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I setup a planted 10 gallon back in November. I started up the hobby again after downsizing from a 55 gallon planted tank. I followed all setup and cycling procedures to the tee. I insured I did hydrogen peroxide dips on all plants entering the tank and also insured that the substrate was washed...

Hello all, I've been cycling my 9 gal planted tank and just can't get the nitrates to disappear. It's been cycling for more than a month now. All else is going good. PH is good. Ammonium and nitrites have disappeared. Plant growth has been great. But for the past two weeks or so, nitrates are...

I had quite a lot of open space in my tank, so I added a Tiger Oscar a few months ago. He's grown about a half inch or so since we got him. I have a few other fish in the tank (African Knife Fish, Pleco, and a few Rosy Barbs). One of the Rosy Barbs has had a condition for quite some time...

Greetings! I've been running my 55 gallon freshwater tank for close to five years now. When I inherited the tank, it contained only artificial plants. I would really like to move in a more natural direction and add some real plants to my tank. I have conducted research on lighting, CO2, etc...

Greetings. It's been a while since I've had issues with any of my fish, but I noticed this last night and thought I would post about it. I'm fairly certain I've seen this developing on my Dwarf Gourami for a while, but apparently it's gotten pretty bad. It's a spherical growth of what appears...

Greetings, I've had my 55 gallon freshwater aquarium for a while now and the hood has collected quite a collection of nasty dirt and crust that only returns a few days after cleaning it. I inherited the tank from my father, but he had it for several years before I received it. As of right now...

Not sure if this is common of Brown African Knife Fish or not, but I thought this was funny. My wife fed the fish tonight and put an alegea wafer in the tank for our Pleco. We have a total of three caves in our tank (the Knife Fish and the Pleco drift between these three caves). At one point, I...

Greetings. I have a 55 gal freshwater tank and I've been looking at changing the gravel for quite sometime. My late father owned the tank before me and I don't believe he ever performed water changes. I've been doing weekly water changes for the past few years and I think the gravel is just...

Greetings, I setup a five gallon tank about a week ago to save some small fish that were being threatened in my 55 gallon. I bought a cheap air pump to run a small air stone into the tank. The tank looks great, but the air pump is pretty noisy (as expected). I keep my 55 gallon air pump under...

I just bought my first group of Zebra Danios today (five to be exact). I'm really liking them; however, I'm a little concerned. After doing research online and inquiring at the LFS, I learned that the Danios were mid-level dwellers. I have a few other mid-level community dwellers and thought...

Greetings, I've run into a problem lately, and I'm not too sure what could be going on. I have a 55 gallon community tank. I'm running an Eheim Classic 2215 Canister Filter. I've had the tank for close to two years now, and the water has always been crystal clear. I hadn't cleaned the filter...

My favorite fish, the African Knifefish, used to have a pretty tight eating schedule. After feeding the rest of the troop tetra flakes, I would drop in 3 to 4 sinking shrimp pellets and the knife would come out, consume them in seconds, and then go back into hiding. For the past few weeks, he...

I have two Streaked Double Dark Angelfish in my 55 gallon. I've had them both now for about 6 months and I just love watching them. I do have a question though... One has grown to about 2-3/4 inches in width and the other has stayed tiny at about 1-1/4 inch in width. I've feed them both the...

To make a long story short, I ran into problems with my canister filter leaking, so I had to replace all of the green rubber tubing included with my Eheim 2217 filter, with clear tubing from a local hardware store. The filter is to back to working normal now, but I've noticed something odd...

Okay, here's what I have in my 55 gallon right now: 1 African Butterfly Fish 1 Brown African Knife Fish 1 Six Inch Pleco 2 Angelfish 5 Rosy Barbs 4 Serpae Tetras I've always been bad at judging with is understocked, just right, or overstocked. How would you rate my situation?

Last night before performing my weekly water change, I remembered that I had run out of Top Fin de-chlorinator the last time I did a change. I ran out to a local pet store not far from my house, but the only thing I could find was Stress zyme. I have had no experience with Stress zyme, but I...

Several days ago I posted a topic about how my Eheim Classic Filter was leaking: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f12/canister-filter-emergency-115940.html The quick release gang valves kept leaking at the point of connection without reason. I ordered new gang valves (without a quick...

Help! Tonight, I disconnected my Eheim Classic 2215 Canister Filter from the intake and output tubes using the quick release gang valves so I could rinse off the filter media. After getting it cleaned out, I reconnected the tubes to the canister. When I turned the canister on, water drips...

I just bought a 30–60 gallon Tetra air pump. I'm using it to setup up one air stone, however, there are two outputs. The problem is that air keeps coming out of the second output. Should I do something to plug this other output so the pump doesn't burn up? Thanks!

Well, my young black ghost knife died a few days ago for unknown reasons. I'm missing the little guy, as he added a lot of life to the tank. I had him him a 55 gallon with a few other fish, hoping to upgrade to a 120 gallon once he got a little larger. I don't think I'm going to get another...

My BGK is acting really strange. He almost never comes out during the day but he came out tonight and was swimming around really strange. He would quickly zoom up to the surface and then he would all the sudden stop, become still, and sink to the bottom. At times, he would be swimming at the...

I've been wanting to post photos of my tank for a while, but I was having problems with cloudiness and such. I installed an Eheim Classic 2215 filter last week and it's been running great. Here's what's in the tank: 1 African Butterfly Fish, 1 Black Ghost Knife, 1 Pleco, 2 Serpae Tetras, 2...

Well, I found out the the reason my water is so cloudy is because of overfeeding. Tonight I noticed very small 1/32" white worms crawling all over the aquarium glass (hundreds of them!). I really didn't think I was overfeeding but I can't be sure. Anyway, I plan on doing a 20% water change every...

So today I finally came across an African Butterfly Fish. I brought it home, got it acclimated, and set him free. Then I read online about how these fish can leap up to six feet! They made it clear that any openings in the hood should be sealed off, since these fish have leaped right out of the...

Look what I found today! I'm so excited. Then I read about how they can jump six feet in the air! So, I had to cover all of the openings on my hood, but it is well worth it.