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So finally, after several weeks of monitoring my 55 gal to make sure everything was okay (had some concerns about the health of 2 tetras for a while; QTed them for a couple weeks and all has been fine since) I got 4 new angels on Friday with the hopes that one will pair up with my original...

I'm having trouble keeping nitrates as low as I'd like them to be and am wondering if this could be caused by rotting driftwood. The tank has been fully cycled for over a month and my tap water contains about 5ppm of nitrates. I have a really hard time determining the exact level of nitrates...

On Tuesday of last week, I noticed a small, flesh-colored patch on one of my loaches' heads. (Not his flesh color, like human flesh color.) Being the fish hypochondriac that I am, I spent a couple hours online poring over disease info. and also forced my boyfriend to stare into the tank with...

Ok, so originally I was thinking of finishing off my tank with a small school of Boesemani rainbows but since then I have come upon a couple new considerations: First, I have fallen madly in love with my baby, veiltail angelfish, Leopold (Poldy). We got him a little over a month ago when he...

How exactly does Seachem Prime work? I've been doing some research on here about which dechlors people consider to be the best, and decided to switch from using Stress Coat (which I have used for at least 3 years without problems, but know it's not the best) to Prime as my dechlor. This is...

Hey everyone, It's been a long time! I am finally upgrading my 25 gallon (which has been housing 3 clown loaches for 3 years) to a 55 gallon-- super excited. We have the tank set up as a sort of room divider behind the couch in the center of our apartment. We just planted it and filled it...

As a few of you know, I'm dealing with fin rot in my betta. He tore his fins on the filter right before I went on vacation, leaving my mom to care for the tank. I think she majorly overfed, and the water quality declined, and I think he was susceptible to fin rot because of his injury. But...

My heart is still pounding right now. I was sitting at the computer typing, when I hear a huge splash from my Eclipse tank. I lean over to look in and examine the situation more closely, and only two loaches come up to greet me. All three of them ALWAYS come over to the glass whenever I look...

I've had my betta in a 10 gal. with some corys for a couple months now, and everything has been going great. I did notice he was swimming very close to the intake tube of the filter a few times, but he always swam away quickly and I figured he could handle it. A few days ago, I had the flu...

I was flipping through liveaquaria.com and saw some turquoise danios. Here is the link: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=948 I decided these would be the perfect fish for my Asian biotope tank, as I need some blue coloring in there. However, I've never...

I'm planning on gluing a piece of driftwood to the top of my PennPlax cave in order to make my tank decorations more multi-level. When I asked for some sealant to do this at Petco, I was given aquarium silicon (like what you would use to hold the glass together). I was wondering if this is...

Thanks to an immense amount of help from so many of the people on this site, I now have 3 clown loaches living happily in my secondhand 29 gal. At least, they appear to be living happily, but I have some questions about the biggest one. My loaches are three distinctly different sizes: The...

I think this is my first post in the planted section! I'm currently successfully growing hygrophila and an amazon sword in my 10 gal. I now have a new 29 gal. which is not going to be heavily planted, because it gets very little light. (I only turn it on for a few hours a day when I'm home...

Ok, maybe this is a sort of obvious question, but I really don't know whether or not it's okay to rerefrigerate an already opened package of bio spira. The packages seem to be sealed so tightly that's it's definitely not something I could ireplicate with tape. Is it okay to use half a pack of...

So tonight, I started filling my 29 gal. (it's a secondhand tank) w/ water. I put in the used gravel that my friend gave me along with the tank a few days ago. When I opened the tupperware container the gravel was in, I noticed it was still a little wet, but figured if I boiled it, everything...

Hi folks, Hopefully, in the next few days, I will begin stocking my 29 gal. tank with fish by adding a school of 8 Harlequin Rasboras. My question is pretty straight forward: Can I add all 8 rasboras at once along with an oz of Bio Spira (an oz. treats 30 gallons)? This seems to me like it...

I got a new betta yesterday, and he is currently living in a one gallon bowl. (I've had new feelings about the betta bowl thing, and I feel bad about keeping him in there, but he's going to be moved into a 10 gal. as soon as I move my dwarf gourami into the bigger tank.) I added a drop of...

Hey everyone, It's been a while. My fish are all doing fine, thanks to the advice on this board, and I'm about to start up a secondhand 29 gal. tank that I was able to clean thanks to more advice from here as well! I cannot express how valuable this site has been to me or how much I have...

So, now that my 10 gal has finally cycled, I have of course acquired a new tank. (I know many people here can sympathize with me on this addiction.) It belonged to a friend of mine, and is a 29 gal Eclipse. I am thrilled, but the only thing is that she must not have cleaned it before she put...

I am thinking of doing something with bamboo pieces for a new aquarium. Its inhabitants will be clown loaches and serpae tetras, and maybe another type of tetra as well. I know that the clowns would like to have some bamboo cylinders lying on the substrate for them to hide in, and I was also...

I am in the process of setting up a brackish tank for a figure eight puffer. (As soon as it's finished cycling, he's going in!) I have read that snails are a very important part of their diet. I was wondering if there are any snails that can survive and reproduce in brackish water for the...

Yesterday I put a piece of driftwood in my ten gallon tank. I boiled it for an hour first. I was too impatient to let it soak in a bucket to leech out all the sediments that color the water. Now, the water has a definite tannish tint to it. This doesn't seem to harm the fish, but i was just...

For reasons that I just posted in the thread about "fish with a bent spine", I currently have a dwarf gourami who is in bad shape because of what i think is a parasite. I am not sure the name of the parasite, or if that is what it postitively is. It was brought on by excessively high nitrite...

i have two, young cory catfish sharing my ten gallon tank with a dwarf gourami. when i feed the fish in the tank, i usually sprinkle just a little bit of food on the surface of the water which pighead (the gourami) wolfs up in a couple of minutes, and then put some flakes in the stream of my...

I can't help feeling that this is an incredibly stupid question that shows complete ignorance for the process of biological filtration. But the subtitle of this forum says there are no stupid questions, and after extensive reading of this site, I trust the people here to answer more than anyone...