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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

From what I've learned here, it sounds like most of the nitrifying bacteria in a tank lives in the substrate. I guess it just lives on everything the water comes into contact with, so if you have a ton of media in your filter, there's a ton of bacteria in there. If you have a ton of plants...

I rearranged my tanks and now I've got a 5.5 gal with just a betta and 3 little Sunset Coral Dwarf Platies (all female) I got for $0.99 each at PetSmart. The biggest one is maybe an inch including the tail. I've just gotta say these things are sooooo cute. I've got a bunch of dwarf sag in the...

I've always thought the blue lobsters were really cool and fun to watch. I was thinking of getting a small tank (as small as possible, for an end table) and putting one in there. Then I figured I could just stick some feeder guppies in there now and then ... hopefully he wouldn't massacre them...

OK, I know this picture is terrible, but it's all I've got: I had a rasbora about 3 weeks ago (the above picture), one of my smaller ones. Its right pectoral fin seemed to get really thick. I thought that it had been nipped by another fish and was damaged or something. The fin didn't move...

I suppose nobody else will think this is all that exciting, but I thought it was really funny. I put a pretty big slice of orange in one of my tanks for the first time, and the fish poked at it a little ... not all that excited about it. Then my mystery snail climed up the wall (the orange is...

Just something I've been wondering... Tons of people give orange slices to their fish, and obviously that's not a problem, but is there a limit to how acidic foods can be? What about giving your fish limes? Lemons? Grapefruit? Shouldn't be a problem since it's still just citric acid, right...

Here's my 30 hex: 1.5 WPG (two Aqua-Glo and one Sun-Glo bulb) eco-complete substrate with a little gravel on top a lot of anacharis (no other plants) no CO2 an 8" bubble wand that is restricted to fairly low flow dosing 3 mL Flourish Comprehensive every week after PWC (0.1 ppm Iron) dosing 22...

My water parameters seem really good, but I've never tested for GH and KH. I was reading this article: PH and General Water Conditions Written by: Tonya Beckerdite And it says city water is usually softer and has lower pH, but I have city water and my pH is in the upper 7's. I don't really...

I really like how convenient the Hikari frozen cubes of brine shrimp are. I just get some aquarium water in a cup, put the cube in it, microwave it for about 45 sec, then set it down till all the brine shrimp are all thawed and feathery and spread out, then I split it between the tanks. Since...

I have two tanks: 30 gal hex 1.5 WPG (two Aqua-Glo and one Sun-Glo bulb) eco-complete substrate with a little gravel on top a lot of anacharis (no other plants) no CO2 an 8" bubble wand that is restricted to fairly low flow dosing 3 mL Flourish Comprehensive every week after PWC (0.1 ppm...

I've got a can of the Bio-Pure FD Blood Worms, and my fish really like them. My rasboras are pretty normal and will eat flake food with no problem, but it seems like my gourami and swords are the ones that really go for the flake, and the rasboras just get what floats down to them. When I feed...

I don't know ... maybe the shrimp was already dead, but I thought he was just getting ready to molt. He was getting really milky white and not swimming very well. Next thing I knew my mystery snail was eating him head first! Sorry the pic didn't come out so well. I really need to find my...

Or is it just mine? My pandas are my favorite fish, but they're seem to be my stupidest fish, too. Their activity is more random than anything I've seen. Even my snails and shrimp give me the impression that they have a reasonable awareness of their surroundings, but the cories definitely...

My 30 gal. hex came with a pretty inadequate hood. It was just a single 15" (14W) bulb and had no reflector. The only way I could imagine getting a reasonable amount of light in there was a custom design with two 15" bulbs and one 18" bulb. I went to Home Depot and found a 3-bulb GE ballast...

I just wondered what the average person does with baby fish. I'm sure most people actually bothering to intentionally breed fish have a plan for what to do with them, but what about all the average people who have livebearers? I'm just wondering because I have 3 pregnant swordtails. I have a...

My main 30 gal. tank has been cycled for a month. All the parameters are good and I haven't had any real problems with fish losses. I had 5 panda corys. All of them were very small, and one of them never ate anything and just sat there, then died after a week. Other than that, the only...

My gold mystery snail seems a little dirty. I was thinking of scrubbing his shell with a toothbrush (in the tank, not using any kind of soap or anything). Would that be a bad idea? What if I stuck some ottos in there. Would they clean his shell? Probably not ... I don't think it's algae.

The filter won. :( So, now I've managed to kill two bettas in 4 days. The first one seemed constipated and died. I got a new one Friday evening, and he was fine Saturday afternoon. He swam all around and seemed perfectly happy, and didn't have a problem sitting comfortably at the bottom...

I think I need to feed my fish peas to make sure they don't get constipated. How do you guys do this? When people talk about peeling peas, do you mean taking the skin off every individual little pea, or are you just talking about not gettign peas in pods? I've never bought peas at the grocery...