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So I've heard that gourami's are semi aggressive fish and with my community, I didn't want to put an aggressive fish in my tank. My daughter fell in love with a powder blue gourami at the store so I decided to bite the bullet and get him. He has been very calm and docile with everyone else in...

The frog is in the smaller tank and coexists with the shrimp ok. They seem to ignore each other. I just can't figure out why shrimp die within 24-48 hours after I put them in the big tank. The only difference between the stock is the rainbow fish in the larger tank. I change the water in both...

Hi everyone. I have 2 tanks at home, a 29 gallon in our family room and a smaller 10 gallon in the kids' room. The smaller tank has a couple of glofish danios and tetras, a small platy, a corycat and African dwarf frog along with 3 ghost shrimp. The shrimp have been thriving in the tank for the...

So last night, my daughter runs to me yelling that she sees a fry at the bottom of out 29 gallon tank. Sure enough, she's right. To make a long story short, we were able to find and rescue 10 guppy fry out of the tank and put them into there own, half gallon tank. Now for the question...how do...

My bn won't touch the algae wafers. I have a Dalmatian Molly that loves them though. He pushes everyone else away including the other Molly I have in the tank.

I don't normally get fish from Walmart, but I was in need of a pleco and Walmart had a couple in their tanks that looked really healthy so I got one. He's still doing really good.

Cycling is definitely a possibly but it also sounds like where you got the fish too. If I'm reading right, all of your fish from Petco have survived but most of your fish from PetSmart didn't. I had that same problem with the same companies. I'd look into it if I were you. I started watching...

We have a bristlenose pleco. I have the algae wafers but the mollys and guppies always seem to get it before he even notices it. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the mollys eating the wafer so they don't eat the plants in the tank. I've tried putting the wafer in at night before I turn off the...

Thanks, B. One question about the waste...I still have my pleco in the 10 gallon tank because I didn't think he'd be able to find any food for a while in the new tank. How long should I wait before adding him?

True that, but everyone in there are males, except for the 3 female guppies. That's why I wasn't sure if putting the second male guppy in would cause some issues or if I needed to offset by getting 1 or 2 more females.

There are a couple mollys, a couple platys, 5 zebra longfin danios. My wife is interested in breeding the guppies and the local LFS has said it will buy any fry once they get big enough to sell.

My wife and I have upgraded from a 10 to 29 gallon tank. We've cycled the tank and transferred all of our friends into the bigger tank. My wife decided she wanted to get some female guppies to go with our 1 male guppy. We went and added 3 females to our tank and everyone seemed happy. Yesterday...

I'm not sure the brand...it came with the tank...from Top Fin. Seems to work fine...no problems with it at all. It needed to be cleaned so I went ahead and cleaned it in the additional water I've put into the new tank. I thought that would be a good way to move some of the bacteria into the new...

Hey everyone. I have upgraded from a 10 gallon tank to a 29 gallon tank today. The sales person at the pet store told me it would be easy to cycle the new tank...just take all the water and decor from the old tank and move it into the new tank, fish and all. I really didn't feel like arguing...

I added a sun fire platy to my tank a few weeks ago and he did the same thing. Didn't eat and kept to himself at the bottom of my tank, away from the tetras and danios I keep. I figured he was lonely so I went back to the store to get him a friend. I decided on a Dalmatian Molly since they told...

I have a Dalmatian Molly in my 10 gallon tank. I have a couple neons a platy and zebra danio with it so I don't have any salt in there at all. Aside from being a pig during feedings and eating the plants in there, he is doing great.

We're hoping to upgrade. This was a "test" tank to see how our daughters would like an aquarium and if they could be responsible to help with taking care of it. They've done great so we'll probably see about upgrading in the near future.

I've got a small 10 gallon tank with a variety of community fish including a couple of male swordtails. Last week, I noticed that one of the swordtails' fins was starting to shred. We've had problems with the guppies in our tank with their tails shredding. In fact, all but one guppy has died...

Thanks. Everyone is really enjoying our new additions to the family.

Personally, I've used both Petsmart and Petco. We've only had our aquarium running for a month, but I can say that none of the fish we got from Petsmart lasted a week. All of the fish from Petco are doing great in our tank. I think it mostly has to do with the way the people treat the fish at...

I'm embarrassed to say no. We're complete novices with fish. We actually got the aquarium because my 4 year old daughter is autistic and we thought she would respond to the movements and bright colors of the fish. She really loves them and will spend hours in front of the tank watching them swim...

Hi everyone. I'm new to the hobby but eager to learn as much as I can. My family just got a 10 gallon freshwater tank which we have filled with various types of community fish. All the fish are thriving except guppies. For some reason, guppies aren't doing well in our aquarium. Since we've...