

Our daughter is taking the tetras and re-homing in her 125g aquarium. That’ll work best for everyone.

Hi Colin, Agreed, it’s definitely the Tetras (Serpaes and Red Eye’s).

When we re-homed the danios, my wife got three more of the red tetras. One died a few days later but there are still 5 of them. I keep telling her she either needs a small guppies only tank or not to keep guppies at all. For 8 small male guppies, is a 5 gal tank too small?

Hi Aiken, The water quality is/has been fine. We check it twice per week and have also had it checked at the pet store last week. All the guppies are male. We have a 36 gallon tank with a 50 gal over the side filter and a 40 gal sponge filter.

Hi, My wife has a community tank with guppies, tetras, platties, panda catfish and a pleco. She used to have striped danios too but assumed they were the issue and re-homed them. However we keep finding guppies with their fins/tails bitten off (esp the ones with big tails). One guppy is now...

Thanks Andy! Everything seems to be settling in.

Weekly, usually around 15%.

Just retested (actually, my wife did, not something for a colour-challenged person). Ammonia = 0, Nitrite = 0, and Nitrate = 5-10.

Oops, always get those two reversed. Nitrate is between 0 and 5. 37 gal tank has 26 fish (6 guppies, 6 diamond tetras, 5 danios, 3 red miner tetras, 3 panda catfish, 2 platties and a pleco), taller tank. We also added a small live plant about 4 weeks ago that helps keep NHx down some. We were...

Thanks!