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I was hoping for some options other than the mbuna I've owned just to see if there was something new I wanted to try. Thanks I'll look into those! I never knew which ones stayed smaller or not. Are wet pets really worth keeping one fish? I always thought it was odd to keep a fish in a tank they...

Hey guys! I recently picked up a 55 gallon tank to hopefully raise and breed Saulosi mbuna in it. But i figured id see what other fish are out there for this tank size just incase something peaks my interest. I have a 75 gallon mbuna tank already and theyre great, but i havent tried anything...

Ok. And these substances aren't added by the fertilizers? I had thought those were pretty much covering most of what the plants needed in that sense. And in that sentence I was referring to my 20 gallon long tank that I've been running for a while now. I had stayed below 5ppm nitrates always...

Hornwort gets its nutrients from the water column so I think I wouldn't need Eco complete. She has less light than my other tank and more water to penetrate, so I'm not sure if she's get as much growth. Maybe if there was more of it spread out throughout the tank (so it's not blocking lower...

I have a my 20 gallon thats been struggling to keep any nitrates from the plants i have in there. It makes me curious if that could be a reliable system if set up to prolong maintenance since there wouldnt be any waste accumulated? I only have low to medium light with java fern, a few anubias...

I've had fish just "disappear" with no other signs of escape. My assumptions was that it died and slowly decayed or was eaten by the other fish/snails in the tank without us seeing. All other fish have seemed well when it happened. But when a fish is sick it will tend to hide away so sometimes...

Yes i do have snails. MTS, ramshorn, and recently a new nerite snail. The older snails dont make eggs like that, but apparently nerite eggs fit the description. Thanks! Kind of weird that it came with the new driftwood and stayed around until now though lol But it was in a tank before so i guess...

Ok I wonder what it is then. Weird Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

I have had corries dieing with white fuzz on them and fin rot. Does anybody know what these spots are? I noticed that the driftwood peice I had purchased had a few on it after I had put it in. I didn't think much of it but now it's on my other price of driftwood that never had any. Any ideas...

Thanks for the help. I wasn't sure what to use so I started treating with Api fungus cure. The active ingredients are 3mg Victoria green B and 30mg acriflavine Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Really? I forgot to post my findings but they were completely different. I took a handful of MTS and ramshorn snails from my planted tank and put them in a jar to introduce without being eaten right away. I placed the jar upside down to let them get into the substrate first but as soon as the...

Ok so I went the the LFS I usually like to see what he had for meds vs the one where I live that mainly stocks melefix and not much for actual antibiotics or whatever. Turns out he doesn't have anything for meds, but he tried recommending me to add a some aquarium salts. I told him corries are...

Yes and I agree. But unless there is some unseen bullying from the tetras, I'm not sure why. Water quality tests really good. In fact I tested again yesterday to be sure and the removal of the 3 fish caused my plants to bottom out my nitrates as well. So I test 0ppm ammonia, nitrite, AND...

Tank has been set at 75 degrees based off of their needs. Food is a community flake and freeze dried bloodworms alternated and fed to the other fish, and sinking hikari catfish pellets broken in half and dropped in both at regular feeding and at night. They never really came out to eat, from...

Thanks for the info! I don't think the cause is tank related per say. From what I can tell anyways. I'm pretty crazy about maintenance and keeping perimeters in check. But the first group of corries I bought always hid away and had some ragged fins from the start. I was hoping it would heal up...

So this week I have some bad news to report first. I noticed one of the corries had white fuzz on him that appears to be fungus (although I haven't ran into an illness like this before). I moved it and two other corries to a 10 gallon quarantine yesterday and today two of them died. I'm pretty...

How can I tell if it's fungus or columnaris? It was mentioned online that they can look similar and be mistaken? I had moved 3 corries to a 10 gallon tank with an established sponge and filter to quarantine and 2 of them died. The one I watched die and he would swim normal then seem to float...

I'm not sure what that one is. Can someone recommend a good medication for this? And is it contagious? From what I've read, it seems like it's not and more so to do with the fish being unhealthy enough to ward it off to begin with. But should I treat the main tank as well? Sent from my iPhone...

Also I've never tested hardness. But my ph is 7.8-8 (depending on the kit I used) and supposed to decently hard. The pandas in my girlfriends tank have been out and healthy, but they're from a different batch Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and less than 5ppm nitrates at all time (plants have been taking it all before it can build up any). First 4 corries added on December 4th I believe, and the rest were a week or two after. Tank setup on oct 23rd I believe and I've tested regularly (the odd time I seen...

I don't see any signs on any other fish but this seems like it's been growing for a while. Fungus? Spreadable? Best medications to use? 10 rummynose tetra 9 panda corries 3 guppies 1 platy 10 Amano shrimp 1 nerite and tons of MTS and ramshorn snails Low light planted 20g long tank Sent from...

Shellie's are interesting and I was thinking about doing those eventually. Actually that was my original plan for my 20 gallon long planted tank but I had a hard time finding a place to buy larger shells for them. They may be an option, but I can't see there being too much of a market for those...

I am entertaining the idea of trying to breed some fish. My PH is around 7.8-8. I have african mbuna, but due to the possibility of some of them cross breeding, i wont be doing much with that. More as a hobby and to see what comes of it then to make any real profit. Am i pretty much stuck with...

Ok I thought I could just aim to keep the nicer ones that come from a batch and remove the not so great ones to hopefully eventually end up with a better outcome then the first fish. Maybe I'll just forget about aiming to change them and just go with a guppy tank to breed one kind Sent from my...

That's a good point. Could you see a decent way to do it with the two tanks and eventually achieve my goal strain as males and females like my current male? Maybe move the males and females to their own tank after fry start to show sexes, then removing all but the next trio (or do two groups of...