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It is my opion that air stones in a planted tank are not needed or advised. Don't need gas exchange to help c02 escape from water. If im wrong I'm sure some one will post that i am.

The colors of those will make beautiful fry. Tank looking good.

I have a 90 gallon heavily planted aquarium with just guppies and i love them. They breed like crazy. Of all the fish i have ever had i liked them the best. Moe the gold fish were still buds. I still feed him by hand. I swear moe looks me in the eye and says whats up. Hope you can keep him in a...

I don't know how big he will evetually get but the one i had grew to 6 inchs an was thick. He was in a 30 gallon till i put him in a pond.

Put something in the tank that the babies can hide in. Live plants are best but artificial will work to. The gold fish will eat them to and when he gets big he will eat the adult guppies as well.

I did that once a long time ago so this might be out dated. I used sewing thread anchored with a fishing wieght called a split shot. Put them in different locations in tank to see what direction thread would sway. Hope this helps.

He gre to almost 2 feet in about 16 months. Put him in a 29 by about 13 foot pond not square but roughly that size and after 6 months in it he looked confined. Still can't believe a herring could eat him. But thats what my wife said she saw.

I kept one in a 150 till he got big then he went into my pond. A herring got him. He was my favorite fish. A fish that breaths air. I used to feed him mice. The kids loved that. If you ask me he should not be in a fish tank unless you have one in the thousnd plus size.

The hose is is the most likely sourse if it does not have sprayer on it. Some water remains in the hose after you wrap it up and those mosquito will find it and lay eggs in it. Once they are in the house they repeat this using your tanks. Got to kill both the larvae and the bug. Kill the larvae...

Forvot to ask how do you do water changes. Do you put water in buckets and let them sit open or do you use water strait from the tap. If you store water in buckets make sure tbey are covered. The bugs could be laying eggs in that water.

They are larvae of some sort. They do look like mosquito larvae. That would explain why they keep coming back. Mosquito fly to water and lay eggs. Bleach only last for one day after that it is ready for more eggs. The way they are positioned is the way they breath. From the back side. Seal the...

Fish as Pets; Aquarium, Pond News, Reviews: Aquarium Planaria; Wiggly Detritus Worms, in Tank Water, on Glass I am sending you a link. First make sure they are not detritus worms. They are not that bad and help keep gravel clean. They are the earth worms for the aquarium. Hope this helps.

So sorry for you. Had a similar issue with thread algae and did something similar and lost all but one patch of dwarf tea. Fortunately. My S repens are back but the tea is still in recovery. Hope it makes you feel better to know you are not the only one.

I just got them from my compost pile and rinsed them. Never thought about parasites. Feed them that way for 3 years. Best part it was free.

Try a small earth worm. Thats what my eel preferred over everything else.

That happened to me when i had africans. They kept digging up the gravel and disturbing the cycle. For me as the tank got older it stopped. I also put rocks that they could dig out and make permanent homes. That stopped them from digging all the time. This was my experience.

Is the turtle in it's own tank with no fish ? If so check that tank closely. The larvae dive down to bottom when lights are turned on.

Test for siicate levels in your water. Phosban silicate remover. Take the silicate out of the water and the diatoms die.

Love fish they appreciate everything you do for them and don't talk back like my kids do lol.

Wecome and I love the magnum 350. I use one with carbon and one with micron filter. I also use a 350 for pre filtering water for water changes.

The repens grow like weed. If they don't have any leaves at the bottom they will when you increase the lighting. If you go with 3 watts per gallon hope you have c02. The repens need to be just stuck in the gravel even with no leaves they will grow. As for lighting i use acombo of t5 high out put...

You know what chat you might be right. The white spots could be diatom skeletons.

Never seen anything like that. It almost looks like a fungus. If you find out what that is please post it.

Silicate comes from the water. Example if your water that you use in tank change comes from a well and that water passes through rocks that are high in silicate you will have a high silicate level in that water. Research diatoms and silicate.

That looks like diatoms. Not an algae but a single cell animal. They need silicate to thrive. Test the water for this. If the water you are using is high in silicate they will eventually encrust everything. As for light diatoms can grow with almost none.