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I used to have a brackish tank and next year ill have my own apartment so i plan a nice low[ish] maintenance freshwater setup up. tank size: aprox 30 gal substrate:sand and rocks filtration: one power filter, maybe a sponge filter, and a the pneumatic filters that is a grate under the...

my first tank was brackish, so i have minimal saltwater experience. After visiting my LFS, which has a wonderfully large and beautiful selection, my aquiarium mania was resparked. Im purchasing a 50G tank (im assuming, its in a general store and is used) so ihave a few questions. 1) I'm...

Well as a college student im too busy to deal with a large tank during the school year, but summer is coming and im planning my new tank. last year i had a small 20 gal with two red claw crabs. This year im lookin into a 50 gal, but instead of brackish water im going with an easier fresh water...

hello, My friends fish has gone ill the past 3 weeks. it started with blakc.brown spots near its mouth that went over its body then apparently went away but the fish stayed brownish (its a goldfish of some kind). there does seem to be areas where the fish has reddish (as if some kind of burn...

i was thinking on getting a little pufferfish for my brackish tank, perhaps a Red Line Puffer because its a smaller tank, but they are carnivors so i had some concerns, will it eat my Red claw and Fiddler crabs? also do you need to feed them snails liek other puffers need to keep they teeth...

i have a 20 gal tank at the moment and its kinda gross. theres alot of algea and the colors of the pebbles and the ornaments are all kinda icky. im planning on redoing the entire tank soon so i had a couple questions. (i have two red claw crabs and am planning on the addition of a fish. im...

i have two red clawed crabs. a male and female. the male never coems out and hides in a log and the female usualy goes around the tank some. my question is, the other day i saw a leg laying in the log, and i figured it was a half eaten molt. then later i noticed my female was missing a leg! i...

i just got 2 red clawed crabs and they are doing fine for what i can tell but im extreemly woored about them. 1- i have hermit crab food that they havnet seem to have found, and the food doest sink its in a little dish.. should i get sinking food pellets for them? 2- one of the crabs molted...

i started my first tank its brakish, with a sponge filter, and the salinity is normal, and after i added the salt it looked good for 3 days, but i left the house for 2 days and came back and the water is soooo merky! why is this? there isnt even any critters in my tank yet! its not green so...

i want to make a bamboo deck with a "stairs" in my tank so my fiddlers will be able to get out of the water, i plan on using tension in twine to keep it all together. i jsut dont know where to go to get the bamboo! i dont want that green stuff i want like sticks of the tan colored kind. any idears?

heres a pic of my new sponge filter in action. i had to vut down the tube on the top so it would be shorter, will this affect it negativly?

can i run a sponge filter on its side when its powered by an air pump or will that not pull water through the filter? because i can only have the tank half filled..

hello everyone im Zeig! im baisicly new to the hobby, but from an early age ive loved aquatic creatures and aquariums. I hope to one day have an exotic tank full of life. But at the moment i have none of that :)! the only fish i have taken care of are some silver neons, which died from a...

im putting together an asian styled aquarium for some fiddler crabs, the only problem is from what ive read i cant find direct info on a couple things. 1:since the water doesnt need to even be that deep, and food wont be in the water (unless they take it there) do i really need a water filter...