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This is a 30 gal hex, about 2.5 WPG, dosing just a little flourish complete & flourish potassium (didn't get around to it last week). Eco-Complete substrate. I didn't get around to trimming my anacharis for 2 weeks. I'm still trying to replant what I trim off to get a little more in there...

Well, my crayfish doesn't seem to mind:

I've got anacharis in a 30 gal. hex, and every week many of them just float up to the top. I don't think it's dead ones, but the ones that float up never have any roots on them. My fish rarely eat much of the plants. I don't really see anything picking at them, just some cories that play in...

Glass cats do seem to school better than most things when there's nothing threatening them. My glass cats just kinda seem to follow each other around all the time, but there's usually a couple of them just staying still in another part of the tank refusing to play.

Just because lots of people say that crayfish will eat anything you put in the tank doesn't necessarily make it true. If it is true, it can take a very long time. I had swords in the tank with the crayfish for several weeks, and the only one he ate seemed to have kind of fungus and wasn't...

Weird. I didn't know they could keep their door closed after they died.

My dad had a betta when he was in college (about 1963). One day it just disappeared. A few years ago he was going through old vinyl records and opened up a little latching case of 45's and there was a little betta skeleton wedged down in the back.

I've got a 10 gal. with nothing in it but a blue lobster (crayfish). He's not really very aggressive -- at least not when I feed him every day. I was thinking of something else to put in there, and I could put some feeder guppies in there, but I really like koi, and sarasa comets look a lot...

I generally only feed my fish once a day, but it seems like my gourami needs to eat more than my other fish. I don't want to overfeed my fish, though (tetras, rasboras, and a betta), and I also have MTS in the tank which are very close to getting out of hand. When I feed flakes, the gourami is...

Gouramis are a lot like bettas. They have widely varying temperments, and the males are usually more aggressive. The general trends I see are: - one gourami may or may not pick on your other fish - multiple gouramis will usually only pick on each other - a pair of females gets along better...

Lemon tetras are pretty cool. Their colors never look very good in the store, but mine got really bright yellow once I got them home. I haven't seen many other things that school as well as tetras and rasboras. Also, you need to get some semi-aggressive fish in there for the schooling fish to...

It's hard to find plecos that don't get huge. Some places have bristlenose plecos that stay small. The problem with plecos is that from what I've read, most of the smaller ones really aren't very good algae eaters. Even the smaller plecos are still going to get up around 4", and like...

I wouldn't be too concerned with it being too small for a betta like many people here would say, although you may have too much current. Bettas like to have fairly stagnant areas to sit in, so if your filter is giving you decent current in all areas of the tank, the betta could be very...

I've had 3 different male bettas with that gold gourami and never had any problems. It probably depends on the gourami, since it's so much larger.

Aww, but they're cute! All my tanks have a lot of plants in them except for my tank with a crayfish. I assume the little crabs wouldn't last long with him, would they?

My main tank is a 30 gal hex. It currently has: 6 h. rasboras 3 lemon tetras 5 panda corys 1 gold gourami 1 betta (male, solid red) I have a bunch of anacharis in there, a smallish piece of driftwood, and a big white rock. The substrate is Eco with black gravel on top. I used to have blue...

I would just get a whole new test kit. You're going to have to get replacement reagants eventually, and the whole kit is pretty cheap (at least when you have PetSmart match their website it is).

I saw a bunch of gold claw crabs at the LFS. I can't really find any info on them. They were all about 1.2", and a lot of them were hanging around the fake plants in the tank. I was wondering: Do they tear up live plants? What do you feed crabs? Is are they as easy to take care of as...

I've got Eco in my 30 gal hex. It seems more like potting soil with sand and gravel in it to me. Just running a vac over it really clouds up my water. In my tank, I just put 20 lbs. Eco and 10 lbs. black gravel on top of it. I also have MTS. I think it looks a little better with some...