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Hi everyone! I just returned to the aquarium hobby after a few years hiatus. We set up a peaceful 10gal community tank. It's been cycled and the water parameters are all normal. We recently got an upside down catfish that was happy and healthy except after water changes. The first time, he...

I ordered a new emporer 400 from big al's about a month ago, i set it up and everything was fine. Today, when I was changing the water, I unplugged the filter so when the sand stirred up it wouldn't get into the impeller. Afterwards, when I plugged it back in, I primed it and it makes this...

I am subletting a studio apartment this summer. Unfortunately my current lease ends on the day that my new lease begins, and I can store all my stuff somewhere for a day but not my fishtanks. I arranged to move them in a few days early, and last night my boyfriend and I spent hours packing...

This is a somewhat silly question, but I was wondering if any of you guys out there believe in Feng Shui which is the chinese art of furniture placement in order to have the ultimate flow of positive energy within a room. For example, it is bad feng shui to put a mirror directly in front of the...

I have heard two contradicting things about this. Some people say that it is a bad idea to do large water changes while cycling (fishy cycling) because the tank will never entirely cycle and the ammonia and nitrites need to "spike" in order to completely cycle the tank. I have also heard that...

I'm usually all for cute and pretty fish that are nice and peaceful and don't have to worry about losing fingers with. I don't know what came over me but I decided to give predatory fish a try. Last night I picked up an arrowhead puffer from a guy on campus who was selling his. He's in his own...

Ok, so I got my dwarf puffers about two months ago, I put them in and noticed there was some ich, so i cranked the temps up and added salt, after a week and a half, everything looked fine so i lowered the temps. Then a week later, ich was back, this time i cranked temps up for two weeks and...

Just out of curiosity... I want to convince my parents to build one, but need to give them a good estimate of all costs involved. That includes all materials, livestock, plants, decorations, labor, etc etc... WHat's a good ball-park estimate? Thanks!

I have a Figure 8 puffer in his own 10gal tank with lots of cover. SG- 1.002, slowly raising it up to 1.005. (I just got him two weeks ago, he was in completely fresh water at the LFS) He was a happy camper the first week, eating and swimming all over the place. The past few days, he's been...

I have been trying unsuccessfully to breed nuisance snails for my dwarf puffers for the past two months. I keep on seeing the little blobs of eggs all over the tank, but I never see the results. I used to have ghost shrimp in the tank, but then I found out they eat the eggs, so I took them out...

I set up my 10gal snail tank at the same time as I set up my 30gal. I seeded both of them with a sponge filter from an established tank and did a fishy cycle on both tanks with daily water changes. After about 3 weeks, my 30gal was completely cycled (that was about 3 weeks ago) and is doing...

I have never had a hood on my fishtanks, just a top. Recently I set up my 30gal in my bedroom by the window (which doesn't give much light since I live in a basement) and in order to get a good view of my fishies at night, I have to turn on 3 60watt incandescent light bulbs and point it straight...

Can I feed Krill to my AC's? I've got labs and some random zebras.

I have 3 tiger barbs with my dwarf puffers, and two of them are greedy little punks who eat all the food and even steals the snails from my puffs. I have one that is much bigger (he's the biggest tiger barb I've ever seen) and he doesn't eat much at all. In fact, he doesn't do much besides shake...

I got a bunch of ghost shrimp which were originally for my puffers as food, but they've kinda grown on me. I think I'll just keep them around in my snail tank. One of them has this weird long stringy thing that loops around inside his entire body. It is white and looks very long, it starts at...

Alli was right when she said that dwarf puffers are ich magnets. I noticed one spot on a puff's tail. :? None of the other fish are showing spots yet. I read the article on using salt and heat to treat ich, but I just want to be sure that everything it says will be fine for my fish. (I have 12...

Yay!! I am really excited! These little guys are so cute and sooooo tiny! I got 12 of them in anticipation of some fighting and possible casualties. I will take the ones that don't get along back the lfs, right now they're in there with 3 tiger barbs, 3 giant danios, 2 otos, 1 rubberlip pleco...

My tank is finally cycled and ready to go! I'm driving an hour to the nearest PetSmart tomorrow to get my dwarf puffers, I'm so excited! From all the research I've done and everything I've read here, I should start them on live food. I already have snails and ghost shrimp in my 10gal along with...

I have a piece of driftwood from an old tank that I'd like to put in my new one. My boyfriend cut it in half and used half for his tank, the half with the slate. Now my half (without the slate) just won't sink! I've tried tying it to a flat piece of plastic then putting a bunch of sand on it...

I've wanted a puffer tank for ages and I finally have the tank going now. I was originally going to add figure 8 puffers but after doing more research, I don't think I can handle a brackish tank. I really want dwarf puffers but I have no idea where to get them! I asked my lfs and they said that...

My 30gal is finally up and running! I bought 3 tiger barbs and an oscar last night to start cycling. (I know so many people are against using fish to cycle, and suggest fishless cycling... I've seeded my tank with a sponge filter from an established tank, is it still as cruel to the fish??) The...

So I was planning on setting up a new puffer tank because my boyfriend had a 30 long laying around in his fraternity house. He built me an aquarium stand for Christmas and I returned all my fish in my 10gal to start all over. I put water in the new tank and all the decorations before break and...

I am definitely going to start a puffer tank! :D But I am still debating between which puffers to get. I'll have to special order them from somewhere (do you think my LFS will do it? or would it be easier to buy online?) since all my LFS has are GSP. I'm debating between SA puffers and Dwarf...

Hey guys! After reading all the puffer threads on here and going to my LFS and seeing a bunch of green spotted puffers, I am sooooo tempted to start a puffer tank! I don't know if I am ready to handle the responsibility of a puffer tank though, being a busy college student... But here is what I...

Hey guys, I think my gourami is sick. I have a dwarf fire gourami that was a vibrant orange/red when I first got him. In the past few days, his color has been fading and now he is only orange/red towards the back of his body. The rest of him is now a whitish color with a fading orange gradient...