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Out of the tanks I've had during the years, what I could tell is an uncycled tank, with high ammonia levels has a kind of pungent faint rotten smell, while a cycled tank is exactly like old scales says that it has a wet earth smell. I've also noticed a tank with an algae problem has like a faint...

Awesome. You bet I'm gonna go back and get like 3 pieces now and redecorate XD.

I went to a big well know chainstore with my girlfriend and they have a lot of arts, crafts, decorations, etc. They had these really cool pieces of decorative wood called grapewood, like the one shown in the pic. I touched it and it has a wood smell, wood texture so I guess it's real wood. It...

Is there any tall, "grass looking" plants that are very low maintenance, low to medium light? I'm producing about 1.3 watts per gallon dosing liquid CO2 and Iron only. EDIT: I forgot, for substrate I have pool fliter sand.

My 2 bolivian rams: Punky (first pic) and Brewster (2d pic) They're both a little pale because they just got out of a 2 day power outage due to a lightning strike :(.

My bolivian ram girl and boy getting their freak on but the Khuli loach interrupted them XD. Lol

About 3 to 5 thousand zebra danios.

My betta Orion killed one amano shrimp out of 5 I had one time, then I took them out until they grew a bit, thinking they would be able to defend themselves. So I put them back in after a while. He then proceded to kill the rest one by one, and then a few ramshorn snails he had in his tank. Now...

My zebra danios are named: Red bull, Monster, Ciclon (local energy drink), NOZ, and Sobe. Guess why they're named like that lol. My 2 Bolivian Rams are called Punky and Brewster cause my gf said those fishes looked like they have a "punk" and I didn't have a name for the other one. Need to name...

Updated pic: Excuse the water bottle but in this tropical heat I have to throw that thing with ice every day just to try and get the water down to 30 C.The rams are doing just fine, loving all those caves. As of today those are my only two remaining Kuhli Loaches of the...

Can a Red Tail shark be alone and do well in a tank that size?

I've always wanted to do something like that but with zebra danios, have like 1,000 of them schooling XD.

I haven't heard of silver danios, you got a pic of yours? Can't find them on a search either, except for the giant danios.

Thanks bro. It's a 20 high 24" x 12" x 16" stocked with a pair of Bolivian Rams, which I think I have a female and a male (hard to sex these fellows :banghead: ), 6 zebra danios, 5 banded kuhli loaches and some ramshorn snail hitchhikers.

I love mine. They are driving me nuts though with their dissapearing acts. A few days back I did a major rearrangement of the tank and when I took everything out I found only 3 out of my 6. I nervously took my filter apart and everything but found no traces of them. My nitrates were normal and...