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Hello - I have a 15 gallon tall nano-reef that is one month old. 20lbs live rook, 20lbs live sand. The only equipment is an Aquaclear500 filled with 4lbs of live rock rubble, a heater and a carbon insert. So far, so good. Cycle is finished, parameters are good, algae is under control. I have a...

Will 4" Angel fish eat Amano shrimp? How about a 2" Chameleon fish (badis badis)? Anyone have experience with these two fish and Amano shrimp? Thanks

Hi - I have a 10g nano-reef that's cycled, with 12lbs. live rock, 20lbs. live sand & 10lbs. of crushed coral. I want to add a cleanup crew consisting of scarlet hermits, Margarita and Nassarius snails. My question is, how many of each would you add? thanks

The trickiest thing I've found about aquascaping a smaller tank is finding plants of proper scale. Most are too big. What are the best "miniature" plants/plant combinations?

Small tank, sandy substrate. What looks good behind a thick foreground carpet of dwarf hairgrass? Light is 3 WPG + Hagen CO2. Thanks -

Is the Dwarf Green Acorus (Acorus pussilus) aka Japanese variegated dwarf rush aka Japanese Fan aka Dwarf Green Sweetflag a true aquatic plant?

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that most pictures of Takeshi Amano's tanks seem overstocked (according to the 1"/gallon rule)? I thought one of the principles of a heavily planted tank was UNDERstocking fish. Are they actually able to support more fish comfortably? I read that all of...

Ok, now that I've gotten the buffering capacity of my soft water up, how can I maintain that and get the pH back down? The CO2 brings it down a bit but I'd like it to come down a little more. Are there any problems with running peat and crushed coral in the same filter?

I just started CO2 with the Hagen system. Also added two small angels to my tank. The flow from the AC300 seemed a bit much, even on the low setting. I know I'm not the first person to hit upon this, but it is really cool that you can use any AC impeller with any size filter. I swapped out the...

I have a 5.5 gallon desktop aquarium with some Amano shrimp (4). I change the water every Friday. So today after I changed the water my shrimp started swimming around like mad, around and around they go. Is this normal? The new water was the right temp and de-chlorinated. I did notice yesterday...

I have the following items for sale (all prices are roughly 50% off new price): 36" Oak All-Glass light fixture + 2 x 45 watt compact flourescent, 9 months old. $80 30" Black All-Glass deluxe full hood with 15watt flourescent, 5 months old. $20 20" Black All-Glass deluxe full hood with 15watt...

I've noticed this plant grows extremely fast, but as it grows the lower (older) portions start to get REALLY nasty. Is this normal?

So I went with dwarf puffers for my 5.5 gallon. I got 3 from AZGardens, 1 D.O.A. and a ton of cool plants. I also got a small Oto catfish. He's been sitting in one spot near the bottom of the tank for two days. Is he sick? He does not look skinny or otherwise unhealthy. Is this normal behavior...

y 5.5 gallon tank has a piece of driftwood in it that leeches tanin - yellow water, fish seem to like it - but my Hagen testkit uses yellow to determine the level of ammonium in the water. I think the tank is cycled, smells right (wet dirt), but the test shows a low level of ammonium. Could that...

*part 1* Well I decided my tanks are not planned out very well as far as stocking goes so I took several fish back to the LFS. I'm seeking advice and ideas for stocking a 40 gallon planted tank. Currently inhabited by 1 red-tail shark, 1 bristlenose pleco, some Amano shrimp and a few Asiatic...

OK here is my tank. Specs: equipment: 40 gallon freshwater all-glass tank w/glass top. 2 x 50 watt compact flourescent tube lighting. Aquaclear300 filter Visitherm 300 watt submersible heater parameters: 79 degrees F pH 6.9 decoration: various rocks from my yard 2 lg. pieces of bog wood...

Hi - For the curious, just posted a bunch of pics in my gallery of my 5 month old planted 40 gallon community tank and a 2 month old 10 gallon. All of your advice over the past months has helped me a great deal.

Hi all - Here's a riddle. Two tanks, not densely populated: 10 gallon - 6 Florida Flag Fish, mostly peaceful, but occasionally aggressive. 4 males, 1.5-1.75", 2 females, 1-1.5". 76F, ph6.8 5.5 gallon - 2 Zebra Danios, <1", 1 Opaline Gourami, 2". 75F, pH6.8 What, if anything, would you add to...

I'm at 6 months into this hobby. At first, the new HOB filters with their elaborate bio-wheels and tide chambers seemed indispensible. After tiring of the noise however I decided to switch, cold. Guess what. No ammonia spike, zero. The entire inside surface area of an aquarium is covered with...

Chem-Marin has a product called "Stop Parasites" that supposedly has no copper and does not hurt inverts or filter bacteria. Has anyone here tried it? info: http://www.cowfishes.com/ich.html

Ok, here's one to ponder. I have a 40-gallon heavily planted tank with the following inhabitants: 4 x 2" opaline gouramis 6 x 1.5" American-flag fish 8 x 1" head & tail light tetras 7 x 1" white cloud minnows 3 x 1.5" clown loaches 1 x 1.5" red-tail shark 1 x 3" bristlenose pleco 22 x 1-2"...

Hello again. I'm seeking advice for what to feed the following community: 8 Head & Tail light Tetras 6 American-Flag fish ~20 Amano shrimp ~15 Asian freshwater gold clams 1 Bristlenose pleco The Corydoras I had have all succumbed since last week. There is a fair amount of algae in the tank...

Ok. It's been 12 days. Night before last I woke up and saw that my filter/heater had stopped during the night, dropping the temp in my tank down to about 71 (normally it's set to 77). I fixed that, then performed some clean-up on an algae bloom and a 20% water change. The filter is a HOB...

My fish arrived today, from liveaquaria.com: 8 Head & Tail Light Tetras 6 Albino Aeneus Corycats 1 Bushynose Pleco Water: 79 degrees pH 7.0 steady for one week kH 2 gH 3 They all seemed healthy. I acclimated them slowly in a darkened room, floating them in the bags for 25 minutes, adding 1/2...