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Hello, I have a 5g tank that has been up and fully cycled for a couple of years now. Just recently, I switched it from a betta tank to a shrimp tank. (picture below). A few months ago, I bought 9 shrinp 3 blood reds, 3 blue ones (forgot real name), and 3 gold backs. Since then, they have been...

So I wanted some taller plants for the shrimp to hide in in my betta tank and I remembered a local lake was having problems with what I assumed was hornwort so I decided to go over there and grab some instead of going to my LFS and buying it, I got it, got back, and cleaned them with a mix of...

Hi guys I have this betta who has been in a clean and cycled comunity tank for around 6 months without issue and without any other fish getting sick. But recently she started sitting at the bottom of the tank and breathing heavy. I tried to feed her and she ate like she normally did then went...

Hi guys below I posted a picture of my 5g tank. It's completely cycled and I recently bought a betta, nerite, and an assain snail. One the first day everything went fine and then on the second day I got the betta to eat. He was looking good and healthy then the next morning I wake up and hes no...

Hi guys I have a 20g cycled tank that been up for a couple years now with adequate stocking and recently my corydora stopped moving alot and got a huge bump in its stomach. Its fins are currently clamped and its nose Brussels are broken (have been for a while, probable because of the gravel...

Hi guys I have a perfectly fine 20 gallon tank with alot of media in the back which has been cycled for a couple years now. However I have recently added a filter cartridge from another tank witch is not cycled at all (new cartridge). My question is how long does it take the bacteria to spread...

Hi guys I have recently come down with MTS and have just bought a 5 gallon rimless aq. I'm currently cycling it and adding cycled filtration to the filter but when looking at the filter (picture below) i dont know if I can put a bio bag on the right side as it is not inline with the filter...

Hi guys I'm a semi experienced aquarist and I just got my 2nd tank I dont have any questions about introducing fish or that stuff but my problem is that when cleaning my gravel i didn't do a good enough job and after adding water to the gravel my tank went dark brown. I know it's a waiting game...

Hi guys I have a female swordtail in a fully cycled tank. The fish has been in there for about 2 years and has just sustained a pretty deep cut into its body during breeding (there are 2 females and 1 male all similar sizes and they're in a comunity tank not separated for breeding). This cut is...

Hi guys I have a 20g tall tank with 3 swordtails 5 guppies 1 corydora a nerite and a assain snail the tank is well cycled and has been up for 2 years without any problems the water has 0 ammonia 0 nitrite and 20ish nitrates I have a huge anubias barteri that is doing great a nana version of that...

I dont know if this is the right place to put this question in but here it is. I have a aqueon 20 gallon tall aquarium and its been up for almost 2 years and just the other day my left light started flickering and now it's out so my question is, how do I replace it? Should I buy just one new...

Hi guys I recently bought a 6.8 oz bag of fluval biomax for my HOB filter when I was going to put it in i realized that i didnt have enough space in it so I'm here to ask If it is ok to cut open the bag and just dump the boinax in or if I should wait and hold on to use it at a later date as I...

Hi guys I have a sick gourami that I have been treating with general cure for 2 days now and when I was at my LFS the guy said if this doesnt work get another stronger med (I forgot the name) I added 2 packets to my comunity 20 gallon and removed the carbon but I haven't seen that many sighs of...

Hi guys I have a 20 gallon tall tank with 2 female swordtails 4 female guppies 2 male guppies 1 corydora 1 nerite snail and 1 male gourami. The tank has been setup for around 15 months and I put the water parameters that I just took post water change down below my problem is the male gourami he...

Hi guys I recently got a male swordtail to go with my 2 female swordtails. I got antsy since my first male swordtail was with those females for 6 months and even with prestiene water conditions they didnt breed. That swordtail died a while ago and I decided to try again after about a week of...

Hi guys about 2 weeks ago I got a 3 ish inch flame gourami as an accent fish to my 3 sword tails and 6 guppies (all in ratio of 2 females to 1male) a zebra snail and one corydora that just wont die (I say this cause I've had him for about 8 months and all the others I try and introduce die...

Hi guys it's been a while since I posted a question because I usually look on the internet for the answer before I ask on here but for this one I couldn't find the answer so I have a 20 gallon tank been setup since last new years and I have 3 swordtails 2 females and a male 2 male guppies...

Hi guys I have a betta fish that I got from petsmart about 4 months ago she's been fine till about a week ago when I noticed she had popeye and I separated her into a big breeding box. I had since I do not have a qt tank she started to eat quickly but it's been a week and it hasn't gotten better...

Hi guys I have a 20 gallon tall set up with a female betta 2 female sword tails a angelfish which I have not been able to sex and a female guppy all of these fish have been in the tank for at least a month and I just saw a baby floating around I haven't seen any breeding and I did have some...

Hi I got a 20 gallon tall tank and k was wondering if there was anything cool I could make for it at home any ideas?

Angel fish not eating Hi I'm new to aquariums and I just got a 20 gallon tall tank and i added all the chemicals and 2 baby Angel fish from the store 3 days ago along with 2 neon glo fish the neon fish died on the first night and when I brought them in the following day along with a water...