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I woke up this morning to find this little guy floating in my plants. He was the active one of the two upside down catfish, the other one hides ALOT and I actually had to go in and move things around to find him. I am not sure what happened to him, but he has this strange HUGE yellow spot on...

Hello there! I am also new, and I am in the middle of cycling my tank. I have had tanks in the past, but it has been 15 years, so this is all slowly coming back to me. My suggestion is once you understand the cycling part (and I am also still learning about it), is to also really research...

Thank you! I just want to make sure that I don't sit too long and make my fish sick. I have some babies in there and I would hate to do something that would cause them to get sick or die.

I don't want to do a water change if the amonia levels are up, right? I need those to peak so that the bacteria will grow? I only want to do a water change when the nitrites go up? Maybe I am confusing myself. My amonia right now is .25 mg/l on the little card. And my nitrites are safe. So I...

Thank you! I really didn't want it to look hokey but it was really for our kids. My 8 year old is into princesses so much that I was trying to get her to like something more fish appropriate, so we just all call it the Pirates of the Carribean theme. So we were trying to balance out stuff for...

I just took some pictures, now I have to figure out how to upload them. :)

LOL. I think that is what got us in trouble. We had this HUGE tank with 6 little fish in it and we couldn't see them. They were always back in the plants or something. So we kept testing the water and waiting, and we added a few more. No biggie though. I think we have enough to just sit and...

Ok, cool. We will just sit on these fish for a while and watch the levels. :) Thanks again! Cat

Well crum Well, darn. I had feeders in there to cycle the tank and had my water tested by the same pet store that gave us the feeders. They said the water was fine and I could start adding fish. They did tell me to add fish slowly, but schooling fish needs to be added in schools of 5 or 6...

Babies Well, now we have babies! Right now I have only seen two. I am sure many have not survived. We are not equipped to give them any extra care right now. I am not sure if I am supposed to give them any thing special or if we should stick with the "strong" will survive attitude. I think they...

We received a 55 gallon for Christmas from Santa. He was kind enough to set it up with feeder gold fish to help cycle it. Since then, we have added all fake plants and pirate fixtures. We have also added 5 mickey mouse platys and then cycled that for a few days and then added 6 mollies (2...

Hello all! My name is Helen. I found this site while trying to gather information on top feeders for a freshwater tank. I am married and have two children. We have an 8 year old daughter who is facinated with Sim City games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon. We also have a 5 year...