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3 months ago I upgraded from a 10g tank to a 30g one. The filter I have been using is a mariland the one that comes with the biowheel. I got tire of working with the biowheel to work , I have to fix that very often and I got tire and I'm looking for an upgrade. I have been reading a lot about...

I already have 2 weeks with my new planted tank and I think I already have algae problems. I was using a DIY co2 but I have like 4 days without using it because I got out of citric acid and I'm waiting for some I ordered. I'm using exel . Below is a pic of the tank, also the one on the back...

I recently built a planted tank and it seems the plants I bought had some snails. I don't know if it is something I should worry or not. There is a pic of some of the ones I have found

I wasn't sure if this section was the right one. I have a swordtail I guess, I mentioned "I guess" because it was sold to me as a platy. She is acting strange since today, I had her in a different tank with some platy and since today the other fish started to bully her(in the past she was the...

I recently made a 10g planted tank. I have like 15 platy frys there. I put some ghost shrimps and after a week of normal behavior today 4 of them died. My water parameters are Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0,Nitrate 5pmm and ph pf 7.2 The temp is around 82 most of they while I have the air conditioner...

I have thank that I still cycling and I do wc every day. I notice a few days back that one of my platys is acting strange, it moves a lot in the tank with a strange movement left and right then it sits on the bottom doing the same movement. I notice that also has clamped fins. Anyway what would...

Well this is another confusion I have. Reading articles and thread it says I should not change the bio-bag from my filter because the bacteria. The instructions from the filter(Tetra whisper it came with a kit for a 10g) says I should replace the bag each month. I'm very confuse and I don't know...

I was looking at what light use for my new 10g tank, it will be planted with low light or beginner plants. I want advice if this http://www.amazon.com/Marineland-Light-Hood-20-Inch-10-Inch/dp/B00474BN1K/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 will work? and if not any suggestion?

I'm preparing a tank that I wanted to use for a pregnant play and fry but I don't thing I will be have it finished at time. So I want to know if there any signals about when to know when fry will be coming in order to buy something to have them while I finish the tank. Here are some pics

I have read and told that for a tank with frys having a sponge filter is the best option. My question is this will be enough to filter the aquarium? Also i read here people saying to not use substrate, it is bad to add to the tank? I would prefer to add , just for the looks.

Well I currently have a another 10 gallon aquarium that is not still completed cycled. But I have one platy pregnant and my daughter(and also I) are quite excited about this that I decided to built another 10gallon that I had spare for breeding. I know breeding is not profitable this is just for...

Today my beautiful wife decide to buy 2 fishes without asking me(well the aquarium is from my daughter but I'm the one that do the maintenance) . She bought 2 platys and when I notice one of them was pregnant. My daughter is 6 years old so she is so excited about the pregnancy. My problem is my...

How long cycling can take for a 10g aquarium? I already have 3 weeks and I seems to have problem to keep ammonia low. I have to make water changes 1 days , 1 day not. The day I don't do the water change the ammonia is at .50pmm , I don't know if my testing kit is bad but I always get 0 from...

I'm new into this aquarium thing. I still working with cycling of the aquarium and do a lot of water changes. The thing is that I have notice lately that my fish looks a little fat and today I notice a white poop in form like line or something like that. Don;t know if it looks the line of...

I'm a beginner and I learned about cycling after buying the aquarium for my daughter. I have already 2 weeks doing water changes of 40% like 3 days per week. I checked the PH with the test kit and also with my php meter and I'm getting ph of 8.5 . I checked my water source PH and it seems to...

Hi Everyone I have been reading this forum a lot and I glad to have found this forum. I bought a tetra aquarium kit of 10g. I made the mistake of bought without getting information and I didn't know nothing about cycle etc. Thanks to the information of this site I got a test kit and I have...