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I posted this in at the end of my thread in the photography section, but no one has responded, so I figure I'll re-post here. Ok, it's been several months since I've been here, but I just noticed something this evening that shocked me! I think I have eggs! They weren't there yesterday... My...

I just visited a LFS for the first time, and they had a nice selection of fish. One tank had a label "assorted cichlids - $3.98"! They are so cute, and only 3/4" long at this point. I believe the yellow one is a yellow lab, but I don't know about the other 2. One is a bit blue-er than the other...

I recently added several Mystery snails to all my tanks, just to add some diversity and a possible algae defense. I just started dosing Excel, and within 1 day of the first dose, the snails all stopped moving, and almost seemed like they were asleep. Sometimes they just float on the surface, and...

I'm trying to locate a LFS to purchase Flourish Excel. Anyone in the STL area know where I can pick some up?

Ok, this may sound crazy to some of you, but ever since I was in kindergarten, I have raised silkworms as a fun summer project. As a kid, we did genetic experiments on them, and generally learned a lot about how they react to certain stimuli. However, when I grew up and moved to Missouri, I have...

Has anyone been to the St Louis Mills Mall lately? I just heard that there is a new storefront that houses a huge aquarium with pirannahs (sp?). They charge for admittance, and for an extra fee (like $.50), you can drop live fish in to watch them eat.

Can anyone tell me what this black fuzz is? It keeps growing back after I remove it. I imagine it's some type of algae, but it looks more like dense bread mold. How do I get rid of it for good? It grows on the ornamental castle thing in my 47g tall.

I started with a simple tank, left over from an old setup my wife had before we met.

Ok, I just thought of something here in my basement, but I need your opinions on the idea. I am all about cutting corners to save money, and I like to build things, especially wood and electrical, so I thought of a possible inexpensive lighting solution. The big rage for home lighting now is...

I just made my second purchase of aquarium plants from Petsmart. I have two different stores within equal distance from my house, so this time I went to a different store than I did last time. The first store has a tank with plants of various types under lights, weighted down with lead weights...

I just had to share this experience I had the other night... I have my 2.5g FW tank here in my office, and the lighting is controlled only by whenever the office lights turn on/off. The other night, I had to come back to the office to grab something after hours, and the lights had been off for...

Ok, here is my 2.5g FW tank that sits atop my cube at work. It has 4 Fancy Male Guppies in it. No heater, just a Duetto 50 Filter that also aerates the water with a little snorkel on it. I never asked the boss to see if it was ok to set it up, but so far, the only thing anyone has said was that...

I began my search online for answers to my questions about 2 weeks ago by googling "Aquarium Advice". Needless to say, this site was at the top of the hits. I'm a computer nerd, so I often seek answers to problems online in forums and chatrooms. However, I have to say that this site has me...

I made a bit of a mistake... I think. I wanted to swap out the fake plants in my tank and go for real ones, so I went to the LFS, and bought 2 clumps of plants, that are supposed to get up to 72 inches tall (my tank is over 3 feet deep). I was told that I needed to replace my lightbulb...

This is my simple tank. It's looked like this for about 2 years, and I am just now starting to get interested in actually doing stuff with it. Looking at the other pics on this site really makes me wish I had a bigger tank, with lots of plants and prettier fish, but I have this one, and I want...

I am running a 47 gallon, FW tropical tank with no live plants, that has been up for 2 years, relatively happy, with an African Ciclid, some red and black skirts, and a few other random small fish. I had a major problem with Algae though. I had the green stuff that grew on everything, and even...